December+2,+2008

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 * Date:** December 2nd, 2008


 * Location:** Board Auditorium

=**Agenda**= 12:30 - 12:40 || Norm/Focus || To revisit our shared norms and establish our focus for the day. || Coaches sit at tables by regions. || posted norms & agenda || Tina Angelo || 12:40 - 1:45 || Lexile Overview || To review the purpose of using Lexiles and develop better understanding of how they can be used during instruction. || Presentation, Dinner Party protocol (can be replicated by coaches on each campus) || **PowerPoint - click to download: **
 * = ** When? ** ||= ** What? ** ||= ** Why? ** ||= ** How? ** ||= ** What do I need? ** ||= ** Who? ** ||
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 * 8:30 - 8:40
 * 8:40 -9:45

|| Tina Angelo || 1:45--2:05 || Break || Networking ||  ||   ||   || 2:05-3:20 || Online Resources & EBSCO || To develop an understanding of the available online resources and EBSCO. || Demonstration/Presentation || || Deborah Hall || 3:20 - 3:25 || Debrief/Parking Lot ||  ||   ||   || Tina Angelo || 3:25 - 3:30 || Reflections ||  || Please use your Journals or the online form (see wiki) to reflect on the following questions:
 * 9:45-10:05
 * 10:05-11:20
 * 11:20 - 11:25
 * 11:25 - 11:30

1. What worked? 2. What didn’t work? 3. What will you take back to your campus? ||  ||   ||


 * To access the Lexile Report on Chancery, teachers follow these steps: **
 * 1) Lob onto Chancery
 * 2) Click on “Reports” in the left sidebar
 * 3) Scroll down to the heading that reads “Student List Report”
 * 4) Under that heading click on “H Lexile Roster”
 * 5) On the next screen, you will be prompted to type in your first and last names (other items are also requested, but typing in the name will be enough)
 * 6) The report that you will receive is a listing of all of your students, the 06-08 Lexile scores from TAKS and Standford


 * Powerpoint used by Tina during the meeting** **- click to download: [[file:Dec 2 Literacy Coach Lexile.ppt]]**

=Reflections=

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=**Meeting Notes**= On Tuesday, December 2, 2008, the Literacy Support Network met in the Board Auditorium of the Hattie Mae White ESC. ** The next meeting will be campus site visits on Tuesday, December 9. Assignments will be sent in a separate email. **  NORTH:   // none—100% attendance! // SOUTH:  // none—100% attendance! // EAST:  // none—100% attendance! // WEST: Dottie Lawrence (Bellaire FP), Lindsay Niedergeses (Lee HS) CENTRAL: Theodore Williams (Lamar HS), Christy Le Flar ( Hamilton MS ) ALTERNATIVE: // none—100% attendance! // The focus of the two-part meeting was Lexiles. Key points ncluded: Key points included:
 * Attendance: 95% **
 * Absentees: **
 * Part One: Tina Angelo ** presented a power point presentation (ppt and handouts are available on the literacy wiki site) which answered the questions:
 * Why do I need to know about Lexiles?
 * What are Lexiles?
 * How do I find Lexile levels?
 * How can I use Lexiles to help my students?
 * Lexile reports available via Chancery
 * Book data bases and Lexile analyzer available via [|www.lexile.com]
 * Lexile levels needed for post-secondary work
 * Part Two: Deborah Hall from Library Services ** presented a live demonstration of how to access and use the online resources available through the district. (Ms. Hall’s google doc. Presentation will be posted on the literacy wiki). Coaches were given lap tops to use for this portion of the meeting so they could follow along with Ms. Hall and learn how to navigate the resources.
 * Discouraging students from just “googling”
 * Key uses for the different online resource (e.g. United Streaming for providing background knowledge and EBSCO for providing Lexiled articles that can be translated into Spanish)