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October 31, 2013 Minutes

__**PLAN**__ - What do we plan to do? Meeting Outcomes - We will discuss: 1. Peer Visitations 2. Feedback on School Improvement Data Discussion (October 23rd) 3. Feedback on Transition Plan (October 23rd) 4. Concerns pertaining to Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease 5. Parent Visitation Day for American Education Week (week of November 18th)

Meeting Activities - We will discuss each item to determine what to do and how best to disseminate the information to our staff. Katie explained that she is doing her internship with Rose. Peer Visitations - Katie passed out an article on peer visitation. It will be for a 15 - 20 minute block of time and Katie will schedule the times. It builds teach capacity. Administration, special ed, and other grade level. Teacher will build on what they see. Tentative date November 20 will be the meeting to explain to the staff. December 11 - present the schedule to everyone. Jan. 23 or 28 Visitations Two subs will be used for classroom coverage Feb 12 Follow up meeting to go over data.
 * __DO__** - What will we do to learn the outcomes?

Katie would like for us to generate look-for in the classrooms. - Did the use Kagan structure? Cooperative Learning - Teacher to see the rigor in each grade.

Kim did it in North East for the instructional; audit. She said it was positive. However the teachers were very generous in their information for the audit.

The overall process is for teachers to self reflect. It was suggested that time needs to be added to observation time to go over the notes and get them organized.

Teachers may want to just write up what they see and what they take away from the classroom.

Feed Back on School Data Discussion - Productive discussions. We will look at Benchmark data to look at the first line of what the children are learning.

End of the marking period assessments in reading were to be provided. We were wondering if they have been created.

Benchmark the data is looking data for 2 marking period is all hat is being looked at since the children have had the MP 1 information before they can take the assessment. The concern is that there is only 90 days to meet the SLO. The suggestions we have is to give the Benchmark at interium time in the first marking period.

It was suggested that the data in inform needs to be used to build graphs and allow it to guide instruction.

Meeting Results - We will:
 * __STUDY__** - What do our results tell us?

__**ACT**__ - What will we do differently next time? Future Action - We will:

__**Next Meeting Date:**__ November 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM