Notes+1.22.08

**Present:**
Ted Hall Margaret Anderson Brenda Michaelsen Jodi McGuire Suzanne Hamilton Tom McDowell Deborah Johansen Chris Hill Claire Evrard Emily Davison Melissa Noack Julie Hutchinson Lorrie King

Norms:
Engage in clear, open, honest communication among team members. Be open to consideration of others' ideas. Be clear about how we communicate with teams. Communicate the status of 'items brought by staff.' Balance whole-school perspective with advocacy for learning areas. State clearly how decisions will be made.

Brenda took notes. 3. Review notes from last meeting (5 min)

Margaret reviewed the notes from last meeting Learning Area Leader sent out reminders to all staff about our assignment. We will send another reminder to the staff about reporting out of Marzano assignment.

4. Items brought by staff members for the leadership team to consider (10 min)

There was a question about the MYDAUS survey. The survey is being done on February 6 during advisor group so we will get maximum participation. Emily shared some feed back from our advisor group discussions last week about student facilators. She shared her feedback with the honesty committee. Melissa also shard feedback with the committee and th hopes that for the next time there will be more training for the facilators. Lorrie reminded us that this was a first attempt for the students and this did begin to accomplish our goal of opening up the conversation on academic honesty. Need to help the students understand ho to interpret the data. Is there a specific time carved out on the inservice day for K-12 time to meet? Ted reported that yes there is and he will let us know. Julie and Ted met to discuss student led conferences for 9th graders. Advisors and 9th grade teachers will meet together to plan for the conferences. the conferences are scheduled for May 1. The time of CEP is set and the senior picnic will be the following Monday instead of during CEP because a number of seniors are involved in All State. This will cause a bit of a coverage problem for visiting CEP sites. We will need to work together to figure this out. The seniors will discuss whether they want to have a community service day. Margaret, Ted and Jenn have met and will be using the online folders for CEP so we can limit the paper we use as well as trying to cut down on the mailing and have employers fax back contracts.

5. Feedback from learning area leaders re: using the scenarios. What have we learned? What can we share with each other to make this more effective? (30 min)

Claire reported that the scenarios are going fine. She was able to do two in one meeting. She has a concern that there will not be enough time to get through all of the scenarios due to snow days and learning area time. Chris reported when looking at the scenarios he saw many similar responses from other learning areas. Emily shared her group did two. They had a productive discussion. Tom shared he noticed a similar theme as Chris and noticed agendas were similar as well. Tom feels we will be able to get through the scenarios before our K-12 meeting even though there will be a bit of a crunch. Emily asked how we should be prepared to talk about the date. Ted and Margaret said we need to have "talking points" to share not necessarly a written a report. Deborah asked if teachers are collecting annonimous feedback or are students putting their names on the feedback. Chris said one can use the drop box and have kids drop it in without their name. Melissa shared that she asks for oral feedback from her classes and it seems to work well. Sounds like gathering feedback both ways would be effective and worth trying. Claire shared a concern that there is a lot of work in learning area to cover and not enough time to cover everything. Tom and Deborah agreed. Ted said we will look at our in-service day and how much learning area time we will have. Ted- look at inservice time for learning area, lessons to be learned from looking at other learning area notes.

6. Planning for February 4th faculty meeting in small groups (15 min)

Moved to small groups to talk about the Feb 4 book groups meetings.

7. Discussion of the question that we recently talked about at the district administrative team meeting: **do we have common end-of-course essential learnings and assessments in every course and subject area?** If not, how can we continue to move forward to get there? (20 min)

In math we refer back to our common assessments and revise each year. Has not been dropped and it is something the math department continues to talk about. The same class level gives the same unit, mid term and final assessment and it counts the same for each class. They continue to discuss what a makeup looks like and working to come to soem agreement. There is some discussion of outcomes but no common grading. Science not so much common assessment but in chemistry using what Pam developed for Chemistry. The biology teachers get together to meet but not sure if the assessments are the same. For the big unit tests the biology is in progress and think they do the same assessment. English all 10th grader have the same assessment. Not sure about freshmen, juniors and seniors. Thinks for AP that they do a common end of the year assessment. Foreign Language is doing some common assessments. At each level there is some sort of reading comprehension/final exam at the end of the year. They have 3 common assessment OPI, writing prompt and reading comprehension. Social Studies- grade 9 yes, juniors same assessment for all levels, 10th grade finding it difficult need to continue to make it a focus. Art- Foundations in Art very aligned with all aspects (spend time planning together) Clay classes aligned doing the same things in all classes. Art area in good shape with assessments and standards. Seems over all we have held or slipped. This issue needs to continue to be discussed and kept in the forefront. Did we put the common assessment discussion on the shelf too early? Time is an issue. How do we support this work both throughout the year and in the summer? We can support release time to do some of this work. Do we need to think of a magic number of common assessment for each course?

8. Other (any remaining time)