August+26+2010


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Timekeeper: Tara || Recorder: Chrissy || Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010 || Starting/ Ending Time:7:30 – 8:30 || Place: EdTech office ||
 * Facilitator: Rob

Participants: Tara, Jeff, Kim, Chad, Rob, Dennis, Ida

//ES (Chrissy/Tara) -// // Getting into lots of classes from G5 right down to Kinders, working with Students // //MS (Miguel/Ida) -// // Miguel: Getting a better handle on things - giving up lunch/plus afterschool // // Ada: Great meeting with Tara // //HS (Jeff/Rob) - Rob has been in with Jeff - he goes amazingly fast with the HS, but what's more amazing is the students are keeping up! Good Reads, Independent Reading Tracker (google docs) all up and running. Things are in place & up and running. // // Greater selection of reads being checked out! The independent reading is taking off! // // Jeff has created an app for ISB (students one is done, now working on Teachers' one) // || Round Robin Touching Base || All/10 mins || // See our google doc (edits in red) // || Curriculum || All/40 mins ||
 * **Task** || **P** || **Guiding Questions** || **Background/ Process** || **Person/Time** ||  ||
 * **Warm-up** || I || //Touching base. How is everyone doing?//
 * **Now & the Big Picture** || D || //Revisiting the philosophy. Wordsmith and finish?//
 * **Observation** || I || What did we see regarding teacher anxiety and misconceptions about school tools? Let's plan for relevant after-school PD:

// Tara and Chrissy starting with google docs.(personal tech & focus tech Mon/Wed // // Miguel: Lunchtime & Afterschool every day for now // // Jeff: Lunchtime // // Rob & Ida: Some sort of run-off session around information literacy side of things // || Round Robin || All/5 mins || //Start on time, be mindful of the time// ||  || Tara/5 mins || Things To Do:  Ideas for alternate ways for communicating with staff - rather than email?
 * **Closure** || I || //How well did today's meeting go?//

What is our big picture of the year?