Specialist PLT Log feedback.

• March 22, 2010 - I can't wait to get into the school to see the informal assessment you are using during modeling. 
• March 15, 2010 - Very exciting decision and tremendous growth is taking place.  I look forward to previewing the self assessment for the summer workshops. 
• February 22, 2010 - GREAT decision.  I look forward to seeing the site toolbox of assessment items.  That will be something you can share with other specialists. 
• February 15, 2010 - Very productive meeting.  Participating in the learning activities is an excellent idea.
• Regarding the questions, it appears from the logs that the PLT met 3 times in October, 1 time in November, 1 time in Janurary and at this point, 2 times in February.  So planning for 3 and sticking to the plan would be proactive. 
• For your consideration, please practice in your classrooms what you are studying.  It may be that you need 2 weeks to practice or incorporate what you learn into your lessons you are teaching or into a PD that you are delivering.  Learn, practice, and share how it worked.  That may not be able to be accomplished in one week so that everyone is ready to move onto something else.   
• As for the purchasing a new book, table that thought until after the next session with Ms./Dr. Chapman.  As I understand it, it may be a continuation/deepening  of the previous session or it might be on her new book.  Hold that thought until your session with her in July. Fair enough?
• February 8, 2010 - Good use of site time bu Remember, Ann Jolly,  not at this meeting.  Not a problem to use site time to plan but it should not be referred to as a PLT.
• January 25, 2010: Great selection of a video. What decisions were made?  What were the big ideas from the strategies and how will you use them?  
• December 7, 2009 - is listed on Nov 9th but there is not a log for December 7. 
• November 9, 2009:  Good discussions. What decisions were made?
• October 26, 2009: What did you do with the articles that are listed?  What was learned?
• October 19, 2009:  Very good goal. Please to list all members present.
• October 5, 2009 -Great place to start.  Good question.

I apologize that I have not commented as I should have. I have read the logs. I will use this blog post and keep adding the feedback each week to it.


It appears that you got off to a good start but have gotten side tract. Please remember....Planning sessions are not PLT sessions. PLT focus on Professional Growth of the participants. What is the date of the next meeting?

In each log, Please remember to list all members present. Please remember to include big ideas from the teams discussion, decisions made, plans for the next meeting, date, leader and recorder.

April 2, 2010

• Compressed training schedule has been emailed to the schools.  It's in the snail mail as well.  Please remember: Compressed training in ONLY for those teachers who have completed summer institute.  All other request will be denied.  It is NOT for new hires or completing of year 2 training.

• ACHE:  Only those schools which attended the spring 2009 PLT Training may attend the trainings on April 28 and May 5.  Other teachers want to attend but we have to deny them.  ACHE - federal funds- will not allow me to pay for them if their school didn't attend the PLT training AND we will have full sessions so even if their school will pay thier sub we will not have space for them or provide them with materials paid for by ACHE.  If you are asked by a teacher, "Can I come?" if they didn't recieve an invite from Tanya, then the answer is no.  We hope to duplicate this training and we will be offering PLT training again, hopefully in May.  I'm still trying to schedule that training.  PLT training is and will be a prerequisite for the content training (LTF, Pearson and Science training).

•   No Staff meeting on Monday.  We have a lot ot do to set up for the state wide meeting and the vision casting. 
• We will meet here on Monday morning and then work on setting up the InService rooms. SDE will be here to help. 
• We will check on the set up of the Civic Center, and set up the video camera around 10.  SDE will probably handle the civic center. 
• The food will be delivered to the Civic Center by 4 so please - we need several people there by 3:45
• Everyone from all sites should be there by 4:30 and the meal will be served at 5 or before if Steve gets ready to begin early. :) 
• I have a Director's meeting on Monday from 1 - 3:30
• Each morning: 

• The back door of (as if you were entering from the bottom parking lot and door by the stairs)  InService Center will open around 7:30.  We will need to be at the In-Service Center around 7:30 each morning.  
• You are free to leave each day as soon as we help Lynn get everything ready for the next morning.  I made copies of the science agenda but there is no ending time on it. 
• I have shared a calendar with you called AMSTI PD.  Lynn is placing all of our PD on the calendar so you can view it from any location.
• I have created and shared with everyone a google doc that contains our compressed training.  With Lynn's assistance we will enter participants names as they register and we will email them a confirmation.  Remember, compressed trainings will not be on the InService Website UNTIL there is at least one participant. 

Reminder About Annual Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

All JSU Faculty and Staff are reminded that the deadline is approaching for our annual Sexual Harassment Prevention Training.

The online program allows you to take the training at your leisure. It may be taken all in one session or you may bookmark and return at a later time. You will need to allow up to two hours to take the training program. You may locate the training on the HR website at http://training.newmedialearning.com/psh/jacksonvillestu/. Once you enter the program, you will select a track appropriate to your position: Supervisory, Non-supervisory, Faculty, etc. You may choose the full course or the refresher course. (Note: the refresher course is condensed and requires a higher level of understanding thus a higher pass score on the exam.)

There will be a test at the end that you are required to pass. When you pass the exam, HR will be notified of the successful completion.  You will also be given the option of printing a completion certificate. Please print and retain in your files. This is required training and must be completed on an annual basis. Please complete this program by April 15, 2010. 

March 26, 2010

• Alphabet Soup -- has been offered to Gadsden City, Pell City City, and St. Clair County as an In-Service for 2010-2011. I'll keep you posted on any acceptance from those systems.
• I have asked Etowah County for the dates you have chosen.  I asked Oxford City if we can invite Handley Middle and Wedowee Middle.  I asked Etowah County if we can invite Piedmont City and Cherokee County.    I will need to fit Attalla in maybe with Etowah County.  When I hear from Etowah County, I'll ask about including Attalla City.
• We need one more Alphabet Soup for Jacksonville City (Piedmont City will be invited) 
• Oxford City has agreed to the date for Alphabet Soup.
• I think that takes care of all of the systems except Anniston and quite honestly, they do not have enough AMSTI teachers to attend.   We have the "go ahead" with Calhoun County.
• School Calendars are posted on websites.  I've saved Calhoun County and Pell City City to the G drive in a folder called School Calendars.  Who would like to volunteer to make our combined spreadsheet of calendars?
• Duran Jr. North is requestion PD's - I'll get with Ms. Davis and hopefully it will be an inservice in August - Science NB, Math journaling, math content, math and science implementation (check data and provide activities based on the lowest data) and time management which can be included in all of those.  - be thinking and planning........I'll invite them to participate in this years PLT/ACHE training to begin to implement PLTs where they can also work on these topics
• As AMSTI embarks upon our 11^th year, we have scheduled a “ Celebration and Vision Casting” for April 5 from 4:30 until….  We hope you and your specialists will begin arriving around 4:30 with the meal underway by 5. This will allow time for celebrating our successes and casting a vision following the meal.   The event will be held at the Oxford City Civic Center.  Dinner will be provided. 
• We hope the evening is a festive occasion, celebrating the excellent work that everyone  has accomplished.  More to come as we get closer to the date. Steve Ricks
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  Directors,
  
  
  
  In an attempt to operate more in the advance planning, QII mode, we have set the following dates for statewide staff meetings.
  
  
  
  August 17-19, 2010
  

  October 5-7, 2010
  

  January 11-13, 2011
  

  March 29-31, 2011

March 19, 2010

Invitations (by email) have been sent to schools to attend the ACHE training.  A prerequisite - PLT training 2009 and a follow up session.  :  Hokes Bluff Middle, Wellborn HS, Saks Middle, Ohatchee HS, Weaver HS, WE Striplin, Etowah MS, Handley MS and  CA Donehoo --  

Deadline to Register April 9

What: Computational Fluency

Who: K-5 Math Teachers

Limited to 6 math teachers per school

Where: JSU InService Center

When: April 28, 2010

8:30 -3:30

 What: Lenses on Learning The "Base"-ics:  An In-depth Look at Refraction and pH

Who: K-5 Science teachers Limited to 6 science teachers per school

Where: JSU Inservice Center

When:  May 5, 2010

8:30 – 3:30

What: Laying the Foundation

Who: 6-12 AMSTI Math teachers – limited to 5 math teachers per school

Where: JSU In-Service Center

When:  May 5, 8:30 – 3:30

• Kit rotation update:
• Calhoun County has returned 3rd rotation and has picked up 4th rotation.  (Tuesday (16th)  and Wednesday (17th))
• All other school systems have been contacted but have not given a specific date to return 3rd rotation. BUT when they return 3rd rotation, they will pick the 4th rotation.  They are suppose to return 3rd rotation March 24-27
• If you have any updates or corrections to presentation list sent by email, please send add to, correct, etc  and send to me by end of the day  Monday, March 22.  I’ll  compile the list and submit it to Dr. Carr/Vicky for the In-Service report.  
• The state department auditor is coming Wednesday morning to do his yearly scan/inventory of the laptops.  This only affects the Toshiba tablet PCs from the black cases.  If you have borrowed one of these please make sure it is back in my office by Tuesday afternoon before leaving for home.  After the scan on Wednesday you are free to borrow them again.  Thanks!  Eric

March 12, 2010

Happy Blizzard Anniversary!

Remember to SPRING FORWARD Saturday night.  Yea!  The days will be getting longer.

Sustainability news:
Etowah HS, Mr. Wilkinson said that March 23 will be fine to begin.

Dear AMSTI Friends,
I am happy to let you know that Texas Instruments has been accepted as your newest AMSTI Affiliate!

Please find our information at http://146.229.155.222/About/Affiliates/tabid/79/Default.aspx and be sure to let all of your schools know the good news as well!

Thanks, Ned
______________________________
Ned Colley
Texas Instruments
Educational Technology Consultant
Phone: (770) 406-8822
Cell: (404) 435-9516

Cindy, Dr. Carr and I will meet with COE on March 25 to discuss establishing AMSTI preservice training.

Refreshments for State Meeting

Our site will be responsible for paper plates, napkins and home-made goodies. I think that each of us should bring one pack of plates and one pack of napkins considering we will have approx. 150 per day. Please let me know by Friday, March 12th on what home-made goodie each of you will bring so we won't duplicate. I'll make a list and distribute to everyone afterwards. Prepare for at least 2 days - possibly 3 depending on what has not been eaten with something new for each day. We are also to bring 2 cases of drinks and a 24 pack of bottled water as a site. Suggestions are open on how to handle that!
Thanks ahead to everyone in making this a great visit for our fellow co-workers!
Lynn

March 5, 2010

• For the statewide staff meeting in April, I’m going to follow my friend and 7 Habits leader and ask for snack contributions.  

Each site will bring:  2 cases of drinks, a 24 pk  of water and a few snack food items, we would have plenty. Can we break it down like this for the snacks?

UAH: 5 bags of assorted chocolate

USA: 5 cases of assorted crackers (like from Sam’s)

Troy: 5 cases of breakfast items (pastries or breakfast bars)

Athens: Fruit (apples, oranges, bananas, or grapes)

UAB: 5 Cases of assorted individual bags of potato chips

UM: 7 packs of any kind of cookies

UNA : 4 large cans of peanuts and 4 bags of M&M’s to mix in with it.

ASU-WCCS: 5 Bags of any kind of candy other than chocolate

JSU: paper plates, napkins, home-made goodies- Lynn will coordinate the list so we don't duplicate items. 

UA: Cheese and Crackers (you can get cubed cheese at Sam’s)

AU: 5 Bags of Tortilla chips and 5 jars of salsa.

• April 28:  Pearson K-5 PD - math content PD -  ACHE
• May 5:  Laying the Foundation 6-12 math content PD AND K-5 Science PD by AMSTI SDE

• 6-8 Science PD will be in the fall.