May+4,+2009

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

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 * 1) Assign today's collaboration date to equally share the responsibility to record the minutes
 * 2) Katie's announcement
 * 1) Laura Whitaker: A new idea for students who pass the class because they do all of the work but are not ready to move up to the next level.
 * 2) Whole group discussion: Research update, questions and/or concerns.


 * 1) Waiting for everyone (please come to meetings on time!).
 * 2) For research paper: Works Cited page due Friday at the end of the day. Also, typed quotes and explanations of quotations due Friday at the end of the day. Play up our school's access to turnitin.com. Teach students how to register/upload on turnitin.com. There is a new PPT on citations on the Research Writing page. When citing, students can refer to the title/author and the paragraph number.
 * 3) Katie's announcement: "I'm moving back to the midwest. I'm happy about it."
 * 4) Laura Whitaker: New idea for students who pass because they do all the work, but are not ready for the next level. Fill out a CHANGE OF COURSE NUMBER NOTIFICATION form. Be sure to list specific course competencies not met (ex: Low Benchmark Scores; Low Cluster/Unit Test Scores).
 * 5) Finish adding to the survey questions.