Notes+11.27.07

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
 * Present:**


 * 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.


 * Agenda:**

1. Check in – A quick check-in centered on Thanksgiving!

2. Decide on notetaker — Lorrie took notes

3. Review notes from last meeting– Margaret read last meeting's notes. •	Clipper Computer Care is now printed out (in color) and laminated for all classrooms and ready for distribution. •	Surveys are being put onto Survey Gold and Ted will send out an e-mail to all parents encouraging them to fill out surveys for all teachers who work with their sons or daughters.

There were no questions about the last meeting minutes.

4. Next steps on Academic Honesty committee work – Holly Tornrose came to the meeting and gave us the following update on the Committee’s work.

After the survey was given last spring, the committee met to review the data. The amount of information was fairly overwhelming, so the group set some goals for what they wanted to accomplish with the data.

The questions center on three basic questions: •	What kind of behavior is happening in our school? •	What motivates students to engage in that type of behavior? •	What can we do to support students in behavior that is more academically honest? The plan is to distribute and process the data over two Wednesday morning meetings, January 9th and 16th. These are learning area times. There was discussion on whether two weeks in a row will disrupt the other learning area work, but in the end, the two dates seemed to be the most workable solution. An extended advisor time conversation would be something that could come out of this, as well as having classroom teachers talking about the academic honesty issue to build on the momentum of analyzing the data. Those discussions in the classrooms could be as soon as January 16th-18th. Holly mentioned that the committee wants to have this information shared from a positive standpoint, in terms of, this is what we see, now what can be do to raise awareness and change behaviors versus, we are now ready to “crack down even harder.” The next committee meeting is on December 11th.

5. Report back on the guidelines for computer use—see above

6. Items brought by staff members for the leadership team to consider

Emily asked if our team was going to revisit the idea of the evaluation process of learning area leaders. Deborah asked about the survey that we used last year. Will it be used again this year and for what purposes will it be used? What are the expectations for learning area leaders? How much influence can we have as teacher leaders? These and other questions brought up will be discussed at another meeting.

7. NWEA/MAP (measure of academic progress) testing– next steps

•	Jodi gave an overview of the types of reports that teachers can access and showed copies of individual and class reports. Team members were then given a half an hour to actually navigate the program and access information. •	Ted raised questions such as, “What more information might we need? What type of information did we find there? What are next steps?” •	Teachers from all learning areas could access information about students in their classes. •	How do we get this information out to all of the staff members so more people can access and use the information?