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December 10, 2010 || Facilitator Today: Gina ||
 * Instructional Coach CoP Meeting **
 * Meeting Date:
 * Recorder Today: Gina || Timekeeper:Sara ||
 * Team Members Absent:Joanne Law || Team Goal: ||


 * Topics/ Meeting Outcomes: //Checking in//, //Burning Questions// and discussion around the first forty pages of __//Speed of Trust//__ **
 * Burning Questions/Topics: **
 * Janet had questions about how to juggle the schedule of an IC and Lit. Specialist. Gina brought copies of her schedule to share with Janet, et. al. We talked about the importance of having the support of your building principal in order to ensure the flexibility needed to move in and out of grade levels in terms of both groups and coaching cycles.
 * We shared the impact our consulting visits from Deb Smith have had on our building. Those who have worked with Deb are feeling that each time she visits, we are learning, gaining information and improving upon what we are working on in terms on literacy instruction in our building. We did acknowledge that it gets quite hectic in the building when she does visit in terms of scheduling and time to debrief. We agree that debriefing is important yet hard to marry with our schedules. We concluded that there is a need to have some conversations with our buildling principals about scheduling expectations during Deb's visits.
 * In light of what East shared from the December principal coach meeting, we had discussions about the value of buildling consistency and continuity through coaching cycles over a period of time as opposed to modeling/observing single lessons from time to time ** . **
 * We had some discussion about how well science and social studies is being taught in our buildlings with the strong emphasis on reading and writing.
 * We also talked about how the standards activities we received from Amy Mcintosh are being implemented in our buildlings. East has done activity #1, Moody has completed 1 and 2, and Hopkins is having Amy help work through these activities on the 3rd of January.
 * Joanne shared how Hopkins breaks their grade-levels into two vertical teams so that all grade-levels and support areas are represented in order to look revisit goals set at the start of the year, instruction, assessments, data and set/adjust new goals.

The discussion was good. We are all enjoying the book so far and look forward to getting through the text by our next meeting. We talked aobut how trust is absolutely essential for well-working environments and relationships. Julie says, "It's good living." and we agree. Lynn shared the 7 guidelines for establishing/maintaining trust and we discussed a variety of scenarios where we've had applicable experiences.
 * We discussed the Speed of Trust by Covey **


 * Questions/ Concerns/ Requests: **

**Agenda for Next Meeting:** Burning questions Reading assignments - Speed of Trust Lynn - 1-7 Sara 41-124 Janet 185-233 Gina 233-284 Joanne 285-end **Assignments for Next Meeting: Who needs to bring what?** Bring your Speed of Trust Book and come prepared to discuss the book and think about an action plan as it applies to you. **Questions/ Concerns/ Celebrations:**