05-07-08

5/7/08 AM Room 112**
 * LT Meeting

__Attending__: Kim Rollings, Veronque Taylor, Sue Feaster, Mary Teresa Maule Alft, Debbie Pye, Margie Small, Donna Elmore, Marie DiGiulio, Nancy Rowan


 * __PLE Staff Learning Walks__: rescheduled to 5/20 & 5/22, due to recent change in Harcourt weekly instructional schedule for the week of 5/12. LLTs will advise teachers at family meetings on Friday; Marie will send the Learning Walk schedule with the PLE Notes this week.
 * __End of Year Folders__:
 * Writing - continue as we did last year, as this was discussed with AGIS.
 * Reading
 * ALL: Keep all Title I student documentation; put the Reading Progress Sheet in the front, followed by the Reading documentation, the Writing Progress Sheet, and the Writing documentation; Keep everything from the last mastered stage; Keep everything from the current instructional stage
 * Grade K: Send all documentation to Grade 1
 * Grade 1: Keep everything for students who end the year below a Stage 8; Keep the last Harcourt Holistic test; rip off the covers of the previous Harcourt Holistic tests and put them in a shred box, recycle the rest of the holistic booklet
 * Grade 2: Keep everything for students who end the year below a Stage 9; keep just the last Harcourt Holistic test for students at Stage 9 and higher; rip off the covers of the previous Harcourt Holistic tests and put them in a shred box, recycle the rest of the holistic booklet
 * Confidentiality - shred any discarded paperwork that has a student's name on it; place items to shred in a "shred box" in your classroom; keep the shred box in your room until it is asked for by the office; recycle other paperwork that does not have student name on it, using the above guidelines
 * Special Ed - Donna E. will draft a statement describing the end of the year folder documentation
 * ESL - Margie will draft a statement describing the end of the year folder documentation
 * __Common Assessment in LA__
 * Discussed the concept of common assessment as presented in Karen Bailey's district workshop; noted the difference between common assessments & assessments in common; the purpose of a common assessment is to improve instruction at a mid-point in a unit/trimester and provide an opportunity for professional collaboration to support learning for the remainder of the unit/trimester. A common assessment yields scores, not grades, and is formative.
 * Decision made to utilize a combination of Harcourt assessments (grade 1 & 2) that focus on the application of Harcourt focus strategies. Questions will be taken from Harcourt holistic tests, practice books, and teacher manual test items. The tests will be given mid-point during each trimester, and at the end of each trimester. Results will be used during LA meetings; results will not be recorded on the progress sheets. The assessment needs to have enough items to be valid; items should match the key focus strategies taught during the trimester. The formats for gathering data that were presented by Karen Bailey can be used. The assessment should take no more than 15 minutes to administer whole-class. Dates will be selected for the assessment prior to the start of the next school year. Assessment will be given during Morning/Afternoon Meeting.
 * Time is needed by the team to create the assessments.