May+4,+2010

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=**Agenda**= · Discuss the goal for the 2010-2011 school year: //To increase reading proficiency in secondary schools.// Focus ||  || Tina Angelo || 1. Read the article **//How to Survive Data Overload//** by Ronald Thomas. **(7 minutes)** 2. After you have completed the reading, then use the **Three Levels of Text Protocol** to facilitate your text based discussion. 1. Remain in your group and read the article **//Student Achievement through Staff Development//** by Bruce Joyce and Beverly Showers. **(10 minutes)** 2. After you have completed the reading, then use the **Save the Last Word for Me Protocol** to facilitate your text based discussion.
 * ~ When? ||~ What? ||~ Why? ||~ How? ||~ What materials do I need? ||~ Who? ||
 * minutes || Activity || Objectives for activity || Methodology Detail || Materials || Facilitator ||
 * 8:00- 8:10 || Hook || To draw conclusions from HISD data. || * Review the sample data.
 * Journal your response to the following questions:
 * What are your overall observations of the data?
 * What are the strengths of the data?
 * What are areas of concern?
 * Partner with a fellow coach and discuss your journal entry. Partner A will have 1 minute to share, then Partner B will have 1 minute to share. ||  || Tina Angelo ||
 * 8:10-8:25 || Focus || To provide the context for our work. || · Debrief the conclusions drawn from the data.
 * 8:25 - 9:40 || Article Study || To read articles and discuss implications for our work. || Look at the color of the shape you have in your hand. If the color you have is red, then you will sit a table with red colleagues. Repeat the process for the other colors.
 * The process should take a total of thirty minutes. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The process should take a total of 45 minutes. ** || [[file:Howtosurvivedataoverload.pdf]]

|| Paula Pierre || <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. Follow the adapted **The Multiple Perspectives Protocol**. You will read the article **//Making the most of Professional Learning Communities//** for this protocol. <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. Use the protocol to facilitate your text based discussion. <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">1. Read the article **//How Do You Sustain Excellence?//** by Douglas B. Reeves. (**7 minutes)** <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msobidifontfamily: Arial; msobidifontsize: 12.0pt; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">2. After you have completed the reading, then use **The Making Meaning Protocol** to facilitate your text based discussion. || Paula Pierre ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">9:40-9:50 || Break ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">9:50 – 10:50 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Article Study || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To read articles and discuss implications for our work. || Look at your shape and locate the letter on the right hand side. If your letter is an “A”, then you will sit at a table with “A” colleagues. Repeat the process for the other letters.
 * The process should take a total of thirty minutes. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The process should take a total of thirty minutes. ** || [[file:Makingthemostofprofessionallearningcommunities.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">10:50-11:00 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Debrief the Articles || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To reflect upon the content of the articles and the process used for discussion. || * What worked?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">What didn’t work? ||  || Paula Pierre ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">11:00 – 11:30 || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Literacy Coach Survey || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">To gain insight on the work of the Literacy Support Network || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Debbie Muniz from research will survey coaches. ||  || Debbie Muniz ||

=**Meeting Notes**= <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The meeting was held from 8:00-11:30 in room 3 C10 of the Hattie Mae White ESC.

Participants:
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Absentees (Note: Many Feeder Pattern Specialists were not present because they were turning in campus TAKS materials):

NORTH: George Caldwell (McReynolds MS), Mellonnee Davis-Harris (Fleming MS), Kynette Gray (Burbank MS), Dorothy King (Fonville MS), Shirley McQueen (Sam Houston FP), Demetra Walker (Kashmere FP), Rebecca Wells (Davis HS) SOUTH: Yvonne Phillips-Dupree (Sterling HS) EAST: Melody Davis (Project Chrysalis MS), Mili Henriquez (Milby FP), Kathy McMillan (Jackson MS), Patty Palacios (Furr FP), Roberta Raymond (Austin FP), Alan Roach (Deady MS) Patricia Shepherd (Chavez FP) WEST: Rachel Deffinbaugh (Kaleidoscope), Jennifer Fowler (Sharpstown FP), Nora Garcia (Bellaire FP), Nanette Kerensky (Sharpstown MS), Allison McBride (Westside FP), Karissa Ogle (Pershing MS), Candace Reuss (Pin Oak MS), Liz Van Auken (Westbury FP), Tonya Washington (Revere MS), Maya Weatherton (Lee FP) CENTRAL: Diane Alvarez (Reagan FP). Kimberly Booker (Black MS), Carolyn Frerking (Hogg MS), Alicia Lewis (Waltrip FP), Mary Ridley (Ryan MS), Sandra Sampson (Scarborough FP) ALTERNATIVE: Sandra Flowers

Notes from Activities:
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The focus of the meeting was on how to use data in a PLC setting. This was facilitated by: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> The meeting concluded with Deborah Muniz from the HISD Research and Accountability office administering the annual end-of-year Literacy Coach survey, results of which will help inform the report to the HISD Board of Education report in September.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Coaches reviewing data to show how a campus could receive “exemplary” status, have 90% of students pass TAKS reading and yet still have over 70% of students reading below the 60% on Stanford
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Reading the article //How to Survive Data Overload// by Ronald Thomas and discuss through the Three Levels of Text protocol
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Reading the article //Making the Most of Professional Learning Communities// by Jay McTighe and using the Multiple Perspectives Protocol.