October+12,+2009

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1. Narrative Formative Assessments 2. Improving Student Engagement =Collaboration Meeting Minutes:= Attendence: Krystal & Cleophus are in the Tutorology Meeting
 * Review/change rubrics at each level (have we finished?)
 * Re-order the prompts/paragraphs (have we finished?)
 * Pull Out Day for grading the Benchmarks at the end of the quarter:
 * Review the Calendar of Events.
 * What dates work best for us?
 * Devine will contact Lori, etc. to make sure our date isn't a heavy sub day.
 * Do not fill out the blue sheets until Devine gets confirmation of the date.
 * Increase the instances where students are actively engaged by speaking and/or moving for academic purposes.
 * How to create pages.
 * Begin creating pages and linking them to our Improving Student Engagement page.
 * We decided not to reorder the Narrative Assessment rubric. Work on this next year.
 * Need to do a pull-out for the Benchmarks. Let's find a day that works for all of us. (Possibly 11/2, Monday?)
 * Benchmark is 10/29 and the end of Quarter 1 is 11/5.
 * Upcoming opportunities for additional training presented by Cleophus (Language Aquisition). (Voluntary after-school -unpaid? Or during school -paid?)
 * Training on The Edge presented by Jonathan LeMaster. (Prep period? After-school? Pull-out day?)
 * Improving Student Engagement: Anthony shows us how to create pages and link us the the "Improving Student Engagement" page. So far we only have TPR (Total Physical Response) listed.
 * Make new page. Give your student engagement activity a name. Give an explanation of activity. You can add a link to a visual (pdf or word doc.) of your activity set-up so we can better understand the activity. Take your new page and link it to the Improving Student Engagement page.
 * Try to stray from negative comments regarding grammer, etc. when viewing uploaded activities.