Notes from Tanya's director's meeting
Angie Pelton
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Common Core resources on AMSTI.org
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Videos and basically lesson plans to use with
PLT (PLCs)
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Not on the AMSTI.org yet, but Angie will let us
know when they are available
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First portion for the teacher
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Second portion for faculty meeting
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Share with administrators, and they can take the
knowledge back to the faculty
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ALEX site!
Ellen and Maria and Online Courses
- Online kit training for compressed training
- Process for setting up training will be sent to directors
- A kit will be sent to the teacher to use in real time while they are completing the online training.
- Always plan with material manager to make sure a kit can be sent before a teacher can be offered compressed training
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This course will be up 4 times a year with each
cycle
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Need it when the kit is scheduled for their
school
Changes in SCIENCE:
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Jeff:
See the spreadsheet and check our numbers.
§ Half kits with 32 books and half with 16 books
· We need to buy 16 books for half of our kits
· We put 28 in a kit
§ These will be packed into the red totes
§ We might need to purchase 4 student books for each kit order for us
§ Might need to purchase some conversion kits
§ May have to purchase some red totes
§ May be additional refurb items that we have not had to purchase before
§ K5 literature books not purchased so we may need to purchase some but only purchase the safe list
§ We think the 6-8 kits are safe
§ None of the conversion kits for CE have been purchased
· Sites will be responsible for ordering next year
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We will have items that no longer go into these
kits
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Battery chargers and rechargeable batteries are
going away
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There are other and Jeff will have a more
detailed list in September
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Some items we will need more items (balance arm,
example, one kit uses 8 and one uses 2 so if those are left in the classroom
then we will not need more but if they are not left then we will need more
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All kits paid out of one budget will go to the
site by September 1st
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JSU’s stuff will go to UM
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As the shipment come in, let Jeff know
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Those of us with space issues?????
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Some renting containers
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Estimates submitted
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Order should match estimates
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K-5 bundles are OK and Publishers and meet that
order
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6-8 bundles will not be ready
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If you need more science kits, let Jeff know
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Products should arrive early September
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FOSS is changing version of kits
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Some meet the standards
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Question:
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Projection for refurb cost : has anyone order
all 4 cycles at once and is it accurate ?
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USA has and the projections are a little over
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Better prices and have the materials
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May make some small orders
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New packing slips by Christmas for the new
titles
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Sandy
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STC is now called secondary, not middle school
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Can be used from 6th to 10th
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Mega modules are now 2 modules
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Break our modules down in the two modules
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Lots of handling with these modules
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Life will change with New Generation Standards
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Very different than before
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Current COS committee, committed to mirroring
the Next Generation standards and the draft will be revised
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COS standards adopt in March 2013
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Voluntary implemented in 2013-2014
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Implemented in 2014-2015
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Another draft in August or September
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Safe kit list could change in August or Sept or
it could grow
Next generation Standards
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Standard and performance expectation
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If it covered 1 performance expectation then
Sandy didn’t deem it safe
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Some grades have 30 performance expectation
3 main ideas
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Cross cutting concepts
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Science engineer practices
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Disciplinary core ideas
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Not one kit we have completely meet the New
Generation standards
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Standards are deeper
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Rigor increased exponentially
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How do we go to Conversion to STC secondary
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We call them safe but not 100% match to Next
Generation Standards
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Plan for next year:
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People will be identified at each site
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Face to face meeting with these people
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On the changes from old kit to new
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Or webinar
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PD on writing the 5E guides
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August to December : development phase
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Presenters guide
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Training power points
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Writing new lessons and correlating to the old
module
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Jennifer and Kathy will work on a virtual
product, no funding for face to face training so developing a virtual training
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December
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Face to face meeting with developers and the
material managers
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Work on packing slip
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January /February
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Finish and polish
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March
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Print and prep for TTT
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April
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TTT – lead by the developer
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Video to train the masses
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Summer 2013 training on STC Secondary
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New 6-8 teacher
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Virtual training complete for previously trained
6-8 teachers based on the fact that they stay at the same grade level
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The understanding is that if they have, for
example, EMM TG, then they can use the EMM TG with the two new kits for 8th
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Carolina Science online will be available to
every middle school person we have
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Disseminated though material managers
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Question:
change grade level should come to the new STC Secondary training
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Fall 2013 teacher receive STC Secondary
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Big shift: micro science shifting out of K-5,
some out of 68 into high school
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GLOBE will have to change not fitting currently
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Question: Recommendation of purchasing Genetics
kits
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TGs for 6th and 7th grade
not ready yet
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Question: what will we do with the kits that do
not match up to the COS
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Hopefully we can use lessons out of them to meet
individual lesson especially with the FOSS they no longer make them any more
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Questions:
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Will we keep the same k-5 kits 2012-2013 and
2013-2014?
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Probably not 2013-2014, we will leap to the new
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May can go to three kits and not 4 kits at the
k-5 level
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Deeper topics not as many
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New assessment will contain science from 3rd
grade up and that would begin with Spring 2015, can go down to K , school year
2014-2015
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We don’t need to buy bulk for 2013-2014 based on
the current k-5 kits, which means we would be purchasing out of the 2013 budget
for the 2013 2014 new kits
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Take out K-8 bulk items that do not fit the safe
kits
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GLOBE only matches 3rd grade
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Developing stand alone lessons
Steve
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Dr. Bice is about partnering and supporting
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Keep calendars through September but after that
everything changes
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List of dates:
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onc a month, directors, specialists, ARI, and other field staff will
receive a 2 day training --
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RSS – AMSTI, ARI, field staff, people work full time in the field with
school systems
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1st one – Dr. Bice give great vision:
and meet with AMSTI on Aug 3
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August 29-30: follow up meeting for the new vision
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Montgomery
- still working on it
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Tentative dates: the list of two days for the rest of the year will be training for all field staff - when approved, Steve will let us know. Hold them for now.
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August 3rd is the vision day! In
Montgomery - Polly, Amber and Melanie have vacation plans/trip plans are excused. Did I miss anyone else that had a vacation/trip planned for August 3rd?
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The other dates are with the RSS and maybe the
Region 6 team
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Could be regional meetings not Montgomery
Math TTT
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TTT
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Site supply 4 per grade K-5 and 2 per grade
level 6-8
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Same person will be trained year 1 and year 2
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JSU professors can attend remember to invite Dr.
Johns! and will not count toward our limit of 4
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Have conversations with systems so that they can
be used as new hire trainers, preservice trainers, summer training, compressed
training
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May can use them in the systems to meet their
training needs
Question: Can specialists attend TTT ?
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They will be trained in the October statewide
staff meeting
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What will specialists be certified to do? Working on
it.
Dates:
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South: Jan 22-24
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Feb 5-7: Middle – UAB
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Feb 26-28: North
Math:
Implementing Common Core State Standards and Assessment
: PDF free down load
www.parcconline.org/commonimplementationworkbook
My vision for Implementation of OGAP in our region:
Math specialists, please work toward "owing" the OGAP training so that you can become the expert and possibly co -train it for us in the summer of 2013. Get in the research. If funded I want to offer additive, multiplicative, fractional and proportion to various grade levels. Let's think about working closely with a teacher at each school during a sustainaiblity cycle and really POUR into them OGAP. If you want to, in the future, train/ cotrain our teachers using OGAP, then it is imperative to learn to LOVE research and internalize it so that it flows from you without having to "look it up". You will need to go to other OGAPs offered at other sites, just to experience it again. Look at other trainings, be selective and internalize it if you think this is valuable for our teachers. We can't go, go, go and ignore our schools, but you need to "hear" and experience it more than once. Our work this year should be about your learning about it. Use the assessments in classes, work with the teacher to sort the assessments and have discussions.
MSP
I'm working with JSU Office of REsearch and Assessment to write for the MSP grant. The science will be concentrated on 6-8 science of robotics and K-8 (9-12 maybe) OGAP math. Someone from Technology and Engineering will provide the robotics training. If funded, we will train OGAP the summer of 2013 to 5 schools who have had a lead team receive the OGAP training. (PLT/ACHE) schools. 5 -6 schools each year for 3 years.
7 Habits training
I'm working with Shelly Hollis to bring 7 Habits PD to our site since we have had so many changes in the past year. All new staff (8 people) that have not participated in 7 Habits will be asked to participate and everyone who has participated my participate again. Other sites will be allowed to send staff as well. We will be the host site. As soon as I have concrete dates from Shelly, I will let you know. I've given her dates in August and September.
Statewide Staff meeting debrief
At our next staff meeting on August 13, please provide a debrief, a summary of what you learned/information shared in your sessions at the statewide staff meeting. Note if that info needs to be shared with materials or Lynn. Do not make any assumptions that informationg
Google Calendars
Somehow I have failed to communicate the importance of our shared Google Calendars. Now with all of us in seperate rooms/buildings/floor they are more important than ever. And not being together at the statewide staff meeting we have been seperated.
Google calendars should reflect your work schedule: contract days, non contract days, vacation days, meetings (state dept, school meetings, etc) PD plans (both receiving and delivering).
Please keep your Goolge calendars updated, at least weekely. Please place all dates on your Google calendar as soon as you are aware of dates. Example: Some time in March, I reserved the last week of July and then in May, I change it to July 12 - 13 to be off to go to Tim's family at the beach. Last Friday, June 22, I discovered I was the only one planning a trip. :) I'm reserving dates in October to go to Point Clear. In January or February I blocked off time to go to Texas for the AL- Michigan game. Now we are not going and I will take it off my calendar. It is better to hold the days than for them not to be on there and something is planned for the whole site and you all of a sudden tell me you have a trip planned and I've notified schools of PD on that date. etc..... I have plan with schools and systems, several months in advance and I use the Google Calendars to do that planning. Thank you in advance for being very diligent in keeping it updated. Most phones will sync (wirelessly) with Google Calendar so if you change it on your phone your Google Calendar is updated.
FYI
By October 1, Lynn Vaughn will not be "based" at our site. Decision made by other people above my pay grade.
I hope everyone has a great week of the 4th. I will work Monday (July 2) and Tuesday (July3).
Math has a COS PD with Weaver on July 9th. I will load the van for the PD on Tuesday, July 3rd. Amber and Donna will bring the van to Grace Baptist in Oxford and Melanie and I go directly to Grace Baptist. We will meet at Grace at 8 AM.
I have a Leadership Development meeting in Pelham on July 10th so I be back in the office on July 11th.
