April+14th+Meeting+Minutes

Good to Great Committee Meeting Thursday, April 14th, 2011 4:15pm

Attendance: Hayley Whittum, Anne McSweeney, Cheryl St. Pierre, Bob St. Cyr, Jen Carrobis, Karen Bradley, Sean Pine

Update/Review Minutes · Unfortunately, due to other commitments, Becky Berk will not be able to continue with GTG · Rose Colby will be available for another 8 consultation visits · How does the new software align with Power School and Performance Plus? o The two were never intended to work together · Continue to research reporting systems and hopefully come up with a recommendation for the district Curriculum work update · Focus is on curriculum mapping for the 21st Century · Closely aligned with the work and research of Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Share results of building assessments · Reviewed assessment spreadsheet, current assessments, teacher input · Updated spreadsheet to include HMS intervention assessment practices · The whole district uses the Assured Writing prompts and the Math Benchmarks o Not all schools/grade levels are using the data effectively o Some schools/grade levels use pretests for the math benchmark o We strongly suggest that all schools/grade levels use pretests in the future § Allocation of resources: can we have more “math labs”? o In addition to the “benchmark” tests, we need formative assessments to progress monitor prior to the benchmark. This will help to group students, monitor progress, and provide valuable data for instruction.

We need to come up with a set of questions for teachers and support staff to comment and offer input. · What assessments are the most beneficial in driving instruction? · How is data used? · Begin compiling a list of questions/survey items that would apply to your grade level/specialty and get the questions to Hayley. She can use his Survey Monkey account to aggregate the questions and distribute to teachers/support staff o Survey questions need to be written so that answers are available A, B, C, D. There is space for comments if necessary. o Try to get information gathered by Friday, May 6th o Be sure to include information about grade level/subject area/school o We will meet again to reword questions/eliminate redundancies § Thursday, May 12th § Send survey out ~Friday, May 13th § Ask for surveys to be returned asap ~ prior to meeting on Thursday, April 19th

Charge or 3 key messages

Product outcome: Create recommendations based on the current study of assessments across the SAU. In order to create the recommendations, the team will produce a survey for teachers to indicate the types of assessments they are using, how they use the assessment results to drive instruction, which assessments are useful and not useful.

Next Committee Meeting: Thursday, April 19th