11/19 Kids Vote, Curricuplan, Curating, Right

Started the day at Panera in Brentwood meeting with Sandra Diamond from Kidsvote.
Resources:
Who is Sandra Diamond?

Sandy is the current Program Director for MY LOGO. This program, formally known as Local Government CECH-UP, is a joint program of the University of Missouri-St. Louis College of Education and University of Missouri Extension.

Diamond also serves as Director of Kids Voting Missouri, a position she has held since 1999. Prior to joining UMSL, Sandy taught Civics in the Hazelwood School District and worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as their Newspapers in Education (NIE) Coordinator. 

In 2010 Sandy was recognized by the Metropolitan Bar Foundation of St. Louis when she received one of their "Spirit of Justice" awards. Likewise, in 2006, Sandy also received the prestigious Warren S. Solomon Civic Virtue Award from the Missouri Bar. This award is given annually to someone who promotes civic virtue to teachers and schools throughout Missouri.  She also received the 2006 Barbara Ericksen Affiliate Excellence Award from Kids Voting USA.  This award is given each year to the Kids Voting USA Executive Director whose work demonstrates excellence in all facets of program implementation and who exemplifies the spirit of Kids Voting USA.

UMSL staff info: http://coe.umsl.edu/w2/About%20Us/Staff/staff_profile.html?staffmember=diamonds

Kids Voting: http://www.kidsvotingmissouri.org/

http://www.civicyouth.org/

Conversation was around:
Local government units
http://www.cech-up.org/

Afterwords I attended a webinar with CO staff on Curricuplan:

• web based, searched, documents, links, access to all grade level documents
• Calendar view - What's being taught when
• we create the headings
• Curricuplan How to document
• Compared to BYOC: http://www.schoolsoftwaregroup.com/SchoolSoftwareGroup/Home.aspx
• Compared to PerformancePLUS:  http://www.sungard.com/en/k12/products/plus360_performanceplus.aspx

At 10:30 I met with Jill Right to discuss Weather and Climate Unit for 7th grade:

• Development to utilize 2008 GLEs
• Create something revolutionary in 2009

At 11am I met with Heisserer and Simpson regarding curating of resources:

Budget - Hixson and High school get more money per pupil to support purchasing of resources - CNI can support when possible

• Any coordinator has to go through CNI steps to get CNI money
• Can't just buy the next version
• Chris and Science Department initiate

Standards are different based on process in writing

• who's process do we follow?

CNI supports forward thinking and doing things differently

• CNI can dedicate even more resource for this process
• CNI willing to dedicate more $

CO worry was if this is something impacts networking, apple not the best product to transfer across the district.  Money or resources to support the device.

Commitment to BYOD - what we make has to be able to run on any device.

Look at ALL products - 

Plan gather organize build (variety using the same resource)

3-5 days in the summer - 15$ per hour, 8 hour days

I then went back to Jill and her and I continued work on the Weather and Climate unit.

Here's the document we started...

Wrapped up the day by answering emails and trying to hunt down TLC details.

11/18 Office day

Started the day at 7:30 with the Edgar Road Faculty meeting.

I followed up on purchasing the uncovering books by Page Keeley.

I attended a Webinar on using iTunesU Course Manager.  I feel like this and Guidebook are going to be my educational Winter Break Projects.

I then worked on Phase one and two of resource adoption process:

Created below google forms:

• Phase one - Overall feel: http://goo.gl/W4OSX 
• Phase two Content focus:
• GLE - http://goo.gl/OfUot 
• NGSS - http://goo.gl/gucfV

I then did some research on Webster-Rock Hill Ministries

Afterwords continued learning about Google Apps for Education

Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1TtWeWmWrWeqiOC-qx3R_8uX1dBlMiglci_Yv635KgaQ

Wrapped up the day with a webinar on Preparing for the Next Gen Standards: https://docs.google.com/a/wgcloud.org/file/d/0B2myX1fkAsIBSER1U0J6YnhFd3M/edit 

12/6 Curating Resources, DLT, Meetings and SS facilitators

Started the morning with science over at Hixson.  We discussed Resources and made a decision.
Our plan is to determine our greatest needs now, purchase those resources.  And plan for the future of curating resources for the future of Science instruction at Hixson.

After words I went over to Clark for the DLT observation.  We observe a 5th grade classroom and discussed Marzano's design questions as they relate to curriculum and instruction, teaching and learning.

Some images from the day...

After the observation we rehashed what we saw and where we are headed as a district and had conversations about science and social studies.

After the DLT meeting I met with Mrs. Corley.  We discussed options for curating a digital resource.  We started a document here.

I then went over the WGHS to meet with the Tech Director.  We discussed options for digital resources and possible questions as we move forward.

After that headed over to Central Office for the Social Studies Facilitator Meeting K-5.
Agenda Included:
Checking in
Highlighting GLEs
Writing Learning goals
Discussing C3 content standards