January+18,+2013

UACS IB MYP 2nd Quarter Partnership Meeting January 18, 9-10:30 am

Alice Aichele, Cynthia Ballheim, Robb Gonda, Debi Binkley, Andrew Theado, Shelly Hughes
 * Alice met with Dr. Binkley on Jan 14 and Emilie on Jan 15. Notes from those meetings are in the table below. **

1.PROGRAMME UPDATES:
- __**Action Plan Update**__:. - **__Budget__:** - __**ManageBac**__:Nearly all standards have been imported. Alice and JoAnn are starting to move units over this month. Thoughts about when or how to roll this out to teachers? Connections to PowerGrade? (Contact Terry Star.) Timeline: Grand rollout next year. - __**MYP and New Teacher Evaluations**:__ No new information at this time. Alice and Cynthia are going to OTES training in March. Alice is going to SLO training in February. - **__Interactions with teachers:__**
 * __Hastings:__ Planning with individual teachers along with Alexa Stazenski on complete units, assessment tasks and rubrics. I have also met with most house teams.
 * __Jones:__I have met with most house teams. Spoken at one faculty mtg with Cathy Johnson. Worked with Cathy and her planning with teachers to bring in aspects of MYP. I have not sat down and planned a unit from start to finish with a teacher or team.
 * __UAHS:__ I have met with a few PLC's and individual teachers to plan units including assessment tasks and rubrics. I have spoken at three faculty meetings on basic topics such as where to locate information / resources on the staff intranet.
 * __District__: I created and held a PD series on the basics of MYP. I had 16 teachers (1 Jones, 9 UAHS, 6 Hastings) attend. This series was based on the workshop model. I received positive feedback on the time teachers had to plan, ask questions and work together. I am planning a similar series on MYP assessment for 2nd Quarter.

2. INCOMING ACTION ITEMS:
- How did December go? - What should February look like? - What do teachers need and how can we make February purposeful / meaningful? - //Keep in mind who needs to be part of the conversation and who will be "in charge" of planning the day as well as who will deliver the message to teachers.// || - Emiie would like to see all three Early Release dates to be focused on some aspect of New Teacher Evaluation topics. This time needs to be meaningful and purposeful for teachers. What needs to be accomplished and how can we structure the time for teachers to achieve this.
 * || **ACTION ITEMS** || **ACTION TAKEN** ||
 * 1. || Discuss December and February Early Release (MYP Vertical Articulation)

The group felt the time would be best suited towards New Teacher Evaluation but are unsure what message to deliver and how to deliver the message (school based? New Teacher Eval committee? bring in presenters?)

If the topic is not New Teacher Evaluation the group felt that the time would be best spent with teachers working in PLC's. This work can be defined by the individual building and Alice will prepare a short list of topics teachers could be working on that relate to MYP. ||
 * 2. || March and May Early Release: || March: New Teacher Evaluation intro for K-12 (Student Growth Measures)

May: New Teacher Evaluation topics (9-12 only) (based on notes from November District Council) 6-8 agreed time for New Teacher Evaluation needed.

Notes: - High School: March and May were originally slated as PLC time for semester exams creation but Emilie supports the changed focus to New Teacher Evaluation topics. || Heads of School Trainings for 2013:
 * 3. || Update on Cleveland Training (March 9-10)
 * We have a delegation for both Language B and Humanities that represents all 3 partnership schools.
 * We have a group going to Personal Project but at this time there is only a Hastings representative in addition to Alice and Jim Buffer.
 * Linda Carmichael is attending Coordinators training.
 * Emilie is attending Heads of School training. || Alice will look into additional training options via IB website.
 * Feb 22 - New York City, NY
 * March 8/9 - Westlake, Oh
 * April 10 - Albuquerque, NM
 * June 18 - Atlanta, Ga
 * June 28 - Lake Tahoe, Ca
 * July 7 - Austin, Tx
 * October 5 - Alexandria, Va
 * December 14 - New Orleans, La

Reminder: ARC will take place July 18-21 in New Orleans. || - - Additional information that needs to be included? ||  || - Alice is working on a one page MYP overview to be included in the student handbooks at each school. - Ideas, suggestions, etc? || - Initial thought is that we will work off of the Intercom that Dan Donovan sent out in December. - Dan is currently working on a one page overview for MYP to give to 5th grade parents, etc. || =** NEXT MEETING: April 8: 9-10:30 @ Jones LC Conference Room **=
 * 4. || Strategic Plan Update: Alice will be presenting the update on Jan 24.
 * 5. || Student Handbook insert:
 * 6. || Upcoming Learning Opportunities:
 * 1) __Leadership, Development, & Evaluation__: A roundtable administrators and coordinators on February 8. This workshop will be lead by Ric Perry, President of the IB Schools of Michigan. Location Dublin.
 * 2) __IB and the Common Core Roundtable__: This will be led by Lou Marchesano and Maria Hersey and will focus on how IB objectives and assessment criteria can be used to address CC standards. This will take place on Feb 28 in the Columbus Area.
 * 3) __IB Orientation__: Although we are an authorized World School this forum is appropriate for anyone (parents, new staff, admin, etc) who is interested in getting an overview. This will take place March 1 at the Quest Center at Polaris.
 * 4) __Cleveland Training__: We have room to send additional teachers if we are interested. Options: Math, Technology, Global Context for Teaching and Learning. ||   ||