March+17+2011


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Timekeeper: Jeff || Recorder: Chrissy || Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, March 17 2010 || Starting/ Ending Time:7:30 – 8:30 || Place: EdTech office ||
 * Facilitator: Tara

Participants: Apologies:

What is being ordered for each division? How do we see teachers using the tech hardware we currently have?
 * **Task** || **P** || **Guiding Questions** || **Background/ Process** || **Person/Time** ||  ||
 * **Warm-up** || I || **//Touching Base--Tech Hardware for Next Year//**

MS/HS libraries: putting together a proposal for 25 iPads (flips not being used by HS teachers) IDA : Asking for kindles too - investigating e-Readers (lots of changes occurring - hampering the choice to be made  ES from Tara : 6 kindles, 24 cameras (Chad said we are looking at having these 24 cameras be basic point-and-shoot as a class set)  Miguel: various items, both hardware and software, will share this with us when data is  compiled (world languages want headphones, SmartTablets for science, document camera Jeff: audio equipment for the radio program. on hold b/c getting PC's from the MS  Chrissy: Laptops to ensure that G3-5 are 2:1, proposal for iPads for EAL (beginners only) & 6 iPads per KinderClass Chad: Printer contract with Rikor: using campus cards on any printer, just tap your card and out it comes! cool! HS will have one color printer. ES: consolidating. Each quad will have a B &W printer. Color printer by the bookroom (?) that will be a tap card. Tap card multi-function printer will be in the Hub. Only color printer on bottom floor will be in Hub. || Round Robin Touching Base || All/5 mins || First, deepen our understanding as a team: What exactly we are doing with these TAIL standards?
 * **Now & the Big Picture** || D || **//Curriculum Standards & Benchmarks for the Middle School//**
 * staff feedback was TOO MANY benchmarks
 * When Teresa & Chrissy started looking closely at the TaIL standards (ie: what would this look like in the classroom) it was discovered that many of the benchmarks were either repeated/or the same or not really matched to the Standards
 * This discovery was bought to the ISB21 team - voted to remove/change the benchmarks
 * Work began (by Chrissy/Teresa) to define Learning Target questions in the ES grades for each Benchmark
 * Next step - Clarify year-based learning targets aligned to the benchmarks (framed as questions) - ES: Feb '11; MS: Mar '11; HS: April '11 (happening now)
 * Embed these learning targets into units Mar '11 - Feb '12
 * Assess and track this learning 2011-12, 2012-13 (possible future focus for ISB21 team)
 * Embed TaIL learning expectations (rather than adhoc)
 * Being more strategic in TaIL implementation
 * Having clarity about the PreK-12 learning progression in relation to TaIL
 * Why are we doing this?
 * Maximise learning & make the TaIL vision a reality
 * Coherent, viable, vertically aligned curriculum
 * Equal learning opportunities for kids

Define what these mean: Standard, benchmark, embedding. What is our role? How will we embed? (These questions came up in our last meeting with Teresa)

What is our role?
 * Embedding into Units (ISB21's role, along with Teachers - but not until Learning Targets are finalised & database has to be updated in Curriculum Mapping System)
 * Assessment Work (ISB21's possible future focus - see bullets above)

Definitions:
 * Standards: where you want kids at the end of the learning
 * Benchmarks: (bands or by Grade) building blocks to Standards - what kids should be able to do by Grade
 * Learning Targets - what skills/knowledge am I building?
 * Embed - to be put in a real unit (authentic learning) - not a separate lesson

How will we embed? At the moment, Teresa & Chrissy have looked at the Units in each ES Grade & brainstormed where the TaIL Standards might fit.
 * Next step: Take the suggestions to the Grade Level Teams, "tell me more about the units & let's decide which unit best suits for embedding this Standard"

What's next for MS / HS:
 * Finish the MS / HS - Learning target questions under each Benchmark
 * Take the finished Target questions to some MS / HS teachers - get feedback
 * Begin to look at what units in the MS / HS could these Standards best fit? (teacher input)
 * Embed the Standards/Benchmarks into specific units & input in Curriculum Mapping System

Continue with this process of looking at the MS TAIL standards as a team ||  || All 40 minutes || We'll have to change our meeting time until the afternoon but she would like to join one of our meetings.
 * **Closure & Announcements** || I || **//Mischele to join us in a future ISB21 meeting//**

**//How well did today's meeting go?//** ||  || Tara/5 mins || Parking Lot: Time to clean up the versions of TaIL Standards & Benchmarks - there are copies on the wiki, copies in google docs, "archive" old copies

**//Revisit attribution...seeing any consistency with this? Use of common agreements?//** **// Searching lessons--create common agreements //**

**// What are ISB's guidelines for attributing? We need to discuss this further---what are our differing expectations for papers or digital format? //**

**// Meeting the needs of teachers...are we? what about those who want to learn more about tech and already know a lot? Chrissy and Tara to talk about Weekly Wednesday Cool Tool we are implementing. //**