January+11,+2012

**January 11, 2012, 1-3pm** **Jones LC Conference Room**
 * UACS IB MYP 2nd Quarter Partnership Meeting**

Amy DeBonis Alice Aichele Patricia Gray-Mendoza Cynthia Ballheim Kip Greenhill Robb Gonda Matt Petersen Debi Binkley Emilie Greenwald

1. Coordinators Report A. Progress of Working Groups Alice – Early Release - Dec. 7 and Feb. 8 Visual Arts – getting bogged down in logistics Health feels left out (Role of Middle School subject area leaders?) Technology – “division” between Tech and Life Skills.

Agenda Reminders – The two goals and build in work time. (Model for structure?) Send an email coordinators about Early Release with a “Blurb” about structure.

Amy – Application B response, Personal Project committee Matters to be Addressed – see #9 Personal Project – Middle Schools will take it to Building planning teams to get 2-3 volunteers to be on this committee. With the inclusion of Middle School teachers, the discussion might get bigger than just PP (capstone). What are the requirements of this committee? Should the first meeting be a ½ day or from 2-4? Names to Amy by Feb 14.
 * o Matt Petersen: Create a database of mentors available in the community. (UA News, the Forum, Senior Citizen Centers, etc)

Patricia – Unit Writing Workshop for new teachers in the summer, Authorization Visit

B. Progress of Partnership Committees – postponed until 2012-2013 school year Language – Alice Assessment – Amy International Mindedness/Community and Service – Patricia (New Global Citizen – perhaps pilot with Patty next year. Connected to Global Citizenship rubric). The Ohio International Educational Advisory Committee (Educator Network)

2. Principals Report – Mood and Issues in the Building Jones - IB has been put on the back burner (RTI and Common Core – especially Math) Hastings - Better conversations – good connections starting to talk the language UAHS - Similar 3. Managebac - Language A subject area leaders are interested in piloting this school year? - What are next steps if we want to adopt ManageBac for the 2012-2013 school year? - Where does this put us in terms of Unit and ATL Mapping for this school year?

Cynthia – Give names to her so she can set up a class and set up a meeting to plan our ½ day professional dev.

4. High School Schedule and Technology Course Development In progress - Plan in place to provide options to students.

5. OAIBWS Events Level 1 Training in Lakewood - Sat. and Sun., March 10 and 11 __MYP Level 1__ __MYP Level 2__ Sciences Technology Humanities HOS/Coordinators Mathematics Mathematics Language A Humanities Language A Sciences Visual Arts Physical Education Meetings and Roundtables -Annual General Meeting – Wednesday, Feb. 15 – Columbus Alternative High School -Education for International Mindedness – Thursday, Feb. 16 – Jones Middle School -Making the IB Learner Profile the Center of the Visual Arts – Friday, Feb. 24 – TBD

6. Preparation for IB Annual Regional Conference - Writing of application for presentation is underway - Reflections from Matt and Robb – any changes they recommend from last year? Somewhere in the description explain that this presentation is to fulfill the partnership requirement. 21st Century skills (development of this) K-12 component.

7. MYP Coordinators will update the BOE at the March 6 meeting What is IB and the Continuum – Cynthia Application and Implementation Timeline – Amy Authorization Visit – Patricia Early Release, Assessment Training, Professional Development – Alice

8. Authorization Visit – how will we select and prepare teachers, parents and board members to meet with the visiting team?

9. Matters to be Addressed 1. Job description and time allocation of the MYP Coordinator. Will there be time for all three coordinators to collaborate to ensure all three schools implement smoothly”? Coordinators have scheduled two monthly meetings – one in person and one via iChat. Other meetings will be scheduled as needed. Plan in place. 2. Implementation of the Areas of Interaction – “Will there be teacher leaders? Collaboration between both middle schools and the high school?” IB is revisiting the role of AOI in MYP for the 2014 changes. Their preliminary findings will be released soon and we will draft our response after reading those changes. Should have something from IB soon. Take a look and have a plan ready for the Authorization Visit in April.

3. MYP Units of Work I “in 9th and 10th grade combined classes, how will teachers handle assessment?” Teachers of 9th and 10th grade classes will assess both grade levels at the highest levels of the rubrics and use the same assessment task. They can also create separate assessment tasks using different levels of the rubrics. Teachers will need to state in their unit plans their assessment plans. Plan in place

10. Common space for MYP documents – Moodle, Wiki…? Alice will create this and invite everyone : )

11. IB MYP Courses only need to be 50 hours long. Jeanette LeFevers told some teachers at Assessment training that they would only need to prepare 50 hours of units to satisfy IB. However, we have been telling teachers all units will eventually be IB units. What is our requirement for hours of units? Is 50 hours of a year-long course acceptable? If it is good for kids – we should do it. It should occur naturally.

11. Future Meetings MYP-P21 – 1/6, 1:30 pm 2nd Qtr Partnership – Jones –1/11, 1-3pm Early Release – 2/8, 1:30 pm MYP-P21 – 3/8, 1:30 pm 3rd Qtr Partnership–CO – 3/27, 1-3pm Early Release – 4/11, 1:30 pm MYP-P21 – 4/13, 1:30 pm MYP-P21 – 5/4, 1:30 pm Early Release – 5/9, 1:30 pm 4th Qtr Partnership –Hastings–5/30, 1-3pm