November 19th PD Agenda - Room 101

Do Now (5 mins):

1. First, open your laptop and go to ouchipd.blogspot.com
2. Open and review today's agenda by clicking here 

Fire Drill Procedures: Mr. Ines (5 mins)
Click here for the Fire Drill memo and procedures

Giving Tree Presentation: Lester and Ingrid (5 mins)Click here for the video to show your Advisory class


Letters of Recommendation: Ms. Aboli (10 mins) 

Review of PD Locations: (5 mins)

Wednesday, 11/19 Home Office PD Locations 1:45-3:45pm:

English Teachers-Burton Tech (Teachers excused due to Close Reading PD)

Integrated Math 2 & 3-Luskin

Pre-Calculus/Calculus & Integrated Math 1-Neuwirth/CRAHS 5

P.E.-Online Webinar (login directions attached)

Biology-Ouchi (room 108)

All Other Science, History, World Language, & Art-Regular PD here at Ouchi

Lunch: On Your Own (60 mins)


SAT/EAP Data: Ms. Aboli (30 mins)
Click here for the SAT/EAP Data Presentation

ALLI Domain 4 (30 mins)

1. Purpose
2. Sign Up Calendars
3. Digital Gallery Walk
1. Click here for the blank evidence collection form
4. Group Rating
5. Group Discussion

***Quick Tip***  Label evidence with the number and letter of the indicator to make uploading to BloomBoard quick and easy!

ALLI Domain 4 Resources
Click here for the ALLI Rubric
Click here for additional Domain 4 ALLI Resources

Updates & Evaluation (15 mins)
11/26 PD Thanksgiving Celebration-Ms. ThompsonClick here for today's PD evaluation 

Professional Time (60 mins)

Professional Time

• Domain 4 documentation
• Staff Satisfaction Survey (see Ms. Hansen's email from Monday)
• Planning time

Important Dates to Come:

• Wednesday, November 26th: 1:45 Dismissal, Staff Potluck & Secret Santa Drawing
• November 27th-Novmeber 30th: Thanksgiving Holiday
• December 15th-19th: Benchmark 2 Monday/Tuesday, Finals Wed-Fri 1:00pm release
• December 19th: Grades due
• December 20th-January 11th: Winter Vacation
• January 12th & 13th: All-Alliance Pupil Free PD Days

November 5th PD Digital Agenda

Do Now (5 mins):

1. First, open your laptop and go to ouchipd.blogspot.com
2. Open and review today's agenda by clicking here 
3. Discuss with your neighbor: How do you give students directions for each activity you expect them to complete during class?

Best Practices: Vocabulary (15 mins)
Click here for Ms. Sparks' presentation on membean.com

Classroom Management Strategy: Teach Like A Champion - "What To Do" (15 mins)
2.2 A Behavioral Expectations

What It Is: Give directions to students in a way that provides clear and useful guidance – enough to allow any student to do as asked easily.

How to Do It:  

1. List directions for each activity/station in order in the Digital Agenda
2. Go over it with students before beginning BLAST/activity
3. Model how to do each step
4. Do a quick check for understanding on the directions for each activity/station
5. Check out an example of how I used this in my classroom here

Apply It: Take 5 mins and pull up your Digital Agenda for Thurs/Fri.  Use this time to improve directions for one of your activities/stations and email it to Ms. Hansen at khansen@laalliance.org

Committee Time (35 mins)

Professional Development Committee
The Professional Development Committee will be responsible for advising Administration on the course of professional development during the school year, so teachers should bring any recommendations to members of the professional development team. The expectation is that there will be equal representation on this team from each subject-area department. Administrators will also be a part of this team. This team will meet once per month to discuss school-wide professional development issues.

Lead: Ms. Hansen
Ms. Sparks
Ms. Kessler
Mr. Hardman
Mr. Winnie
Mr. Garcia


Sunshine/ Parent Engagement Committee
The Sunshine/Parent Engagement Committee will be responsible for maintaining and upholding professionalism and collegiality between faculty and staff, increasing parent engagement, and encouraging, celebrating, and acknowledging school wide student achievement.  

Lead: Ms. Crawford
Ms. Sanchez     Ms. Hernandez
Ms. Felty           Ms. Zendejas
Ms. Cabrera      Ms. Bertrand
Ms. Newbill       Ms. Ortega
Mr. Labor          Mr. Hernandez
Ms. Aguilar       Ms. Cole
Mr. Cordova     Ms. Thompson

 
Operations/Safety/Uniform Committee
The Operations/Safety/Uniform Committee is responsible for developing a plan of action to address facilities/maintenance concerns and to review, revise, and develop current emergency response plans during school emergency.  The committee is also responsible for discussing dress code policies.    

Lead: Mr. Ines
Ms. Saarela
Mr. Watson
Mr. Artiaga
Mr. Abdul Jabbaar
Mr. White
Ms. Avila
Mr. Wadood

Advisory Committee
The Advisory Committee is responsible for the implementation of the advisory curriculum for all 9 - 12 grades. Some of advisory activities that the Advisory Committee may be responsible for is developing an action plan to increase Lexile Scores, determining a process for selecting a school-wide reading book, and creating a lesson template that each grade level can submit. 

Lead: Ms. Tramble
Mr. Falstad
Ms. Dester
Ms. Banks
Ms. Ducourant
Mr. Melgar
Ms. Aboli
Ms. Tharayil

Note Template:
Please type notes into it by clicking here

Committee Share Outs (15 mins)
Each committee will select a member to share out their decisions and next steps

Updates (10 mins)
Conferences-Ines
Grades in Pinnacle-Ines
ELL Intervention Trackers-Aguilar
Click here for today's PD evaluation

Important Dates to Come:

• Saturday, November 8th: Campus Closed 
• Monday, November 10th: Grades Due by 8:00 am, No School
• Tuesday, November 11th: No School
• Wednesday, November 12th: Targeted Conferences
• Thursday, November 13th: 12th Grade Advisory Assembly, 15-Week Conferences
• Friday, November 14th: 11th Grade Advisory Assembly
• BLAST Visit
• Free Dress

• Wednesday, November 19th: All-Alliance PD, English College Board PD
• Wednesday, November 26th: 1:45 Dismissal, Staff Potluck
• November 27th-Novmeber 30th: Thanksgiving Holiday
• December 8th-12th: Finals
• December 15th-19th: Benchmark 2
• December 19th: Grades due
• December 20th-January 11th: Winter Vacation

Using a Blog as a Digital Agenda!

Using a blog is a quick and easy way to have your digital content all in one place!  It makes content easily accessible on student iPads, and provides great resources for at home learning!

Check out the blog I used in my classroom last year:
coma105.blogspot.com