Literacy+Committee

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December Agenda

District Portfolio - Continue? Reframe?

Literacy Non-Negotiables - Assessing current practice... Best Practices Mfany are going to be time consuming to document Professionalism Teachers have written documentation Mandate that elementary teachers meet with lowest guided reading groups each day Look for way to electronically document what students read Shelfary Students have tool for documentation PLCs what is the role of the team when an individual teacher is not where he/she needs to be? Data wall will help us see where kids are at and facilitate sharing of best practices to benifit children Time factor: still need to take tijme to look at the data Next step dometimes does not get fully done Elementary teachers struggle with having enough time to collaborate on improving instruction Cultural shift Do something with the documents How many coaching or collaboration opportunities are available in each building Learning walks

Assessment Feedback Assessments are there, need to collect Need language that parents can understand, and lead to them valuing it

Professioanl Development Interesting to look at PLC agendas and find out what time is spent on literacy -- could be analyzed Horizon -- PD is incorporated in whole staff meetings about 2x per month Mark cited research on amount of time needed to be proficient in a new practice Plan to develop a discussion/reflection tool with a piece for teachers to describe what they need to move to next level Portfolio Program Teachers shared current use of blue L.A portfolios Is there a better way to do portfolios? electronic? including interventions h.s. is better served by a process that occurs in their classsroom in the fall of the year with an easy way to access additional information Mark will look at policy and procedure and communicate regarding abandonment Grade Level Exit Skills Discussion on hold as it will be guided by common core 4K K 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th

Are they connected to PSD's Core Competencies?

Vocabulary Instruction Model - How do we teach vocabulary in the Pewaukee School District? What are the option? Elementary Text Talk 15 books/grade level Math teacher created materials; some practices in place but not spiraling or systematic Horizon and ASA (per Mark) Excellent practice Not a systematic, spiraling practice HS Working on a systematic practice For next meeting: Take stock of where we are and bring info back to next meeting

Summer Reading Project Update H.S. All kids read a book; all staff involved in a book discussion currently only AP students have required summer reading Possible on-line discussion opportunities Do we want to get good at this in one site, or buildings opt-in? Elementary teachers may already offer incentives to kids for summer readings Examples in other districts of e-pals all over the world Abby will include Juli in Summer Reading Project for possible Horizon participation

Authentic writing H.S. It's Clear is a framework that can be used across the curriculum "Tell me your story" has elicited some initial results Discussion of what is authentic vs inauthentic writing Authentic writing has a connection to a possible experience the student will have later in life Kelly Gallagher: audiences and purposes Horizon shared inventory via spreadsheet PLE shared that Horizon list/inventory could be useful Starting to have conversations about what works; find them; and get really good at them Abby suggested need for opportunity to share K-12 what we do for literary analysis Mark will work with principals to use this info and will e-mail next step

What do we need to do at the next meeting? What are our actual literacy strategies? Comprehension common language.