Quebec High School

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Quebec High School

• Cycle I, Team Meetings
• Who does what?
• How do we find the time?
• Where do we find the time?
• Whats on the agenda?
• Where do we go from here?

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Who Does What?

• Central Québec School Board
• Key People
• Mentor the implementation of the QEP in their
• respective schools.
• Domain Committees
• Cycle I teachers meet with colleagues in the same
  domain.
• Domain Committees can be compared to Learning
  Communities.

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Who Does What?

• Quebec High School
• QEP Leadership Team includes
• - Principal, Mark Sutherland
• - Vice Principal, Marie-Andrée Poulin
• - Key Person, Tess LeBlanc

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Who Does What?

• Principal
• Knowledge and pedagogical level
• - Formed professional learning communities
• - Furnishes articles to read and discuss
• Provides professional development
• Promotes team building and leadership
• Gave each teacher an organizational binder

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Who does What?

• Vice Principal Key Person
• Practical Level
• Set Cycle I team meeting dates
• Keep their ears to the ground take the pulse
• Prepare the agendas for meetings
• Provide materials reading material, organizers,
  activities

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Who does What?
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How do we Find the Time?

• What about scheduling meetings?
• No changes were made to our schedules or to our
  teaching day.
• The principal committed to release time.
• This is achieved using money from the Reform
  Budget decentralized by the school board.

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Where do we Find the Time?

• When?
• Principal
• Knowledge and pedagogical level
• 20 to 60 minutes of each monthly staff meeting
• is reserved for professional growth. (Full
  staff Cycles 1 2)
• Assures that staff members attend meetings.
• Attends workshops himself and is part of the
  accompaniment
• program.

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Where do we Find the Time?

• When?
• Vice Principal,Key Person Cycle 1 Teams
• Practical Level
• Two cycle I teams were formed (Cycle I)
• Each team meets once a month. (Cycle I)

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Whats on the Agenda?

• Organization and Outlook
• Carefully planned agenda and minutes
• Set meeting dates in advance
• Small, incremental steps
• Teams were created with care
• Teachers leave with something to do
• Reading, activity

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Whats on the Agenda?

• Vocabulary and concepts
• Competency The competent student
• Curriculum Mapping
• Learning and Evaluation Situation (LES)
• Focus on Evaluation

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Where Do we Go From Here?

• Continue same format for Cycle I meetings
• Create Action Teams
• Create LES and Evaluation Tools
• Mentor with teachers from other schools
• School Evaluation Committee
• Agendas
• Evaluation
• Re-visit curriculum mapping
• Continue developing LES