Wednesday, November 5, 2014

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

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