June+7,+2010

=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

0. Pick a name at random to write the minutes:
 * [|Name Selector.ppt]

1. Team ABC Rates Our team is being chastised for letting our ABC rates slip, by 10% from last year. Anthony says he may be to blame, since he low-balled his students' grades (i.e. students who normally get a B got a D) in hopes that that would light a fire under their you-know-whats--and it's working. Students are working hard to raise their grades. So his quarter grades should look astronomically higher, showing excellent improvement. Our whole EL department is making the English department look good, however. Their ABC rates are 11% below ours. Scott made the point that some of the students, like super seniors, don't care anymore, or aren't attending, so the recommendation is to contact home, counseling, and admin.
 * [|ABC Rates T2 09-10 ELD Team.pdf]

2. Peer Observation Discussion Great job! These will help us focus on our work over the summer. Anthony gets notified each time someone responds, so he knows who did their homework, and who DIDN'T!! ;-) So please get log your comments ASAP.

3. Research and Philosophy Discussions Good job on 2 out of 3 assignments. As a reward for our procrastination, we will now have until the end of summer to do the 3rd--read someone's article and comment on it. Anthony promises to haunt us all summer, sending emails on the perfect beach days, to remind us to stay home and finish that last assignment. Everyone said thank you profusely (not!).
 * High participation in posting philosophies and research.
 * Philosophy vs. Research Discussions
 * Thanks to Tara and Vicki for posting on the Research Discussion. The rest of us need more time--add this to Summer Reading?

4. End of Year Course Survey Anthony has devised 9 questions about goals for next year. They are short answer. If you'd like to add any, let Anthony know ASAP. The purpose is to have some consistency in our expectations, especially when we have so much influence on other departments, who come to us for advice in how to deal with ELL. Pay particular attention to quiz question #7, testing your knowledge on the relationship between our team goals and action steps. A due date has NOT been set YET. You are advised to do it sooner than later, though if you prefer to do it over summer, instead of having fun, so be it. The link will be emailed to you soon.
 * Review questions.

5. Research Essay check-in (if time permits)
 * How is your research unit going?
 * Where are your students in the research paper process, currently?
 * Any ideas/strategies to share?

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