Boushall_Middle_School

//Note: Please limit your school’s priorities to four. Please use learning from each day’s sessions to refine and clarify these priorities rather than adding additional priorities.// =**Team Members Attending:**= =**Priority #1: Professional Development on a Variety of Individualized Staff Needs**= Stevens & Billet Avageros & Richardson Stein, Morgan, Joseph || Date Oct. 8 Oct. 8 Oct. 8 || =**Priority #2: Monitor Student Progress and Program Effectiveness**= =**Priority #3: Assess Quality and Effectiveness of Core Program**=
 * Implementation Action Plan 2010-11** **Responding to the Needs of All Learners**
 * **School Name:** || Boushall Middle School ||
 * **VPES:** || Mary Dunnock/ Clara Daniels ||
 * 1) Sheron Carter-Gunter
 * 2) Dionne Ward
 * 3) Lena Morgan
 * 4) Crystal Potee
 * 5) Widad Abed
 * 6) Samantha Stein
 * 7) Nancy Toms - Edison Learning Curriculum Specialist Literacy
 * **Next Steps** || **Key Driver(s)** || **By When** ||
 * Differentiation of Instruction
 * Tiered Instruction
 * Cooperative Learning and Instructional Grouping
 * Variety of Instructional Strategies || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * Effective Lesson Planning || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * Implementing Effective Literacy Strategies Across Content Areas || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * Use of Performance Data to Drive Instructional Decisions ||  ||   ||
 * October 8th - PD
 * Collaborative lesson plans with differentiation
 * Literacy strategies with differentiation
 * Math, reasoning, transferable skills and differentiation || Staff
 * **Next Steps** || **Key Driver(s)** || **By When** ||
 * Create student profile which includes enrollment in tiered intervention program || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * Analyze reading test scores for students in Voyager || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * Analyze math test scores for AR/ICL || Name(s) || Date(s) ||
 * **Next Steps:** Use the "Evaluating the Core Academic Program" Evaluation provided by Edison to develop an improvement plan for each grade level core academic subject to include Quality of Instruction, Skill-Focused Instruction, Differentiation, Teaching Programs with Fidelity, Maximized Instructional Time, Professional Development and Data Analysis. || **Key Driver(s)** || **By When** ||
 * * Complete evaluation form for math on every grade level together with dept. head and administrators. || Morgan ||  ||
 * * Complete evaluation form for social studies on every grade level together with dept. head and administrators || Billet || 10/8/10 for 6 and 7 ||
 * * Complete evaluation form for reading on every grade level together with dept. head and administrators || Potee ||  ||
 * * Complete evaluation form for exceptional education on every grade level together with dept. head and administrators || Stein ||  ||
 * * Complete evaluation form for math on every grade level together with dept. head and administrators || Logan-Reilly ||  ||

*Logan-Reilly and Asante - science persons to create intervention packets for 6 and 7 standards, ensure review and re-teaching is ongoing.
=**Priority #4: TBA**=
 * Data day at the end of the 9 weeks to analyze data from benchmarks as well as last year's results.
 * **Next Steps** || **Key Driver(s)** || **By When** ||
 * Description || Name || Date ||

=Other Notes or comments:=

Day 2 - sharing from breakout sessions.

CG - Roles and Resources: Implementing tiered intervention.

Abed - Roles and Resources: systematic process in place to formalize and monitor progress "trust but verify" teams may need clarification of roles and responsibilities, layout roles and responsibilities for each team leader, ensure balance/consistency.

Daniels - power of teaching, book used to evaluate teacher effectiveness, manageable chunks of measures of effectiveness. Prioritize teacher engagement over teacher talking, movement, questioning techniques, gender equity. Web-based computer analysis of walk-through observations.

Stein - SPED/AYP - 6 tools for Acceleration, 6 tools for Differentiation (prioritize over Remediation). Full inclusion? If not, ensure sped teachers have content mastery and effective management.

Stein - Grading - minimum score (do not "punish" for missing assignments, 2 weeks for make-ups, minimum score of 40?60? instead of 0). Eventually move toward 0-5 scale rather than 0-100. Encourage vs. inhibit learning. HW - credit for completion.

Mary Dunnock - Differentiation.

Morgan - Power Standards: Criteria for selecting essential standards: necessary? tested heavily? leverage/transerferable? life practicality?

Potee: Master schedule, Power standards.

Day 3 - Putting It All Together 1. What are we already doing that we can expand upon? 2. How can we re-allocate current resources of time, people and programs? 3. How will we measure success in 60, 90, 120 days? 4. Use the "School Readiness for Implementation of a Tiered Intervention System" form to guide our planning.