March+27,+2012

Amy DeBonis, Alice Aichele, Patricia Gray-Mendoza, Cynthia Ballheim, Kip Greenhill, Robb Gonda, Matt Petersen, Debi Binkley, Emilie Greenwald
 * UACS IB MYP 2nd Quarter Partnership Meeting****March 27, 2012, 1-3pm****Central Office**

__Alice – Early Release:__
 * 1. Coordinators Report: Progress of Working Groups**
 * Update on this year:
 * How is each group doing? - Everyone is moving forward.
 * Unit Mapping: Alice will put together a packet of Unit Mapping stuff and get it to subject area leaders before the next early relese.
 * Remind them the can revisit the final tasks that they worked on last year.

__Amy – Application B, Personal Project:__ - ATL Mapping across the 3 buildings. Needs to be in a similar format. - Personal Project committee starting on Monday.
 * should we do a pilot year? When? Logistic issues? (how do you pick a group a students? teachers to be supervisors?) Really the first year we do it will be our pilot, because we don't HAVE to do it until program evaluation.

__Patricia – Site Visit:__ Unit Writing workshop for new teachers and new high school teachers that come to MYP. Patty is talking to Erin Miguel about how this might fit into her New Teacher seminar. Issues with a combination of new and old subject area guides.

Visit Agenda is uploaded, but we haven't gotten any feed back from them yet: Board Members need to be prepared Parents?


 * 2. Principals Report – Mood and Issues in the Building**
 * Hastings:** ATL Mapping happening at Hastings. People are overwhelmed. Meeting on Wednesday with teachers involved with Verification Visit. Not big positive or negative, people are just moving.
 * Jones:** Similar to Hastings. Overwhelmed (math and special ed) other things on teacher plates. Teachers don't have IB on the front of their mind. Met with teachers involved in the Authorization Visit: Policies seem to be the biggest "whole." They (teachers) need a bit of a confidence boost. They want the correct answer. They need to realize they are answering questions about Jones not about IB.
 * UAHS:** Staff is overwhelmed, units have been written, taught and reflected. Quality of the units is in question. How do we give feedback to teachers. Math - why are we doing this? Sold as vertical and horizontal articulation, but are we really doing this?

- Should we go together? When?
 * 3. Head of School / Coordinator Category 2 Training**


 * 4. Possible topics of focus for next year (Alice added this based on a discussion with Amy and Patricia)**
 * Early Release Ideas / Issues for next year: (Required for Vertical Articulation within the Partnership)
 * Proposal: Have a 1/2 day of PD this summer (August?) where all Subject Area Leaders are there and we lead them through the expectations (yet to be determined) and help them create a plan for Early Release.
 * Goals: Perhaps keep our Assessment goal as stated (or modify) THEN allow each group to establish their second goal based on their needs. Such as the new subject area guides for Humanities and Lang B, Common Core implementation in Math, new standards in Lang A and Social Studies, etc.
 * **There seemed to be a positive feeling towards this, but we still need to make a formal decision and figure out how to bring this to reality**.
 * "Assignment" of Coordinators to Subject Areas:
 * Should we continue as we are? Change to different ones? Stay with our teaching area (Alice with Humanities, Patricia with Lang B, Amy with Science) and add a second one?
 * New Subject Area Guides (Humanities and Lang B)
 * We need to send at least one teacher from each school to training for this. (Possibly / preferably this summer?)
 * How are we going to role this out?
 * Keep in mind that in 2014 the other 6 come out in 2014 so we need to consider precedent that we set.
 * ManageBac (?)
 * Interdisciplinary Units: How will we support teachers that want to do this?

5. Monitoring of MYP Units - Amy We will be required to submit MYP units of work from all eight subject areas. I would like to review with the partnership the current monitoring requirements and propose we begin voluntary monitoring in two or three subject areas each year leading up to Programme Evaluation. - All monitoring comes from 10th grade in a programme evaluation year. Do we start optional monitoring next year? - Do we bring someone in (Jeanette) to work with coordinators / teachers to work with us on quality of units and tasks?
 * Tasks have to go in months early. So you can receive feedback and reflect.

6. Summer hours to address concerns from the Verification Visit

7. MYP orientation for new teachers over the summer


 * 8. Future Meetings**
 * 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