3/26 Arcade, WGHS

Started the day with 8th Grade science and Hudson Elementary.  Students loaded up their electricity projects and brought them over to Hudson Elementary.  Images below:

Headed over to WGHS to:

• Meet with 2nd year planning team to plan after school meeting.
• prep for 2nd year meeting after school tomorrow
• respond to emails.
• finalize budget emails.

2/19 Hudson Science observations

Worked with Hudson teachers

Used this lesson plan:

Peer Observations
Science
February 19th
Grades K-2 Teachers
8:30-9:00
o Observation Protocol
o Lesson Analysis Template
9:00-10:00:  Observe (Foley/Ranek)
10:00-10:30:  Team to debrief and complete the Lesson Analysis Template
10:30-11:30:  Meeting with Chris McGee


Grades 3-5 Teachers
12:00-1:00 Meet with Chris McGee
1:00-1:30:
o Observation Protocol
o Lesson Analysis Template
1:30-2:30:  Observe Pitlyk
2:30-3:00:  Team to debrief and complete the Lesson Analysis Template

Worked through Lesson Analysis template here:

11/1 WGHS, Hudson, WGHS

Started the day by working through emails

Set up 3rd grade facilitator day

Started the day by working on 7th grade social studies learning goals and proficiency scales

At lunch we met as coordinators at Hudson to plan Hudson Vertical day.

Plan is to focus on vocabulary.

Teachers will be able to:

• Identify discipline specific vocabulary.
• Create vocabulary games/activities as formative assessment.
• Design structures to make data-based decisions around vocabulary.

180 minutes

60 Minutes each section

Set up google doc by discipline, have "building vocabulary" from Hudson, and Building Academy vocabulary by Pickering/Marzano

60 Minutes

Share: Chris makes Taboo, Susan brings math pictionary, Julie brings find someone who.

Using games as formative assessments: 

How would you use this game/activity to inform practice or instruction?

60 Minutes

Create vocabulary-based activities/games

SMART exchange

Headed back over to WGHS to start work on 8th grade Social studies Curriculum writing.  I didn't finish but made a good start.

9/29 WGCO, Hudson, WGHS

STarted the day at the Values meeting at Central Office.  We discussed the Core values of the district and proposed a solution moving forward in the Strategic Planning process.

Afterwords went over to Hudson.

Teachers signed up for times on a google document HERE

I met with 3rd grade to outline what we would want in a field trip. Ideas included:

Hudson and one Avery Morning 

BREAK

3 Avery classes

People/Stations we'd like:

Mayor

Parks person

Streets person

Police and Fire

Planning and zoning

Finance - (maybe the assessor)

Courts

City Manager

Public works

Lunch Plan?

Extra station for possibly a tour of police/fire or Journaling/running

I drafted an agenda for Social Studies vertical Team:

and a proposed alignment for 6-8th grade Social Studies

After Hudson I went back over to WGHS to:

• Print resources and gather folders for Vertical Team
• Draft 5th grade Science learning goals

4/22 Hudson, SLCC, CTL

Started the day at Hudson.

We used the presentation for conversation found here:


I left to meet with the SSLC (St. Louis Science Leadership Consortium) team to plan Friday's meeting.

Then met with Michael Potterfield from UMSL's center for teaching and learning.

Went home to:

• Answer emails
• Follow up with Discovery Techbooks webinar
• Pick up resources for Volunteer breakfast on friday.
• Watched webinar:

4/15 Hudson Vertical Day, Prep Vertical Team

Began the morning with an M&M activity

Used this presentation for conversations:


 Spent afternoon working with 4th grade teachers on end of unit assessment.

I also began work on NGSS 1st grade Light and Sound unit.

Submitted Summer work hours and days

Went back over to Edgar road to prep for Science Vertical Team

• Copied Agenda
• Copied Matrix
• Copied NGSS by grade level
• Copied inside the box

3/28 Hudson Arcade, Edgar Road

Started the day over at Hixson.  We loaded up projects in the Box truck, loaded students in the buses and took 8th graders from Hixson to Hudson.

The projects they took over were arcade projects.

The students were inspired by the video Caine's arcade:



Caine's Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.


The project highlighted their learning in Electricity but more importantly they were able to demonstrate how fun learning can be in Science.

Here are some images and videos from the day!

What the photos/videos don't capture:

• Older kids caring for younger kids
• kids advertising their game
• pride in their work
• older kids helping younger students
• desire for the older kids to want their game to be the coolest
• When a project breaks the frantic nature for which the older kids were trying to fix it so it worked like it was suppose to.

Afterwords went back to Hixson to clean up.  I then went back to Edgar Road.

I worked on a presentation on Next Generation Assessments: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PX5O-R6pLAYfZMv6xgRLV2zq-3P7YSALjxd3lselcfU/edit#slide=id.p

I finalized notes from the Vertical Team meeting: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/1mdOSL8xxQ1hel5nmjcQKRW59YNg65DOs92kUP401L_A/edit#heading=h.gy2cnbuh97ew

3/6 Hudson

Started the day at a planning meeting for a future vertical teaming workshop with Hudson teachers.

Here are the notes form our meeting: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/document/d/19DGPsBKnZ9HRBIjCvF0IPQIihGH_j6LHz7LrmZwV320/edit#heading=h.7mxn5qmhssjt

I then went into first grade where they were drawing pictures and labeling emotions for social studies time.

Discussed what to do with FAST plants that don't grow...

http://www.carolina.com/living-organisms/wisconsin-fast-plants/10647.ct

http://www.ehow.com/facts_5406331_do-fast-plants-grow-best_.html

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SJmLm4_F0Kbu8482_NtcwIB8K-FRapgIKn_bWspvPYc/edit?hl=en_US

I then became Meriwether Lewis for the 4th grade TIME TRAVELER.  Don't I look good!?!

I watched some science in 5th grade and played a Math game.

I had lunch with the principal for principal's day! YES!

I called to get numbers on a bus from First Student.  I called bob at 965.6130

Each bus is $39.53 per hour.

I think we will need four buses (2 for each team)

I am projecting 2 hours plus .5 travel = 2.5 hours 

2.5 hours x 4 buses x $39.53 = $395.30

I then watched 3rd grade rock some "FORCES"

I had some free time in Kindergarten where I almost got lice from a pair of headphones!  I then sang songs and had fun with the kiddos!

2/14 WGHS, ER, Hudson, Hixson

Started the day at WGHS meeting with Building principal to discuss the roll-out of the Next Generation science standards.

I went back to Edgar Road to:

• Unpack from full day curriculum
• unpack from EdcampSTL
• Go through snail mail
• Made contact with Gateway Greening for 3rd grade project
• Investigated Science fair
• Investigated Prediction vs hypothesis
• Scheduled textbook conversation for Glencoe
• Met with 3rd grade teacher about essentials and proficiency scales
• Scheduled meeting with IQWST people
• Confirmed spaces for full day curriculum workshops
• Made contact with Scholastic resource person

Went over to Hudson to:

• Meet with ELA coordinator to discuss essentials and proficiency scales
• Got and FNP done on me :-) 98% fluency

Went over to Hixson to meet with 8th grade social studies about maps

Went home to:

• Go through book list from Scholastic for resources for 5th grade chemical interactions
• continue to work on todo list

11/13 Hudson, Hixson

Spent the day at Hudson Elementary.

Observed science and social studies and chatted with teachers.  Great day.  Hudson ROCKS!

After school went over to Hixson.

At Hixson we discussed resources.  We shared the process of adopting resources.  We planned that on the 27th we will experience iBooks Author and check out iBooks and itunes U options for middle school science.