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1. Welcome 2. Review/add to Team Norms: (See how I added that link?) 3. Review our End of Year Survey (link to the original survey) 4. Analyzing Prompts, Formative Assessment Unit: 1. Review our SMART goals. 2. ELD Teachers are getting computers: 2a. Support Teachers
 * ~ Wednesday, August 24th ||~ Thursday, August 25th ||~ Friday, August 26th ||
 * 0. As we complete this work, please add hyperlinks from text here describing the work to the actual location of our work.
 * Raise a problem/offer a solution.
 * Things we are doing well:
 * Things team member(s) have concerns about:
 * Plans for the future:
 * Review this list at the end of our PLC work days.
 * Starting points:
 * LiteracyTA
 * ECAP Symposium presentation from May 26th
 * Formative Assessment model:
 * Multiple opportunities to show learning.
 * Levels of proficiency: when students can __recognize__ correct answers vs. __create__ correct answers.
 * Rapid feedback.
 * Record learning progress.
 * The content:
 * What do we want students to be able to do? (learning goal)
 * Designing our rubric
 * Example from LiteracyTA
 * How will we know if students are able to do it? (assessment)
 * Designing our assessments
 * Monitor learning:
 * Students use the progress monitoring sheet.
 * Teachers use Google Spreadsheet and grade book.
 * Message to students:
 * What is the value of learning to Analyze Prompts?
 * Application to other content areas?
 * Ideas for activities to launch this unit of instruction?
 * The work:
 * Actually adding assessments and rubrics to our assessments wikispace. || 0. Complete/review work from yesterday.
 * Show/review an assessment.
 * Review the rubric.
 * Any additional ideas/innovations?
 * How will our Formative Assessment Unit on Analyzing Prompts support our goals?
 * Re-visit/solidify speaking goal.
 * How will this change our instruction?
 * How will we maintain a focus on speaking?
 * Idea from LiteracyTA (stations)
 * What should be happening in each station? (record ideas and teacher resources).
 * Online Portfolios using Google Sites (How? Let's try it now.)
 * Expectations in each station (classroom management).
 * Develop 2 days of lessons (for one level) as a sample for how to plan for this kind of class.
 * Discuss ideas with ELD teachers or...
 * Further develop the "Reading" version of the Analyzing Prompts Formative Assessment Unit or...
 * Develop a language survey to be translated into Spanish and Arabic. || 1. Review how students move up/out of our ELD program:
 * During the year.
 * At the end of the year.
 * Question to consider: What impact will the placement process we used in May have on our program this year?

2. Exploring Engrade

3. Reading this year: Continuous learning is a fundamental element of how PLCs operate. With that in mind, I suggest we spend this year exploring the ideas in these texts: > ==A Pedagogy of Promise== > By: Aida Walqui, Leo van Lier We don't have to read each text cover to cover. Instead, we can jigsaw portions of the reading and instruct each other as to what the text says and how the reading can/should impact our practice.
 * =Scaffolding the Academic Success of Adolescent English Language Learners=
 * Evaluating Literacy
 * Review text, begin choosing sections to read.

4.Going back to our End of Year Survey objectively:
 * Did we strengthen the things we are doing well?
 * Did we do work that addresses team member(s) concerns:?
 * Do we have a plan for the future?

Time built in to this day to complete any unfinished work for the previous two days. ||