November+29,+2010

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=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

1. "Five Minute Strategy Session"
 * Maxine
 * Reading Comprehension Strategies (add your ideas to this page, just like we did for the Improving Student Engagement page)

2. ELD PLC Survey Results
 * see previously e-mailed PPT

3. ECAP debrief by Jenn, with support from Matthew, Tara, Michelle, and Anthony

4. Begin working on our Expository Pull Out Agenda

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:
 * Maxine discussed some Reading Comprehension Strategies. You may find the strategies that she discussed on the wiki at "Reading Comprehension Strategies". Other members of the team can post other ideas on this page to improve students reading comprehension through strategies that have worked in the classroom.
 * Jenn talked about ECAP and what happened during the meeting. Friday is a half day pullout for ECAP. The strategy discussed during the ECAP meeting were about reading strategies such as numbering the paragraphs, chunking the paragraphs, What the author is SAYING? vs. What the author is DOING?, overall charting the text, and choosing articles that are able to be charted. Jenn created a verb bank that helped with charting.
 * Expository Unit Pullout- Three relevant standards can be seen on the wiki. Common core standards don't start for a while, so don't worry about it. We are going to use one rubric for all levels. We discussed the terms we should be aware of for the Expository Unit. Expectations for different levels should be the same, but be with different support. All discussions about the Expository was about being prepared for the pullout today.
 * Pullout days- Friday half day, Monday December 6th- full day (get your own sub)