February9ICABMinutesAgenda

February 9, 2012

__ Meeting Outcomes – We will discuss: __ The next meeting will be planning for the STEM, Math and Reading groups Direction for the school leadership teams. We want to look at the county drafts of Common Core. Katie talked to team that she will prepare steps on how to print out forms from inform to show county and school average and how the child fit in.
 * PLAN ** – What do we plan to learn?

__ Meeting Activities – We will: __ We looked at a chart that Leadership is doing to address as the changes with the Common Core standards from grade to grade. Leadership teams - The teams may want to begin to look at individual frameworks for each grade. Our fifth grade students will need to graduate with Common Core. The leadership team in focused this year on data. Lori discussed how at CHES the trade books are being looked and purchasing of texts to support Common Core. Katie discussed the Baltimore Sun article that discussed different assessments. PARC will provide 3 pieces. Katie discussed the new teacher evaluation and she will ask if she can share any of the drafts with ICAB since we volunteered to pilot the evaluation. She mentioned that the specialist areas are being looked at for their rubric. Family Fun and Learning Night Registration has not responded to highly therefore the registration will be sent out again. Game part of Family Fun and Learning looking into a nutritional snack and playing bingo for educational prizes. Katie mentioned that the schools are using a program called Van de Walle which is open ended questioning. The lessons are being used in the development of MSDE questioning. Katie also mentioned an other resource: Mastering the Basic Math Facts Addition and Subtraction Mastering the Basic Math Facts Multiplication and Division Lori mentioned - Dr Sandra Kaplan's icons lessons as a resource. Georgia mentioned the gathering of resources by standards. Lori mentioned the Kagan information is being looked at CHES. Rose mentioned this is coming into the county next year.
 * DO ** – What will we do to learn the outcomes?

Katie shared the information on inform on how to print out with standards and grade level averages. She went throught he step and Rose typed the steps.

__ Meeting Results – We: __ Sign up sheet for Family Fun and Learning will be sent out again. Lori Stephanie and Rose may want to look at introducing Dr Kaplan's icons to the staff at a future meeting.
 * STUDY ** – What do our results tell us?

__ Future Actions – We will: __ The team could bring up the PARC web site at the next meeting.
 * ACT ** – What will we do differently next time?

Next Meeting Date: Feb 23rd @ 7:45 Next Meeting Agenda Items: The team could bring up the PARC web site at the next meeting.