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include component="comments" page="Get 'Em Talking 2012" limit="10" Tuesday, March 27, 2011 Please read the following article:  In the comments section, you will see a discussion thread related to this article (button next to the Edit button when you are signed in). Please complete the 4As protocol by citing evidence from the article regarding something you Agree with, something the author Assumes, something you would like to Argue, and something you Aspire to try or use in your classroom. Feel free to comment on the postings provided by your colleauges to promote a colaborative reflection.

Below is a related document I created for our past Instructional Rountable. I've included similar strategies for promoting engagement in your classroom with structured opportunities for your students to discuss their thinking. I will mark you as "Attending" our meeting once this posting is complete. Please let me know if you have any questions.

For our April Meeting: please bring three types of formative assessment that you use in your classroom to share with the bunch.

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 - Warm-Up: Please be prepared to share 1 struggle you are currently having as a new teacher.

[|Affinity Mapping Protocol] - Please read Chapter 9: Ten Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading of //Fair Isn't Always Equal// by Rick Wormeli for our February Meeting. [|Ten Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading]
 * What consitutes mastery in your classroom?
 * How often do you use pre-assessments? When it's appropriate to pre-assess, how far ahead do you do so in order to use the data to plan instruction? Give some examples of pre-assessments you have administered and how you have used them to plan and differentiate instruction.
 * As you are teaching a unit of study, how often do you assess students? What kinds of formative assessments have you used? How do you apply data you collect formatively to plan for reteaching, grouping, or teaching in a different way so that all of your students have access to and can be successful with the core curriculum?
 * What strategies do you use to create summative assessments that reflect the learning objectives for your students as well as the learning experiences they have had?
 * What methods do you have for th providing feedback to students about their learning? What forms does feedback take in your classes? Give some examples.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px;">In your classroom, is student success the only acceptable outcome? If so, how do you support and encourage students on their way to understanding the content? Give some examples.

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px;">Tuesday, January 24, 2o12

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">- Warm-Up: Please share one word to describe your experience at OJRMS so far. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">- Connections Protocol: [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Fears and Hopes Protocol: [] <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Closure: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Reflections questions following the activity: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. Did you notice anything surprising/interesting while doing this activity? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. What is the impact of expressing negative thoughts? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. Why did we ask you to do this activity? What might it accomplish? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Would you use this activity in your school? In your classroom? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 10pt;">- Next time: Please answer the 6 questions on the DI Coaching System regarding assessment.

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">November 29, 2o11 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Warm-Up: Name one colleague that has been invaluable to you this school year and be prepared to detail why. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Questions, Concerns, & Needs <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- "Teaming" dicussion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Closure: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- Next time: Please read Chapter 3 from //Day One and Beyond//: "Discipline". []
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> "The Final Word" text protocol ( [|The Final Word])

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, October 25, 2011 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Warm-Up: Prepare to share something that you are struggling with so far this school year. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Questions, Concerns, & Needs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- “Grade Books, Tardies, Absences, and Other Record Keeping” discussion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Closure: On the provided register tape, create a one sentence summary of our text discussion or of the RTII Overview. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- Next time: Please read Chapter 7: “Teaming” of the //Day One &Beyond// text. We will be using "The Final Word" text protocol to guide our discussion of this text. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> [|The Final Word]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Four “A”s Text Protocol
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What **Assumptions** does the author of the text hold?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What do you **Agree** with in the text?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What do you want to **Argue** with in the text?
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">What parts of the text do you want to **Aspire** to (or Act upon)?

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, September 27, 2011 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Warm-Up: Prepare to share something that has gone well so far this school year. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Questions, Concerns, Comments <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Wikipage <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Vicki Morgan- RAP <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Krista Venza- RtIi <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Please read Chapter 5 from Day One & Beyond for our next meeting and prepare for a text discussion using the 4As protocol below. [|4As Text Proto][|col]



<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuition Reimbursement Paperwork <span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;"> <span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, April 26, 2011 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Please read the following article:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">In the comments section, you will see a discussion thread related to this article. Please complete the 4As protocol by citing evidence from the article regarding something you Agree with, something the author Assumes, something you would like to Argue, and something you Aspire to try or use in your classroom. Feel free to comment on the postings provided by your colleauges to promote a colaborative reflection.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Below is a related document I created for our past Instructional Rountable. I've included similar strategies for promoting engagement in your classroom with structured opportunities for your students to discuss their thinking.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">I will mark you as "Attending" our meeting once this posting is complete. Please let me know if you have any questions.

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, February 22, 2011 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Big Ideas from text <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">- New Teacher Peer Coaching Network <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Focus Point Protocol]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Don't Forget: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">23 – Wildcat Recognition Pizza Party <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">23 – Professional Development, 2:20 pm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">23-28 – Book Fair <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">24 – Track (High Jump Only) Impact Test, 2:10 pm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">24 – Softball Impact Test, 3:00 pm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">25 – Read Across America

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">1 – Baseball Impact Test, 2:10 pm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">1 – Lacrosse Impact Test, 3:00 pm <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">1 – Faculty Meeting <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">2 – Teacher In-Service, ½ Day of School for Students <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">3 – Parent/Teacher Conference, ½ Day of School for Students <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">3 – Science Fair Winners to CAT-Pickering, 7:45 am – 1:45 pm (Mr. Hofer) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">4 – Song Fest to Northley Middle School, 7:00 am**NEW** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">7 – Club Day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">8 – District New Teacher Induction Meeting, 2:20 pm, MS LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">9 – Spring Sports Physicals, MS Nurse Office, $10 Cash <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">9 – Fire Drill, Period 2 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">9 – Leadership Meeting, 2:20 pm, LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">9 – 6th & 7th Grade Course Selection Night, 7 pm, Auditorium <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">15 – Portfolio Meeting, 2:20 pm, HS T & L Conference Room <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">15 – PSSA Math & Reading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">16 – PSSA Math & Reading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">16 – MS Physicals Due Today <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">16 – Department Meeting, 2:20 pm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">17 – PSSA Math & Reading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">17 – REA Representative Meeting, 2:20 pm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">18 – Club Day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">21 – Spring Sports Begin <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">22 – PSSA Math & Reading Make-Ups <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">22 – PTA Meeting, 7 pm, LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">23 – PSSA Math & Reading Make-Ups <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">24 – PSSA Math & Reading Make-Ups

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, January 25, 2011 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Warm-Up: Please be prepared to share 1 struggle you are currently having as a new teacher. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- [|Affinity Mapping Protocol]

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Please read Chapter 9: Ten Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading of //Fair Isn't Always Equal// by Rick Wormeli for our February Meeting. [|Ten Approaches to Avoid When Differentiating Assessment and Grading]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What consitutes mastery in your classroom?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">How often do you use pre-assessments? When it's appropriate to pre-assess, how far ahead do you do so in order to use the data to plan instruction? Give some examples of pre-assessments you have administered and how you have used them to plan and differentiate instruction.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">As you are teaching a unit of study, how often do you assess students? What kinds of formative assessments have you used? How do you apply data you collect formatively to plan for reteaching, grouping, or teaching in a different way so that all of your students have access to and can be successful with the core curriculum?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What strategies do you use to create summative assessments that reflect the learning objectives for your students as well as the learning experiences they have had?
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What methods do you have for th providing feedback to students about their learning? What forms does feedback take in your classes? Give some examples.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">In your classroom, is student success the only acceptable outcome? If so, how do you support and encourage students on their way to understanding the content? Give some examples.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">DON'T FORGET: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">26 – Professional Development, 2:20 pm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">27 – 7th Grade Mathematics CDT, Periods 1 - 3 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">28 – 8th Grade Mathematics CDT, Periods 1 - 3 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">31 – End of 2nd Marking Period <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">31 – 8th Grade STAR Math

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1 – STAR Make-Ups <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 – Faculty Meeting, 2:20 pm, LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 – Spelling Bee, 7:00 pm, LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">3 – Fire Drill, Period 1 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">4 – 7th & 8th Grade Dance, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Cafeteria <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">7 – Club Day <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">8 – MS Focus Study Visit**DATE CHANGE** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">8 – District New Teacher Induction Meeting, 2:20 pm, MS LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">10 – District Family Math Night, 6 pm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">11 – Faculty/Student Basketball Game, 7:00 pm, Gymnasium <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">15 – Portfolio Meeting, 2:20 pm, MS LGI <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">16 – Department Meeting, 2:20 pm <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">18 – NO SCHOOL – In-Service Day

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">22 – Club Day

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, December 21, 2010

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Please be prepared to respond to each posed question on pages 15 - 17 from the DI Journal distributed for our next meeting. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Warm-Up: Please share one word to describe your experience at OJRMS so far. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Maureen Otis: Reading Strategies Across the Content Areas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Closure: In the discussion area above, please share one strategy shared by Maureen and how you plan on using it in your classroom.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">DON'T FORGET! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Faculty Meeting 1/5 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- StarMath 1/10 (Grade 8) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Instructional Roundtable 1/10 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- StarMath 1/11 (Grade 7) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Club 1/12 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- World Language Night 1/18, 6PM <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Department Meeting 1/19 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Science Night 1/20, 6:30PM <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Club 1/25 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- New Teacher Meeting 1/25

<span style="color: #f41f1f; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Please use the following link to share your reactions, questions, and connections from this month's reading from our Day One & Beyond text. Feel free to interact to one another through the crocodoc pdf.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Chapter 3: Discipline]

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Data (Krista Venza) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Closure: In the discussion formum below. Please share one sentence regarding something you learned today about Reading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">strategies or RtIi.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Next Meeting: Please read pages 6 - 9 and 14 of The Differentiated Instruction Journal for Reflection, Discussion, and Planning and respond to the questions on pages 15 - 17.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">DON'T FORGET!!! <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- 4Sight Assessment on 12/1 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Faculty Meeting on 12/1 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Induction Meeting 12/7 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- 9th Grade Course Selection Meeting 12/7 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Professional Development Meeting on 12/9 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- NealStock on 12/9 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- Instructional Roundtable Discussion on 12/13 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- OJRMS Festivus on 12/17 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">- New Teacher Meeting on 12/21; White Elephant Exchange $10