Specials+Summary

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All here-
 * Feb 19 2009**
 * testing to see if this group fromat will work better than a blog for Mark to see all of our PLC notes in one place. there is no spell check that I can see so far. Stinks because I can't type very well and my spelling stinks.
 * How 21st cen day went- lessons look good- time constraints seem to be a thing that we are going to have to deal with.
 * PBL inqury how it effects our classes and how we can use and do use it in our rooms.

Feb. 4 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized — leigh @ 11:24 pm Edit This Shawn, Leigh and Sonja here- Chris at department head meeting. How our classes are preparatory for the high school programs, what we teach down here if an introduction to the HS. Shawn’s program is being re-written- how 21st century skills can and will be utilized in his classes. What are the ramifications of our 6 week program with the new curriculum. STEM- science, tech, engineering and math. Dr. Lopez is looking into this idea. Shawn is in agreement. Sonja- teaching 21st cen. skills- financial literacy in life skill room- budgeting, checking accounts, credit management, savings and investing.
 * February 4, 2009**

Jan. 21 PLC Filed under: Uncategorized — leigh @ 11:26 pm Edit This OBAMA is president. All here- Feb 13 professional development day- extension of Nov 4- PLC time to develop lessons and share successes. What is we want them to learn and how do we assess it? Choices are key. 21st century core subjects includes ARTS as a core subject. Getting everyone on the same page. How we as specials are going to fit into the scheme of things, where would it be best if we go on Feb 13?
 * January 21, 2009**

Filed under: Uncategorized — leigh @ 10:52 pm Edit This Shawn and Leigh here- Sonjia sick, Chirs @ dept. head meeting. Discussed collorboration and how we could incorporate that aspect more into our clasrooms. Looked at powerpoints and how some of the same concepts are taught in both our rooms. Discussed safety and how we could improve on it.
 * Jan. 14 PLC**

Jan 7 PLC Filed under: Meetings — leigh @ 6:15 pm Edit This All here What is going on with the new grading committee and how might work. Chis is on the committee. How can we incorporate the hand on math stuff into our spring lessons, what are our ideas for this? Shawn’s ideas - have students design Climbing wall New indoor playground plan Green man on gym wall- enlarge proportion math thing School sign Music room- choir- risers permanently set in room Foam board model of new classroom ideal entrance for Harmon Human chess/checkers board Camp games designs/ indoor recess Invite Mike to PLC- he stopped by discussed some possibilitits
 * January 8, 2009**

PLC Dec. 17 Filed under: Meetings — leigh @ 11:34 pm Edit This Staff meeting as a whole then in PLC groups- S, S, C, and L all here- What is going on with technology? The new company that has taken over and how it sigoint to be working. How can we incorporate ourselves into the hands on project based new math project that Lippnos is doing. Brainstorming ideas.
 * December 17, 2008**

PLC Meeting on Nov. 19, 2008 Filed under: Meetings — leigh @ 11:25 pm Edit This We discussed the inservice meeting options and the staff rating results. We went over the details from the department heads meeting. We talked about the next inservice day in February. We examined a new rubric.
 * November 19, 2008**

Nov. 12 PLC Filed under: Uncategorized — leigh @ 11:34 pm Edit This Chris and Leigh here- S and S sick. Confered with counslers about the changing needs in this economy of our studerns. How we can do some staff inservice as a follow up to Nov. 4 on Wiki blogs movie maker flip cameras pod casting smart board How this should or could be organized.
 * November 12, 2008**

Oct. 16 PlC Filed under: Meetings — leigh @ 10:13 pm S,S,C and L all here. Goal meetings and how they went. Where are we are with our goals, what they are and how we are going to meet them. Discussion of Jarrod’s Law and how it relates to our room and our teaching. The need to get more details about the law requirments and a better understanding of how it relates to our room. We are switching our PLC meetings to Wed. after school instead of Thurs.
 * October 16, 2008**

Filed under: Meetings — skinnan @ 10:12 pm Today Leigh, Shawn, and Sonja met to set up our blog and get it going. Chris Flynn was at the Smartboard meeting. It now works and we now know how to do it.
 * October 2, 2008 PLC**

Filed under: Meetings — leigh @ 10:34 am C,S,S- L not here At our last week’s PLC, which, by the way was the same week as a Faculty meeting, we talked about setting up a blog for our specials professional learning community. We looked at two types of blog spots, blogger.com and edublogs. org. The consensus was to start with an edublog (which Leigh so graciously created for us) We also created our own google accounts. At the time we set them up, we were going to hold our blog at blogger.com. The theory is that Google is taking over the world so it wouldn’t hurt to have a google account.
 * Sept. 30 PLC**