Sept+3+09+Meeting

=**ISB Coaches Team Meeting Agenda **= Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D || Participants: **Teresa, Kelly, Kim, Jeff, Dennis, Troy** Kim: 1. highlight: numbers of parents (40ish) 2. question: do we want to have similar structures, approaches of how we do the workshop? 3. suggestion: discuss and prepare room set up 4. Sharing after: blog with summery, discussion points and links Kelly 1. highlight: parents were talking about the need to "redifine" what science is as a parent community 2. Question: How can we structure the year so that we're strategic and give overview 3. Suggestion: do a two hour session 4. Sharing after: blog Troy: 1. highlight: numbers (50) and actively engaged 2. Question: How do we keep the numbers this high? And getting as many as possible. 3. Suggestion: Food and drink; bigger room if our numbers maintain 4. Sharing after: blog Decision: We agree to enter one blog per month in each area, connected or not to the workshop. _ Tracking Time spent: spread sheet that individuals enter but there is a summary piece. We will start next week, spend five minutes entering during the first five minutes and then have a data-driven dialogue once we make the data visual. Categories: In the classroom; one-on-one; team level; nuts & bolts; organizational meeting time; other PD; our own professional learning || Round Robin: (15) 1. highlight 1. question 1 suggestion for next time Time spent update (15) || All (30 min) ||
 * < Date: **Fri., Sept 5 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? (Parent Workshops & Time spent per category)//
 * **Book Club ** || //What can we learn from the Jim Knight book that will help us in our role as coaches?//
 * KIM: p22 last paragraph "Coaching light occurs when coaches want to build and maintain relationships more than they want to improve teaching and learning. From this perspective, coaches act to increase their perceived value to teachers by providing resources and avoiding challenging conversations"
 * JEFF: p13 under Catalyst for Change "By making observations, stating their point of view, and inquiring into practice, coaches erode stagnant practice and unchallenged routines to spark analysis, reflection, and appropriate change. not change for change sake."
 * KELLY: p 24 top first two sentences
 * TERESA: p 27 # 3 on the right side "A coach's primary responsibility is to improve student learning"

(30 min) || how can we embed those in what we do with teachers?// || Prioritize Three column chart: practice, personal experience, student learning experience Think-Pair-Share || Teresa (30 min) || //To what degree have we been sticking to our norms?// || +s, Deltas, Suggestions || Teresa (5 min) || Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meetings:
 * BOOK CLUB**: How will we continue?
 * Open discussion (10 min) + protocol
 * One chapter per month with a different protocol each week || Final word protocol || Teresa
 * **Methods** || //What are the practices that will most greatly impact learning and
 * **Closure** || //What have we done well in our meetings so far?//

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