October+18,+2010

Pick a name at random to write the minutes:

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=Collaboration Meeting Agenda:=

1. "Five Minute Strategy Session"
 * Scott: Using visual aids in presentations.

2. Moving Students Up
 * Let's continue to have our discussion on the wiki.
 * More members need to contribute to this discussion.
 * It will be difficult to have a productive discussion without more information, so Devine will put together an expanded version of the Case Study Google Doc.
 * Instead of only looking at 8 students from Beginning, Devine will put together a document showing a full Beginning class and a full High Beginning class to track:
 * Where those students are now.
 * Their progress report grades
 * This will give us more specific, useful information than we currently have about this topic.

3. Narrative Data Analysis
 * The first 3 weeks, based on what was posted on the Google Doc on 10/15:
 * Level || Number of Students || Week 1 || Week 2 || Week 3 ||
 * Beginning || 84 || 72.58 || 73.70 || 72.84 ||
 * Beg. Support || 84 || 56.00 || 68.46 || 72.66 ||
 * High Beginning || 89 || 69.00 || 64.40 || 69.95 ||
 * High Beg. Support || 89 || 52.50 || 53.72 || 51.58 ||
 * Intermediate || 116 || 72.93 || 75.34 || 73.40 ||
 * Advanced || 91 || 77.17 || 78.36 || 86.62 ||
 * When we have our assessment results at our fingertips, we are able to analyze data this way.

4. Consistent policy on late homework.

= Minutes: = Notes from today's meeting:
 * Calibration pull-out set for Oct. 29th - order subs
 * Scott - using visual aids : students can incorporate into presentations (poster or electronic) maybe add to rubric down the road?
 * Moving students up a level: see discussion on wiki/arguments should be data supported/Anthony is putting together a case study of former students looking at progress and quarter grades~50-60 students
 * Viki - possibly looking at recorded benchmark scores from last year's calibration to look at progress over 1 year.
 * Sophia - include final quarter grade by % on Google docs for each student
 * Google docs will show you your class's assessment average by highlighting the column
 * Narrative strategies: graphic organizer -brainstorming the topic w/ a cluster of the topic/nouns/related adjectives. Sentence jigsaw with groups -showing with sensory details/not telling. Paragraph template.