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October 27, 2009 || Facilitator Today: Sue Clark || Kelly Card || Timekeeper: Linda Hall || Student Centered Coaching Cycles: both small group and individual with a focus on student learning and assessments driving instruction. ||
 * Instructional Coach Team Meeting Feedback **
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 * Team Members Absent: || Team Goal:

Sit process successes: Christina: have started weekly meetings include prinicpal, IC, primary rep. and intermediate rep, special ed, psychologist, literacy teacher, and classroom teacher of student. They are using the SIT meeting planner protocol (from intranet) and someone completes the SIT forms during the meeting (teachers completing pages 1-4 prior to meeting). Concerned with not having a specific student goal on the forms.
 * Topics/ Meeting Outcomes: **

Sue: Just started this morning as a team to discuss forms and differences with the process this year. They talked about where they are in actions to support students not meeting grade level expectations. Eduational Support Team: librarian, GT teacher, literacy, resource, psychologist meet on PLC days to determine how they can support teachers with students of need. The EST team has met with each grade level team to explain how they will support teachers/students with SIT process and find out what would be helpful to teachers. SIT team: principal, IC, librarian, int. teacher, primary teacher, GT teachers, counselor, psychologist, resource teacher, reading specialist. They plan to use same format/protocol as they have used in previous years with modifications from the new SIT forms. They are considering creating a list of interventions that might be used at tier 1 or tier 2 so teachers can complete forms more completely. Also considering assigning a consultant/team to help teachers complete SIT forms.

Kelly: We have had numerous organizational SIT team meetings with team members: Principal, IC, Resource teachers, Speach/language, reading specialists, GT teacher, counselor. We have assigned a team member to each grade level team. Last week we had a formal meeting with a grade level team and a student of concern to demonstrate how to complete the SIT forms. The success of this process was the power of having the complete grade level team present to dialogue with the classroom teacher to share ideas and strategies. The concern we have is the lack of specific student goal.

Linda: SIT: still in progress monitoring stage and each teacher is focusing on 4 students to progress monitor and consider bringing to SIT. This is a real focus on tier 1. There is a lot of sharing/blending of kids between resource and literacy, and para pro support for literacy instruction bubble kids. Formal SIT team meeting to be held after sufficient progress monitoring has been completed.

Coaching Cycles: Linda: Primary Conferring study group continues very enthusiastically. Considering a follow up plan for people who participated in the summer Calkins Lesson Study. Additionally, there are 3 teacher participating in a lesson study. Sue: Has a one to one coaching cycle on Words Their Way and reading which continues to go well. Next week she will have her 3rd Words Their Way study group meeting and teachers will meet with like developmental stages. They are also in the process of organizing a site visit to a school in D.C to observe success with WTW. One person from each team will attend k-5. Sue also has a Lucy Calkins book study/lesson study group in progress. Grade level teams meet to plan lessons and share ideas then put their notes on a Wiki. All three teams will come together once a month to share ideas.

Christina: Would like to do some follow up to the summer lesson study she facilitated. She is planning a cycle with second grade around quick writes and then jump into personal narrative with the revision book combined with a focus on increasing the amount of writing students are completing.

Kelly: Has two Calkins Study Groups which have met twice and will continue throughout the school year (first grade and 3rd grade). They meet every other week to plan and debrief lessons. They will have opportunities to observe each other and teachers in other grade levels. Video taping will also be utilized as a learning tool. Informal coaching: Has been supporting first grade and 2nd grade teachers during writing with a focus on conferring and goal setting. These two cycles will wrap up in the next week or two. She is also finishing a cycle with a fourth grade teacher with support in planning/implementation of Words Their Way. She is also facilitating the process of teachers being released during science lab time to observe other teachers.


 * Questions/ Concerns/ Requests: Questions were clarified by Julie regarding credit. **

**Agenda for Next Meeting: Focus on formalizing coaching cycle work (complete applications for credit)**


 * Assignments for Next Meeting: Who needs to bring what? completed applications turned in to Julie. Bring Any SIT forms that are created between now and then.**


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