November+18,+2008

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=**Agenda**= =Reflections= media type="custom" key="2713451" =**Meeting Notes**= The meeting was a mandatory meeting for all literacy coaches (only the first Tuesday of the month meetings are mandatory for feeder pattern specialists). NORTH: Sharon Brown (M C Williams MS)), Franchelle Brooks (Key MS), Toni Marshall (Wheatley HS), Mellonnee Davis-Harris (Fleming MS), Glenda Patrick (E O Smith MS)  SOUTH:  Sonya Thornton (Hartman MS)   EAST:  Lisa Boze (Ortiz MS)  WEST:  Lindsay Niedergeses (Lee HS), Danielle Brown (Kaleidoscope/Briar Meadow MS), Marilyn Manjang (Pilgrim MS), Terri Goodman (Challenge HS), Jennifer Stephan ( International  School HS), Deirdre Sharkey (Westbury HS)   CENTRAL:  Mikey Keating Smith (Lanier MS), Tanya Thompson ( Rice  School MS), Carolyn Thibeaux (Waltrip HS), Mary Ridley (Ryan MS)  The meeting was facilitated by Dr. Anne Coppenhaver (University of Houston Clear Lake).
 * ~ Time ||~ Topic ||~ Facilitator ||~ Method ||~ Outcomes ||~ Materials ||
 * minutes || Name topic here || Who will facilitate? || What protocol or activity will be used? || What are the intended outcomes? || What materials are required? ||
 * Tuesday, December 2 in the Board Auditorium. The topic will be Lexiles. **
 * Absentees: (74% attendance) **
 * Coaches were seated in their learning groups (the regular seating for the “coaching” sessions with Dr. Anne and the same groups that go on site visits together)
 * Meeting began with a video of a coaching conference. Discussion followed to debrief the steps seen during the taped discussion between a coach and a teacher:
 * ** Clarification ** of data being observed (rule of thumb: 1/3 of time should be spent on clarification of data with the coach paraphrasing, asking clarifying questions, questioning the teacher to extend answers such as “What do you usually do to …?”)
 * ** Analysis ** of data (rule of thumb: teacher should be doing 80% of the talking and conversation should always come back to the data using such questions as “Does anything in the data surprise you?” Or “What trends do you see in the data?”)
 * ** Options ** (rule of thumb: teacher and coach should come up with three possible options, with the coach using guiding questions such as, “I wonder what would happen if you…”)
 * ** Plan ** (allow the teacher to choose his/her option and articulate the next steps)
 * ** Follow up **
 * Dr. Coppenhaver reinforced that the role of the coach is to **//help teacher think like an effective teacher//** and to **//always focus on student learning.//**
 * Coaches used the Pass-the-Paper strategy to facilitate a conversation around creating rich questions to use during pre and post observation conferences. Coaches will be refining these at the December 16 meeting and final bank of questions for coaches to use as a reference will be posted on the literacy coach wiki site.