March+14,+2011

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=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

1. "Five Minute Strategy Session" Scott ?
 * Devine had the collaboration dates mixed up so no one signed up for 3/14. Devine will share something if no one signs up this weekend.

2. Cluster and Unit Test Analysis
 * Having looked at your own responses, what is the relationship between the strategies you used when teaching and your students' success on the assessment?
 * Is there a better way to conduct this analysis?
 * Ongoing vs. reflective?
 * Brief discussion--expand/explain on your ideas on a wiki discussion (to be sent out later).

3. Wiki Discussion on Peer Observations
 * Read our discussion on this topic from last year.
 * Contribute to our discussion on this topic for this year.
 * Use collaboration time this week to begin/finish this. Please have your contribution completed by our next collaboration meeting.

4. Avid Institute:
 * Do we want to go as a team?
 * If so, which week? (July 27-29 or Aug 1-3)

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting: 1. Scott: Shared an "Anticipation Reaction Guide" from the Edge. He found it in Unit 3, Cluster 2 in the Level C. There are three columns. A=agree, D=disagree, R=response. There are items/concepts you ask the students about and they agree or disagree. Then they respond. In a group they state their responses and discuss their answers. This helps build schema and access prior knowledge. 2. Cluster and Unit Test Analysis:Anthony looked at the results and noticed that some people clicked all of the strategies listed. In the Edge, we only focus on one reading strategy, not all of them. He asked the following questions: To find the average, go to the google spreadsheet, highlight all of the scores in the column, go to the bottom right hand corner, and click on Sum. It will show the average.The point of all of this is to discuss and look at how we teach the strategies and how we are supporting our students.The test taking strategies should transfer to the the state assessments. we had a short discussion about the CAHSEE. We could change our writing program to the following: **Quarter 1: Prompt analysis. Quarter 2: Narrative. Quarter 3: Expository. Quarter 4: Research/Persuasive.** 3. Wiki Discussion on Peer Observations: We wanted to do this earlier. Jenn started a schedule for us. Anthony started a discussion for this. If you want things to be the same as last year-great. If you want it to be different, post your opinion on the wiki. The schedule could be different, where there are only 2 people out per day, for a week. This way, we can see more classes. Can we agree on a date? The first week of the first quarter-The week of April 4th. We need to talk about the tool we want to use. We could focus on "What are the students doing?" We could use the same tool as P.O.P.s. **We need to establish what we expect our students to do at the beginning of the year, so we need to discuss the end of year criteria.** 4. Avid Institute:
 * Having looked at your own responses, what is the relationship between the strategies you used when teaching and your students' success on the assessment?
 * Is there a better way to conduct this analysis
 * Do we want to go as a team?
 * If so, which week? (July 27-29 or Aug 1-3)There were many different responses.