Elementary Secretaries Meeting

November 4, 2013
7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.


Essential Questions for TODAY:
How can we work collaboratively with schools to ensure timely and proper entry of discipline, attendance, and transportation data into eSchoolPLUS 3.0?
What additional training opportunities can we provide to our office support staff so they feel proficient with operations of eSchoolPLUS?

Learning Outcomes and Targets for TODAY:
ITC will continue building collaborative professional relationships with elementary secretaries to build their capacity to effectively and efficiently utilize eSchoolPLUS
3.0.
Building secretaries will understand how to enter discipline, attendance, and transportation data into our eSchoolPLUS database.

Essential Questions for 2013-2014:
How do we utilize every opportunity to build individual and collective capacity for ongoing work to improve instruction and student growth and achievement for
EACH student?
How can we engage ourselves and others in job-embedded, meaningful, and quality professional development to increase our capacity to be a system that serves the
main mission to improve instruction and increase student growth and achievement?
How can we become leaders of learning who sponsor and leverage time, actions and resources to serve improved instruction and increased student learning?















Instructional Framework Areas of Focus
1: Planning and Preparation
1a: Knowledge of content and pedagogy
1b: Knowledge of students
1c: Setting instructional outcomes
1d: Knowledge of resources
1e: Coherent instruction
1f: Student assessments
2: Classroom Environment
2a: Environment of respect and rapport
2b: Culture for learning
2c: Managing classroom procedures
2d: Managing student behavior
2e: Organizing physical space
3: Instruction
3a: Communicating with students
3b: Using questioning prompts and discussion
3c: Engaging students in learning
3d: Using assessment in instruction
3e: Demonstrating flexibility & responsiveness
4: Professional Responsibilities
4a: Reflecting on teaching
4b: Maintaining Accurate Records
4c: Communicating with families
4d: Participating in a professional community
4e: Growing and Developing Professionally
4f: Showing professionalism

Content: What do we want people to know
and be able to do?
Process: How will we accomplish this? Who Time
Opening

Purpose:
To connect the purpose of this meeting
to the larger strategic directions of the
district


Welcome



Overview


John



John


3 min



2 min




Content: What do we want people to know
and be able to do?
Process: How will we accomplish this? Who Time
To welcome participants and set a
tenor for our work together

To hold ourselves accountable to the
group







Content of the event

Purpose:

To support secretaries with procedural
steps and district guidance along with
technical support with eSchoolPLUS

Activities and/or Items for Meeting:

Discipline refresher
Discipline entry for Special
Education students placed in an
alternate educational setting new
2013/2014 SY
Discipline forms attached to the
paper clip in Student Center
Elementary attendance refresher
Transportation addresses,
resident codes and data cleanup




Barb
Pope




Robin






~60
min
Closing

Purpose:

Reflect on new learning and next steps






Exit Ticket and Next Steps


Robin

3
min