Team+Feedback+12-08

||   || Let's read __. Let's talk about what tracking sheet or documentation we can use to show how our work is affecting Student Achievement. || Facilitator: Record Keeper: Kelly C. ||
 * ** Instructional Coach Team Meeting Feedback  **
 * Team Name: ||        Coaching Cyclones || Meeting Date  ||    12-12-08      ||
 * Facilitator Today: ||   Kelly Almer      || Recorder  ||    Liz      ||
 * Team Members Absent ||    Kelly Card      || Timekeeper  ||    Kendra      ||
 * **Team Goal** ||||         ** Research learn and implement effective coaching cycle strategies to increase capacity with teachers ** ||
 * **Topics/Meeting Outcomes** ||
 * Round Robin of how the coaching cycles are going. **Jenny** shared her new book, that she put together for her new teachers. She has done some 3 day coaching cycles, and some co-teaching. They are asked to reflect on the cycle then. The form from Sweeny has its limitations. Jenny will be working on the essay book with 5th Grade to start a lesson study with the team. **Kendra** has not yet started the coaching cycle piece (although we believe she has). She is focusing on classroom management with her new teachers. She isn't where she wants to be with new teachers. as she is spending a lot of her time in those classrooms. Her goal is to focus on Everyday Math and __Already Ready__ with her teachers in January. Being in the classrooms has been challenging. She's used the focusing and debriefing form from Sweeney twice; found it useful. Julie observed Kendra and found that she is using good questioning and Cognitive Coaching :-)! Kendra is in the consultation phase of her work at the present time. **Rhonda** is working with two teachers. One is a kindergarten teacher and Rhonda has been working with her on shared reading during explicit direct instruction. The form isn't working in this situation either. A piece of notebook paper has been key in the meeting time. They are working on Shared reading and they are using the book __Read it Again.__ Poetry has been key in the shared reading approach. Her teacher has been practicing her delivery on shared reading with poerty each day! She has been modeling in others' classrooms. **Liz** is working with several teachers on implementing __Units of Study__. She has just finished with her first round of coaching cycles and has been in every classroom but two! Whe isn't following a cycle but meeting the teachers where they are in their process of writing and implementation. She has modeled several lessons as well. **Kelly A.** has been doing coaching cyles with a 3rd grade teacher. They have been working on __Words Their Way__. They are willing to implement this program from scratch with fidelity. She has done intense planning with her, co-taught and is now releasing. She has worked with a 5th grade teacher on a short cycle and a 4th grade teacher on implementing ULF. Kelly has been asking the students how writing conferences have been helping them. It has been beneficial for the teachers that Kelly has been working with. **Kelly C.** has been working with a first grade teacher on a coaching cycle and is starting a cycle with two fourth grade teachers. Both cycles are focusing on the implementation of Calkins' Units of Study. With the first grade teacher there has been more focus on observing the lesson with a follow-up discussion. After the new year, they will put more emphasis on planning prior to the lesson. She feels it will have more impact on helping the teacher with direction of where she is going with writing and making the lessons less random. The fourth grade team is very excited about getting started and Kelly is optimistic that it will go very well. They will meet the first week in January to discuss the contracts they have filled out.
 * **Questions/ Concerns/Requests** ||
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 * ** Agenda for Next Meeting ** ||
 * Share how its going.
 * ** Assignments for Next Meeting: Who needs to bring what? ** ||
 * Time keeper: Liz
 * ** Celebrations to Share with all ICs ** ||
 * Jenny's book is very cool!  ||