Meeting+8

Meeting #8 Tuesday, April 13th 11:30 - 4:00 Central Office Upstairs Boardroom

1. Review/Revise Balanced Literacy Framework 2. Anchor Book Decisions 3. Resources for the Bookrooms 4. Discuss structure of May Early Release Day 5. Do we need a timeline of our work? See attachment 6. Recommendations to Principals
 * Done! K&J will fix formatting and re-post
 * 1st semester/2nd semester ideas
 * Other suggestions
 * K&J suggestion
 * 1st Semester - K-5 all schools study __That Workshop Book__
 * Part feel that the sessions should be optional, part feel that the sessions should be mandatory
 * at Building level, or meet as a district
 * Talking Points (process, components, study group ideas, give-a-ways)
 * Meet at building level
 * what are you already successful at, what concerns/questions, go back to grade level meetings to talk about what this would look like
 * Talking points in a power point (Michele, Angie) Show the overall picture, break up in small groups in mixed grade levels, walk around stick post-it notes on sticky chart paper (what are you already doing in this type of model, what questions, what do you know you are going to need support with)
 * Separate letter from framework
 * What time during the day do you see your staff participating in a study group?
 * 3-4pm, lunch for some buildings (optional)
 * What are the roadblocks you and your colleagues will run into? Is there enough time built into your day to fully implement a reading and writing workshop?
 * Do we stick to district meeting days and building meeting days?
 * Building in blocks of times in intermediate (strings, band, DARE)
 * Schedule in general for uninterrupted time
 * Departmentalization - no time to do language arts (for example, 3 classes a day and get each class for 1 hour)
 * Mandatory vs. Optional
 * Part feel that the sessions should be optional, part feel that the sessions should be mandatory
 * If book group is optional, do you still get the book?
 * If it is mandatory, departmentalized teachers are all language arts teachers
 * Are IS participating? Can Missy buy the book?
 * Credit vs. no credit
 * At this point, we recommend credit for That Workshop Book, the rest is up for discussion