Curriculum meeting

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Curriculum meeting

• September 19, 2007

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Prayer

• http//www.godtube.com click on Little Girl
  and Psalm 23 - Bluefish TV

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Master Teacher In-Service

• Over 100 teachers attended
• 2 days
• 17 schools represented
• Topics
• Parents-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!
• Classroom Organization
• Survival Guide to Centers
• Test score interpretation

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Ron Clark Academy
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Test scores

• Discuss advantages of scaled score growth versus
  percentile
• Michelle Melancons presentation of what to do
  with test scores at the local school level

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Teacher Tuition

• Does not include Pre-K, counselors,
  administrators, and librarians
• Deadlines Spring semester July 16-Dec
  15th
• Summer semester Dec
  16th- May 15th

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Site Visits Changes

• Vertical alignment
• Test score analysis
• Textbooks-digital, hardback, order on-line versus
  keeping on campus
• Curriculum Guides
• Assume all classrooms reflect Catholicity
  displaying cross/crucifix, prayer table, and
  religion bulletin board

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New Teachers

• Harry Wong tapes-show clip from 1 that we show
  at new teacher in-service.
• Discuss other tapes.
• Administrative walk throughs
• Classroom management

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My Space Update

• School philosophy from Acceptable Use Policy
• Other issues

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Digital Books

• freedownloads http//www.digitalbookindex.org/abo
  ut.htm

• freedownloads http//www.digitalbookindex.org/abo
  ut.htm

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Political Responsibilities

• Election year
• Read Appendix S1-4

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Global Learners redefining literacy

•     Dr. Tim Tyson, principal of Mabry Middle
  School showed his schools Fil Festival winners.
  They are wonderful examples of media and out of
  the box along with global issues. Here is the
  web page  http//www.mabryonline.org/
• Click on the Academy wards box and then scroll
  all the way down and click on the various
  projects. Take a look a the Documentary

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Lesson Cycle

• Madeline Cheek Hunter (1916-1994) was an
  influential American educator who developed a
  model for teaching and learning that was widely
  adopted by schools during the last quarter of the
  20th century.
• Madeline was one of two daughters born to
  Alexander Cheek, grandson of a Cherokee Indian.
  He had been orphaned at eight years old and had
  to drop out of school to work. Eventually he
  became a barber and, as a result of hard effort
  and intelligence owned shops all over the United
  States and Canada. Madeline's mother, Anna Keis,
  was the daughter of a Bohemian nobleman and a
  peasant woman.

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Cycle

• anticipatory set
• Teaching
• role modeling
• check for understanding
• center time
• closure/critique

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• Give example of lesson cycle
• Lesson Hands on Equations
• Anticipatory set Stand on one foot and then the
  other and pantomime balancing, well today we are
  going to do a balancing act with numbers. This is
  called algebra. Algebra is usually taught in high
  school, but I think you can do it.
• Teaching I will let you work in pairs. Each
  pair will get a set of blue strips and white
  strips. The white strips are numbers and the blue
  strips represent x or unknowns. Using the
  tablet show a problem and how to set it up.
• 2xx 5
• Talk them through what you do to solve the
  problem
• Role Modeling lets do this one again
  together-set up problem
• Do another problem-2xxx22x10
• Check for understanding
• Center time
• Closure/critique what does an algebra problem
  look for, what does X represent?
• Critique On a scale of 1-10 how hard is algebra
• On a scale of 1-10 how much do you
  think you understand algebra
• On a scale of 1-10 how well do you
  think you could explain this to someone else

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Speakers

• 1. Genie Segure-discuss what she worked on this
  summer as far as curriculum piece?
• 2. Nicole Reese-ULLs new Principalship Co-Hort
• 3. April Byrom-Nicole Johnson Live DVD

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Books

• Books-Read clip from 19 minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Books youd recommend

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Teacher Tube

• www.teachertube.com
• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  12acf12457e4d67635a9
• New Approach To Word Problems go to web site
  http//www.thinkingblocks.com/
• Try Thinking Blocks    

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• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  499e50248a3a78f7acfc
• when I grow upgreat
  intro to the writing process talk about the
  little girl we saw at NECC
• http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey
  b4e4bb29d1cdbc45663f
• Can 8th graders change the world?
•    http//www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewk
  ey73a02f417dc9af000177
•                         video on reading books

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• Codee Books Library Agent
• This is another clip from a video i\'m working on
  about collaboration between classroom teachers
  and librarians. The complete video will help
  explain to teachers the new focus librarians have
  on learning and student achievement.
• Tags // education, TAKS, TEKS, elementary. loopy,
  library, libraries, librarian, comedy, reading
• Channels // Elementary Professional Development
  Reading
• Added 2007-07-24 by Dr. Loopy
•      

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• Fastcar The physics of racing PART 1
• This is a video one of my 6th grade teachers and
  I collaborated on to teach physics. The unit had
  a NASCAR theme and so we put together a video
  demonstrating some of the physics concepts. Part
  two is also available.
• Tags // education, science, physics, cars, speed,
  TAKS, TEKS, momentum

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Locations Dates for 2008 Caravan

• Lafayette January 24, 2008
• Cajun Dome Convention Center
• 444 Cajundome Blvd.
• Lafayette, LA 70506
• Phone [phone]
• Website www.cajundome.com

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O Ambassadors

• Oprah is looking for elementary and high school
  educators to join an inspiring new program called
  O Ambassadors. By becoming one of Oprah's O
  Ambassadors, your students will learn about other
  children and families living in developing
  countries and discover that kids can make a
  difference in their own lives and someone
  else's!O Ambassadors is a school-based program
  open to elementary and high school students. Only
  educators in the United States or Canada can
  apply to have their school included in the
  program.

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Meetings

• ASCD in New Orleans-
• Annual Conference and Exhibit ShowReinventing
  Schools Courageous Leadership for Positive
  ChangeMarch 1517, 2008New Orleans, La.

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LAKE CHARLES Father Whitney Miller continues
to wear many hats. Following a January to July
2006 sabbatical, he returned to his roles as
Director of Diocesan Counseling Services and as
Rector of St. Louis Catholic High School, with an
office at the corner of Seventh and Bank Streets.
I began to read about Monty Roberts, who is
better known because of the movie of the title
The Horse Whisperer (as well as a book of the
same name), Father Miller said. Basically,
Monty Roberts took a very old traditional
method of training horses that was called
breaking the horse into submission and he
translated and revised it to a new form he calls
Join Up. Father Miller was intrigued by the
similarities between Roberts training of horses
and the manner of relationships.
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Closure

• What a wonderful world (clip uses real player)