November+20+2008


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda

** Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, Nov 27 (rescheduled from last week) || Starting/ Ending Time: 9:00 – 10:22 || Place: Ed Tech ||
 * Facilitator/Timekeeper: || Recorder: Dennis || Purpose:

Participants: Tara, Jeff, Kim, Chad, Ida, Dennis, Rob Discussion Moved to Next Meeting **I** **D** ||   What support do teachers need? How are we supporting teachers? How can we coordinate what we're doing? ||   ||  || I D** || What standards have we adopted? How do they work together? ||  ||   || My.ISB ||   ||
 * **Task** ||   **P** || **Guiding Question**  ||   **Background/ Process**  || **Person/Time** ||
 *  Coordinated PD plan || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">**U**
 * Standards Review || **U
 * News and Reviews || **I** || How can our two "departments" communicate more effectively? || Tech and Library Teams share what's happening
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">Nuts & Bolts || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">**I** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> Keeping up with daily business || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif">iPod check-out process in ES Hub || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif"> ||  ||

Present: Jeff, Kim, Tara, Chad, Dennis
Two elements that teachers need: ES wants to make agreement to push the ES Wiki
 * Coordinated PD Plan**
 * Shared understanding of ISB21 Plan
 * Tools and how those tools help learning

How is after-school tech help going? - ES still 3 days a week. MS/HS still 1x a week. Chad brought up that some have asked whether TLCs should all be K-12. Can PD after school be brought back to K12?
 * Positives would be playing to strengths of each person
 * Negative, TLC not feeling like a "part" of a school
 * Negative, no accountability for divisions
 * One day division focus?
 * One day K12 all there?

Tara: What about a focused session on particular tools.
 * The tool sessions bring audience
 * Teachers want something that directly applies to them
 * Also some people attend that want individual help, so perhaps 2 sessions at the same time

What can each of us do?
 * Trying to keep the people who've attended ProD (Learning 2.008) to continue their thinking
 * Informal K12 Online party
 * Working with teachers

How to profile teachers' skills? Surveying teachers second semester to better know what people need (and who can help them - see below)
 * Chad suggested Profiler Pro - demo
 * After all teachers take the survey, it determines who are experts in certain areas and recommends those names to others who are not strong in that area
 * Profiler Pro fosters collaboration while also painting a picture of school skill set
 * This could help shape the PD that we offer, because we'll have a better framework for what people know/don't know
 * http://profilerpro.com
 * username: chad_bates@iskl.edu.my
 * password: zyxw
 * Everyone will check this out and Chad will find out further information on cost and process of implementation

ES had a very successful faculty meeting (they ran the whole thing) in which they had teachers sharing their successful work with ES ISB21ers
 * Is this a model that MS/HS could use? Would it be successful?
 * MS likes the team model and working in smaller than all-faculty groups
 * Chad getting common message to teams by presenting to small groups - e.g. PantherNet
 * Kim: there a "sub-conscious" message to use Tech in classrooms, and teachers aren't sure how to do that
 * This meeting was successful in promoting a "mindset change" rather than a single tool push
 * Teachers need us to "be there" - our support to their needs is what's helpful
 * The survey will provide more info on what's needed
 * Kim: What is our common message? Can we share what we are doing to ensure common message?
 * Dennis: is our common message the power of people being connected through the technology?
 * How can we then connect the people that are at the same level and ready for rich conversation?
 * Would a forum for people to talk about this and share? A way to connect people to other people who are at the same place.

Set up an online group so that people can talk about what interests/intrigues them
 * Elgg?
 * Will participants get the level of participation needed to make this successful?
 * Is an online solution needed b/c we believe that a group like this would never find time to meet f2f? Yes.
 * If we build it they might come. If we don't, they definitely won't.
 * Jeff and Kim will get this going to foster the participation from the group...build up the community
 * We will identify the interested parties and get them in
 * There is great power in connecting outside of departments/team/grade levels
 * Is Ning an option to build on skills from Learning 2.008? Speed, clunkiness an issue
 * What about a future of global connectedness for common PD in International educators? Teachers will grow into this

Summary:
 * One K12 session a week - WHERE??? Location is a major issue
 * One divisional PD a week
 * Offer a survey in Janurary
 * Different models of getting message out in different divisions - there is a common message of the power of connecting people
 * Jeff & Kim will set up Elgg group and start off community building with a focused group - this will be a safe place (in ISB) where teachers can meet when they otherwise can't ("We've got an idea.")



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