Schedule of PD Time for October 9, 2013 2:30-2:45 Coffee and snacks in covered eating area 2:45-4:30 Whole School

Initiative committees (see table, below) Please plan and document your Whole School Initiative (WSI) meetings in the table below. WSI Team Focus Stuff to Bring/Prep Location Participants What was accomplished last meeting and what we said the next steps would be
Reviewed and agreed on the final version of our "Vision and Philosophy for Teaching & Learning in World Languages" . We decided to use AERO World Language Standards. We also defined the sequence for the following programs: Program 1: Grades 3-5 Program 2: Grades 6-8 Program 3: Grades 9-12 These three levels are linked to the AERO Benchmarks. Next Steps: 1. Document the materials we need for each program and each language 2. Draft all courses in google site: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/ls nepal.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0Ajv MSOb6OdDudFhsU01wZVFGQV93Z 1RsRF8yRlhqLWc&hl=en

What was accomplished this meeting and next steps (to be filled in AFTER meeting)
Research to decide materials and textbooks for next year for the 3 differents programs. Decision will be made by October 30, 2014 about our choice of textbooks for the school year 20142015.

World Languages

Maryline's room

Maryline Pimentel
Monica Justice Karine Emriau Fabiola von Hollen

Assessment

Plan for TLL on (1) Homework and (2) Formative Assessment. Finalize general philosophy and policy statement and continue work on homework and grading policies.

Look at and contribute to Google doc draft: http://tinyurl.com/l sassess5

Sarahs room

Peter, Brian, Allison, Renee, Sarah, Sam, Paulita, Lexie, Chip, Brad, Linda

The Assessment for Learning Policy draft was read through and polished with final edits (wordsmithing) to come for next meeting. A Grading and HW Policy were outlined on the Google doc with much work to do. A working group got together to plan out a HW Workshop for the next Teacher-led Learning day (Oct. 23). They created an outline and plan of action for the WS and will use next WSI time (Oct. 9) to complete the planning. Another WS theme was proposed: Assessment for Learning. Brian has a WS leaders book on this to guide us and we can strike a working group to plan and present the WS at the next meeting. Vision statement checked and now final. Belief statements were completed and will be reviewed next session. A definition service learning was included. Referred to standards

The general assessment statement was worked on and it was felt that it was (and could afford to be) a more philosophical statement while the hw and grading policies needed to have more of a policy edge. The HW Workshop folks came up with a sequence for the Workshop and developed a number of scenarios for discussion. Brian and Lexie went off to develop an outline of a workshop for the Nov. 13 half-day teacher-led learning sessions that would act as a roundtable discussion on formative assessment. During the Nov. 6th PD time focused on WSIs we should come having looked at and added edits to the philosophy/policy docs mentioned above. Brian and Lexie will hopefully share their ideas for the Nov. 13th workshop so we can come prepared to discuss it and prepare it for the following week. Three participants present (Robert, Patrick and Kathy) reviewed the belief statements and concurred that these ideas are in alignment with the Lincoln School core values and vision / mission statement and officially and with consensus adopted the

Service

Heathers room

Heather, Luke, Deborah, Robert, Nicole, Kathy, Patrick, Regina

from NYLC, which are to read before the next meeting and we will look at how they fit in with our vision and belief statements.

National Youth Leadership Councils Service Learning Standards for Quality Practice. Next Steps : A suggestion was made to now adapt and adopt these standards according to the needs of elementary, middle, and high school programs. Completed the skill set for all sections of the school. These skills were scaffolded according to the target grades for PBL-5th, 8th,10th, 12th. A framework/template for PBL creation was outlined and will be reviewed by the committee. This is in process of being compiled and presented a more formulaic way so that teachers who want to try a PBL can have some greater direction and guidance.

Project-Based Learning

Adams room

Adam, David, Holli, Mark, Jeremiah, Douglas, Emily. Molly, Chris, Bhagawati

The description of the goal of PBL is quite similar to the IB Primary years Program Exhibition in grade 5. Looking at this and the grade 8 project may be helpful. These have been in development for 20 years. Last meeting, we have affirmed the statement of purpose and moved forward by attempting to define a clear skill set. Investigation on these main skills was completed/amassed, and now we will extrapolate the main skills and scaffold them along the grades 5-12, working towards complete PBL independence by the time they are in 12th grade. When this is complete, we may try to create a database of PBL ideas that have worked. With this, teachers should have all of the necessary information to proceed with PBL in their classrooms. Where should we be putting this for common access and information sharing?