August+27,+2010+-+Elem+3

Instructional Coach CoP Meeting August 27, 2010 || Facilitator Today: Sue Clark ||
 * Meeting Date:
 * Recorder Today: Kelly Card || Timekeeper: Linda Hall ||
 * Team Members Absent: Sheri Sheehan || Team Goal: Set Norms, Share Bucket Lists and Set focu/goal for year, and set agenda for September 24th meeting ||

Topics/ Meeting Outcomes: **Norms: For our Community of Practice (Elementary 3)** **Bucket Lists**: Linda: traveled to Italy (Rome, ﻿Florence, Cinque Terra, Tuscany) Had family time with John's family in Steamboat. Went to a free outdoor concert one evening. It ended up that there were a lot of hippies who followed the group and created an interesting evening for all. Linda's son is engaged to be married...hopefully February 2011. Maybe this will lead to one item on the bucket list being fulfilled...having a grandchild. ;-) Read lots of books: //The Swan Thieves, The Reliable Wife, Last Night in Twisted River, Let the Great World Spin, The Art of Racing in the Rain// Sue: Have times when all the grandkids together (all 7!). We had several opportunities over the summer to get them together and watch them interact and teach each other things. Additionally, this allowed all my kids to get together. My daughter got engaged this summer, with the wedding set for November 27th. Yikes!!! So Soon!! Things are coming together quite nicely. Read lots of books: //The Memory Keepers Daughter// (most recently)  Kelly: Didn't get much accomplished on bucket list due to unforseen commitments: taking care of neice/nephew and grandparents. Managed to make some progress toward one item on the bucket list was we started looking at mountain property and are now more confused than before. Read: //The Help, Little Bee, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The Honeymoon//  **Focus/Goal for Year: We will determine our goal for the year after Sheri is back and we can confer with her. Ideas are //Transforming School Culture (Muhammad), Clock Watchers (Quate and ?), Conferring (Patrick Allen), or Co-Teaching (Villa and Thousand and Nevin)//** By Friday, September 10th we will all have had a chance to peruse the above listed titles so we can come to consensus about our year long plan. We are considering offering a 4-school common book study through a wiki on //Conferring// by Patick Allen. We will communicate via email on the 10th to finalize our decision. **Set Agenda:** **On September 24th we will begin planning our wiki book study and group study of the book we chose. More will be added to the agenda after we have conversed on September 10th.**
 * //2 hours once a month (typically from 2-4 p.m.)//
 * //Start and Finish on Time//
 * //Listen respectfully//
 * //Maintain confidentiality//
 * //Meetings will be closed unless otherwise pre-determined by consensus//
 * //Reach decisions by consensus//
 * //Should conflicts arise, follow protocol for problem resolution (Harrison)//
 * //Encourage all members participation through use of appropriate protocols//
 * //Commit to attending all meetings//
 * //Show up and participate//
 * //Conduct personal business outside of meeting//
 * //Cell phones off//
 * //Avoid sending emails/texts//