ILD Agenda Meeting Summary Tuesday, September 13, 2012 Present: June James, Andrew Holland, Chelsea Campbell,

, Kristen Dorey, Paula Jamieson, Nicole Calla, Kathy Cepus, Carrie Carlsen, Pat Barrett, Michele Johnson, Neal Michael, Mike Dumouchelle, Tammie Stockli, Rebecca ONeil, Edmund Szutu, Sheryl Hatton, Brent Schieve, Stephen Koehn, Stefan Stipp (19 people!) 1. Meeting frequency and times We agreed to meet on the first Monday of every month between now and Christmas as a large group and to have small group meetings as needed to be scheduled by each of the small groups (kids, curriculum and structures). Meetings dates confirmed for now (All meetings in C-109 unless otherwise noted) Thursday, September 20 Structures Monday, October 1st Whole group Thursday, October 4th Whole group to present PLC proposal to Pat Horstead (Asst. Sup.). Monday, November 5th Whole group meeting Monday, December 3rd Whole group meeting 2. Professional Learning Communities - Pat Horstead will come on October 4th to hear our PLC proposal. Well discuss in more detail what that will entail at the October 1st meeting. 3. Kids team update - Food and Mind-up We agreed to invest in more chimes and mind-up books as needed. Were still trying to figure out the details and logistics of food in every class room. 4. Teacher Inquiry review Heres whats happening: Neil and Chelsea Embedding more oral language teaching into their FSL programs Rebecca and Tammie Getting their SESM kids to build a village and trying to meet a large percentage of their Ma, SS, Eng, Sc PLOs in the process Edmund Genius hour based on Dan Pinks idea. Edmund will try to give one class freedom about what to learn for a block (with some structure and accountability). Pat Looking at best practices in the district around how we support kids in classrooms. Also wants to investigate the class review process which looks at each class as a whole, considers the teachers goals for the class and then tries to figure out how best to support the students in it. Nicole and Stefan are considering a trial run. Nicole and Stefan For their Hum 9 classes they have develop 6 Essential learning outcomes each of which will have (soon) a performance standard. Students will use portfolios at interim, midterm and final to show their growth with respect to these goals. No marks will be issued except at midterm and final report card. Matt and Stefan Will look at how to make our kids more self-regulated. 5. School visits Stefan will e-mail people with possible visits soon. Brent talked about investigating Calgary Science school further. Stefans on it.

6. Professional conversations based on pedagogical readings (Karen P's idea): There seemed to be interest so June and Stefan will put something together. Stay tuned. 7. Group assignments: a. Structures: Brent, Mike, Kristen, Nicole, Stephen, Neil, Chelsea, Tammie, Rebecca, Andrew, Stefan b. Kids: Michelle, Carrie, Kristen, Edmund, Mandeep, Sheryl c. Curriculum: Nicole, Brent, Kathy, Pat, Rebecca, Tammie, Matt, Stefan People not at the meeting who didnt get assigned to a team, please e-mail me. 8. Other - New structures Stefan shared a SESM on steroids idea based on a brainstorm Andrew, Kristen and he had at the ILD district meeting. We briefly critiqued it with the purpose of starting to think about a possible structure that supports the elements weve established in our curriculum and kids groups. The structures group will explore this further next Thursday. Meeting adjourned at 4:11 PM Next meeting - see # 1 above.