Mid-Year+Meeting

** PHS Literacy Team: Moving Forward **
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// Literacy Team Overall Goal: All of our students will be better prepared for college and career because they will become active and critical readers, writers and THINKERS in all content areas. //
 * Next Semester || Goal 1: Clearly articlute the components of the literacy initative by developing a literacy "chart."

Goal: Continue to develop a model of PD to accomplish our literacy work (EdCamp, more departmental time, and more coaching).

Goal 3: || Action 1: Complete the literacy chart.

Action 2: Run our first EdCamp, conintue individual coaching with teachers and departments).

Action 3: Abby: collaboration with STEPS and CRS; work with special education department; touch base with "we others" including health, business, tech, WL; work with literacy team; Summer Reading; lisason betewee district and other schools; ACT prep; English 9). ||
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// English //
 * Next Semester || Goal 1:Increase authentic and frequent use of text coding.

Goal 2: Continue to assess and adapt "It's Clear" writing framework

Goal 3: Explore 9th grade grammar program possibilities || Action 1: Increase teacher modeling of the terxt coding process and increase opportunity for student interaction.

Action 2: Utilize department meetings as a venue to discuss student work, writing framework adaptations, new ideas, etc.

Action 3: Meet with Abby to identify quality programs and align to core standards. ||
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// Social Studies // Students will write using the ITS CLEAR model. Goal 2: Students will demonstrate good reasoning by answering a DBQ. Goal 3: Students will complete ACT like reading in the course content area. || Action 1: Adapt the English ITS CLEAR model to Social Studies and train the department. Action 2: Implement the DBQ Project into specified units. Action 3: Locate readings and create ACT like questions. ||
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 * Next Semester || Goal 1: Allign CRS with our existing curriculum

Goal 2: Explore the ideal of creating a science DBQ

Goal 3: || Action 1: Create materials that switch science content in specific course units from being verbal to being presented in a data format.

Action 2: Modify unit tests to incorporate the use of data as well as passages.

Action 3: Obtain DBQ format knowledge from social studies department and share idea with administrators and science department ||
 * Year 2 || Goal 1: Continue CRS allignment with our curriculum

Goal 2: Continue exploration of creating a science DBQ

Goal 3: Curriculum revision year 1 || Action 1: Create materials that switch science content in specific course units from being verbal to being presented in a data format

Action 2: Modify unit tests to incorporate the use of data as well as passages

Action 3: Discuss DBQ format during curriculum revision for grades 6-12 and explore the feasibility of creating and implementing science DBQ (data and documentation based questioning) ||
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Goal 2: Create science DBQ

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Action 3: || Notes from the Meeting: 1. On sticky notes, we listed all of the ideas that we have either thought about or started or completed, and then we categorized these sticky notes on a large chart that listed the "elements" of the literacy initiative: reading, writing, reasoning, vocabulary, technology, CRS/ACT and culture. Reflections: we have done a lot. We also began to see that different departments have different priorities. We are going to use this chart to create a document that clearly outlines the aspects of our initiative. 2. Using a web, we identified "where we are at" in regard to each of the "elements" of the initiative. First we did this departmentally on small sheets of paper, and then we transferred this work to a large chart. Conclusions: Reading: 40-50% Writing: 50% Reasoning: 30% Vocabulary: 10-20% Technology: 20 % (this is as it connects to literacy) CRS/ACT: 40% Culture: 40% 3. We wrote goals both for the literacy initiative overall and goals specific to each department.