Friday, September 28, 2018

09/28/18 PLC Minutes

Members Present: Baker, Wise, Vermillion, McCandless (and Integrated: Roberts and Rahmlow)

A. Common Assessment Weds/Thurs next week
   1. Natural Selection unit
   2. Wise has to do pre-assessment for his program first
B. Quiz data review occurred last PLC
C. Next week all planned out already together
D. PTC day working on lessons
E. Gold Day Agenda
   1. Backpack stuff Our Drive Link
   2. Juniors CER- Stickleback can be uploaded into Backpack (take a picture)
   3. Seniors recording for Vermillion for Backpack
      i. Pictures are being taken
      ii. Written reflection is also going in with pictures
   4. Quality Work handout in the Backpack folder on Drive: Click for Backpack Worthy Handout
   5. Kid should choose what folders to put work in, and what work to put in the Backpack.
      i. Projects can go in different folders depending on how the student process went for individual students. (one might say "resilient learner" while another student chose "effective communicator"
      ii. Outside of school opportunities are not required, should not go in Backpack
      iii. Backpack artifacts dropped in a folder, it stays as just ONE document/artifact. It can be in multiple places, if they open it in one place, it edits it in all places.
      iv. Google Drive allows you to recover deleted items within a timely fashion, for errors that occur.
      v. Edit/Revision History can also help students
      vi. If a student deletes an artifact from their drive, it also deletes it in their Backpack
      vii. If a student leaves JCPS, comes back, will their Drive and Backpack still be in existence?
      viii. What happens if a kid bounces between schools, between counties?
      ix. Petition to excuse- Baker (Valley specific)
      x. Help students fit artifacts into where they belong- provide guidance
     xi. Lab Reports are great. Pictures are great. Videos are great. Written Reflections with picture/video are needed.
     xii. Add comments option to give reflection on artifacts is great.
   6. Other agenda items? Google Classroom? What do we want to ask for?
      i. Backpack stuff
      ii. Meeting to communicate everything that is going on. All the initiatives, Parent contacts, sum up everything to get everyone on the same page, expectations and consistency, behavior guidelines, field trips, secondary plans if ISAP is full and admin are out, unanswered referrals, communication and follow-up to referrals, teacher morale
    iii. Department meetings
F. MAP testing
   1. Achieve3000 articles
   2. Using MAP to choose articles
   3. MAP scores give you a RIT score, not lexile. Ms. Roy is looking for a ballpark comparison.
   4. NewsELA- Uses Lexile

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