Nov.+27,+2009

=**ISB Coaches Team Meeting Agenda **= Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D || Participants: **Teresa, Kelly, Kim, Jeff, Dennis, Troy** || 1. General catch-up 2. Entering time for last week and this || All (15 min) || (45 min) || 2. Partner up and go out 3. Come back and analyze || Dennis (30 min) || 2. Parent Workshop || Teresa (5 min) || Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meetings: 1. How's the week been?
 * < Date: **Fri., Nov. 27, 2009** ||< Time: **12:30-2:05** ||< Place: **MS Skybox** ||
 * < Facilitator/Timekeeper:
 * Dennis** ||< Recorder: **Kim** ||= **Purpose:**
 * **Task** || **Guiding Question** || **Background/ Process** || **Person / Time** ||
 * **Warm-up** || //How's the week been (IA training, coaching heavy, etc)?//
 * **Coaches' Standards** || //How can we create coaching standards that align with our "ISB learning coach roles and responsibilities" and that are learning focused?// ||  || Kelly
 * **LfL** || //What learning is happening and how do we know?// || 1. Overview of LfL
 * **Closure** || //What's on the docket for next week?// || 1. ERD
 * IA Training on Math and Games (also Mod Lang is good) has gone well.
 * With varying skills, we continue to need to work on specifics
 * How do we get the IA's on Google Docs (there seem to be some obstacles)
 * Do teachers know that the IA's are getting this good training?
 * Perhaps a follow up with teachers so that they know what their IA's know
 * Future heads-up emails will help teachers know what their IA's will come back with
 * Some issues with science work and beliefs about ending "life" of plants and such - being involved in that process is upsetting for some
 * Leadership Team meeting presentation by Jeff was positive
 * Good discussion happened including heated action
 * Moving toward a more //Coaching Heavy// model in math - no longer can teachers "avoid" the training
 * Successful and informative work in classrooms this week in the HS
 * TLC's should work with Troy to share tech tools and what's available/possible at ISB

2. Discussion on online practices on videos and photos for LFL
 * Background on policies under development
 * Online predators not the issue it's made out to be
 * Celebrating students online is no different than the equivalent in newspapers

3. Standards for our Coaches
 * Need standards for many of the groups not featured in the LEAD.
 * All standards being re-written to be learning focused
 * Current LEAD has teachers, counselors, admin (needs revision)
 * They focus on the teacher
 * Need them to be focused on learning
 * This is a good opportunity to look at best practice and what we want to value
 * Kelly shared an article
 * Is a "learning focus" standard for specialists focused on the teacher as the "learner" or the student as the "learner"?
 * Kelly suggested an anecdotal measure from teachers on whether coaching has benefited the most
 * This is very subjective and highly contingent on teachers comfort level with coaching
 * To measure impact of coaching on teachers, there are tests to measure content knowledge (Troy)
 * Need to identify, first, what the components of our coaching are
 * Brainstorm list of main things from article that are shifting teacher pedagogy
 * Let's start from ground zero and look at what we value as positive effect from coaching
 * Example, collaboration -> positive collaboration is not without conflict
 * Kelly will take Role and Responsibility document and prepare documents that will allow us to flesh out standards that hit our "Big 5"

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