Wednesday,+October+26,+2011

In Attendance:

Hensley Grimes Hayes Ledezma Kaiser

1. Chapter 5 Love and Logic-Discipline and Control Do kids have rights? Some information is dated because the book is from the 90s. Kids put a lot of emphasis on their actions being caused by others. (EX: but she made me laugh)

2. Math CBA Data Hensley, Ledezma, and Hayes all had students who struggled with the calendar. Hayes discussed how during calendar math she has a different kid every day walk to the calendar and point to the month, state the month, point to the days of the week, state the days of the week. The repetition is helping them learn the calendar.

Grimes had one who missed questions from careless mistakes, and another student who struggles with everything. She has her lower students on Study Island, however she stated that the games are not appropriate for them because they cannot play them on their own.

Hayes-discussed how one of her students made mistakes because she did not pay attention and kept talking during the CBA. The student even stated she wasn't listening to me when I read the questions and directions.

3. New Primetime Procedures Work with struggling students in reading. suggested that we do strugglers during primetime, all 5 days, and then work with bubble kids during guided reading times. We will get approval/clarification for that.

4. New PLC Procedures How do PLCs work? We have it 2 weeks a month, 1 week for our celebration, but what happens on the 4th week? Maggie will clarify if we can use this week to create/make things for our struggling students to help them during primetime.

5. PLC next week Everyone will bring one strategy they are using with their red group.