Team+Feedback+2-09

|| Coaching Cycles: Elementary ||    || Meeting Date February 20, 2009 ||    || Jennifer Arzberger ||    || Recorder Kendra Hatler ||    ||
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||    || Timekeeper Kelly Card ||    || ** Research learn and implement effective coaching cycle strategies to increase capacity with teachers **
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||||    || Rhonda talked about the Ames Wiki they are creating. It’s the gift they're giving themselves in order to honor the work they've done over the past five years around reading and writing essentials, common assessments, teaching practices, record keeping, etc. They are using/learning to use the Wiki to network with each other as they move on to other buildings in order to support each other with their new assignments. Kendra has started a book study with “Already Ready” and gave teachers a Pre-survey to gage their current writing practices, their comfort level with teaching strategies around writing, and student behaviors around writing. This survey was shared and will be posted to the Wiki. As a result of group coaching, Kendra decided to do a mid-session survey to check in about their comfort level and what things would be helpful to include in the remaining sessions, and also decided to use collected writing samples, now and at the end of the lesson to provide documentation of student growth – she was going to mainly use writing samples in one of the lessons with teachers. Next time she has this class, she wants to get that baseline writing sample even earlier. Jenny shared numerous forms to assist in facilitating and documenting teacher learning coaching cylces. She also shared a planning template for the Calkins Units of study. Great stuff!! Thanks!
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Liz has been working on a coaching cycle with a first grade teacher on One to One and condferring with young writers. She and the teacher took notes of eachothers conferences as they tried to implement a conference "lucy" style. They were listening for the 4 areas of the conference that Lucy describes: research, decide, teach and link. As they started to go through the book, they decided to start a lesson/book study for the primary teachers. It has started and the primary teachers are finding value in it so far. Liz took some baseline data on how many teachers are conferring and what type of confrences they are running. She will ask the same question as the study ends and then compare results.

Kelly C. shared her results from the mid-year coaching survey she gave to her staff. The information gained from this mid-year survey was beneficial and will give her direction for the remainder of the year. She is still waiting to receive all of your initial data from teachers partcipating in the Calkins book study.

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|| Take time to go over the excel spreadsheet and the student data. Also share data to examine impact of coaching cycles on student progress. || We are going to take the time to go over the excel spreadsheet and the Student data site! We all need to bring some excel spreadsheets on a thumb drive. We also need to request computers so we can all work on this! Please bring data to examine the impact of coaching cycles on student achievement. ||
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