Team+Meeting+Notes

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 22 October **  **12:00 Laura’s Room** (Gr 6 students have 7 separate classes.) In homebase, by Friday November 1st students need to set their goals for the following quarter and record it into their iWeb pages for the SLC. The SLC Committee will book the LHH for Monday November 4th for full gr 6 assembly to see a good/bad SLC. On Wednesday November 6th, homebase will practice their SLCs || Collaboration/Connections/Creativity/Curiosity…see above! ||
 * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 28 October ** **12:00 Jeff’s Room (Dave Treat)**
 * ** Common Goals (short and long-term): ** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * || * Student and learning centered in all
 * Start / end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns / speak up now
 * Stay focused
 * Ownership of the team
 * Support team decisions once made
 * Humor
 * Come to meetings prepared & ready
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * # ** 1. ** ||^  ||^   ||
 * Action Items (Decision | Recommendation | Brainstorm) ||
 * ** What? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** || ** Action? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **HomeBase Happenings** || All || 10’ || ** Decision ** |||||| Reflections on learning behaviors for Student Led Conference… must mention each class 2x (one area of strength/one area that needs improvement).
 * 2. || **Our Goals** || Jeff & All || 10’ || ** Brainstorm / Decision ** |||||| **Examples of big long term goals**… guide students to become self-advocates of their own learning, see the connections, be able to manage/organize their world...
 * Examples of small long term goals**… help students to get through their emotional/holistic transition/ feeling comfortable & secure with themselves & peers/ more celebrations of what has happened… ||
 * 3. || **Working Styles** || Jeff || 15’ || ** Brainstorm ** |||||| Will start with this in the next meeting. ||
 * Non-Negotiables ||
 * ** What? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||||| ** Information: ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Team A || 2’ |||||||| - SOC names…… Send names to David + thumbs up/down ||
 * 2. || **Our Learning Focus** || All || 5’ |||||||| **EAL**: math/science vocab, main project is a long term research project on Mesopotamia
 * Humanities**: archeology, early humans, started DAR novel … character/plot/setting
 * Math**: number theory, vectors, divisibility, greatest common factor, lowest common multiple in prep for fractions, and big test on Oct 31st, Thursday, short writing assignment using the vocab words
 * Science**: water cycle, learning vocabulary and putting definitions in own words, create a story “Watercraft” due next Monday/Tuesday

Thurday/Friday next week…. Dave and Lisa not here bc of APAC ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Halloween MYG night next Friday!
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 28 Oct. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Dave! ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 14 October ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** Review of Flex students || - Grade level assembly? Assembly first (HOT - Laura, money on lunch cards - Dave, travel check lists - Manon), then activity time (Friday); Dave to coordinate with Ben R. for Gym Time. - Recording what they got from the cafeteria (do in HB and Mac&Me this week, then as HW 2nd week) || - Did not get to, ran out of time || - Requirements: What should students have completed before the end of the week? iWebs set up and ready to go. Ethical use of technology (Attitude & Integrity sub point) - Review / reflections - EAGLES no longer required (in elective reflections) || - Schedule EAL students on Thursday (Jessica will not be here Friday) - SLC reflection: SLC team to review the Reflection sheet sent home at the end || - Team evaluation – thoughts - New minutes template – a new minutes template was introduced, based on Jeff’s PD, and it will be adopted starting next meeting - Team Goals to guide our work and keep us on track - Alternating team meeting structure - End times not discussed - HB program development || 11:20 - 12:30 - 5 Rooms - Contact person Jeff Ormrod Grade 6 || Each subject area should be crafting a description of what they’re doing in this trimester to be printed on report card. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| 6B meeting at special time (Wednesday @1)
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 8’ |||||| - Home of Heart? Be finishing up in the next week or two.
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Discussion || Simon & All || 10’ |||||| - How are we finishing?
 * 5. || **SLC Conferences** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 3’ |||||| - Please schedule and send out before the end of the week (preferably sooner) so that they are confirmed by the end of the week.
 * 6. || **Jeff’s PD & New Focus** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - Purpose of teams in schools – use of team time
 * 7. || **Band Use of Rooms** || Sharing || Jeff || 3’ |||||| ** Thursday Feb. 20th **
 * 8. || **Math Presentations** || Sharing || Dave || 5’ |||||| Would love to have crossovers with Humanities. Went really well, would love to continue to have them. ||
 * 9. || **Report Cards & Other** || Sharing || Karl || 10’ |||||| Sharing from Karl on “Quick Lookup” on PowerSchool, report card templates.
 * 10. || **Null Days** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| We like Null days and don’t want to miss those times with our students, especially subjects who see students every other day. Without Null day, this would mean that those subjects might go a week without seeing their students. This would really screw up the students progress, and would make lesson planning a logistical nightmare. ||
 * 11. || **Travel Check lists** || Sharing || Jeff || 1’ |||||| - They are starting to come around, be aware. (Like for AMIS, etc)Are the sponsors of the events aware of this list, expectations, etc? ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Tuesday 22 Oct. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Laura’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 8 October ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** - || - Home of Heart…. One keynote slide on where is their home - Lunchtime Money recording will start next week once Jessica makes the spreadsheet || Science continues their Daily inclusion of the words. || - for next week… students will reflect on their ethical use of technology for the student led conference i-web || - need to take a high speed train on the 1st day - kayaking is not necessarily a Chinese activity… however biking, fishing are so will try to do those kinds of activities - probably will be an option for camping - should add another activity for Thursday (not all day at the Folk Art Institute) to cater for shorter Gr 6 attention spans - So…scouting trip needs to happen last week of October/early November || - When will we start completing it? Bulk will probably have to be in HomeBase. By October 21st, start having conversations in HB around this and have the students fill in their reflections. PE will have a form that asks students to reflect upon it. Specialist teachers have been asked to discuss the Learning Behaviors in their classes and ‘what does prep/org look like in PE / what does coop/collab look like in Chinese’. || __They will be__: Thursday = 3:15 – 6:00 (bus at 6:15) Friday = 8:00 – 3:15 (staff party afterwards) SLCs will be done in Humanities classrooms (like previous years for T1) with math and science bouncing between rooms. Humanities teachers will arrange conference times and notify others. There is not perceived need for PowerSchool or other electronic sign-up for grade 6 at this point. || Math teachers will send schedule to humanities/science teachers for Friday’s shortened core classes ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - Jeff O. will be away from Wednesday through Friday for a PD Teacher Leadership workshop in Dubai.
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| - SOCs 6A meeting this Friday to discuss students of concern as well as flex elective suggestions ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Learning Behaviors done? yes
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Connections – students will make connections between archeology + culture in Humanities.
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 7’ |||||| - Three more sessions!
 * 5. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Alfred, Dave, Lisa, Jessica || 10’ |||||| We as a team decided to pursue the Taiwan trip option. However, we still have some questions:
 * 6. ||  || Discussion || Laura, Jessica, Alfred, Manon || 10’ |||||| - Have we sent our information to Karl? yes (he will meet with all Specialists on Friday)
 * 7. || **SLC Conference Times** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Middle School has been asked to schedule students first. This should be done next week (October 14 – 18). How are we going to break them down?
 * 7. || **Math Presentations** || Discussion || Manon & Dave || 5’ |||||| Friday 1st period for math presentations… so shortened cores….


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 14 Oct. 2012 @ 12:00 || ** Location: ** || ? ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 24 September ****12:00 Manon’s Room** - Lunchtime money – students are paying for other student’s lunches and then requiring payment with interest from the student. Keep an eye on this, as well as students borrowing money from teachers, etc. Start this conversation in HB: As each learning behavior is completed and finished in terms of discussion, add to iWeb. || - Pages set up - What each Learning Behavior is to me - Bullet sub points they will use || On Thursday, we will quite likely need rooms for sectionals, but these sectional rehearsals could occur from ( ** 3:00 to 4:30 Can John use 6th or 8th Grade Rooms?) ** to avoid as much disturbance as possible. Need clarification. Seems challenging. || - Both trips were presented, along with questions from group to clarify. || - The SLC Committee needs to send out an informational email to the Jeff and Karl so that all Grade 6 teachers can best support our SLC efforts. Include Jessica’s sample in the email. Jeff and Karl will then meet with all specialist teachers to share what are changes are. Will most likely happen in HomeBase classrooms. || - New posters are coming || - Lynnette will organize group to discuss and communicate after break. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 10’ |||||| - SOCs – names given to David, as well as asking both teams to start thinking about which students should be recommended for Flex in the 2nd quarter
 * 1) 1. Everyone takes their own ID and pays for their own lunch
 * 2) 2. How much money per week is being spent on lunch? Make sure that’s on their card.
 * 3) 3. How much is being spent on snacks?
 * 4) 4. Keep track for 2 weeks during HB and elective in spread sheet (and then compare to real data from Eurest)
 * 5) 5. Connections to…? Health & PE ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Learning behaviors, learning styles, Home of Heart.
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity? ||
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 10’ |||||| iWeb FOR ALL PEOPLE TO HAVE
 * 5. || **High School Band Use of Rooms** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - Thursday morning, Feb. 20: ** Can he use the 6th grade rooms from 11:00 - 12:30?) ** Students will need to go into a room or classroom that will have a black portable curtain. On one side will be the Band Directors (2 or 3) who are listening and on the other side will be one student who will play for the Band Directors. Students waiting to audition (from 4 to 16) will need to be near this room as well.
 * 6. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Alfred, Dave, Lisa, Jessica || 15’? |||||| - Are the trips ready to present? Yes.
 * 7. || **SLC Fencepost** || Sharing || Laura & Team || 7’ |||||| - By October 23, what will the students have accomplished?
 * 8. || **Learning Behaviors** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - Please see Karl’s email (upcoming) about Learning Behaviors in PowerSchool.
 * 9. || **Collaborative Unit** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - Art is anxious to know, so could the committee meet shortly after we get back from break for an initial session?
 * 10. || **Middle School Party** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Friday November 8th @ Jeff’s house after SLCs ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 7 Oct. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Jeff’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 17 September ****12:00 Hank’s Room** - Anything else? Lynette and Laura will send out a site on learning styles. || Curiosity/Connections in Science: observing scientific phenomena and writing their questions… led to the nature of science now. Math projects – collaboration by working in pairs and creativity/connections and seeing the real world problem making decisions and figuring out what does it mean. || Also – note - please wear black next Friday for the Humanities Word Wake. || Barbara would like Gr 6 to use: Turnitin.com (for English and math work) - which will enable teachers/students to see if the student work is similar to anything that is out there in the cyberworld as well as within the school. Easy set-up for teachers/students. || - Wall of Fame / Hey we noticed board? - Grade level assemblies? Dates? -notes on lockers? -new board in hallway that’s locakable will come in… - SAS or EAGLES awards? Please note: teachers wonder this: -what time will be given to create a the little notes/awards for the bulletin board or the logistics for a formal award assembly? - we continue to ‘add’ new aspects of our program (learning targets, collaborative unit, 4/5 Cs, Project NOW) but nothing has been removed from our plates, so to speak. We are feeling overwhelmed and don’t want to add another task without ensuring balance. Yes we are happy that we don’t have honor roll anymore, but that required very little to no effort on anyone’s part. We would like for Jeff or Karl to come and comment to the team on this issue please. || Next week, we will add to the agenda for both trips to present their itineraries to the team if they are ready. We would like for Jeff or Karl to come and hear as well. || A possibility for next year: have parents follow their kid’s schedule and rotate through all the classes. It is definitely important for parents to spend time with homebase teachers. So – parents see big presentation, then go to homebase teachers, then go through the core and specialist classes? There was no A.C.! “Difficult to present oneself as a professional with sweat dripping off ones brow.” The team leaders from each grade should meet prior to the event and work out coordinating schedules to ensure that HB specialist teachers are available for HB sessions, as well as other specialist teachers not having all grades visiting at once. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| SOC Team A this week ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Continue with Learning Behaviors
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Shelve Simon’s plan for internet persona for another date. Instead, continue working on iWeb pages as most classes are not finished with this. ||
 * 5. || **Math Presentations** || Discussion || Manon & Dave || 5’ |||||| Math Unit Test (mean median mode) happening next week on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th.
 * 6. || **Academic Integrity** || Sharing || Barbara || 10’ |||||| Last year’s 2 students had issues with academic integrity. Therefore, we need to ensure our students understand academic integrity.
 * 7. || **Middle School Allergies** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Please note the two students in gr 6 who need epi pen. ||
 * 8. || **Student Recognition** || Discussion || All || 7’ |||||| - Merits….
 * 9. || **EARCOS Service Learning Workshop** || Sharing || Lisa || 5’ |||||| 9th-10th November At Concordia: Service Learning EARCOS weekend workshop. Earcos presenter = Catherine Berger Kaye to present in her service/learning workshop. We are curious about incorporating the Will Foundation into our HomeBase program or possible our Mummy Mania event. Lisa F. will speak with Jeff R. about funding some of our team to attend this event. ||
 * 10. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Alfred, Dave, Lisa, Jessica || 2’ |||||| Just received an email from Zea about Taiwan. She was able to locate one reliable agent, but only got a rough itinerary. Will have more details in the next few days.
 * 11. || **Open House Review** || Discussion || Manon || 5’ |||||| The assembly ending early and other grade levels sticking to their schedules left many lost and wandering gr 7 parents – to the detriment of gr 6s presentation.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Tuesday 24 Sept. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Manon ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 9 September ****12:00 Lisa’s Room** - Team B on Friday (new students) - SOCs – names given to David || All school Spirit Walk during HB! - SLP Whoops! Learning Behaviors! - ? No! enough going on right now || Math is being very creative in their math designs Humanities connections and curiosity with my day in history and word wake. - What is each discipline studying? - Humanities: Essay writing, word choice, culture - Science: Lab safety, weather and climate, science literacy - Math: unit project a design problem using data analysis to make a design decision – a product that needs to be resized for 6th graders || - Is there an official response to students who have no/slow internet access at home? Monday = math Tuesday = language usage Wednesday = reading - What do we need to know? Anything new? Simon will send out instructions for 1A class, Jessica’s room can be overflow after 9:15 NEED TECH PEOPLE THERE TO HELP. Patty will let us know which kids will be with her.
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. an understanding of MAP testing
 * 2) 3. an understanding of roles for Open House
 * 3) 4. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 7’ |||||| - New student lunches: Team A lunch on Tuesday with counselor in the library (Hank, Lynnette, Dave, Alfred, etc)
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| __This Week:__
 * Today:** Grade Level Assembly with Jeff & Karl
 * Wednesday 11:** Ormrod & DeGreef //to David// [Locker Letters?]
 * Friday 13:** Gym game Yes! Ben R. will be helping set this up with Dave H.
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| - Simon will send out Week 4 list on what to do, including setting up alerts, system preferences, etc etc
 * o it is the expectation of our curriculum that they are able to access the internet and use their computer to full capacity. Can stay for HOT, friend’s house, coffee shop, etc.
 * o Send concerns to Simon Power and he will draft a letter/response. ||
 * 5. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing || Simon || 10’ |||||| - Week Schedule:

__Monday:__ (Only 1 CORE) Math = **Earth** Science = **Fire** Humanities = **Wind & Water** __Tuesday:__ (Only 1 CORE) Math = **Wind** Science = **Water** Humanities = **Earth & Fire** __Wednesday:__ (2 Short COREs) __CORE 1:__ Math = **Fire** Science = **Earth** Humanities = **Wind & Water** __CORE 2:__ Math = **Water** Science = **Wind** Humanities = **Earth & Fire** || - Communication – Jessica - Organization – Manon - HomeBase – Lynnette - HOT – Lisa - Programs & Activities – Dave - Community Days – Laura - China Alive – Laura - Role Review || - Lisa proposed Taiwan trip: - Can move up presentations (depending on Z) to before break || There may be a Spirit Walk on this day. || Tabled for further discussion – please think about it ||
 * CORE Schedule After MAP Testing:**
 * 6. || **Open House** || Sharing || Jeff & All || 5’ |||||| Keynote
 * 7. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Lisa, Jessica, Dave, Alfred || 5’ |||||| - Dave & Alfred’s trip: Ju Jia Go for 3 days and 2 in Chengdu
 * o Emphasis on nature, photography, hiking, outdoors exploration. Also looking at community service. Rough estimate of cost is 6000
 * o Very heavy into adventure, rock climbing, etc. Is tricky because it’s new to SAS to have done a trip like that in Taiwan. Might be more expensive.
 * 8. || **SLCs Update** || Sharing || Laura & Team || 5’ |||||| Shared sample iWeb ||
 * 9. || **Math Presentations** || Sharing || Manon & Dave || 5’ |||||| Still Sept. 13?
 * 10. || **Student Recognition** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| We no longer have Honor Roll. How can we recognize students who have distinguished themselves in various different ways?
 * 11. || **Academic Integrity** || Sharing || Barbara || 10’ |||||| (If time) ||

Karl will send a digital copy of Learning Behaviors to all teachers. ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Karl shared information about the change from the SLP to Learning Behaviors and the terms becoming aligned with SBR terms (beginning, approaching, meeting, exceeding). Clarifying that although on the teacher side we see letters (E, M, A, B), on the parent and student portal, they see exceeding, meeting, etc.
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Tuesday 17 Sept. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Hank’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 2 September ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** Jessica and Dave Hope today. Lynnete + Alfred after Bonding Day
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. an understanding of Bonding Day
 * 2) 3. an understanding of the roles for Open House || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| David to speak with Homebases…

This Friday SOC students 6A || Locker treasure hunt (need letters in locker) __This Week:__ __Following Week:__ Things to talk about in Homebase… Showing improved maturity, truly working in collaborative area, etc. || The basic Idea for 6th Science is that we will be explicit in our planning and lessons to students about which area of the "C's" each day will cover. T The "C's association for each day" are embedded visually in our Keynotes as well. -Science classes have planted the seed for working collaboratively in the future by starting this week’s lessons with a quick -Library ……Literary/Science connection… students have chosen a fiction book that has a weather phenomena and making the connection between using a science theme within a work of fiction….also students will be creating book jackets for their independent science books which will use the same language as the humanities classes (word choice, dead words, fluency…) || A (45 Seats) Hope, CL, & Simon, Ben, & David L B (45 Seats) Olivas, FKF, Ganet/Wistrom C (45 Seats) Ormrod & Digges D (33 Seats) Kyle & Davey E (33 Seats) Fishman & DeGreef - Schedule - Questions? || Introductions & Closings – Jeff Movie – Alfred China Alive – Laura Programs & Activities (CISSA & Afterschool, MYG) – David Community Days – Laura Communications – Jessica HOT – Lisa HomeBase – Lynnette Organization – Manon ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| All homebase teachers send their students locker combinations to Tina please.
 * Monday 2:** Ganet/Wistrom & Hope //to David// [Locker Letters?]
 * Wednesday 4:** Bonding Day!
 * Friday 6:** Kyle & Olivas //to David// [Locker Letters?]
 * Monday 9:** Grade Level Assembly with Jeff & Karl
 * Wednesday 11:** Ormrod //to David// [Locker Letters?]
 * Friday 13:** Gym game Yes! Ben R. will be helping set this up with Dave H.
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Please discuss Mom & Iphone…. + Do blogging…just make sure the different categories are all on the first page. ||
 * 5. || **Bonding Day** || Sharing || Jeff & Dave || 10’ |||||| - Bus assignments (morning)
 * 6. || **Open House** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Check lock combination lists and send to MS Office
 * - Who will present what?**


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday Sept. 9 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 27 August ****12:00 Alfred’s Room** GO TEAM! || 6A began sharing names, will continue next meeting for 6A meeting 9/6 || Group Work / Collaboration activity continues throughout the CORE classes with Jessica leading the activities Creative - locker tags from Laura F. Collaboration – math is skill level groups from Manon || - Student Learner Profile - Open House letters || __Next Week:__ __Following Week:__ SLP introductions – do something creative with it! (skits, etc) Letter to parents for Open House || - Bus Google form (for ease) Form looks good. - Lunch orders David Hope will provide lunch forms to hand out during HB on Wednesday, then collect and return to David H. asap. - Schedule More information to come out - Anything else? Is David L. coming with 6th grade or 8th grade? || Confusion over why these pieces are separated out, not combined and streamlined, like why the different strands of SLP/learning behavior/4Cs/EAGLES. By September 11th, all students will have a portfolio system/vehicle (iWeb) operational with spaces set up and ready for the addition of material. By October 23rd, all Home Bases will have finished going over the SLP and begun to personalize it by collecting examples of each category and reflecting on them. What will this look like, what will pages look like, we need some exemplars to show kids. During subject meetings, bring up in our planning how activities in the week fit into the SLP or the 4Cs so we can make sure to continue communicating this to our kids. || - Start in auditorium - Parent letter taped to front instead of inside locker Is there a problem with locker challenge? For 6th grade, it is an indication of where the students are to parents. HomeBase teachers will be responsible for taping the combination to the front of their kids’ lockers before Open House. Then, at the end of the presentation, we will ask parents to complete this step first before coming in to see their children’s teachers. - We have more time, how do we want to divide it up? Grade 6 presentation in lounge once again. We will schedule this to start 5-10 minutes after the main presentation in the auditorium. After our presentation, parents will attempt the locker challenge and then see teachers. || (right up to break) (March 14 is end of T2) || Don’t worry about creating all of the pages yet though as we are waiting upon some examples from the SLC group. || TABLED ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. an understanding of what is happening on Bonding Day
 * 2) 3. an understanding of what is happening at Open House || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - Parent feedback on the beginning of the year, particularly for grade 6, has been overwhelmingly positive.
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| 6B had part 1 of 2 part meeting
 * 2. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - JUMP Surveys if not done
 * 4. || **HB Calendar for the foreseeable future** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| __This Week:__
 * Monday 26:** CL & Davey //to David//
 * Wednesday 28:** DeGreef & Digges //to David//
 * Friday 30:** Fishman & FKF //to David//
 * Monday 2:** Ganet/Wistrom & Hope //to David//
 * Wednesday 4:** Bonding Day!
 * Friday 6:** Kyle & Olivas //to David//
 * Monday 9:** Grade Level Assembly with Jeff & Karl
 * Wednesday 11:** Ormrod //to David//
 * Friday 13:** Gym game? Ben R. will be helping set this up with Dave H.
 * Coming up next?**
 * 5. || **Bonding Day** || Sharing || Jeff, Dave, & Alfred || 10’ |||||| - Permission slips already gone out?
 * 6. || **SLC Reporting Out** || Sharing || Laura & Team || 10’ |||||| SLP focus in the fall / 4 Cs in the spring
 * 7. || **Open House** ||  ||   ||   |||||| - 5:30 – 8:30
 * 8. || **Academic Integrity** || Sharing || Barbara || 10’ |||||| TABLED ||
 * 9. || **Interdisciplinary Units** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Set! March 10 -21
 * 10. || **Gmail & Google Docs** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Teachers who are still having issues please see Simon P. ||
 * 11. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Check the Mac & Me wiki. Most students seem to be able to print and access the server. If they can’t, send them to tech to sort out. Move on to iWeb and setting that up on Thursday if time.
 * X. || **Future Work Skills (if time)** ||  ||   ||   |||||| See document pages 8-12.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 2 Sept 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 19 August ****12:00 Laura’s Room** Send any names to David. Note - David will soon show the gr 5 transition papers to the gr 6 team and would like the Gr 6 homebase teachers to visit the counselors to talk about things like child protection services. || - Finish locker tags - What is the Student Learner Profile - Contact Home this week -DEAR on Wednesday || = all of JUMP day wohoo! = Collaboration skills starting in Humanities but continuing in Math and Science led by Jessica = In Science…. Theme today was curiosity and what it looks likes and linked it to struggling in class. || help from CORE or specialist teachers not needed J - Mac and Me Wiki: [] || - I spoke with Jeff about our concerns: 1. Alerts sent out sooner in the day 2. White board out in front of the cafeteria || - Wednesday Oct. 23: ? SLC Mini-Committee needs to decide the direction of Gr 6 team (by all subjects or only common C words (or other)). || Also, is this Student Travel Checklist document also applicable for students who take a “personal leave” for extended family holidays and the like? And finally, it is suggested by this team to also have a sponsor’s (MUN, swim team, tennis team…) checklist to ensure that the students are aware of this document with enough time to complete, that teachers are informed in advance, that the students are aware of the work that they will need to do, that appropriate time is given to complete work, etc. || Specialists - changes to curriculum? (Waiting for a response from query email) ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| - SOC names
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Check-in
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Mac Roll Out & Mac and Me** || Sharing || Simon || 10’ |||||| - Mac Roll Out
 * 5. || **Poor Weather Days** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - The gym is available during our lunch time. Field person, if too hot or poor weather, can go to the gym with our bag instead. If you do, please check in with PE teacher about any equipment set up that students should avoid.
 * 6. || **SLC Fence Posts** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Wednesday Sept. 11: all iWeb classes set up
 * 7. || **Student Absent Form** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| More space is needed for Student Travel Checklist or perhaps making it into a 2 page document.
 * 8. || **Curriculum Map Changes?** || Sharing || All || 2’ |||||| No major changes from Humanities, Math, Science.
 * 9. || **If I lived there…** || Sharing / Discussion || Lisa || 5’ |||||| Possibility of doing additional idu based on [] …. IDU committee will also think about this possibility for next year when they meet. ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 27 Aug 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Alfred’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday 13 August ****12:00 Dave’s Room** Team B (Manon, Lisa, Jeff, Laura) [first meeting Friday 30] Meetings on alternating Fridays David proposed a way to share minutes from SOC meetings via Google Doc, will set up template in next few days to share. David will check with Katelyn re: former 5th graders and teacher notes Send EAL names to Jessica if it's a SOC that seems to be solely language issue. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| Team A (David, Alfred, Lynnette, Hank) [first meeting Friday 23]
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - School / Grade Rules:
 * Lunchtime locations: As a team, we need to make sure that we are on our duties when we’re supposed to be and supervising in the hallways. All team on duty this week, next week starts with Team 4
 * Have TV at end of hallway with heat index/pollution?
 * Let Mark know that first lunch is at 11:10, so we need the heat index and pollution in a timely manner to inform students.
 * Contact Jeff R. and PE about where to go when and being able to post pollution/heat index in main hallway, possibly a secretary to just pop white board outside.
 * 11:50 rule – not in hallways until 11:50

- Locker Tags - Get-to-know-you Activities - Locker Supply Lists - Dear Wednesday - Review revised bus list with students - Need to review procedure for where students with drivers go, how they get picked up, where the drivers wait, who makes sure it isn’t dangerous and it is supervised - Review dress code (no hats, appropriate clothing and footware) || In Fishman’s class, students brainstormed these terms independently as words they wanted to describe their perfect class. In DeGreef’s class, students were being collaborative and creative with alliterative sentences getting to know each other. || Special schedule for presentations. || Thank you to PE and Chinese staff for helping!! What could be changed? - SLC-ers - Collaborative (not as time sensitive) || Table for next week to think about and come back to discuss. || Should Bonding Day be on a Friday? Are Chinese schools open? Jeff O. to discuss with Jeff R. || - Is it possible for grades on Power School not to go live until after Open House? - What is the goal of Open House in the classroom?
 * 3. || **Focus On Learning** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| Collaboration? Connections? Creativity? Curiosity?
 * 4. || **Math Presentations** || Sharing / Discussion || Manon || 5’ |||||| Size Matters on Friday September 13th for 2 minute presentations on their design, how they used data to make their decision.
 * 5. || **First Day Review** || Sharing / Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| What went well?
 * Library should know if they are doing a presentation during the tour or not, make it clear.
 * Have kids come back to HB for about 5 minutes before lunch to check in, get lunch cards, etc ||
 * 6. || **Mini-committee Reminders** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - China Alive adventure-ers (October 14/15 is absolute latest date to present new trips)
 * 7. || **Student Re-dos** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Moving away from a certain point level to allow or require students to re-do work. We will have a conversation within our subject teams and come back to discuss it as a grade level next week. Keep in mind we are moving away from points and towards SBR, so what does that look like?
 * 8. || **Bonding Day** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Do we have to abide by heat index?
 * 9. || **Open House** || Sharing / Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Re-order presentations and lockers?
 * o Showing the learning space, introducing classroom and ourselves ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Science doing clock partners. ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 19 Aug. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Laura’s room M111 ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Friday 9 August ****1:00 Lisa’s Room** Jeff to send out updated student-friendly version of this. - Goals of the Day - Materials (what do subjects expect) – - Grade 6 Assembly Introduction (send 4 photos + mug shot to Simon Power) || - Locker Tags (name and HB clear and legible at bottom, rest is their personal representation) - HomeBase communication plan with our specialist teachers (Jess will communicate, can use posting to server for files as well) || Jessica to ‘chair’ this mini-committee || - Need to establish two fence-posts between now and SLCs (tied into student portfolio), one in September and one in October - Need to say, by September X, all of the students need to have … - iWebs still on students computers for this year - this is a year of conversations, though we can always test things out this year || The China Alive trip exploration group will explore 4 different trips to present back to team on **__October 14/15__** to choose one, go on a exploratory trip, etc ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of the first day of school
 * 1) 2. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) 3. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * - || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| * § Remember to have Learning Targets up and visible
 * § There will be a standing agenda item in leadership meetings based on collaboration, communication, creativity, and curiosity. I will be asking for subjects to share these. ||
 * 1. || **Review Norms** || Discussion || All || 2’ |||||| Two norms added were agreed upon. ||
 * 2. || **First Day** || Discussion || All || 20’ |||||| - Morning Schedule
 * o 8:-8:15 (finding classrooms)
 * o 8:15-9:45 (Home Base time – name tags with big clear names IN SHARPIE, collect at the end of each day)
 * § 8:50-9:00 (short break, socialize and bathroom)
 * o 9:45-11:10 (Tours with Chinese teachers and gym time
 * o 11:10-12:10 (lunch) – Dave in Gym, Barbara library, Jeff games, Manon Uno Central
 * o 12:10-12:45 (Home Base time – good time for lockers and locks)
 * o 12:45-end of day (assembly)
 * o Ice-breakers, have buddies in HB new to old students, Schedule, Locks, Locker, pass out Agenda (write in first HW assignment which is a reminder to bring in medical forms)
 * o Buses will drop off kids at front of school at beginning of the day, at the end of the day the 6 large Puxi will still be at front of school while the rest will be around by the pool
 * o We need bus #s and where they are being picked up/drop off, put these numbers on their schedule
 * o ALL SUBJECTS push for flashdrive on their lanyard
 * o Math & Humanities same as before
 * o Science: Notebook
 * o Art: Mac, ID/Flashdrive (but this is in all classes?), Agenda
 * o Band: Instrument, Music Folder, Tutor Book, Agenda, Pencil
 * o EAL: Agenda, Mac, Pencil Case, Reading Book
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Ice-breakers
 * 4. || **Collaborative Unit** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| From Jeff R., does March 3-14 work for us. This does ‘fit’ into the Humanities Egypt unit well. Dates work for grade 6, possibility for changes to topics / elements by adding charity work.
 * 5. || **SLC Fence Posts** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| For Our SLC Mini-Committee: **__ Laura __**, Jessica, Alfred, Manon
 * 6. || **China Alive Charities** || Sharing / Discussion || Lynnette || 5’ |||||| Buying a projector & screen for kids at foundation, lump sum to be donated to group. ||
 * 7. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Dave || 5’ |||||| Mogan Shan is still on, as far as Lou knows
 * 8. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ ||||||  ||
 * 9. || **Team Photo** || - || Karl || 5’ ||||||  ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Lisa/Alfred to name classes (Earth Wind Fire Water) ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Wed. 14 Aug. 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Dave's Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday 7 August ****1:00 Jessica’s Room** - Team Meeting: 12:00 on the first A day of the week - SOC: 12:00 on Friday Humanities = Thursday 1:00pm Math = everyday Science = everyday || 8:05-8:10 - Transition 8:10-9:35 - CORE 1 9:35-9:45 - Break 9:45-11:10 - CORE 2 11:10-11:50 - Lunch 11:50-11:55 - Transition 11:55-1:00 - SPECIAL 1 1:00-1:05 - Transition 1:05-2:10 - SPECIAL 2 2:10-2:15 - Transition 2:15-2:55 - HomeBase or Elective
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of our meeting times and norms
 * 1) 2. an understanding of our commitments to our team and this year
 * 2) 3. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 3) 4. an understanding of preparation for major events this year || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Tabling an issue is ok
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused
 * Student-centered in all we do ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Review Norms & Meeting Times** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Norms: Decisions should be based on what is best for students; when necessary, table an issue for next week
 * 2. || **Roles** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| * § Taking minutes: Laura & Hank
 * § HomeBase planning/activities: Lynnette & David
 * § Hallway Boards: Alfred, Laura, Jeff, Cathrin
 * § **Student-Led Conferences (SLC):** Laura, Jessica, Alfred, Manon
 * § 6th grade team blog: Jessica (fall) / Lisa (spring)
 * § Bonding Day: Cathrin, Jeff, Hank
 * § Read-a-thon: Alfred & Lynnette
 * § **Interdisciplinary Collaborative Unit:** Jessica, Alfred, Lisa, Hank, Lynnette
 * § Open House: All
 * § Curriculum Map update: Manon & David
 * § China Alive T-shirt: Hank ||
 * 3. || **Major Dates** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| * § Monday Aug. 12: New Student Orientation
 * § **Tuesday Aug. 13: First Day of School**
 * § Friday Aug. 16: JUMP MS Community Day
 * § Monday August 19: Mac Roll-Out night; 20/21 computers stay in cores, 22 go to cores + specials and stay at school, 23 go to cores/specials/home
 * o Tuesday 20: First day of Mac&Me
 * § Friday Sep. 6: Bonding Day
 * § Sep. 9 – 13: Spirit Week
 * § Wednesday Sep. 11: MS Open House ||
 * 4. || **CORE Schedule** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| 7:58-8:05 - HomeBase

A/B CORE swap? Same four day rotation as last year, Red and Blue days || Manon & David – Jessica/**Cathrin** Alfred - Lisa Lynnette - Lou Jeff - Sarah - Lockers: same numbers so same two units as last year for each teacher - Further HB discussion is tabled until Friday || - Grade 6 Introduction for assembly? (4 corners keynote to represent you so the audience guesses – final decision) || Mogan Shan – needs to be investigated if it is still viable because of changes in Naked Resort, etc (David) Sichuan - Wild Wall - Jeff Xian Adventure – needs to be significantly reworked or changed completely (new city, new activities). Maybe going to a spot in China that is known for adventures. Jessica, Cathrin, David Xian Explorer - Lynnette - Which of our trips need tooling or possible replacement? Who is interested in leading these changes? Dave, Jess, Cathrin, Lisa || - Transition issues we need to be aware of? ||
 * 5. || **HomeBase** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - HomeBase communication / pairings?
 * Hank** - Laura
 * 6. || **First Day** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - PE / Chinese teacher tours (PE happy to do games, waiting to hear from Chinese teachers 9:40-11:10ish, earlier lunch than the whole middle school)
 * 7. || **China Alive** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Which of our trips are we definitely still wanting to run? Who is interested in leading these?
 * 8. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| - Final course lists?


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Be prepared for 6th grade photo!! ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Friday 9 August 8:30 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday 5 June ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** Wednesday - Field activity today Friday – Whatever you want with your students (letters, wrap-up, etc) || Tuesday - Breakfast & Schedule (HB until 8:30, then let students mingle in hallway, saying goodbye and signing yearbooks) ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Send their regards! ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 2’ |||||| Finish letters if you can, pass to counselors
 * 3. || **Roles for Next Year Preliminary** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Jessica/Lisa will take over blog ||
 * 4. || **China Alive Photos** || Discussion || All || 5’ ||||||  ||
 * 5. || **Final Week** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Yearbook distribution (distribute Monday, collect, then return Tuesday)
 * 6. || **Team Brunch Tomorrow!** || Discussion || All || 2’ |||||| Bring food. ||

Missing Museum Day, would be nice if we could fit it back into schedule next year. Britni Lloyd leaned back, crossed her arms, and said, “I had a good year.” Many voices echoed the sentiment. 6th grade celebrated! ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Field day + concerts + reports + certain cores and specialists with no prep/down time was very tough. As well, if it changes then maybe grades and concerts will be the same week and how can that be worked into a feasible schedule?
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| None || ** Location: ** || On the train, at the beach, in the city, lakeside… ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 27 May **  **12:00 Dave’s Room** China Alive survey on Wednesday May 29th Monday June 3rd is Simon’s presentation and start letter to next year’s teacher, unless we get the checklist during Friday in the hour we have between Step Up day and Field Day. Wednesday June 5th is Gym Day. Tuesday June 11th morning is 30 minutes in HomeBase having a party, signing yearbooks, then they can see their friends and say goodbye. || Manon suggests that Mac&Me is not the best use of time and suggests that there is an organizational elective straight from the beginning. A suggested Tech focused (Mac) part but also focus on ME part, so splitting students up for more help in organization, etc. We will return computers on Thursday and Friday next week through Science. Simon Power will come in either May 31 (if Field Day is rainy) and June 3if Field Day happens like normal to share check list with kids regarding turning in their laptops. || Auction them off for 50 rmb. || ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 21st May ****12:00 Laura’s Room** - Scheduling – Thursday, May 30th @ 12:00 in Laura’s Room - Barbara will cover Jessica’s kids in the library || - How do we finish off the year? – Letter to next years home base teacher - Potential homebase session on the field || - Should the xi’an adventure trip be relocated to somewhere else - Barbara has an idea for a trip that she will bring up in August - Moonbears – last years money went to the educations room - Invest next years money into the education room - Integrate this into homebase nest year || Need to split them into 3 groups. What about: - CL, Hope, & Ganet **to M208** - Davey, Kyle, Ormrod, & Digges **to M204** - Lloyd, Fishman, Olivas, & FKF **to M210**
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: **  ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** ||  ** How? **  ||  ** Who? **  ||  ** Time? **  ||||||  ** Notes **  ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing  ||  Katelyn & Timber  ||  5’  ||||||   ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion  ||  All  ||  5’  |||||| 5th grade kids are coming for presentations today.
 * 3. || **Mac & Me Helpers** || Discussion  ||  All  ||  5’  |||||| Simon is looking for recommendations for Mac & Me Student Helpers from this grade’s group for next year.
 * 4. || **Last Year’s CA Photo Winners** || Discussion  ||  All  ||  5’  |||||| What do we want to do with them?
 * 5. || **Gym Session** || Sharing  ||  Dave  ||  2’  |||||| Booked and confirmed for Wednesday 5 June. ||
 * 6. || **Social?** || Discussion  ||  All  ||  5’  |||||| Thursday June 6th team brunch at 11:10 in Lisa’s room ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 3 June @ 12 ? ||  ** Location: **  || ? ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. an understanding of what is happening for the rest of the year
 * 2) 3. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 10’ |||||| - SOCs – meeting on Friday @ 12
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Advertisements-
 * 3. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - Trip Review- would there need to be an additional trip next year?
 * 4. || **Field Trip** || Discussion || Jeff & All || 10’ |||||| - cut it ||
 * 5. || **Step-up Day** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| **For our current students:**

Escorting Students: Britni, Laura, Lisa, Dave Holding Down the Fort: Lynnette, Jeff, Alfred, Manon
 * Students coming up, how do we want to divide them?**
 * @ End: 1 math, 1 science, 2 Humanities to escort, rest to hold down the fort**

MS conference room booked so Sarah and Lou will be there an in the collaborative space. - swap with each other to make sure each classroom has all of the trips represented || - Monday June 10 will be a special schedule, which is forthcoming. - What are our final tasks as we wind down the year? What are the dates? - Math test on May 29th and 30th - Final day for AR quizzes is May 29th - Mouse trap cars in Science || - December 2nd-13th, February 10th-21st, March 10th-21st - Bonding Day date? - August 26th- September 10th || - Change - What are you passionate about? - Maybe evaluating the SLC and what is the purpose and in what way is it most effectively done - Instead of just looking for a new format, but what is the purpose - Processes and higher order thinking || - 8:10-8:15 – go to test and workrooms - 8:15-9:15 – students take algebra test - 9:20-10:10 – Core 1 - 10:15-11:10 – Core 2 || - Vista – Manon - Group – Lisa F. - Up-close nature- Alfred - Food – Britni - Candid- Laura - Group – Lisa F. - Action – Barbara - Culture- Lynnette Decisions made by THIS FRIDAY and five photos given to Jeff for printing. ||
 * The time after step-up and before field day:**
 * - core 1A class **
 * - students can clean out lockers, check in all books, computer file back up, publish iweb for final time ** ||
 * 6. || **Grade 5 HB Visit** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Confirmed for Monday 27th May from 2:15 to 2:55.
 * 7. || **Calendar This Year** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - Friday May 31st will be Null Day. The days following will adjust accordingly.
 * 8. || **Calendar: Next Year** || Discussion || All || 7’ |||||| - Interdisciplinary Unit Dates: What two two-week periods work best for us?
 * 9. || **RLL & Student Directed** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Any one interested in being part of the ‘open schedule’ unit planning team? Please send interest to Jeff R. Commitment would be early morning / after school meetings and perhaps one planning day. ||
 * 10. || **Student Portfolios** || Discussion || Jeff & All || 5’ |||||| Hypothetical: If there was a student e-portfolio, and they each were based around five categories, not subjects, what should those categories be? (doesn’t have to be five, can be more, can be less). They can’t be subject specific.
 * 11. || **Algebra Test** || Discussion || Manon & Dave || 5’ |||||| THIS FRIDAY special schedule:
 * 12. || **Photo Contest** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Who’s taking what categories? Decisions by?


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| In David’s room but Barbara is making Southern food ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 27 May 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Dave’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 29th April ****12:00 Britni’s Room** - Meet on Friday during the end of CORE time - Homebase teachers should send total number of books per student to Alfred || Team B- Matt Wan, Claire Yu, Judith Lee, Tom Zhu || - No school on Wednesday - Begin working on advertisement when they return - Talk to 5th grade about showcase ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Team A- no names
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 1’ |||||| - China Alive meetings
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ ||||||  ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| - Concerns about students being overcommitted (KL trip for grade sixes was a huge commitment) ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 13 May 2013 || ** Location: ** || Lunch together ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 23th April ****12:00 Lisa’s Room** Still some kids who need to turn in money. 200 suggested donation from teachers - CORE time for a celebration? Take 10 minutes from each core (10:50-11:10) to have assembly in LLH to celebrate their accomplishments on Friday 3 May. || Monday – April 22: China Alive #2 Wednesday - April 24: Gumboot Dancers CANCELLED Have regular HB (DEAR, etc). Notify students that they must bring their passports (NOT A COPY) next week. Friday - April 26 will be Course Selection for next year in HomeBase / HB challenge? Go to Gym if you want to support Beard-a-Thon and Solar Mohawks __Following Week:__ Monday – April 29: China Alive #3 Wednesday – May 1: NO SCHOOL Friday – May 3: China Alive #4 || Clarify that Chengdu is perfectly safe and Puxi just left today for trip. All HB next week will be China Alive! What ID documents do kids need? Passports, ID cards, both, ? ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. an understanding of what is happening in regards to China Alive || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| We will be meeting on Thursday @12 (both teams) ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 2’ |||||| __This Week:__
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Discussions || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - Comments / Issues / Questions?
 * 5. || **Math Placement Tests** || Sharing || Timber || 5’ |||||| When will parents be notified, etc? Split classes in 7th grade? Etc etc? ||
 * 6. || **Student Teachers** || Sharing || Jessica || 5’ |||||| Welcome to 6th grade! ||
 * 7. || **Egypt Goes Home** || Discussion || Lynnette || 5’ |||||| Take it all down! Mummies gone, buildings gone, decorations gone, etc etc etc ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 29 April @ 12 || ** Location: ** || Britni’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 15th April ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** - Remind students to collect money || - SOC meetings are on Thursday || Monday – April 15: China Alive #1 Wednesday – April 17: Regular HB Friday – April 19: LLH Photo contest intro & how to take pictures __Next Week:__ Monday – April 22: China Alive #2 Wednesday - April 24: Gumboot Dancers Friday - April 26 will be Course Selection for next year in HomeBase __Following Week:__ Monday – April 29: China Alive #3 Wednesday – May 1: NO SCHOOL Friday – May 3: China Alive #4 || - Meeting schedule - collect shirt sizes || - Karl will be coming to our team meeting next week to explain the course selection process. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # 1. an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) 2. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Collection
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| - Amanda is creating a program on Power School for reading grade 5 teacher notes
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| __This Week:__
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - T-shirt design
 * 5. || **Photo Contest** || Discussion || Jeff & All || 5’ |||||| - Jeff’s thought: selling postcard versions of the contest winners ||
 * 6. || **Course Selection** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - Students should return their completed color sheets back to HomeBase teachers by the 24th of April.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Pudong MS Real Life Learning Video if time ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 23 April 2013 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 8th April **  **12:00 Jeff’s Room** Thursday is the last day to take AR quizzes for RAT! Copy forms and then hand them back as soon as kids say they are done. (Celebration as a special schedule taking some time from Core?) - Procedure for collecting Collect and hand in money on the 19th is the LAST DAY. Needs to be in an envelope with name, total amount (count in front of us) Give money to Alfred || Thursday meetings at noon. In order to allow time for specialist feedbacks, it is important to get names in team meeting. Team A meeting next week after the SLCs. || - China Alive Monday 15th – First China Alive session Friday 19th – LLH booked with Sarah to present Photo Competition 22nd/29th/3rd sessions ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 10’ |||||| - RAT wind down
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| - SOC meetings?
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 1’ |||||| - SLCs (reminder that it is NOT conference time and it IS student led, so make sure we support each other to make sure no one gets cornered, etc. Remind students that they are not talking about Specialist classes during this SLC, they have time before and after to do that.)
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing & Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - HomeBase sessions on the calendar ||
 * 5. || **SLCs** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - We ready? ||
 * 6. || **Classroom Furniture** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Is there a time on Friday where we don’t have any scheduled conferences and can meet regarding furniture? Jeff R. would like our ideas so that he write the proposal for us. Meeting at noon. ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| - Math tests on April 16/17 and May 28/29 ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 15 April 2013 || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 26th March ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** - RAT Days - no events this week - remind homebase that we are continuing to read over the Spring Break and collecting the donations shortly after we return || - get pictures from Outbox- Kyle- photos, drag and drop zip file to folder || - China Alive trip meetings – 1:00 or whenever works for you || Please remind students that they can only stay afterschool under teacher supervision! ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ ||||||  ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| SLC Prep!
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Discussions || All || 20’ |||||| Trip Groupings were determined based on student choices (all first or second) and groupings. A few students were split up on purpose due to recent events. ||
 * 5. || **PD Day** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Jeff would like to know what each of us has planned for 29th of March PD day.
 * 6. || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Please ensure that you are reading the morning announcements, not just putting them up on the screen.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 8 April || ** Location: ** || ? ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday 19th March ****12:00 Laura’s Room** - RAT Dates - Next Wednesday, curl up with a good book, Special DEAR Ends April 12! Students collect money AFTER 12th. || Team A: email Katelyn if any names come up || Pilar is here to share her organization. - The team will discuss the potential of making a connections with the WILL foundations - Contact Pilar by email pilartan23@yahoo.com Seems like they have a lot of support already? We will give a one-time capital donation – buy 2 water heaters, depending on their cost. || 3 hours on Thursday, conferences ending at 6, bus at 6:15 Friday 8-3 Teacher buses at 3:15 but also MS Party that day Letter & schedule to go home TOMORROW or Friday at the latest || - Formal letters to their HomeBase teachers next year? Both of them non-subject specific. More SLP focus, student as a learner. Strengths, weaknesses, interests, personal activities, etc. Not time sensitive Did not discuss this item due to meeting running long. Will try again next week. || Do we need a policy that restricts the number of events that our students can participate in during the year or at a time? Yes, the team feels that we should propose a common letter/form/etc. that students bring around with set time before event. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of T2 SLCs
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Names given. Team B has parent meetings Wednesday and Thursday, SOC meeting Friday.
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 2’ |||||| SLC letter going home Wednesday (or Friday at the latest), finish dreams, start preparing for SLCs (6 days of HB for work/practice). ||
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Make sure kids are getting their forms in and copies of travel docs – and GET THOSE FORMS TO JEFF O. ||
 * 5. || **Community Service** || Sharing || Barbara & All || 20’ |||||| - Let’s try and decide if we are letting the kids know what organization we are donating to
 * 6. || **SLCs** || Sharing & Discussion || Jeff & All || 15’ |||||| Not done through HB this time around (final decision by Jeff R.). However, the issue will continue to be discussed for future SLCs.
 * 7. || **Move Up Letters?** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - Letters to themselves for the beginning of next year?
 * 8. || **Events Policy** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Do we need a policy that restricts the number of events happening in a season or during the year?
 * 9. || **State of the Union** || Discussion || All || 20’ |||||| @12:30 - Good talk. Thoughts given to Jeff R. ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 26 March 2013 (SBR 25) || ** Location: ** || Jeff’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday 11th March ****12:00 Lisa’s Room** - RAT Days (Ends in April after Spring Break) || Katelyn’s group – names from last week already || Wed/Fr – China Alive! Presentations and selection form || - Letters - HomeBase sessions - Letters Screen captures – in 5th grade, some students had been told it was acceptable to do that, but need to remind students that is not ok. Screen shots of score is ok, but leads to comparison of scores, still a problem this time around. In the future, MAP should be earlier in the year for the first test and later for the 2nd test (the 2nd MAP was in a trimester with 2 long breaks and may not accurately reflect some student progress, etc) ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of SLC format || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review: It’s ON!
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Timber’s group – no meeting this week
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Art field trip prep
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - Leaders: Any issues in planning / organizing trips? Any extra support needed?
 * We would like to know nurse assignments soon because it would help in planning trips. There has been a pattern of problems this year getting advance information on nurse assignments (Bonding Day, MYG Nite, etc).
 * Making sure that guides/liaisons are acceptable, support from Zea.
 * Discussed technology allowed on trips. Should be without most electronics that are not essential to trip. Cell phone/music/kindles do not fit in with the theme of our trips and will not be permitted. Students can always use teacher cell phone, etc to call home (and vice versus).
 * Camera, flashlight, alarm clock will be the only electronics allowed on all trips.
 * Friday letters go out, provided by Jeff O.
 * China Alive happens three weeks after payment. This provides 5 sessions in HB for China Alive prep, if we keep Wednesdays DEAR time. ||
 * 5. || **SLCs** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Format
 * We would prefer for it to be run through HB this year. We did this last year for Spring SLCs and it worked very well. However, since we have specialist teachers as HB teachers, we will need to ensure that they are available to participate in this. Jeff O. will bring this up at the leadership meeting Friday.
 * HB: 30 min meeting, 30 min off
 * Jeff O. to work up tentative time schedules
 * What goes into SLC presentation? Suggestions
 * iWeb should be updated with basics
 * add new page for interdisciplinary unit - Mummy Mania connections and reflections
 * If wanted, include piece on SMART goals, or Dream Quilt, or general reading goals, or organization goals, or SLP reflection T2, or…?
 * REFLECTIVE SLC! What we’ve done and how it all comes together.
 * If our format is finalized by Friday leadership meeting, then send out the letters next week (Wednesday 20th) with times, information, etc ||
 * 6. || **MAP Testing Review** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Testing went smoothly (order of tests went well, starting with language usage, internet and tech all went well), good time in the sense it provides time for teachers to catch up on work/comments.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 19 March 2013 || ** Location: ** || Laura’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, 5 March ****12:00 Alfred’s Room** - From Barbara – options for replacement for Starfish, possibility of presentation from local person for a boys’ home that helps boys with deformities. She can come meet at 12 on March 19th. - RAT Days || - Group rotation All looks good. || Grade 6 voted unanimously no, unnecessary. || Kids who aren’t done can go to Jessica’s classroom Survey after MAP testing – if kids finish early, take the survey. If they don’t, they won’t have time to take the survey because of shortened classes. Wednesday: Language Usage Thursday: Math Friday: Reading || Kids can read, hang out, do work, etc. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of China Alive presentations || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 2’ |||||| - RAT Review – kids were accepting mostly of news on Starfish, but it did hit some kids quite powerfully.
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Names given to counselors. Katelyn will be away and will take names/meet next Friday. ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Wed (LLH)/Fri China Alive! Presentations, Monday is Art Trip prep, if time available, maybe have kids do Spring Cleaning of lockers. ||
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| - Updated Keynote
 * 5. || **SLP in HomeBase?** || Discussion || Jeff || 10’ |||||| What are our thoughts / feelings about adding SLP ‘marks’ to HomeBase activities?
 * 6. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Don’t go to HomeBase tomorrow, go straight to MAP testing (Mac&Me class)
 * 7. || **Calendar Issues** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| March 27th No PE or Health classes that day due to EARCOS. So instead, Karl will be supervising in the cafeteria but if you want to have some extra ‘help’ sessions or give them support work for this time, it will be available.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 11 March 2013 || ** Location: ** || Lisa (Monday) ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, February 25th ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** - RAT Days - HB teachers hold onto sponsor forms until it is time for students to collect money || - On the days you are not in the gym, DEAR, AR quizzes and dream quilt || - changes can be made and sent to Jeff O. || - Place on the 3rd and 4th floor that we should direct students away from || Special CORE Schedule? – yes, Jeff will make a schedule and send out || - Kids are bringing costumes on Wednesday with drawing in a plastic bag to the regular Humanities teacher - Band kids on Friday go to Lisa’s room - Britni’s Delicious Delicacies group meet in her room - The rest of the students will be divided up into Humanities classrooms to watch movies - 30 minutes to put on costumes and makeup ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| No SOC meetings this week as we will be very busy on Friday for Mummy Mania and some of us haven’t seen our regular students since before CNY ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| - Monday, Wednesday, Friday – P.E. please make sure students quickly drop off their belongings and head straight to gym
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Keynote
 * 5. || **Art Field Trip** || Sharing || Sarah || 10’ |||||| - Sara will present in the LLH
 * 6. || **Draft SBR Report Card** || Discussion || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Team comments written on hard copy and sent to Jeff R. ||
 * 7. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Now Wednesday – Friday
 * 8. || **PD Sharing** || Sharing || David || 10’ |||||| - Dave shared about Differentiation and it was wonderful ||
 * 9. || **Mummy Mania** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Lou would like ALL the band kids to come down about 30 minutes before we play at 9.35. So maybe make sure they are dressed and ready 8.45am and they should all be here by 8.55! We will have a quick run through and then be seated and ready for when the procession arrives.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 5 March 2013 || ** Location: ** || Alfred’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, February 19th ****12:00 Britni’s Room** - RAT Days Sponsor forms due tomorrow, by Friday at the latest. Wednesday – Drop Everything and Read-A-Thon Friday – Hats Off, wearing a hat from their favorite literary character. || Friday – discussion re: Starfish, RAT, etc Monday/Wednesday – PE unit for collaborative time, if not doing that then DEAR and AR and such. (Monday = math + science + Jessica, Wednesday = humanities + lou + sarah) March 11 – art field trip prep || Maintain percentages of RAT money going to different organizations. Look for local Shanghai options for money *have researched options ahead of time before presenting to children. Time frame aim for discussion with students in HB in Friday or Monday (to be decided) *Need about 4-5 HBs to present all information to students March 6 – CA in LLH March 8 – S1, S2 March 13 – S3, S4  March 15 – S5, forms go home March 21 – Forms due back to HB April 11/12 – parents pay ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of how we will culminate our collaborative unit
 * 2) a plan for how we will introduce China Alive to our students || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 5’ |||||| - RAT Review
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Names given to counselors ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Wednesday – DEAR/AR quizzes
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Discussion || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Starfish is no longer viable because of Chinese government forced closure.
 * 5. || **Mummy Mania** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff & Jessica || 10’ |||||| Specialist teachers and the afternoon on Friday, 1 March 2013 ||

How are we doing SLCs? When is MAP testing? ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| When are comments and grades and grades due?
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 25 February 2013 || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, February 4th ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** - RAT Days: After CNY, they are turning in Sponsor sheets!!!! Suggestion: Tell students to scan/copy their sponsor sheets JUST IN CASE they lose it over break. || Team A Names: Team B Names: || First meeting back, we should start discussing how China Alive planning will play out in HB || Collaborative Unit group rotations. Playing with idea of using Artisan groups from Humanities to run Science dissection and math groups. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of China Alive groups
 * 2) an understanding of the Collaborative Unit: Mummy Mania || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **RAT** || Sharing || Alfred & Lynnette || 10’ |||||| - RAT Review: Positive reaction to badges and more sponsors!!
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Do we want to meet this week?
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Values and dream quilt.
 * 4. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| **Mogan Shan:** __Lou__, Rob, Edith
 * Sichuan:** __Manon__, Mun, Huiney
 * Xian Adventure:** __Alfred__, Jessica, Lisa, (Laura)
 * Xian Explorer:** __Lynnette__, Barbara, (Male to be determined)
 * Wild Wall:** __David__, Britni, (Jeff) ||
 * 5. || **Mummy Mania** || Sharing || Jeff, Alfred, David, Jessica || 10’ |||||| Remember, please try to ‘avoid’ graded assignments during the two week period. In Humanities, students will be keeping a nightly journal about their work in class, but this will not be graded at all.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 19 February 2013 || ** Location: ** || Britni’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, January 15 ****12:00 Laura’s Room** Read – a – Thon on Friday in LLH (go directly from last class) Values posters starting next week || Something tiny to something huge, that might be laughed at, that they might never be able to do. A4 paper, 3 minutes of pen to paper continuous flow of writing – write down every dream they have in their head. Then, highlight 3 dreams from the list (1 HAS to be far fetched, a real stretch) Take A4 colored construction paper and cut in half, kids should get two plaques of different colors and then represent their dream on the panels. Discuss as class how the “quilt” will look, decide as group, then…GO! And look, it flows into SLCs! Magical J || Questions from new members of 6th team – what does this 2 week time actually look like? What happens? Responsibilities? Etc? Can collaborative team meet to discuss how the schedule should look, nuts and bolts, etc, then come back to group and share? Gym activity on Friday 25th during HomeBase to allow for team to meet, etc. The question was posed to the grade 6 team: //What is the purpose of this collaborative unit?// Our response: //Experiential learning to help tie together of what kids have learned this semester, a form of culminating exercise. Experience in real life – not divided into subjects, focused on links/connections/ties between topics. Teaching skills that kids might not have an opportunity to learn at school otherwise.// || Performance by Todd’s elective of “Drop Dead Juliet” in the auditorium ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of upcoming events that will impact the 6th grade || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Learning Targets** || Sharing || Jeff || 1’ |||||| **Reminder:** please have these up in the classroom and they should be the ultimate ‘goal’ or outcome of the lesson, not the page numbers to be covered. ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Discussion || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Katelyn’s team meeting Tuesday AND Friday ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| 4 Corners/finish/share
 * 4. || **Dream Quilt Activity** || Sharing || ** Britni “the DreamWeaver” ** || 5’ |||||| Separate from Goals – these are their DREAMS!
 * 5. || **Collaborative Unit Schedule** || Discussion || Jeff & All || 10’ |||||| If we had a day, two, three, etc., during this time where the schedule ‘opened up’, how would we want this to look? For 6th grade, the traditional schedule seems to work – though an alternative schedule would need more clarification for us to figure out how we might want it to work. Hard to coordinate right now without more information about the specifics of each day/other grade levels/time needed to complete final task. Also, don’t want specialists to be overwhelmed, we want to respect the time they have with different grade levels as well as their planning time.
 * 6. || **CNY Assembly** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Thursday 7 February in the afternoon. There will be a special schedule made for the morning. (From Karl) ||
 * 7. || **Voluntary Assembly** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Friday 8th February during HB, participation on a voluntary basis for each HB.
 * 8. || **Art Field Trip** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| ** MARCH 6th **
 * Here's the low down on the field trip for you to share with your team: **
 * ART will provide a parent permission slip for students.
 * Sarah Digges will address the whole 6th grade in the LLH about: appropriate museum etiquette, scavenger hunt assignment and logistics.
 * ART will contact and arrange for bag lunches from Eurest.
 * ART will also take care of buses.

8:15- on buses to museum (Shanghai Biennele) 9:00-9:15 arrive 9:15-11:15 explore the museum 11:15 meet for lunch on top floor 11:45 get on buses 12:45-1 arrive back at school for blocks 3 & 4
 * Tentative schedule: **

We would like for all homebase teachers to accompany their kids to the museum and be stationed on assigned floors to supervise and keep order on the buses. Kids will be asked to do the scavenger hunt in pairs and to always have a buddy. Pairs should be assigned within homebases. ||
 * What we need from the homebase teachers: **


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 21 Jan 2013 @ 12 || ** Location: ** || Dave’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday, January 9 ****1:00 Jeff’s Room** - From Jan 21st, any AR quizzes taken will count - 4,000 RMB will go toward Wild Wall, with the rest going being split between Starfish and Moon Bears - The grade 6 collaborative board will be changed to advertise it - Alfred will notify teachers/the school of the event || - Team B meeting in Manon’s room || - Taking the door down - Values poster - Dream quilt (Britni will present next week) ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of the grade 6 R.A.T. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **R.A.T.** || Sharing / Discussion || Alfred & Lynnette || 20’ |||||| - Will be launched on January 18 through to April 10th
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| - Team A meeting in Britni’s room
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - Holiday four square
 * 4. || **Visiting Author** || Sharing || Barbara || 5’ |||||| - Visiting on Wednesday, January 16 during Humanities classes ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Tuesday 15 Jan. || ** Location: ** || Laura’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, December 3 ****12:00 David’s Room** Girl gossip picking up –speak with HB kids? (ostracizing girls based on who they like/don’t like/etc) Speak with students re: cutting in line. We want HB time on the last Friday because we’re supposed to be doing a breakfast… For kids who are leaving – goodbyes?! || Not surprised our numbers are lower than 7th/8th, attendance is good in 6th grade. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of SLP SOCs from T1 || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **State of the Union** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff R. || 30’ |||||| Good sharing. ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Timber’s Team B meeting @12 on Thursday (make sure that Patty is there!) ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Door Decorating continues! DEAR on Wednesday still.
 * 4. || **T1 Report SOCs** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Discussion around NI/AC from SLPs.
 * 5. || **Laptop Cases** || Discussion || Manon || 5’ |||||| Kids coming to class with __no case at all__ (not just their own padded case). Encourage kids to have a case, whether it’s their own or school case, but it needs to be something padded! ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 11 December 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, November 27 ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** Secret Santa HomeBase breakfast on final day? Yes – within our own HB (depending on schedule, TBD) || Culture of thinking and moving it towards active thinking in classroom, using language as a tool in the shaping of this visible classroom, as well as some of the specific activities that can help foster this in our classrooms. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of Making Learning Visible || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 10’ |||||| Names given to Timber/Katelyn ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| DAWDDC
 * 3. || **China Alive** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| - Specialists will be assigned shortly after the break (we hope) ||
 * 4. || **Interdisciplinary Unit** || Sharing || Jeff, Alfred, David, Jessica || 10’ |||||| Procession and celebration at close of unit will be held on B day so that specialists can contribute – Heinrich, Todd, Lou, Lisa – they are done teaching 9:15-12ish ||
 * 5. || **Making Thinking Visible** || Sharing || Jessica, Lisa & Jeff || 20’ |||||| Lisa, Jessica, and Jeff presented and it was wonderful, yaaaay!


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Barbara – 30 second survey on what technology students are using/access/own, to help guide what technology SAS should be purchasing for MS. ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 3 December 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Hope’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, November 20 ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** - Team B will meet on Monday and Friday || Introduce Monday, November 26th Final put up day Wednesday, December 12th Judging on Friday, December 14th morning ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **MAP Results** || Sharing || Amanda || 20’ |||||| - see Amanda if you would like to discuss MAP results further ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| - Team A will meet next Friday due to meeting on Thursday
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Door Decorating Content Theme and Rules:
 * 4. || **Monday Schedule** || Discussion || Jeff & All || 10’ |||||| - Schedule to be sent out by Jeff ||
 * 5. || **Interdisciplinary Unit** || Sharing || Jeff || 2’ |||||| Meeting this Thursday now so please send items to committee members ||
 * 6. || **PD Review** || Sharing || Jeff & Others || 5’ |||||| - Take some time to present what they learned about ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Tuesday 27 November || ** Location: ** || Jeff’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, November 12 ****12:00 Alfred’s Room** Team A/B SOC meetings postponed – contact them directly with concerns. || -Be on time to HB, drop stuff in lockers and go to rooms, not time to be socializing in hallway and then running to class. -Gift bag cards: quick personalized message -Door decorating contest? December Around the World ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **SLC Review** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| * Specialist teachers were surprised that iWeb presentations did not include their classes – when should kids present these during SLCs?
 * Can we use iWebs differently in the spring? Needs to be focused on the conversation and not just the presentation of the iWeb. How to inspire the kids to reflect and present their learning? (interactive, in the classroom, more formal POL/presentation of learning).
 * 25 minutes is just enough time to present cores + HomeBase/SLP
 * Not as much preparation went into SMART goals this year, lost time in HomeBase
 * Good to meet with parents, even briefly, especially after students have presented.
 * Use the classroom as a resource, walk to other classrooms. ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn & Timber || 5’ |||||| Monday November 19: Developmental Assets test @ 2pm, more information to come
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| -Remind students to have water bottle for classes (be healthy!)
 * 4. || **Math Test** || Sharing || Manon || 5’ |||||| November 19 (Fire.Water)/20 (Earth.Wind) math test ||
 * 5. || **Report Cards** || Questions || All || 5’ |||||| Due on Monday 19th ||
 * 6. || **Collaborative Unit** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| We will be meeting on Wednesday at 1:10pm this week. If you have any thoughts, please send them to: Jeff (Humanities), Alfred (Science), Dave (Math), Sarah (Art), Jessica (EAL and everything else) ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Britni will be attending the Team Leader meeting on Friday as Jeff will be away. ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 20 November 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, November 5 **  **12:00 Britni’s Room** We need some Homebase time to discuss the scores of the MAP testing. This is not an IQ test. It is not competitive scoring. Respect for others. Discuss in homebase. || Developmental Assets test on Monday, November 19th during Homebase? || • Need to discuss MAP Scores and sharing grades in general. Let’s just get through MAP testing before we think about moving on. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Map Testing Reflections** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Sending kids between floors messed up the computer. Perhaps book the MS conference room to avoid this?
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| SOC on Thursday at 12:00, Humanities at 12:30
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All / Manon || 10’ |||||| • SLC Preparations
 * 4. || **Student Groupings** || Sharing / Discussion || Barbara / All || 10’ |||||| Please see Barbara if you have any advice on grade 6 or grade 7 student groupings. ||
 * 5. || **Interdisciplinary Team** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Meeting Wednesday at 1:10 in Jeff’s room. ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 12 November 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Alfred’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, October 30 ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** -Wednesday: LLH presentation (go straight to LLH, if time left over then back to classrooms for discussion or DEAR)/Friday: Assembly -What do we want on the iWeb for the SLCs? 1. Home of Heart 2. SLP Reflection 3. Picture of HomeBase class Go over SMART goals for SLCs || SLC checklist of all specialist teachers that the parents get once they arrive. Feedback on the survey that is on the back of that sheet? SLC informational and example on **Wednesday** or Friday? || Jeff (Humanities), David (Math), Alfred (Science) and Jessica (EAL) will meet to discuss how this will look, time TBA. We will continue to improve what we created last year instead of starting from scratch. Global Language Teachers are interested in making connections but they need advanced notification. || • **Moganshan:** Lou / Rob • **Sichuan:** Manon / Lisa Talk with Jeff R. re: tour guides • **Xian Adventure:** Alfred / Jessica • **Xian Explorer:** Lynnette • **Wild Wall:** Hope / Jeff || Decide within departments when each teacher will go observe another. Observations planned between end of SLCs and Christmas break. Let Jessica know by end of next week. Have there be goals for why you are observing the lesson, what do you want to get out of it? Debrief with Jessica following observation ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of our preparation for SLCs.
 * 2) an understanding of the trip leaders for China Alive || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Send SOCs directly to Timber or Katelyn ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| SLCs!
 * 3. || **SLCs** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Don’t worry about rushing to try and get in any more grades for Trimester 1. At this point, they should be reflecting upon the work they’ve done thus far.
 * 4. || **Budgets DUE** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| They are DUE tomorrow! ||
 * 5. || **Interdisciplinary Unit Team** || Sharing / Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Can we have representatives from each subject group to meet to discuss the interdisciplinary unit time?
 * 6. || **China Alive** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Trip Leaders identified by end of November. Ours are:
 * 7. || **WOW** || Discussion || Jessica || 10’ |||||| After SLCs


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| Monday 5 November || ** Location: ** || Britni’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, October 22 ****12:00 David’s Room** Schedule – kids come down the hallway, drop their stuff, take book and computer to 1A class (Mac & Me class). Take attendance and call/email Tina absences ONLY. Kids turn on computer, complete directions on the front, fill out the back of sheet, fold sheet over and put on computer, and head to cafeteria. Then we log them all in. Kids come back in and we read directions. Then students confirm that their name is selected, hit next. At end of test, collect the sheets so that WE have them for the next day. Reminder for Math test – there are Calculus level questions on there and it is OK to not know them all. Kids still working on any of the tests at the finish time should be sent to Jessica’s room. || • **Monday:** We are in the auditorium. Start with presentation by Animal Rescue Club and then Grade 6 Drama performances. These should end early so you may have a bit of time with your students back in your HB rooms. • **Wednesday:** DEAR & ? (EAGLES, Learning Styles – check out Manon’s blog for extra multiple intelligences quiz) • **Friday:** Visiting Author in elementary library __Next Week:__ • Learning Styles, SLCs, Goals ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Reflections:
 * Kids seemed to have a lot of prior knowledge, so should the program move more quickly through basic material and have more advanced applications being taught to 6th grade.
 * Program has become more streamlined (GOOD THING) but what else can we do with time?
 * Program time? Learning more on presentation skills (Keynote, Garage Band, iMovie, etc). Have a week where students can sign up for instruction in certain programs from designated experts (teachers and student leaders?) during Mac&Me time.
 * More with Cyber Safety, but maybe in small group setting instead of lecture hall? Follow up large presentation with small group discussion. Discuss with Health to make sure content is not overlapping. Make it serious – these are real issues for our kids, like Skype encounters.
 * Student helpers (7/8 graders) could have a crash course in "Being Teachers” before starting the Mac&Me class
 * Asking for volunteers, talking it up, making it seem like an honor to be part of the team, etc? ||
 * 2. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing || Simon || 10’ |||||| Handouts provided by Simon. Will make copies for students.
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| Send names to Timber for Team B. Team A will not have meeting this week due to half of the team being out for APAC on Friday. ||
 * 3. || **Developments Assets Survey** || Sharing || Timber || 10’ |||||| Requirement every 3 years. Counselors will give out information as they get it. Sometime between November 16 and November 22 (45 min + instruction time to take the survey) students will take it – it is a paper survey. ||
 * 4. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Sharing / Discussions || All || 10’ |||||| __This Week:__


 * **AOB?**
 * MAP**
 * Observing other teachers** |||| Discussion || Simon/all || … |||| * Jessica is offering to cover classes for short periods of time to allow 6th team to watch their coworkers teach. Please communicate with Jessica directly if you want to schedule a time. ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 30 Oct. 2012 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Jeff’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, October 16 ****12:00 Laura’s Room** - EAGLES on Thursday and finish in HomeBase || - Tech people will be wondering around helping people - Students go to locker, go straight to Mac and Me for attendance (bring computer and book), then from there they leave their computer and go to the cafeteria with a book Monday & Tuesday are as normal. Wednesday: MAP Testing is done in CORE 1A class. Students then have CORE 1B class for rest of core time Thursday: MAP Testing is done in CORE 1A class. Students then have CORE 2B class for rest of core time Friday: MAP Testing is done in CORE 1A class. Students then have CORE 1A and 2A classes split in half with 5 minutes passing period for rest of core time (I will send out an email based on when students are finishing up). || Inappropriate games on the field - Talk about in LLH today- games on the field should be appropriate and no food outside the cafeteria at lunch || Specific schedule of times forthcoming. - The team is concerned about having a full day on Thursday and then SOCs after school. This might this result in an extremely tiring day on Friday. A question was raised about having a shortened day, or at least time period for conferences, on Friday. || - Have talk during drama presentation || - Location to come out ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of what is happening in regards to MAP testing. || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Final week: In LLH both days.
 * 2. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing / Discussion || Simon || 15’ |||||| - Chris is in for Lisa Fung Kee Fung and Malcom is on for Britni Lloyd
 * __Schedule:__**
 * 3. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| Send names to Timber or Katelyn ||
 * 4. || **Lunch Time** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Food leaving the cafeteria
 * 5. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| - EAGLES, learning styles (see folder for activities), iWeb ||
 * 6. || **SLCs** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Thursday is full school day, SLCs afterschool. Friday is full SLC day.
 * 7. || **Pets of SAS** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Can we each spare ~2 min. sometime in HB next week for students to come in and talk about the Pets of SAS Calendar? Perhaps Monday?
 * 8. || **HB Assembly For Drama** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| - Combine with SAS pet calendar


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 22 October 2012 || ** Location: ** || Hope’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, October 8 ****12:00 Lisa’s Room** Reviewing SLPs (finish) Moving on to learning styles and multiple intelligences next steps. Jessica to find some quizzes on multiple intelligences. || Trips & Leaders: • Moganshan: Lou (based at Naked Retreat. Bus trip. Run mostly by Naked Retreat people, there in a supervisory role. Bamboo crafts, nature walks, cooking, small group houses, fishing, painting) • Sichuan: Manon & Alfred? (Focuses on nature and food culture, and of course PANDAS!!! Looks at panda breeding center, community service via ReadAThon for Moon Bears, cuisine of area along with spices and restaurants, city based) • Xian Adventure: Jeff / Alfred? (Terracotta warriors, lots of outdoor adventure activities, camping one night, hiking, rock climbing, sailing, bike riding, community service relating to Kung Fu school partnership) • Xian Explorer: Lynnette (Focus on culture, terracotta warriors, new museum with archaeology and experiential learning, bike around wall, rock climbing, see peasant paintings, visit temple, night walk, community service is StarFish visit) • Wild Wall: Hope/Jeff? (Go to unrestored portion of Great Wall and meet up with renowned historian/archaeologist, community service is picking up trash and passing out firewood or laying bricks for local villages. Very physically demanding, camping, hiking – dawn walk, trust walk, etc) ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in Mac and Me || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * || **Announcements** ||  ||   ||   |||||| **HW Policy:** Feedback was pretty similar among grade-levels. So no “time amount” requirement will be adopted. This will continue to be discussed throughout the year. However, we need to make sure that we are communicating with each other so that students are not over-loaded, particularly around reporting time.
 * SLCs:** Times for those days should be coming out this week so we can start planning those next, hopefully.
 * T1 Summatives:** Please don’t rush to try and “crunch in” a graded assessment before the end of Trimester 1. Don’t forget that some students will be finishing up Health or Art and will most certainly have final work due for those classes, where as we continue to see them afterwards.
 * Budgets:** 0% increase in budget from last year to this. So, budget will be conservative this year. If you really feel you need something expensive for your subject, talk to Jeff R. //Don’t shoot the messenger!// This Wednesday we will have time to start budgeting.
 * Renewing Contracts:** Please see Jeff R.’s email that will be coming out later today regarding the direction of the middle school and consider this regarding whether or not you will renew your contract.
 * Friday Nov 2.:** MYG Night and possible assembly near the end of the day. Do we want to promote or celebrate anything (Dead Word Ceremony?). ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** ||  ||   ||   |||||| Cyber Safety in LLH on Tuesday. Balance computer time/life + default is iWeb. ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** ||  ||   ||   |||||| Timber out Friday – can meet on Wednesday with his team or postpone unless there is an emergency. ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** ||  ||   ||   |||||| Cover EAGLES in HomeBase and “practice” with them filling out the EAGLES reflection in HB.
 * 4. || **China Alive** ||  ||   ||   |||||| The long process of planning is about to start.

EAGLES and electives – across grade levels and courses? Or should SLPs be used? How do they work together, etc. ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| MAP Testing times?
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 16 October 2012 || ** Location: ** || Laura’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, September 25 ****12:00 Lynnette’s Room** Students seem to be doing well with computers, only minor problems (printing) || Team A – postponed Team B – short meeting @12:10 in Manon’s room || How many HB planning day are available - Preferably we would like two with different people out on each day? Use that allocated day during Trimester 2 for China Alive leaders to meet and discuss how China Alive and HomeBase are related. Also need a day to plan Read-a-Thon (Alfred and Lynnette). This week in HomeBase: Finish Home of Heart and work on iWeb à HomeBase à SLP. Jessica to forward 7th grade Jeopardy game from Erin. Grade 7 has a HB planning meeting with Specialists on a weekly basis with Erin as liaison || Jessica can then meet with specialist teachers the following day to update them on what is happening in 6th grade. || Jeff O. will set up iCal for teachers to share major assignments to make sure tests and projects are not conflicting or overwhelming students. || Oct 24 Math Oct 25 Reading Oct 26 Language
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in Mac and Me
 * 2) agreements related to team meeting time and HW calendar || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon || 5’ |||||| Need to replace “Test Taker” on machines, will be installed during Mac&Me classes throughout coming weeks.
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber || 5’ |||||| Katelyn out today and Friday. Does Team A (and B) still want to meet this week or wait until after we come back from break?
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || Lynnette and All || 10’ |||||| Would a few be interested in taking a HB planning day?
 * 4. || **Team Meeting Day** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| As is, every other week Jessica cannot join us. We have decided to switch to Monday or Tuesday, depending on which is a B day.
 * 5. || **HW Calendar** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Ongoing discussion, Jeff R. will be drafting policy regarding HW (amount of minutes will NOT be included).
 * 6. || **MAP Testing** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Please note the following dates for MAP Testing

Grade 6: 8.45am.....drop laptops at 8.10 In their Mac&Me class.

Proctor Training October 15 - 19 Please allow 15 minutes for Proctor training during your Team Meeting sometime during this week. Schedule to be adjusted so students have all core classes shortened time. Core classes can rearrange their class times for the week to create an equal schedule. || First Wednesday back, October 10th, there will be a staff meeting going through budget orders. Orders Due Wednesday 31st October. || In Humanities classroom, 3 at a time (4th slot available if needed). Humanities set up meetings and inform partners. - Suggestion that on evening of Nov. 8th (Thursday), only students that are scheduled are designated students of concern. Then on the 9th, it would be the rest of the students for a regular SLC rotation. - We are hesitant to go in this direction as we are worried it would detract our (and parent) focus from the concepts behind SLC. SOCs need as much encouragement and celebration as possible and this would make it a parent-teacher conference, not student led. ||
 * 7. || **Budget** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| If still missing items and missing explanation, write to them again for explanation and CC Jeff.
 * || **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   |||||| When we come back, begin process of planning / scheduling SLCs.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 8 Oct. 2012 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, September 18 ****12:00 Laura’s Room** Class by class, we will be signing it during Tuesday Mac and Me in the collaborative space. || Send SOCs to Katelyn or Timber. || Anyone interested in being involved in writing this up, contact Jeff R. or Karl. || What are additional possibilities? || Friday? ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) a consensus on homework in grade 6
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * || **Announcements** ||  ||   ||   |||||| **Atlas:** 2011-2012 Expectation was that summative assessments be attached in Atlas. Please make sure this is done before October 4th.
 * Pen Pals:** Jeff R. was contacted by a teacher in Iowa looking for a group of students wanting to exchange emails. I can forward on the contact details if you are interested. Our students might not be what the teacher is looking for. However, if you are interested (with a class or homebase) contact Jeff O. ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Simon? || 5’ |||||| Most students have already organized folders, if so, work on iWeb and pages for all their classes in preparation for SLCs.
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Katelyn, Timber & All || 5’ |||||| Games club going well, ~40 kids attend!
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || Lynnette and all || 10’ |||||| * Print out Home of Heart and put up on maps by Friday at latest.
 * SLP issues – do students actually know what it means? New students especially are clueless and they are being graded on it.
 * Jeff O. and Alfred have activity ideas for this – follow up with possible activities for all HomeBases to do in week before October Break
 * SLP Charades
 * Celebrity
 * Last to Know ||
 * 4. || **Homework Philosophy** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Any additional thoughts?
 * Humanities is 20-25 minutes about 3x a week. Sometimes it is much less, but it could be more, especially if students are not keeping up with mini-deadlines.
 * Follow up with students recording in their agenda how long they ACTUALLY work on HW each night – keep track of their activities throughout the evening. Homework time estimates
 * Look into best practices for HW and take into account differentiated HW for our varied student body. What will be best for our specific group of kids?
 * Middle school is far too diverse to draft a policy that does justice to everyone at our school. As teachers, we are flexible enough to take into account the varied backgrounds of our students to best meet their needs – this is best practice.
 * 5. || **Real-life Learning Audit** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| How much is it already happening?
 * Funeral in Humanities – increasing word choice, vocabulary
 * Students are learning to work together, which are real life skills
 * What are the expectations about real life learning?
 * Is this project based learning? Authentic learning? Service based learning? Please clarify so we can move forward with ideas.
 * How does this fit in to the rest of our goals for the year and for our students? Has this been fully investigated or is this just one more thing being added to the table (Standards Based, Learning Targets, etc.)? We keep talking about taking something away to allow for time to fully commit to new initiatives, so what goes for this?
 * We feel that most to all of what we do in the classroom is ‘real-life’ learning as we are preparing them and teaching them skills for a variety of futures.
 * Read-a-thon is service learning activity.
 * 6. || **Grade 6 Banner** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Tuesday or Thursday during Mac and Me ? (no Mac and Me on Thursday)
 * Take Mac&Me classes out one by one on Tuesday.


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| * Dead Word Ceremony with Humanities in the morning on Wednesday September 26 – wear black, be prepared for music and wailing/processing students.
 * Team Blog – can someone please post updates for Alfred on the 30th and the 6th (Lisa F. will do so) ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 24 Sept. 2012 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s room! ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, September 11 ****12:00 Jeff’s Room** Chairs / seating for teachers at the front of our presentation. Add a counselor section & slide to the presentation. Don’t really need to go to a class schedule, just keep grades and any student scores until after it. Locker tags with clearly visible name was very helpful to parents finding their child’s locker. Great night and went well over all. Could we get a list of those parents that didn’t come? || At the end of the day, we need to accompany our students to and through the buses, ticking them off as each gets on their bus. Buses will not be listed as ASA buses, they will have signs noting the compounds. || Line up in hallway at 1:15. Math first (with Jessica), followed by Science and finally Humanities with Sarah and Lou. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of what is happening during Bonding Day || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Based ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| For different subjects using blogs, students do not set-up pages. They set up a different category for each course. ||
 * 2. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| SOCs - Send names to Katelyn or Timber before Friday. ||
 * 3. || **Open House Review** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| Do not have your appendix out the week of.
 * 4. || **Bonding Day** || Sharing || David || 10’ |||||| If sunny, goes as planned. If cloudy or raining, meet in Jeff’s room at 7:45.
 * 5. || **Founders’ Day** ||  ||   ||   |||||| Karl to send schedule out soon. All classes are 1 hour long. Final special finishes at 1:05 at which point students head to HB for check-in then lining up.

Line

- Yes but probably after lockers are moved during orientation. Numbers 6-001, 6-002, 6-003
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Could the locker numbers be changed to be in sequential order for next year?

Could we get a list of those parents that didn’t come to Open House? - Yes but if you want it soon, better to poll your own students about whether their parents came or not. ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 18 September @ 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Laura’s Room M112 ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, September 4 ****12:00 Lisa’s Room** SLP up in PowerSchool by the 14th of September. Default is ‘G’. Framework is coming up very soon if not already up. || Is there interested in doing this as a part of a grade 6 team? ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an understanding of roles for upcoming events, including Open House and Bonding Day || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Counselors Corner** || Sharing || Timber and Katelyn || 5’ |||||| SOC’s? Please send names to Timber or Katelyn before Friday. ||
 * 1. || **Mac & Me** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Use the student helpers to make sure Mac&Me runs smoothly. Don’t race through material. ||
 * 2. || **HomeBase** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| * Locker Letters done
 * Mostly done, make sure they have been peer edited and set to print.
 * Locker checks on Wednesday
 * Last few minutes of HB have students go through lockers, make sure they’re organized, and place letters inside lockers.
 * Place letters inside Open House booklet (to be provided)
 * Moving on to Home of Heart
 * Starting Friday – what is home to you and why did you choose that place? Look on Wiki for example, Alfred’s room for example still posted. ||
 * 3. || **Open House** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| * Very brief meeting at 3:00 but will have most of the afternoon for last minute preparations.
 * Discuss Bonding Day?!
 * Meet at 5:00 in Cafeteria for dinner.
 * Be in hallways with a printout of locker combinations while parents are doing locker activity to help with any problems, etc.
 * What are CORE subjects doing in classrooms?
 * Don’t get cornered! Be on the bus! ||
 * 4. || **Homework** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| * How much / what time expectations do we have on a regular basis?
 * We may not realize how much extra work they have outside of our CORE classes, like from their specials (especially Music and Global Language) and outside commitments.
 * Science: HW is given over two days
 * Math: HW is given over two days ~10minutes
 * Humanities: ~5-10 minutes every night
 * Reading every night 30 minutes
 * If a kid is having 3 hours of HW a night, then there needs to be parent/teacher contact
 * There is a no HW expectation during holidays at the moment but no policy on weekends.
 * Will be forthcoming communication about setting up a conversation about this so if you have strong opinions, watch your emails.
 * Perhaps get students to estimate ‘how long’ their task will take when they write it down.
 * This could be a valuable organizational tool to bring into HB, practicing their estimating skills, helping them become more independent (prediction + actual time spent on task)
 * Make sure all students have agendas in EVERY CLASS. ||
 * 5. || **Founder’s Day** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| * Afternoon all-school parade.
 * Starts around 1:20
 * What do we want the rest of the day to look like? Regular schedule without afternoon? Shorter classes where they see all of them but cut out HB, allowing for longer academic classes? Or movie on the history of Shanghai American School along with shorter classes (or movie during your class). ||
 * 6. || **PowerSchool** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| First assessment should be entered in PowerSchool by the 14th of September.
 * 7. || **Harvard PD Opportunity** || Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| See Jeff’s email, particularly ‘Making Thinking Visible’.
 * 8. || **Bonding Day** || Sharing || Dave || 10’ |||||| * Even if students live near Century Park, they do need to come to school. ||
 * 9. || **Fire Drill** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Make sure you have an up-to-date roster print-out. Starts at 8:30 on Thursday. ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   ||||   ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 11 September 2012 || ** Location: ** || Jeff’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, August 28 ****12:00 David’s Room** Dinner arranged. Buses arranged. Schedule forthcoming Jeff is updating the powerpoint || Buses there and at end? Need to communicate this soon to Henry Lunches? Eurest Pudong email, ask for Mr. Gordon Will be at Century Park. Plan B will be the same as last year (hope that rain clears out). Plan C will be on campus (potentially amazing race). There needs to be more instruction on quad bikes. Surveys for buses and lunch in homebase on Friday By Thursday we will get an ASA route to determine which buses will need to be added Which support staff will be coming with us? Huiney, Edith and Rob as of now || Notes on the whiteboard at the front of the classroom Students should write NH to represent no homework if there is none for the day so that all the spaces are filled Should include this in our Open House presentation (Manon will discuss this in Organization) || Alfred received an email…Awesome! Britni is excited for face to face Fridays Bob Gould’s email on creating parents groups worked well. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor
 * Solutions Focused ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Open House** || Discussion || Jeff || 10’ |||||| September 5th - Next Week!
 * 2. || **Bonding Day** || Discussion || Dave & Jeff || 10’ |||||| Time given in staff meeting on Sept. 5th to meet with teams
 * 3. || **HomeBase Happenings** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| * Locker tags finished and laminated
 * Wednesday: DEAR; JUMP Survey; House Survey; ASA Routes; Agenda if time
 * Friday: Agenda (electronic copy rules, etc.) & Signatures; Subscribe to Team Blog if not already done; Bonding Day food orders?;
 * Monday: Locker letter to parents (number 10 in the folder)
 * Next Week: Home of Heart will be upcoming activity ||
 * 4. || **Homework** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| How are we communicating this to our students?
 * 5. || **Outlook** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Successes and Challenges?

Katleyn’s groupings are based on core’s NOT HOMEBASE’s ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| AC for open house!
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 3 August 2012 || ** Location: ** || Lisa’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, August 21 ****12:00 Britni’s Room** We need to make sure to include non-core teachers in making these norms. || Jeff O., Jeff R., Karl, Rob, Jason, and Daisy met for a special meeting on Wednesday and discussed all of the issues. The group then agreed on a compromise that was also supported by Jeff R and Karl. This is as follows To help CORE teachers with this quick roll-out, we have suggested the following strategies: Locker treasure hunt (need letters in locker) Introductions – Jeff Movie – Alfred China Alive – Manon CISSA & Afterschool & MYG – David Communications – Alfred HOT – Britni HomeBase – Lynnette Organization – Manon
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 1) an agreement and understanding of scheduling and roles
 * 2) a decision on Mac rollout || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Announcements** || Information || Jeff ||  |||||| * Spirit Week 17-21 Sept; Thursday 20th - House Assembly during elective; Spirit Walk morning of 21st; More information coming
 * 7:55 start time didn’t work. Going to try new start time of 7:58 am; Warning bell will be one minute before; Will be a middle school push of ‘Respect the Start Time’ with posters coming
 * Send attendance at end of HB ||
 * 2. || **First Week Reflections** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| * Wednesday worked well WITH the break and utilizing the PE/Chinese teachers to assist with first day back.
 * Make sure there are lunch tickets available for the first day.
 * Thursday went well, having students preview all classes. We might suggest that new teachers go on a tour of the classes and where students are going for Drama, Art, Gym, Band, etc. later on in the orientation program once they start to know faces with subjects.
 * JUMP! was intense – intimidating for 6th graders, especially the Challenge-O-Rama. Need a break earlier for kids to grab a snack. Also need more time for reflection. Also not so much competing sound with the two groups in the one gym.
 * Choices after lunch: Cafeteria, Lounge, Outside (bball courts, lunch tables, field). Maybe include those options as part of tour in first week/day? ||
 * 3. || **Counselor’s Corner** || Sharing || Timber & Katelyn || 5’ |||||| SOCs
 * On Friday, we’ll get student information from AS and counselor from elementary. ||
 * 4. || **Visual HomeBase** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Suggested from Admin to make a visual space in your room that is HB? - pictures, norms.
 * 5. || **Grade Level Meeting** || Sharing / Discussion || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Jeff and Karl want to meet next week with all of the grade 6s on Monday. ||
 * 6. || **Curriculum Map** || Sharing || David || 5’ |||||| Missing any subjects? ||
 * 7. || **Macs** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| This was a difficult issue as there are two different view points:
 * CORE teachers would like a slower dispersal of computers due to organizational issues of the 6th grade students adjusting to the MS and multiple classes. We are usually the first response for dealing organizational and transition issues with the students (and the tears as well)
 * Specialist teachers would like the computers ASAP due to schedule /calendar constraints (Trimester health and art). Music also needs them for all HW and Global Languages are balancing 6th and 7th grade students in most classes
 * Monday 27th August: Mac Roll-out; Computers go home that night
 * Tuesday 28th August: Macs in CORE and Elective only, stay in M&M classroom overnight
 * Wednesday 29th August: Macs in CORE and Elective only, stay in M&M classroom overnight
 * Thursday 30th August: Macs go to all classes, locked in M&M classrooms overnight
 * Friday 31st August: Macs go to all classes and go home after school (like a normal day).
 * Extra chargers in CORE classrooms for students struggling to manage their charge
 * Charging stations in CORE classrooms for first week only
 * Mac & Me will have more of an ‘organization’ focus and less ‘coverage of cool new tech and programs’ ||
 * 8. || **Open House** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| 6:15 - 8:30 All start in Auditorium (September 5th)
 * Copy of CISSA calendar in booklet that goes to parents during Open House
 * Submit locker combinations to Tina
 * Lynnette will take care of sample “Dear parent” letter to show students. Aim to finish letter by the 3rd ||
 * 9. || **SLCs** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Done out of Humanities like last year? Yes, keep them running through Humanities rooms, Math/Science rotating through rooms, but have to make sure that there are not too many people in a room at a time – 3 at a time instead of 4 ||
 * 10. || **Printing Passes** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Use multicolor passes and make sure to actually USE them. ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, August 14 ****9:00 Lynnette’s Room** Karl will create a sheet to help guide students and distribute these to our mailboxes All teachers are on duty during lunch time. Can some run a few activities in their classrooms for students who have no where to go once they finish eating? // -Jeff O.- card games // // - David and Manon- field games // // - Timber and Katelyn- spare lunch cards // || Teacher expectation is just participation with your HB group in the challenges. Make sure you are in the right place at the right time with your students and the JUMP facilitators will take it from there. || We’ve done a great job of using it in the 6th grade (admin has noticed). Keep it up! Curriculum Maps Have new one done and up and by Sept. 5. Do we want teacher’s pictures on it as well (see grade 8 board) Planning Ahead? See Karl’s iWeb page - planning for the months ahead //- We might be investigating at other / additional possibilities for second SLC (portfolio? Hard copies? Resources in classroom?)// || Planning for portfolios way ahead, not waiting until the last minute. Final week should be a focus on presenting skills, not still creating it. Can we create a tentative HB / M&M plan for setting up and creating? ||
 * **AOB?** ||  ||   ||   || * In HB – talk about inclusion again, especially at lunch. No one eats alone.
 * NO SLUSHIES leave the cafeteria.
 * Games Club run by counselors starting next week Mondays/Fridays
 * EAL: Screening students to test for EAL candidates, having them read a paragraph and send names to Jessica as possible red flags.
 * Humanities teachers: meet at Tuesday 22nd @12 to discuss solutions to this testing. ||
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # answered some of our questions from the previous meeting
 * 1) an understanding of themes for the year || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| * **7:55am Start Time:** be strict. If they are late for HB, send them to the office to check in.
 * **SLC's –** Getting started early. There is a strong correlation between the effectiveness of SLC's and getting the process started as early as possible. For our kids to be truly reflective and for their digital portfolios to be meaningful, we must start early. While conference days are not until the second week in November, our leadership team will be discussing an ideal date for the Portfolios to begin. // Will new teachers receive instruction on this from admin or by team? //
 * **Collaborative spaces –** Let's make sure that kids are using these spaces productively.
 * **Incompletes -** It’s ok to not give the students a grade if they are missing work. Don’t forget about this tool. ||
 * 1. || **First Week** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| We will need to go through the Thursday schedule with the students on Wednesday after they fill in their own schedule so that they know where they are going as we will not have time on Thursday morning.
 * 2. || **JUMP Day** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| We will be meeting with them Wednesday after school where they will explain more of it to us.
 * Community Building
 * Personal Discovery
 * Communication
 * 3. || **Standing Agenda Items** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| * HomeBase Happenings
 * Learning Targets (LOTS and HOTS - Lower-order Thinking Skills, Higher-order thinking skills) ||
 * 4. || **From Leadership Team** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| Collaborative Space
 * 5. || **SLCs Planning** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| Give students a chance to be reflective.

- // keep current size, put hieroglyphs below in January // - // bus map will be hung in each room // - // Emergency folders- when do we go over these with the students? // - // Students with missing medical forms // ||
 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Locker Tags
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 21 August 2012 - 12:00 || ** Location: ** || Britni Lloyd ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, August 13 ****9:00 Alfred’s Room** PE for game? Languages for tours? David to check with Marian about schedule Smaller locker tags - Lynnette to send out what should be on it. Need to get name tags. Locker and lock videos send out. 9:15 meet with HB pairs to go over schedules Poster paper for facts First Day Keynote || - HB Teaching Pairs - yes! - Grade level wiki - Alfred to manage - Server - to backup files //At SAS Pudong Middle School, we believe in a culture of belonging. HomeBase provides a time, a mentor, to support the exploration and development of personal identity, relations, and community.//
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of what the first week will look like.
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB this year
 * 2) an understanding of when meetings are happening || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **First Day of School** || Discussion || All || 10’ |||||| See Jeff’s email. Also see my attached draft of the first day with more detail and discussion points.
 * 2. || **First Week of School** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| See Jeff’s email to the whole middle school and specifically the attached files. ||
 * 3. || **HomeBase** || Discussion || All || 20’ |||||| * Keeping Our Specialist Teachers Included / Communication Plan
 * Lockers
 * Making Contact w/ parents
 * Elective Time Next Week (we don’t have specialist teachers)?
 * HomeBase Themes?

//SAS Big HB Three:// //1) Who am I as a person?// //2) Who am I as a learner?// //3) Who am I as part of a community?//

//Grade 6 Focus:// //1) Where am I now? How do I fit in?// //2) What is expected of me? How do I learn best?// //3) What is my community? How can I help others?//

How will we / do we already accomplish the above this year? - Devoted DEAR Time - Wednesday first 20 minutes - Getting Organized - Roles & Responsibilities? - Identity (Home of Heart, Learning Styles)? - Sharing Expertise? - When are other grades showing it, can we all show it on the same day?
 * Awareness Test?


 * Counselor Visits coming up
 * Student Information Cards
 * 5th Grade Teacher Information

Will the schedule involve the whole day again? || - Could there be a 6th trip? Who are the trip leaders? OR at least, who will speak about the trips during the MS Open House? - Just one person speak about all of them || Humanities = Thursday 12:00 Math = Monday 12:00 Science = Monday 12:00 but also daily ||
 * Founder’s Day: Can we look to the future instead?
 * 4. || **Communications Protocols** ||  || Jeff || 5’ |||||| See Jeff R’s document also attached to the email sent by Jeff O. ||
 * 5. || **China Alive** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| What trips are we running this year?
 * 6. || **Meeting Times** || Sharing || All || 5’ |||||| SOCs = Friday 12:00 starting every week for first month then revisit
 * 7. || **Concerns / Issues for Leadership Team** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| * In PowerSchool, we can’t see when the student was enrolled at SAS, not in the Middle School.
 * EAGLEs and Eagle reflections? vs. SLP? not all electives would complete these forms. Where were all grades putting these as well? Not printed in their report cards. No clear direction for completing or including these in electives.
 * 6th China Alive trip?
 * Founder’s Day
 * Awareness Test?
 * When will the student lists on PS be the final ones? ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Hallway Boards ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 14 August 2012 9:00am || ** Location: ** || Lynnette’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Friday, August 10 ****11:10 Jeff’s Room** 8:05-8:10 - Transition 8:10-9:35 - CORE 1 9:35-9:45 - Break 9:45-11:10 - CORE 2 11:10-11:50 - Lunch 11:50-11:55 - Transition 11:55-1:00 - SPECIAL 1 1:00-1:05 - Transition 1:05-2:10 - SPECIAL 2 2:10-2:15 - Transition 2:15-2:55 - HomeBase or Elective
 * ** Desired Outcomes: //By the end of this meeting, we will have://** |||| ** Our Established Norms: ** ||
 * # an understanding of our established norms
 * 1) roles allocated for team members for the year.
 * 2) an understanding of the big Homebase (HB) and school events that happen during the school year
 * 3) an understanding of what our schedule will look like
 * 4) a general understanding of what is going on in HB this year || * Start/ end on time
 * Assume best intentions
 * Monitor speaking (air) time
 * Have a positive attitude
 * Step up as needed
 * Voice concerns
 * Stay focused
 * Loyalty to team members
 * Humor ||  ||
 * ** What? ** || ** How? ** || ** Who? ** || ** Time? ** |||||| ** Notes ** ||
 * 1. || **Welcome & Introductions** ||  || All || 10’ |||||| All our somewhat rested from the holiday and energized for a new academic year. A very warm welcome to the school to Lisa, Laura and Jessica and an equally warm welcome to Sarah and Lou to the team. ||
 * 2. || **Review Norms & Meeting Time** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| Weekly Team Meeting will be Tuesday at 12:00 ||
 * 3. || **Roles & Responsibilities** || Role Assignments || All || 5’ |||||| * Taking minutes: Laura and Britni
 * HomeBase activities: Lynnette and Britni
 * Hallway Boards: Laura and Jessica
 * Student-Led Conferences (SLC): Manon and Lisa
 * 6th grade team blog: Fall - Alfred Spring - Britni
 * Bonding Day: Dave and Alfred and Manon
 * Read-a-thon: Alfred and Lynnette
 * Interdisciplinary Collaborative Unit: Jeff and Lisa and Jessica
 * Open House: All ||
 * 4. || **Major Dates** || Sharing || Jeff || 10’ |||||| * Today: TGIF @ the Flying Fox
 * **Wednesday Aug. 15: First Day of School**
 * Thursday Aug. 16: Special Schedule
 * Friday Aug. 17: JUMP MS Community Day
 * Monday Aug. 20: First real day of classes, //Day A//
 * Tuesday Aug. 21: Electives Begin (see HB discussion note below) Dave to talk to PE teachers about possibly organizing an activity
 * Monday Aug. 27: Grade 6 Mac Rollout
 * Wednesday Sep. 5: Open House (dinner for us?)
 * Tuesday Sep. 11: Out in Shanghai Days for Laura, Lisa and Jessica
 * Thursday Sep. 13: Bonding Day
 * Monday Sep. 17: Founders’ Day & Spirit Week ||
 * 5. || **Our Schedule** || Discussion || All || 5’ |||||| 8:00-8:05 - HomeBase

A/B CORE swap? Though the master schedule has gone down to a 2-day rotation, we in 6th grade have decided to continue with a 4 day rotation for CORE classes only so that we students at different times during the morning. The labels we decided on are Red A, Red B, Blue A, Blue B and they will rotate in that order. || - HB Teaching Pairs - it was agreed that a returning CORE teacher team up with a new teacher or specialist to serve as a ‘buddy’ for the purposes of making all HB teachers feel included. These are as follows: Manon & David - Jessica Alfred - Lisa Lynnette - Lou Britni - Laura Jeff - Sarah
 * 6. || **Announcements** || Sharing || Jeff || 5’ |||||| * **Opening Day –** Schedule will be out ASAP. It will definitely include an all school assembly and during the assembly, teams will be asked to introduce themselves. More details forthcoming but start to think of creative ways to introduce your team to the kids.
 * **Learning Targets** – Learning Target posters must be up in all classrooms and should be one tool that guides curriculum conversations. We will be discussing LT's further during our leadership meetings as well as some Wednesday afternoons.
 * **SLP Posters –** Please ensure that a Student Learner Profile is visible in each classroom/learning space. Extra posters are available in my office.
 * **Curriculum Maps –** Each grade level will have a curriculum map displayed. What will your map look like? What is the plan to have the map completed? - Dave to follow up (Jeff to coordinate for Humanities) ||
 * 7. || **HomeBase** || Discussion || All || 20’ |||||| * Keeping Our Specialist Teachers Included / Communication Plan

- Grade level wiki - Alfred to manage - Server - to backup files //At SAS Pudong Middle School, we believe in a culture of belonging. HomeBase provides a time, a mentor, to support the exploration and development of personal identity, relations, and community.//
 * Lockers - // moved to next meeting //
 * Making Contact w/ parents - // moved to next meeting //
 * Elective Time Next Week (we don’t have specialist teachers)? - // discuss on Monday //
 * HomeBase Themes? - // moved to next meeting //

//SAS Big HB Three:// //1) Who am I as a person?// //2) Who am I as a learner?// //3) Who am I as part of a community?//

//Grade 6 Focus:// //1) Where am I now? How do I fit in?// //2) What is expected of me? How do I learn best?// //3) What is my community? How can I help others?//

How will we / do we already accomplish the above this year? - Devoted DEAR Time - Wednesday first 20 minutes - Getting Organized - Roles & Responsibilities? - Identity (Home of Heart, Learning Styles)? - Sharing Expertise?
 * Awareness Test? - // moved to next meeting //
 * Are there any other teachers ‘attached’ to HomeBase? ||


 * **AOB?** ||||  ||   ||   |||| Agendas? ||
 * ** Next Meeting: ** |||||| 13 August 2012 9:00am || ** Location: ** || Alfred’s Room ||

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, June 5 ** **11:40 Britni’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || Chaperones: HB teachers (minus Danka, and Lisa) + Adam + Katelyn
 * **What** ||  **How**  ||  **Who**  ||  **Time**  ||  **Notes**  ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Friday’s Field Trip** || Discussion  ||  Team  ||  10’  || Nurse on trip

__Order in Shanghai Museum:__ A. Kyle, Hope, Carozza, Katelyn (1/2 Ross/Danka HB) : Start on 1st floor B. Lloyd, Ormrod, Olivas, Adam (1/2 Ross/Danka HB): Start on 2nd floor C. Bister’s sub, Crepeau, Bradshaw: Start on 3rd floor ||
 * 2. **Next Year’s Schedule** || Discussion  ||  Jeff  ||  15’  || Discussed the 3 options presented by Jeff. We’ll trial option C with DEAR in HB ||
 * 3.**Wednesday’s HB** || Reminder  ||  Marian  ||  1’  || Go right to LLH for a presentation on Chinese fashion and culture ||
 * 4. **Last days of school (with kids)– June 11/12** || Discussion  ||  Team  ||  10’  || **Monday HB:** Clean out locker and take everything home, return locks, hand out yearbooks, take back yearbooks

8:00-9;45: HB time: 8:00-8:40 Breakfast with your HB, begin signing SAS photo for leaving students, sign yearbooks 8:40-9:45 sign yearbooks and SAS photo throughout the hallways and in classrooms, say goodbye to friends 9:45 – return to HB, drop yearbook, have everything ready 10:00: MS school Assembly (auditorium) 11:00 return to HB to hand out report cards 11:15 dismiss to buses; the long wave || ** Field Trip: June 8, 2012 **
 * Tuesday’s schedule**
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || ** Last day of school!: June 13 ** ||

Schedule for Field Trip Day to Shanghai Museum and iMax theater at Science and Technology Museum

8:00-8:10: HB to take attendance/announcements 8:15: get on buses to travel to Shanghai Museum 9:00: Visit Shanghai Museum 11:00: Leave Shanghai Museum 12:00: Lunch at Thumb Plaza 1:00: Leave Thumb Plaza 1:30: iMax movie at Science and Tech Museum 2:30: Dismiss from the parking lot next to the Science and Tech Museum (pick up area)

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 ** **11:40 Lynnette’s Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -total cost of trips unknown at this time (land portion known, air portion is not known) -Jeff will give a decision on Monday on whether to put cost on the selection form or not
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) feedback to admin as to when to post SLP on blog.
 * 3) a list of consequences for inappropriate behavior on CA.
 * 4) an understanding of how the SLC iWeb will be formatted.
 * 5) a schedule for MAP testing days.
 * 6) an understanding of upcoming calendar days.
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __China Alive__

__Learning Targets__ -some people want clarity on where we’re going with this -continue the conversations with your team: what’s challenging, what works, etc -kids needs to be reminded about the targets, though not necessary daily

__JUMP 12-13__ -Friday, Aug. 17th -they will be here for an in-house Bonding Day -NO expectation that teachers have to plan anything, or be in email contact with JUMP, not leading any activity, our role is participatory and observatory in nature -at this time, we are still scheduled to have grade-level Bonding Days

__SLP and Powerschool__ -SLP go on the portal, before the grade -SLP should be done at Progress Report time/mid point review -not meant to be done daily or weekly -when do we want the template to become “live”?

__Passing Time/Hallway/locker management__ -a continuous problem

__Library__ Tim Boyer reports that AR quizzes must be done at school due to site license requirements. || March 9th – MAP testing ten minutes Readathon- sponsor forms back to kids (keep a Copy For yourself) Do the math- # of books times sponsors. Informal count to Alfred. How to collect money-with a smile, and persistence We will need JUMP kids Encourage Friday Famous character to be book related. || a. consequences for inappropriate behavior on trips b. current chaperone list || Discussion || Team || 15’ || Add on to behavior contract –consequences of behavior, What is the procedure for sending someone home-for whatever reason- safety or behavior or health?
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Team B – will meet 5 mins after this. No Friday meeting ||
 * 3. **Homebase** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Friday ( PE Activity) was awesome
 * 4. **China Alive**

Reconnaissance trip for new tri or all new chaperones. Team concerned that all new teachers on a trip. || a. Learning Targets on blog b. Rubrics on blog c. Mac rollout feedback || Info Sharing/ Discussion || Marian || 10’ ||  ||
 * 5. **From the Community**
 * 6. **SLC iWebs** || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -put the most recent information on top and earlier stuff below OR create a new page and link to the old page (recommendations from Amanda)

__Proposed Preparation Dates__ Fri. March 16 Mon. March 19 – reflection of Readathon Mon. March 26 Wed. March 28 March 29-April 8: Spring Break Mon. April 9 – practice presentation Wed. April 11 - practice presentation Thur/Fri. April 12/13: SLCs || Mon 12 – Period 1 Day 2 Tues 13 – Period 1 Day 3 Wed 14 – Period 1 Day 4 Thu-Fri – Normal Mon – Period 1 Day 1 || -March 12: Course catalog due, if no email to Karl he assumes it’s OK -Mon. March 12-19: MAP testing; Kathryn Laske -Wed. March 14: CA forms due -Fri. March 16: Q3 Ends/Report cards go home -Wed. March 21: Read-a-thon celebration Fri. March 23: Author James Gurney
 * 7. **MAP Testing Schedule** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Amanda- Nothing has changed. Kids will bring in laptops, and we will login them in. Friday go over protocol-machines charged, location changed and no other applications. Gail Seay will meet Wednesday March 14th,11 to 12 noon.
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || -Fri. March 9: CA! selection forms given out; Read-a-thon ends; T2 Ends

__Math Test Day for rest of Year__ Mar: 22 & 23 - Algebra May: 3 & 4 - Integers May 31 & Jun 1 – Geometry || ** Next Meeting:, whose room? **

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 28 **

**11:40 Jeanne’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) an understanding of the new SLP reporting on PS.
 * 3) a schedule for the Spring SLCs.
 * 4) an understanding of the upcoming dates in March/April:)

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -encourage kids to choose trips that THEY want to go on, not just with their friends -Info. sheet going out on March 9 -there will be a range of the cost, not the actual cost on this info sheet
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __China Alive__

__ Standard-Based Reporting __ -anyone experimenting with (or has in the past) a standard-based reporting system? Yes, two members have some knowledge

__Learning Targets__ -Jeff got feedback on what is happening with this in our classrooms -more discussion coming in April

__JUMP 12-13__ -Fri. Aug. 17: Null Day -a one-shot deal (extremely expensive) -unsure of teacher’s role at this time -maybe we could do this “in-house” in the future -

__SLC__ -need to start planning -identify those parent that you NEED to see and schedule an appointment with them

__ SLP and Powerschool __ Is sample for end of trimester reporting? || a. Pressures: sharing lunch cards, private info, going to office, etc b. Exclusion on CA trips || Discussion || Team/Karl || 10’ || Should be about 125 RMB a week for lunch loaded onto card. Social problems continue Be out in the hall 8 to a table, no standing, no food or open drinks (anything other than a screw top bottle) do not leave the café. With no improvement – assigned tables Explicit request to address issue to parent coffee. Tomorrow 1st period is inclusive talk-all core teachers || Selection form || Discussion || Team || 10’ ||  || Fri. March 16 Mon. March 19 Mon. March 26 Wed. March 28 March 29-April 8: Spring Break Mon. April 9 Wed. April 11 Thur/Fri. April 12/13: SLCs || -Wed. students seated at 2:15 in the auditorium -Dr. Yong on campus this week -Wed. 1st class- inclusion talk -Mon. March. 5: Small infosession #2 (William Lindsay on Wild Wall trip) -Fri. March 9: CA! selection forms given out; Read-a-thon ends; T2 Ends -March 12: Course catalog due, if no email to Karl he assumes it’s OK -Mon. March 12-19: MAP testing; Kathryn Laske -Wed. March 14: CA forms due -Fri. March 16: Q3 Ends/Report cards go home -Wed. March 21: Read-a-thon celebration Fri. March 23: Author James Gurney
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Team A names to SOC-Alfred’s room. SophiaC’s dad has been diagnosed with leukemia. Maritza’s grandfather has died, mom to funeral. Monday-11:40 in Jeanne’s for Annabelle’s results. ||
 * 3. **Homebase**
 * 4. **China Alive**
 * 5. **SLP Preparation** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || __Proposed Date__
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || __This week__

__Math Test Day for rest of Year__ Mar: 22 & 23 - Algebra May: 3 & 4 - Integers May 31 & Jun 1 – Geometry

__Science Tests__ Mar 1,2 Science ||


 * Next Meeting: March 6, whose room? **

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 ** **11:40 Ilkka’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) An agreement about the JUMP initiative.
 * 3) A plan for tomorrow’s all grade China Alive presentation

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -more people coming on; numbers smaller than this year -unsure of exactly who will be HB teacher
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __Homebase__
 * See notes below.

__China Alive__ -7th and 8th rolling out next week -7th invites us to use current 7th graders to talk about their experience -slide show to Jeff by March 6th
 * Each trip can pull a seventh grader to provide more insight for our students.

__Testing Dates__ -SSAT is TUESDAY; STUDENTS STAY IN CAFATERIA UNTIL 11:45, then to LLH and the Lounge; trickle into electives around 2:30 -MAP testing: schedule sent out

__Course Catalogues__ -info sent out last week

__SBRTF (Standard-based Task Force)__ -meet last week -Standard-based is an exercise in communication -one more meeting in April -Tom Gusky (sp?) may be at SAS at the beginning of next school year -NO standard-based report card next year
 * Jeff O. mentioned that next year they will be developing the report card for the following year.

__Student Agenda: A Kid’s View__ -get a group of kids rewrite the agenda in kid’s language -give 3 names to Karl
 * We agree it is a good idea. We would like as a grade level to return to paper Agendas for grade 6. Send names to Marian.

__Discussion Item__ -JUMP Program activities at the beginning of the school year. Is this a good idea? *Grade 6 supports JUMP! The first Friday of school, but we would like more details about our role before and on the day. Teachers want to be clear their expectations for this day. *Side note: We want Bonding Day to be earlier in the year.
 * First week of school, in school bonding with JUMP!
 * 8 facilitators and student leaders provide bonding in areas such as communication, trust… working with the whole middle school. Jeff would like if Friday of the first week of school. It will not replace the grade level bonding trips. Jeff is getting feedback from other schools and from teachers here at SAS.

__Library__ -AR HOT starting this week || What’s going on? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || *Make a copy of your students’ sponsor forms. Team || 30’ || ***Smoother Transition**
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Please send names to Katelyn before the meeting on Friday, Feb. 24 in Marian’s room. ||
 * 3. **Homebase**
 * See schedule below… VERY busy Homebase happenings. ||
 * 4. **State of the 6th Grade Union** || Discussion || Jeff/
 * March 16th: Transition program will begin with parents. Jeff will keep us in the loop as transition progresses.

-Question as to how to communicate with the non-core members. Some Wednesday meetings dedicated to HB? Common planning time? *Jeff says that communication for the Homebase is key. There will be planning days, with documentation. Communication devices such as a Wiki will be helpful. *Homebase students: hard on the “extra students” to enter a core class of Homebase students. Katelyn has this in her note as she plans Homebase classes for next year.
 * Trimester 2**:
 * __Challenges__**:
 * Homebase teachers for next year… the third year in terms of who will be Homebase teachers. Performance teachers and art teachers will be Homebase teachers.

*Jeff gives ownership/autonomy to the teams. He likes teams to try to work it out as a grade level first. *Too much air time in the meetings. At times team members feel that China Alive discussions have dominated the meetings, sometimes causing stress and animosity between team members. *We have the staffing for all the trips despite the 36 extras from last year. Our trips are successful because of the autonomy given to the grade levels. *Puxi knows who is going where by the end of October. Our timeline works for us, but maybe trips can be slated with staffs earlier.
 * China Alive: It is difficult without a China Alive coordinator.


 * Team leadership for next year… an email will be sent out in Mid-March to see about who might be interested in taking on leadership. We will know by mid April.


 * On the table for future discussion… scheduling a DEAR time in the schedule like grade 7 and grade 8.


 * __What has been smooth in Trimester 2__**?
 * Let’s celebrate our interdisciplinary project for Ancient Egypt. We hope to be able to do this project next year at the appropriate timeline

Are we ready for tomorrow’s presentation? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || *Almost! Some slides of the show need to be changed. Xian and Wild Wall need to finalize their parts of the slideshow.
 * Read-a-thon is going well. This Friday is PJ day. Cuddle up with book… Hot Chocolate and cookies? Book talks? ||
 * **5. China Alive**


 * Marian to remind Lou about attending Homebase for China Alive Info Session 1 tomorrow. Kids will go directly to the LLH tomorrow for Homebase.

- Wed. 29th: Pudong/Puxi combined Arts day (all 8th grade out): 2:15 All School Assembly (auditorium) -Fri. March 2 – PE Activity Homebase? -Mon. March. 5: Small infosession #2 (William Lindsay on Wild Wall trip) -Fri. March 9: CA! selection forms given out; Read-a-thon ends; T2 Ends -March 16 – PE Activity Homebase? April 20th – PE Activity Homebase?
 * Jeff, the schedule master, will create a schedule for the break out sessions. ||
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || -Mon. Feb. 27: Small infosession #1

__Math Test Day for rest of Year__ Feb: 23 & 24 - Decimals Mar: 22 & 23 - Algebra May: 3 & 4 - Integers May 31 & Jun 1 – Geometry

__Science Tests__ Feb 22, 23 Science Mar 1,2 Science ||
 * Next Meeting: Feb. 28th, whose room? JEANNE’s:) **

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 14th Happy Valentine’s Day **

**11:40 Alfred’s Room (Dr. Love’s Room)**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) an update on the China Alive trips.
 * 3) a decision about two upcoming presentation opportunities.
 * 4) an understanding about upcoming calendar dates

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || March 6th: Powerpoints/keynotes to Jeff that we have shown to the kids March 9th: Selection sheet goes home
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __China Alive__

__Cyber Safety__ -Robyn working in small groups in 5th and 8th -2:15 seated in the auditorium

__Micro Campus__ -brainchild of Craig Tafel – campus outside of Shanghai where kids can learn different things; kids send certain amount of time at the Linden Center (Dali, ecotourism place) -March/April: piloting this with 12 MS students from Puxi -before the end of the year, 7th grade students (who will be in 8th grade) will be selected for next year

__Announcement__ -19 days left to end of semester; coordinate assessments so kids not stress -March 9th: Don’t feel the need to rush assignments || happening? a. Repeated work b. PE involvement || Discussion || Ilkka/ Team || 10’ || # some degree of repeat (doubling up) of curriculum content, ie. Smart Goal development and values work. Can this be fine tuned and co-ordinated as to which subject does what, and to what degree, for next year.
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Names from Team A to Kaitlin. Friday SOC in Alfred’s ||
 * 3. **Homebase** – what’s

b. Homebase Vs Homebase P.E. activities/games.... Is there time to do more of this as it is popular amongst students Noted: will get together with Health and look at meshing the curriculum especially Values and Smart Goals What is the Homebase plan for next year? || March 5th || Discussion || Team || 5’ || 2nd infosession roundabout will have William Lindsay for session 3 and 4 || -March 23th during HB in the LLH? -video || Decision || Team || 10’ || Dinotopia in the LLH during HB || AR Hot on Tuesday and Thursday -Tomorrow: Make up photos, anytime during the day; 2:15 for Robyn -Friday: MYG Night/Pudong Rocks -Tues, Feb. 21st: SSAT (12:00-2:30) -Wed. Feb. 22: Overwiew in LLH -Mon. Feb. 27: Small infosession #1 - Wed. 29th: Pudong/Puxi combined Arts day (all 8th grade out): 2:15 All School Assembly (conflicts with our 2nd info session. Rescheduled time) Fri. March 2 – PE Activity Homebase? (David following up)
 * 4. **Wild Wall Presentation**
 * 5. **China Alive Update** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Xian will have two trips: Explore (Lynnettte) and Adventure(Jeff) ||
 * 6. **Presentation by James Gurney – request from Art Dept.**
 * 7. **Other** ||  ||   ||   || Library check in with Humanities and Science on Visiting Authors
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || __Calendar__
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || __Calendar__

Mon. March. 5: Small infosession #2 (with William Lindsay on Wild Wall trip) Fri. March 9: selection forms given out March 16 – PE Activity Homebase? (David following up) April 20th – PE Activity Homebase? (David following up)

__Math Test Day for rest of Year__ Feb: 1 & 2 - Rates, Ratios & Proportions Feb: 23 & 24 - Decimals Mar: 22 & 23 - Algebra May: 3 & 4 - Integers May 31 & Jun 1 – Geometry

__Science Tests__ Feb 22, 23 Science Mar 1,2 Science ||


 * Next Meeting: Feb. 21, Illka’s. **

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 7th ** **11:40 Marian’s Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) Feedback from the January interim weeks
 * 2) Updates on the China Alive! trips
 * 3) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 4) And understanding of upcoming calendar dates

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || - will review later in the semester -please have them up in your classroom; crave out its own unique space; don’t have clutter around it -it’s about practicing different things and having conversations with each other
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __Learning Targets__

__Feedback from January__ -there will be a meeting in April to carve out the year; possibly looking for a two week slot for this type of week for next year

__China Alive Staffing__ -we’re good with the timing -Feb. 20th: Business office requested to have the flight bids -forms to be sent out today

__Library__ -Kathryn Laske books available for sale in the library -titles for DVDs can be given to Tim in the next 2 weeks

Please show the morning announcement podcasts on Wed./Fri ||
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Karl Poulin presented and FYI on two students. More laptops are showing up, remind during HB.

Team B email Katelyn names for SOC. SOC will be Friday, Manon’s. || Jeff/Karl: can we do this interdisciplinary unit when WE WANT and when academically relevant? || a. Moganshan Update b. Puxi trips? c. Starfish: i. Amanda’s condition ii. alternative activity? || Discussion || Team || 20’ || *Moganshan will take another 6 boys (additional lodge) and male chaperone. a. dating pressures b. What’s happening? || Discussion || Team || 5’ || *Wednesday – goal review and values/ prepare Badges – Ask Me! 3-176 & is the number of books and 176 is he number of pages.
 * 3. **Feedback from Jan. Interim**
 * Weeks** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || *see below
 * 4. **China Alive**
 * Puxi runs two trips to Xian, Tonglu (PD 7th grade trip), Xiamen.
 * Xian leaders will email Yvonne for PX trip particulars.
 * Lynnette presented Amanda of Starfish has been diagnosed with cancer. She will contact Starfish chairman and report back. ||
 * 5. **Homebase**
 * Friday- Badges all day – HB- goals and values continued
 * Monday – Perfect Heart – Tearing the Heart- Marian will send story.
 * Tuesday – Feb 14th assembly/ photo retakes
 * Wednesday – on heart puzzle piece – What do you bring to the class? Each piece -Paste photos, big word, designs

Peer pressure discussion – relate to values “how do you deal with being around a group of people who have different values?” || -Fri. Feb. 10: Spelling bee (just show up in the LLH) -Tues. Feb. 14: 2:00 MS Assembly with Robyn Treyvauld: photo retakes -Frii. Feb. 17: MYG night and Pudong Rocks -Sat. Feb. 25: carpet auction at Kerry Center || ** Next Meeting: Feb. 14, whose room? **
 * 6. **Other** ||  ||   ||   || Tim Boyer presented on the visiting authors and schedule. Tim has money for DVD’s, please ask him. ||
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || -Thurs. Feb. 9/10: 4 leadership facilitators on campus, JUMP, to work with kids on leadership, 2 programs with 28 kids

** Interim Weeks Feedback ** **Pluses** -kids happy and working together or learning to work together -I thought we made the schedule work within the grade level very well -loved the weighing of the feather against the heart performance -it was wonderful -the children were energized and engaged (though there were some lulls) -good to work with other teachers -flexible groups were effective -almost totally interdisciplinary (humanities, math, science, music, drama) -all working towards a common goal -music and drama performances really helped to make the last day wonderfully entertaining and engaging -traveling to different venues made it interesting -for a first time - AMAZING job (we have gotten compliments from teachers in different divisions as to how great our display looks)

**Deltas** -timing, timing, and timing-having the schedule set by an arbitrary date rather than by curriculum was very unfortunate. -curriculum fit-is it supposed to? interim vs project-based learning is not clear. The fit with Math was not good. Possibly too ambitious on our part. -problems with space -Conflicts/distractions with CNY preps - too much in same time frame with CNY if it’s curriculum-based. If it was truly interim (not curricular based) then the CNY is not a problem. To clarify - if you are doing project work which is difficult to 'make up', the CNY is a distraction. If you are more interim, ie not curricular like Singapore American School, then it’s not a problem. -in Humanities, HW could have helped the students reflect on their daily activities -better placed at the end of the Egypt unit, not at the beginning -can we do this interdisciplinary unit when WE WANT and when academically relevant? -in Humanities, maybe have the kids rotate through artisan group so they can experience each artisan group -art not involved -kids keeping their roles would help with the authenticity of their roles (pharaohs remain pharaohs, etc) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Jan 31th, 2012 ** **11:40 Lynnette’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) An understanding of the read-a-thon spirit days.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 3) An agreement about where the allotment of China Alive donations are going.
 * 4) A schedule of when we will present information sessions to students.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Team A names to Katelyn ||
 * 2. **Read –a-thon** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || **//Friday Spirit Days (possible schedule)//**

Feb. 3: Hats off to Reading Day (Wear a hat!)/Book talks Feb. 10: Decorate a sign with your favorite quote. Feb. 17: Ask me Badge with # of pages read to date. Feb. 24: PJ Day - Cuddle up with a good book. I think for this one I will have hot chocolate and cookies and let the kids read and snack during Homebase. What’s going on? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || *Reminder: goals check-in-need to checking in prior to SLC’s, reflection on iWeb a. Schedule of infosessions b. Allotment of donations || Discussion || Team || 20’ || //__Schedule of infosessions__//
 * Heads up to Danka and Lisa
 * Can ask for verification of AR but kids are tracking their own avatars
 * Friday last day for sponsors forms
 * Celebration Feb 21st ||
 * 3. **Homebase**
 * Begin Values poster, Pages poster, A3, video
 * Connect values to read-a-thon
 * Reminder – no laptops at lunch ||
 * 4. **China Alive**

Feb 22: Info session #1 for entire 6th grade in LLH, Overview of China Alive Feb. 27th and 29th : Small groups sessions: two 20 minutes sessions on each trip lead by the trip leader. March 9th : selection forms given out (tentative) March 14th: selection forms due March 22nd: announce trip selection April 12-13: payment due during SLC

b. 70% of proceeds collected to Starfsh, 30% to Moonbears ||
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || Feb. 10th/11th - JUMP! Student Leadership Training (28 students in grades 6-8 with names forthcoming)

Feb. 14 - MS Photo day – new kids and missing staff - 2:00 MS Assembly Robyn Treyvauld

Feb. 21 - Grade 6 students writing the SSAT 12:00 - 2:30 ||
 * Next Meeting: Feb. 7, whose room? **

Karl – Katelyn will collect and forward anecdotal data regarding student M Karl – will put in the announcements –no gaming at school

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Jan 17th ** **11:40 Manon’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -Thurs: CNY Assembly Cores 8:07 to 8:50 then 8:55 to 9:40 Then to 9:45 off to assembly, Lunch, afternoon classes, elective
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __This Week__

-Fri HB: All students in gym during HB for jump rope competition

__China Alive: May 7-11__ -payment due during SLC (April 12-13) -staffing discussion: Feb. 1st (1st Wed. back after CNY)

Xian: Lynnette, Nancy? Nurse Moganshan: Lou, Rob, Marian? Jeanne? Sichuan: Alfred, Manon, Sunny? Wild Wall: Ilkka, (David), Britni? Jeff? Questions: Lisa, Chris, Ben, Adam, Katelyn, Amanda, Danka

__Curriculum Documentation__ -please document in Atlas or somewhere else

__Library__ -make sure t are all in AR -author Catherine Laske (March 12-16)

__Numbers in each grade__ 6th - 135 7th-125 8th- 159 || What’s going on? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Readathon tracking avatars on magnets and 1,2,3,4 then 6,8,10,12,14 Finishing four corners, beginning Values (show video) Feb is Random Acts of Kindness Month and Value Poster. Feb 14- jigsaw heart || 9:20-9:40 Dress in Day 1, Period 1 9:45-10:00 Band performance (Band room) 10:00 Drama performances 10:30 Orchestra performance (the Lounge) 10:40 Back to 6th hallway. Say something from the Book of the Dead. Undress from costume. Go to lunch. || Tues: Feb. 21: All grade 6 SSAT (12:30-2:30)
 * 2. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ ||  ||
 * 3. **Homebase**
 * 4. **Schedule for Final Mummy Mania Day** ||  ||   ||   || 8:07-9:00 Movie: //Night at the Museum (The Lounge)//
 * 1) 1 Lisa’s room (next to the MS gym)
 * 2) 2 Auditorium lobby
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || Tues. Feb. 14: MS Assembly Robyn Treyvauld 2:00

Team expresses concern that with the reduction in this year’s schedule for electives and the frequent interruption of electives results in quality instruction being comprised. Can admin balance assemblies etc? Could speaker on internet safety speak during health class? Could there be a CNY performance elective? Could dragon dance come from PE?

To be brought up at leadership= planning for physical plant

When we return form CNY, we can schedule China Alive information sessions prior to trip assignments. ||
 * Next Meeting: Jan. 31 Lynnette’s room **

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 6th **

**11:40 Marian’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __Learning Target__
 * something coming by the end of the week
 * creative design committee to create a poster

__Honor Code__ -Team feels it’s covered in the SLP. -If it needs to be done, can it be done at the beginning of the school year, just once. Maybe have the kids sign an agreement, like the computer/internet usage form they have to sign. -We don’t want to put it on every assignment
 * idea of putting a honor code on each assignment?

__Library__ a. Dec. 14: Can we accommodate Hanrich? b. January HB c. SMART goal “check in” || Discussion || Marian Lynnette and Jeanne Team || 20’ || a. No problem
 * send orders to Tim by next Thurs. ||
 * 2. **Homebase**

b. Lynnette suggested we do the “4 Corner” Post-Christmas activity again this year. We’ll save the Learning Styles assessment till after CNY

c. Are there check-ins between T1 and T2 SLCs? Schedule some check-ins. Varies: some do reminders but not formally check, some check-in. It’s too busy; so much going on. || 8:00-9:45 CORE Time //8:00-8:30 HB/Reveal Secret Santa// //8:30-9:00 Breakfast in cafeteria (catered by Eurest; kids// //bring hot chocolate?)// //9:00-9:45 HB activities in own HB (movies/games/chill and// //chat, treats)//
 * 3. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ ||  ||
 * 4. **Winter Concert** || Decision || Marian || 1’ || *Is it OK having the orchestra and band rehearse in our rooms before the Winter concerts? No problem ||
 * 5. **19th CNY Celebration** ||  ||   ||   || *K-12 Assembly (50-60 min) in the morning
 * rest of the day with shortened periods (to be confirmed by the end of this week) ||
 * 6. I**nterim Weeks Check-in** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Discussed the schedule below. ||
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || __Last day of school (Dec. 16)__

10:00-11:00 Assembly 11:00-11:15 Back to HB 11:15 Dismiss to busses ||


 * Next Meeting: Dec. 13, whose room? **

** Interim Weeks (Jan. 4-20) **

** Egyptian Tomb Building **


 * Subject themes**

Humanities: Egypt (afterlife and mummification)

Science: Dissection (11-16); wrapping frogs (17-18)

Math: Ratio/proportion

Music: Egypt themed music

Art: Sarcophagus and death mask?


 * Project groupings/ideas**


 * Build a pyramid to house the sarcophagus


 * Tomb artifacts : canopic jars, thrones, shabtis (figurines placed in tombs to be servants to the king)


 * Tomb wall paintings: cartouche


 * Costumes


 * Cartouches ?


 * Models of boats, stables, bakery, houses, etc


 * Timeline **

Wed. Jan. 4: School resumes ; Prep day

Thurs. Jan. 5: Prep day

Fri. Jan. 6: Prep day

Mon. Jan. 9 : Prep day

Tues. Jan. 10: Prep day

Wed. Jan. 11: Dissection/special schedule/ Plan project; Read-a-thon kickoff

Thu. Jan. 12: Dissection/special schedule/ Work on tomb project

Fri. Jan. 13: Dissection/special schedule/ Work on tomb project (progress reports due)

Mon. Jan. 16: Dissection/special schedule/ Work on tomb project

Tues. Jan. 17: Regular Schedule: Wrapping frogs/ Work on tomb project / Prep day

Wed. Jan. 18: Regular Schedule: Wrapping frogs/ Work on tomb project / Prep day

Thurs. Jan 19: Chinese New Year (CNY) celebration

Fri. Jan. 20: Celebration, death ceremony, entombing

8:00-9:00 Final Preparations

9:00-10:00 Procession starting in Lou’s room, then to Lisa’s room?

10:15-10:45: Egyptian food celebration


 * || Wed. Jan. 11 || Thu. Jan. 12 || Fri. Jan. 13 || Mon. Jan. 16 ||
 * A || Science (Dissection) || Humanities (L/J) || Math/Humanities || Math/Humanities (M) ||
 * B || Humanities (6M/B) || Science (Dissection) || Math/Humanities || Math/Humanities(B) ||
 * C || Math/Humanities(L) || Math/Humanities(M) || Science (Dissection) || Humanities(L/J) ||
 * D || Math/Humanities(J) || Math/Humanities(B) || Humanities (6M/B) || Science (Dissection) ||

L= Lynnette J=Jeff B=Britni M= Marian


 * Notes: **

Lisa, Danka, Hanrich: available after 10:00 on Jan. 20th

Lou: available 9:00-9:45

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 ** **11:40 Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) Recommendations to Amanda for next year’s Mac and Me elective.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || See Karl’s notes for account from whole school
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __SLC Feedback__

__Calendar__ -parents on campus on Thursday; may pop into classroom -concert information on MS blog

Jan 9-20: is there anything we want to consider doing? Question to investigate? Related to Centennial? To CNY? Or keep the curriculum going? || SLC Feedback (see below) || Discussion || Team || 10’ || *Start earlier with class prep a. Mac and Me feedback what went well, what we want to change, timings, content etc. || Info Gathering || Amanda || 15’ || Rollout was too soon – could copy the Math chapter. Use mac carts in beginning. Paper agenda. Perhaps Ical could be 7th grade || How is it going on the teams? || Info. Gathering || Jeff || 20’ || Positive views of additional Humanities teacher; co-planning curriculum; transitions; bonding day || It’s coming up! || Reminder || Marian || 1’ || Alfred, Jeanne, Britni || Mon, Nov. 14: 2:15 Gumboot dancers in MS Gym Fri. Nov. 18: T1 Ends
 * 2. **Homebase**
 * Not do 10 at a time
 * stress dress code ||
 * **3. Tech Talk**
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || SOC Team B to Katelyn; Bullying sessions; ||
 * 5. **Checking in**
 * **6. Read-a-thon**
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || Next week:

Mon. Nov. 21: Grades due Wed 23/Thurs 24: PD Days || ** Next Meeting: Nov. 15, Britni’s **

** SLC Feedback (Teachers) **

**Warm Feedback** - I like the iWeb format and appreciated that all grade levels used it as the place to put SLC information. - Again, the art work in the lounge was wonderful and it worked well for me to have my conferences there. - I heard an 8th grade boy say. "Look mom, here's my art project. My work has never been good enough to be put in a show." so touching! - It was good to keep homebase SLC focus only on the About Me Page, Welcome, Homebase page, etc and leave each core and specialist class to do it on their own in their own class time.

** Deltas: ** - In going through practice SLC's with homebase students, I realized that some teachers had asked kids to put way too much information on their iWeb. The student was just quickly clicking around from document, to blog links, to video, etc. Even if the child slowed down when speaking, it was still information overload for parents. What would it look like if each class had students share one piece of work/project or test?

- What would it look like if the scheduled SLC time slot was for students to present to parents their iWeb for all classes? To discourage teachers from getting involved, the location for this iWeb sharing could happen in a place outside of teacher classrooms. Then parents and child could meet with teachers for a "Student Involved Conference." I don't want the child and parent to come over to me, just to sit down and pull out a laptop and explain to their parent what is on the iWeb. I would rather use this time to share with the child/parent 1 strength and 1 area to work on for my class.

1. PLease, please please, - we need to require a dress code for students. Everyone is dressed up (Parents, teachers), all the rooms are organized, food is out, etc. and yet, the stars of the show are wearing thongs and t-shirts or the same clothes they came to school in. Unnaceptable in my opinion. 2. Too many students simply reading the miles and miles of text off their screens while their parents sit there watching them read (no eye contact). We need to emphasize and prepare them for already knowing most of this information and being able to summarize it while speaking TO their guests face to face. 3. To many students still have no concept of presentation space and placement. Most of the time, the computer was put in place for the student, not the guests. 4. Introductions of parents needs work, maybe should even a requirement. 5. If we ask them to get a pen (or pointer) in their hand it makes for much less moving around of the screen with the mouse and points out key words or ideas. Students scroll their pages way to much and much too fast for any viewers. 6. Many still opening docs in folders or other places during the presentation.

** SLC Feedback (Student) **

** Plus: ** *used entire time *calmed down after a few minutes, didn't stutter *parent listened and spoke in English *Fun - not too many questions from my mom *parents got to socialize with other parents *teachers didn't emphasize negative/ or criticize *was able to tell parents what I do in school *mom didn't criticize my work
 * was able to show my personality
 * was able to show what I have learned and done in school
 * parents met/talked with most teachers

** Deltas: ** *need better time for parents (when signing up) *some parents talked too much *my mom wasn't on time *need better prep time, read too much *Parent phones need to be turned off *No tests on the day of SLCs please *Final checks needed again especially hyperlinks *Have to plan my time better *Wait time before late conferences was TOO long

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 ** **11:40 Jeff’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 2) Feedback for the Mac and Me elective course.
 * 3) An understanding of the SLC schedule.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || a bully and friendship sessions with Karl and Katelyn || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Locker clean out SLC reflection – pros, cons, suggestions Games - rebonding || *How do we reassure ourselves that SLCs are the best model and how can we make them more authentic? *Can these conferences become more hands-on? *What might it look like to get parents on SMART music, a writing exercise, a mini-science lab, etc.? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Humanities teacher send out final schedules
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 1’ || -read Karl’s notes ||
 * 2. **Homebase**
 * ** 3. SLC Questions **

Would flow better if reflections/feedback were done as they were finished, so that it was a more authentic reflection.

We are happy with this model but we can discuss afterwards re: how it works with this number of kids.

If we were to do more parent involvement, it would require more preparation of the kids (to teach their parents a lesson) and more time for the actual SLC conference (45 minutes or more).

What parent prep has happened this year? (eg. Parent coffee) || a. Mac and Me feedback what went well, what we want to change, timings, content etc. || Info Gathering || Amanda || 15’ || Tabled until next time when Amanda is present ||
 * 4. **Tech Talk**
 * 5. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || SOC team B delayed till next week. ||
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || **SLC schedule for this week:**

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011 (Day 4 morning schedule) 8:00 – 8:05 - Homebase 8:07 – 9:35 - Core 1 9:35 – 9:45 - Break 9:45 – 11:15 – Core 2 11:30 - Buses leave

Friday, November 4th, 2011 (Day 4 afternoon schedule)

8:00 – 8:05 - Homebase 8:07 – 8:49 – Specials 1 8:52 – 9:34 – Specials 2 9:37 – 10:20 – Specials 3 10:25 – 11:15 - Electives 11:30 – Buses Leave

__Next week__ Wed. Nov. 9th: Preserving the Antarctic - 1:45-2:45 in the Auditorium ||
 * Next Meeting: Nov. 8, Marian's room **

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 11 ** **11:40 Lynnette’s Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of the next Mac and Me lessons.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in HB.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -Wed: TTT -Thurs: begin discussing Standards-Based reporting (a three year process; “doing it with a measured paced” -Fri: Bonding Day -Sat: Century Carnival
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __Calendar__

//October// 18/20: Bring closure to elective; fill out EAGLES 21st: Budget due 24-28: Spirit Week 24: Dr. Lauren Muhlheim speaks during HB 27th: UN Day (maybe go during Humanities?) 28th: 1st MYG night (assembly into MYG night)

//November// Nov. 3: Day 4 morning schedule, SLCs in afternoon Nov. 4: Day 4 afternoon schedule, SLCs in afternoon

Nov. 9: All school assembly, 1:45 preserving the Arctic Nov. 18: End of T1 Nov. 21: Turkey Trot; Grades due Nov. 22: Verifications due Nov. 23/24: PD Days; MAP testing consultant. Looking at the data Nov. 25: Thanksgiving break Nov. 30: Report cards go home

__ Library __ -get request in for books, DVDs, etc into Tim || a. What’s going on? b. Fri. Oct. 21 opportunity c. iWeb/SMART Goals d. Lunch mess e. Attendance || Discussion || Team || 10’ || A. Finishing mystery bags This day in history Beginning self assessment slp profile – as prep for SLC’s Minute to Winit Ted Talks B. Oct 21 – Drama presentations in LLH C. Goals goes in either “About Me” or “Homebase” pages D. Remind kids to clean up after themselves E. Remind kids who are late (after 8:05) to check in with office || Team || 10’ || Bring water bottle, snack, Bring jacket/umbrella. And daybag or school bag. NO laptops or books. After spirit walk, kids to lockers. Pick up lunches in cafeteria, to buses near flags.
 * 2. **Homebase**
 * 3. **Tech Talk** || Info Dispersal || Amanda || 20’ || Setting up Gmail student accounts; blast email to all homebase students ||
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner** || Info Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || A team SOC names to Katelyn ||
 * 5. **Finalizing Bonding Day** || Discussion || David/

Be sure that kids being picked up know to have drivers there BEFORE 2:45. Adult meeting student must present themselves to the HB teacher. Teachers need to see adult picking up student. || Consultant: Cathy Valentino, Author-in-Residence for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company || Info Dispersal || Marian || :30 || 25th during Team meeting || Halloween video choreography || Practice || Elaine || 15’ ||  || Oct. 21: End of Quarter 1; Budgets due || ** Next Meeting: Oct. 18, Britni’s **
 * 6. **Inquiry Based Learning**
 * 6. **Get your “Thrill” on**
 * **Looking Ahead** ||  ||   ||   || Oct. 18/20: Bring closure to Mac and Me; fill out EAGLES

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 26 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of the next Mac and Me lessons.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 3) SOCs for Team B.
 * 4) an understanding of what will happen on Bonding Day.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -what will our iWebs look like for SLC? -one reflection sheet for all core classes? (7th grade) -EAGLE form on there for electives
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __iWebs on Nov. 3/4__

__China Alive – May 7-11__ -Yvonne Zhu (Puxi China Alive person) will be here for 2 days a week beginning 2nd semester -travel agent for land portion chosen in Dec.

__ Budget 2012-2013 __ -request due Oct. 21 to Jeff and Karl

__Goal Setting and Atlas__ -after break will set up appts

__Calendar Dates__ -Fri: House assembly; contact person is Mun -7:40 Compensation mtg -Oct. 14: Spirit Walk/Bonding Day (send numbers to Ben Regan)

__Leadership Team Structure__ -more big picture/real leadership in the future || -Mystery Bags
 * 2.**Tech Talk** || Information Dispersal || Amanda || 20’ || Amanda went over how to setting up calendars and blogs for today’s and Thursday’s lessons. ||
 * 3. **Homebase** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || -finish of Home of Heart

Focus for next few weeks: -iWeb: Welcome, About Me, HB page -SMART goals – use SLP -getting to know you || a. SOC b. organizing students and parents || Information Gathering || Katelyn || 10’ || b. Where is all the HW? – iCal or stickies other information on teacher blogs, and PS ||
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner**
 * 5. **Bonding Day Update** || Information Dispersal || David || 10’ || -All CISSA sports canceled

__Rough schedule__ 10:00: Leave campus, eat snack on bus

11.00 - 11.50a.m : Rotation 1: Team A will be split between 2 x 25 minute activities while Team B will be on the Quad bikes

12.00 - 12.50 a.m: Rotation 2 12.50 - 12.25a.m: Lunch 1.25 - 1.35 p.m walk over to Amusement Park within Century Park. 1.35 - 2.30pm: Amusement Park 2.45 Start boarding buses at gate 3 3.00pm Depart on compound buses home. || Oct. 14: Bonding Day ||
 * **Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 15’ || __Week After Break__


 * Next Meeting: Oct. 11. 11:40 Lynnette’s room **

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**11:40 Ilkka’s room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of the lesson we’re teaching in Mac and Me.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in Homebase.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -in Nov. we’ll analyze how we can use the data from MAP in our teaching
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 5’ || __MAP__

__Bonding Day__ -get logistics done before Oct. break

__Start/end times__ -getting better -heart rate monitors still present a problem for 6th graders -what’s the best practice for end of class, ie writing down HW, follow-up, teachable moments – will be discussed at a Wed. faculty mtg

__Visiting Author: Katryn Laske and Christopher Knight__ -March 12-19 || Be sure students do not trash folders after making aliases || Remind medical forms or no bonding trip Survey kids for bus drop off locations Take lunch orders on Wednesday || Manon || 5’ || Math presentations –Wed. 21st Please post locations and schedule Ensure flow of audience and keep time. Presenters collect rubrics from audience || Sept. 30th: Progress reports due/Bonding day logistics finished Prog reps on Powerschool ||
 * 2.**Tech Talk** || Information Dispersal || Amanda || 20’ || Do File folders and organization today including connect to server. Then check Iweb -publish. Send all students with connection problems to tech.
 * 3. **Homebase** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Finishing home of Heart. Some starting Mystery bags. Some DEAR.
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner** || Information Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Team A Send SOC names to Katelyn ||
 * 5. **Math** || Discussion || David/
 * 6. **Library** || Info. Sharing || Tim || 2’ || check your books out-renew as needed on Destiny Quest. Scholastic will resume ||
 * **Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 1’ || __Next Week__


 * Next Meeting: Sept. 27th, 11:40 a.m. Alfred’s **

** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, 2011 ** **11:40 Dave’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) an understanding of how the MAP testing will go.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 3) an understanding of how Bonding Day will be structured.
 * 4) an understanding of where HW is recorded.
 * 5) feedback for the admin about the decision to not have paper copies of the agenda.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || 8:00-8:45 setup 8:45-9:50 Testing
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1.**Tech Talk** || Information Dispersal || Amanda || 10’ || __MAP testing (Sept. 19-21)__

__After testing schedule__ Sep 19: Day 1, period 1 10 to 10:55 Sept 20: Day 1 period 2 Sept 2: math presentations || Team || 5’ || Has Bonding Day become fun day? It was meant to be a day to bond at the beginning of the school year.
 * 2. **Homebase** || Discussion || Team || 10’ ||  ||
 * 3. **Bonding Day** || Discussion || David/

David outlined a plan for the day; similar to last year || a. Centralized location b. Paperless OK? || Discussion || Britni/ Team || 10’ || a. On iCal; need to give students time to do it b. Agendas for those who need it- distribution should be through core teachers, not office || Founder’s Day
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner** || Information Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Team B: send names to Katelyn ||
 * 5. **Homework**
 * **Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 15’ || Fire drill Thursday @ 1:30

Next Week Mon 9/19-Wed 9/21: MAP testing ||


 * Next Meeting: Sept. 20th, Ilkka’s Room **

We feel that we were not included in the planning. This is how things get away from their basic meaning eg Bonding Day. No buy in. We want to do a good job.
 * Friday Founders Day **

8:00 to 9:00 Humanities 1 hr; math ½ hr; science ½ hr ( Day 1, Period 1) 9:00 to 10:00 Humanities 1 hr; math ½ hr; science ½ hr (Day 2, Period 2)

10:00to 11.30 Specialists 11.30 to 12.15 Lunch 12.15 to 1:20 – get dressed 1:30 parade assembly

__Years for timeline__ Alfred 79-82 Jeff O 83-85 Britni – 86-88 Jeanne 89-91 Lynnette 92 – 94 Marian B -95 – 97 Illka 98-00 Dave 01-04 Manon 05-07 Danka 08-11

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** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, August 15, 2011 ** **11:40 Manon’s Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || 8-10: Kids in grade level classes 10-11:30 in specialist teachers by grade level all school lunch, then to HB, then parade. Half hour assembly Competition in HB for the HB that dressed up the most and the most unique dress
 * 1) an understanding of activities going on in HB.
 * 2) an understanding of what the MAP testing procedures and schedule
 * 3) an understanding of what we’re doing for Founder’s Day.
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 10’ || __Founder’s Day__

__Open House__ -same format as last year -5:00 dinner in the caf practice next Tuesday photos needed to server

__Curriculum Documentation__ -make sure curriculum map is up-to-date send to Alfred

__Bonding Day__ -plan needs to be done before Oct. break -let Jeff know how the office can support us Oct 14th- Dave Hope on it- Jeannie will send to Dave information from last year

iWeb -need to be ready for the SLCs (Nov. ¾) Please confirm 2 x ½ days Yes, it is.

__Travel Time/Start Time__ -remind kids to put their instruments in the cubby holes Dave will shadow and report || a. Timing b. Schedule after the test || Information Dispersal || Amanda ||  || __MAP testing (Sept. 19-21)__ 8:00-8:45 setup 8:45-9:50 Testing 10:00 CORE filenaming convention for turned in and emailed files making Iweb welcome and blog page Next Tuesday – Mac and Me – MAP testing setup Sept 14 staff meeting MAP training Schedule after test – Sep 19 Day 1st class, Sept 20 Day 1 2nd class, Sept 21 after testing all math presentations. Math dept will inform students’ presentation time and location. || a. letter to parents for Back-to- school night b. class start times c. Team page d. Snack time – where to go? || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -Create locker note for Open House – Marian will send sample -Reminder – HB is 8 to 8:05 First Class begins at 8:07 -Bring snack; not allowed to go to the cafeteria -Work on letters to parents for locker for Open House and Home of Heart || What are we doing? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Science – 100’s theme Math – historic lesson, Hum- create an artifact of an item that would have been found in SAS at that time || -Sept. 12: Mid Autumn Festival -13th: gr 4 to 12school assembly @ 2:00 p.m.(motivational speakers: Singaporean women who climbed Mt. Everest)- 14: Open House 15th: Fire Drill 1:40 pm Sept 16: Founder’s Day
 * 2.**Tech Talk**
 * 3. **Homebase**
 * 4. **Counselor’s Corner** || Information Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ ||  ||
 * 5. **Founder’s Day**
 * **Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 15’ || __Next Week__

__Rest of Sept__ 19-21: MAP testing – 19-20: Photo Day (out of non-core) Sept. 29/30 Math Unit TEst Sept. 30: Progress Reports/MS Assembly || ** Next Meeting: Sept. 13th, Dave’s room ** ** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011 ** **Lynnette’s Room**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -What are we doing?
 * 1) an understanding of what we are doing for Founder’s Day.
 * 2) an understanding of what is going on in HB.
 * 3) an understanding of the counselor’s referral process.
 * 4) a list of names for Friday’s team B SOC meeting.
 * 5) an understanding of the lessons needed to be taught in the Mac and Me elective.
 * 6) an understanding of upcoming dates, including MAP refresher and timeline, and other important dates.
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 30’ || __Open House__

Action: Get class photo of Home base Lots of photos to server for Jeannie

__Founder’s Day__ -everyone (student and teachers) dressing up in period clothing -need to know what we’re doing by the 5th -11:00 all MS lunch -1:00 onward is taken care of -8:00-11:00 and 12:100-1:00 are ours to plan -1st two hours in cores; 1 hr of specialist rotation; 1 hr lunch; 1 hr in HB; parade -in gym for the afternoon -a timeline (HB activity) -how does the # 100 play into our school life (stickers of recognition? I practiced/read/jumped rope etc for 100 hours)

Action: Brainstorm; bring ideas to next meeting 4 x ½ hour rotation || What’s going on? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Remember inclusiveness Locker tags/Get to know you My steps Mystery bags Contact parents by next Friday Starting Home of Heart this week/next week || a. Referral Process b. Kids we all need to know about c. SOC for Team B || Information Dispersal and Gathering || Katelyn || 15’ || RTI model.
 * 2. **Homebase**
 * 3. **Counselor’s Corner**

Soc B on Friday. Send Names to all team B and Katelyn || a. MAP testing b. Review Mac and Me lessons (2nd half of lesson 1 and Lesson 2) || Discussion/ Information Sharing || Amanda || 15’ || Thursday – digital safety lesson in LLH. Pack book bags, take laptop LOCKS with them, already to go home. They will not be using laptop during lesson. Tech student leaders going very well. Review when iChat is okay. Not signed in unless teacher oks. Email Leah for new dongle, if needed. || Learning 2.011 Conference
 * 4. **Tech Talk**
 * 5. **Admin in classrooms** || Reminder || Marian || 1’ || Don’t stop class ||
 * **Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 15’ || __Next Week__

__September__ -Sept. 12: Mid Autumn Festival -13th: almost all school assembly (motivational speakers: Singaporean women who climbed Mt. Everest)-gr 4 to 12 14: Open House 15th: Fire Drill 1:40 pm Sept 16: Founder’s Day 19-21: MAP testing – 19-20: Photo Day (out of non-core) Sept. 30: Progress Reports/MS Assembly || ** Next Meeting: Sept. 6, Manon’s **

** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ **

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 **

**11:40 Jeff’s Room,**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of the first Mac and Me lesson.
 * 2) an understanding of where students will record HW, name their papers, take their stuff to their afternoon classes.
 * 3) three sixth grade essential questions.
 * 4) an understanding of library usage during HOT times.

Start/end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -teachers welcome to bring their class ANYTIME -encouraged to have a scheduled library time (either through HB or Humanities)
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 30’ || __Library Schedules__

__ Grade Level Essential Questions __ -3 “big picture” questions to admin by Aug. 31 -3 things you want kids to know (does not have to be curriculum specific); maybe interdisciplinary

__ Founder’s Day (Sept. 16) __ -SAS’s 100th year -what activities do we want to participate in? (in the morning) -null day -morning: divisional time, lunch, afternoon: K-12 activities -t-shirt (white) timeline: kids write a fact about SAS from 1912-present? -teach lesson from 1912? -writing assignment/diary entries: what’s going on in school, in Shanghai, in the world?

__ Bonding Day __ -Oct. 14th -Spirit Walk followed by Bonding Day

__Open House (Sept. 14, 6:15-8:15)__ -Leah needs to take pictures of each of us for our covers -course descriptions -begin in auditorium, locker treasure hunt, team time, visit classrooms -too many video?

__MAP testing (Sept. 19-30)__ -run through cores -Karl with send out schedule soon -specialist will help out in some way

__ From Tim __ -what is our policy on HOT and library use HOT is for academic time and they are with a specific teacher. Library HOT is up to Tim. -Star/AR will be ready by the end of this week

__Other__ -new students do not have access to PS yet -duty schedule is out, PLEASE READ the descriptions of what is expected at your duty station -need to explain CISSA to students || a. How/where do we record HW? b. Review of lesson 1 of Mac and Me || Discussion/ Information Sharing || Amanda || 40’ || Look for loaner projectors when bulbs go out. Can take macs out of the bags and store bags on own desks One key at home, other on lanyard-both marked Charger can stay home NEVER do software updates at school-ALWAYS at home Tuesday – locks,Software updates,Repair disk permissions and Ical
 * 2. **Tech Talk**

Homebase- one at time to tech office – to set passwords (beginning on Friday)

Dave will copy first two weeks of Agenda. Students will record homework on their iCal. Teachers record major dates e.g. tests. Students will setup their own Homework iCal calendars on Thursday. They NEED to click on all day. || //a. Team expectations for:// Cafeteria Hallway behavior/food/drink Field play area. Break time Water bottle & snack for break
 * 3. **Homebase**

b. Afternoon bags

c. Video for Open House

d. Homebase Helpers || Discussion || # All

b. David

c. Alfred

d. Marian || 15’ || Reminder: Homebase (HB) teacher needs to make contact within the 1st 15 days of school


 * 1) Cafeteria – clean up after themselves
 * 2) No food outside cafeteria
 * 3) No running or playing
 * 4) Invite people to sit with them
 * 5) What is the culture that we want to have?

Plan on Danka’s room for gathering for classroom Break time take care of needs-can eat snack in classrooms. Water bottles only in classrooms No roughhousing on field House sports being after Spirit Walk Sports equipment –passed around

b. Each student should have a PE bag. Another small, soft bag is optional

c. Drop box on MS Shared

d. Sunny – Marian Lou – Dave, Manon Sarah- Jeanne, Jeff Nancy – Britni, Lynnette Rob – Alfred, Ilkka Danka/Lisa PE teachers will help up with group activities and then as needed Katelyn is available to speak to kids || Class Assignment Date (Headers in Mac and Me) Printing- a few at a time (use tickets), they can go to other printers. No more than 2 per printer || New student not on Powerschool-Danka’s HB Will send schedule for HB visits || Thurs, Sept. 1: Macs go home Fri, Sept. 2: Macs to specialists
 * 4. **DEAR** (request from Humanities) || Discussion || Humanities Teachers || 10’ || Next week ||
 * 5. **Naming Documents:** What will be our consist format? || Discussion || All || 3’ || Name
 * **6. Tracking SLP in PS** || Info Sharing || Jeff || 10’ ||  ||
 * **7. SOC** || Information Gathering || Katelyn || 5’ || Katelyn gathering names. Team A this Friday
 * **7. Looking Ahead** || Discussion ||  || 15’ || __Next week__

__The coming month__ Sept. 12: Mid Autumn Festival Sept 14: Open House Sept 16: Founder’s Day Sept. 19-20: Photos Sept. 19-30: MAP Testing Sept. 30: Progress Reports/MS Assembly ||


 * Next Meeting: Aug. 30th, 11:40, Lynnette’s **

** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Monday, August 15, 2011 **

**8:30 am Alfred’s Room**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of all things Mac related to our 6th graders.
 * 2) a finalized schedule of the first day of school.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -Meet your Mac is 7:00 pm, Aug 22. Kids are to go home and come back with parents. Over by 8 ish. Kathy Chen has organized another accessories sale. Mac and Me begins Aug 23rd. -Kid computers are last years-they get a bag, lock with 2 keys, and computers. -Kids do not use computers during lunch unless working with teachers or library with a teacher note. Gaming at lunch is a concern. Computers not being charged can be stored in lockers BE sure that kids are locking. -Computers go home-Sept 1.; to specialists classes on Sept 2nd. Sept 1 Mac and Me for digital citizenship with Amanda || -Morning classes begin at 8:05. -Locks are in our cubbies. There is a supporting PPT and a video -Nametags- Alfred. Students wear them the whole week. Collect at end of day. -Lynnette will send keynote for HB. -Leah will take HB photos. -Snacks are in class, bring snacks and waterbottles. -No money-no problem, see office. -After lunch – outside, library, cafeteria, the lounge, games in Dave’s M106 and Marian’s M111 -Return to HB at 12:25. Escort to assembly and lineup in lobby. -Outdoor photos and back to HB. Escort to buses.
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Mac Miscellaneous**
 * Agenda
 * Roll out
 * Other? || Information Dispersal || Amanda || 20’ || -Agenda is digital-on every student’s computer. Amanda will email handbook copy as 6th grade will not have computers first week.
 * 2. **Homebase**
 * Schedule template
 * Finalize Day 1
 * Locks || Discussion ||  || 10’ || -Dave will make template copies for students.

-Grade level bulletin board – Jeff and Britni -Ilkka will make locker tags || Write your name on front, sentence inside. || Taking minutes: Manon Homebase activities: Lynnette, Jeanne, Britni Student-Led Conferences (SLC): Manon, Ilkka 6th grade team blog: Alfred Bonding Day: David, Jeff Read-a-thon: Alfred, Jeanne Gap Weeks (Jan):? Open House: All ||
 * 3. **Our Introduction**
 * What we gonna do? || Discussion ||  || 15’ || Make a self question and answer for the quiz game. –eg name, subject and a fun fact- to Katelyn. Make a locker tag size name. ||
 * 4. **“What’s my sentence” envelope?** || Handout || Marian || .15 || Hand back to Marian by Tuesday @ 3:00
 * 5. **Relook at Roles and Responsibilities** || Discussion || Marian || 2’ || Team bulletin board: Britni, Jeff, Marian
 * 6. **Have a great year** || Handout || Marian || 1’ ||  ||
 * 7. **Retesting** || Point of Information || Jeff ||  || Jeff – use professional judgment on retesting rather than a policy. Any policy under 80% will not be supported. ||


 * Next Team Meeting: Tues. Aug. 23. Jeanne’s room **


 * Introduction Practice: TODAY at 1:30 in Britni’s room **

** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: August 10, 2011 ** **11:00 Marian’s Room, M-111**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) a plan for the first day of school.
 * 2) an understanding of the activities that will take place during the first week of school.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -Mondays at 7:15-7:45
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * 1. **Leadership Team Notes** || Information Dispersal || Marian || 30’ || __Leadership Team (LT) Meeting Structure and Time__

__Requesting Team Info__ -team meeting time: Tues at 11:40 -team blog: Alfred/Jeanne -SOC meetings -China Alive leaders Moganshan: Sichuan: Alfred Wild Wall (Beijing): Ilkka Xian: Lynnette

__What’s My Sentence__ -envelope with instruction in team leaders mailbox -due before the 1st day of school to your team leader

__Communication Protocols__ -Homebase (HB) teacher make contact within the 1st 15 days of school -no “formal” progress reports, but need to communicate with parents if there is a significant drop or poor grades -no more EAGLE reflections on paper; will be on laptops -ALL students will have an iWeb -comments need to be “strengths”/ “weakness”/recommendation for improvement format (suggestion to keep antidotal records and/or ask kids what their favorite unit/activity was during the semester) -check the MS iWeb for the full protocol: []

__Founders Day__ -SAS is 100 this year! -celebration on Sept. 16 (a null day) -what does MS want to do? Grade level specific activity? All school activity? Curriculum ties?

__Curriculum Maps__ -needs to be updated and tweeked -need to be complimented with essential questions(can be grade level (3) or subject specific) -who is our point person?: Alfred

__Bonding Day__ -Sept too full -Oct. 14th after Spirit Walk? Other suggestions?: Oct. 19

__Miscellaneous__ -classes are NOT set in Powerschool (PS); don’t believe what you see; making the best fits for kids -Karl sent out proposed assembly schedule and “year at a glance” (subject to change) to team leaders -Amanda needs to coordinate how to get agenda to each kid || -grade 6 welcomed by 7th and 8th -team and individual introductions at assembly; begin thinking of how we’re going to do this || Jeanne Team || 15’ || a. __General__ -HB teachers: 8 core teachers +Jeanne/Sarah + Danka/Lisa -specialists tied to HB: same as last year -Mon/Wed are HB activities; Friday is a flexible -Karl or Jeff will talk to each HB sometime in the 1st month
 * 2. **ESOL support: How best can WE service OUR ESOL students?** || Discussion || Jeanne || 20’ || Jeanne asked the team how she could best service the ESOL kids and help us in our classrooms. She is willing to come in to team-teaching with each of us. She will also provide strategies that will best help ESOL, and all students, in their learning. It was agreed that students can be put into groupings by core classes to best facilitate Jeanne servicing them. ||
 * 3. **First Day of School** || Discussion || Team || 15’ || - format similar to last year (see attached)
 * 4. **Homebase (HB)**
 * a. General**
 * b. 1st week activities** || Discussion || Lynnette

b. __1st Week Activities__ Jeanne and Lynnette pointed out several activities in our T1 HB booklet that should be done and others that are optional ||


 * Next Meeting: Monday, Aug. 15, 8:30 am Alfred’s room **

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: August 9, 2011 **

**2:30 Marian’s Room, M-111**


 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://


 * 1) an understanding of our norms.
 * 2) an understanding of the big Homebase (HB) events that happen during the school year.
 * 3) roles allocated for team members for the year.
 * 4) an understanding of what our schedule will look like.
 * 5) a beginning understanding of the first day of school.

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || All || 5’ ||  || Homebase activities: Lynnette, Jeanne, Britni Student-Led Conferences (SLC): Manon, Ilkka 6th grade team blog: Alfred Bonding Day: David, Jeff Read-a-thon: Alfred, Jeanne Gap Weeks (Jan):? Open House: All
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * 1. **Introductions** ||  || All || 10’ || Everyone introduced himself or herself. Welcome Britni and Jeff! ||
 * **2. Review Norms**
 * 3. **Overview of the Year** || Sharing || Marian || 10’ || Marian highlighted some of the major events of the school year so everyone has the “big picture”. Of course, it is not exhaustive (see attached). ||
 * 4. **Roles and Responsibilities** || Role Assignments || Team || 5’ || Taking minutes: Manon

As other tasks and responsibilities come up during the year, members will volunteer for those tasks. ||
 * 5. **Our schedule** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || It will be similar to the7th grade (A/B) days. Students will have Humanities every day (yeah! –Marian is typing these notes:) and Math and Science every other day.

8:00-8:07 Homebase 8:10-9:30 Period 1 9:40-11:00 Period 2 ||
 * 6. **First Day of School?** || Discussion || Team || 20’ || Tabled till after the Leadership Team meeting. ||


 * Next Meeting: Tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug. 10 at 11:00 **

** ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** ** Grade 6 Team Meeting: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 **

**11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

**Desired Outcomes:** By the end of //this meeting, we will have:// //1. an understanding of end-of-year dates and procedures//

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor ||  ||   ||   ||   || -make sure to complete EAGLE reflection by the end of the week -GRADES due at the end of the day on Monday, June 13, can let Karl know if you’re done before that day -13th: Field Trip to Shanghai Museum -14th: Field Day -15th : Transition Day -16th: kids seated by 10:00 in auditorium, dismiss to buses at 11:15 -send pics from the year to Karl ASAP (Mon 13th the latest) -end of year party on Saturday night -bidding on 7th grade photo contest ends on Friday
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Info Sharing || Marian || 10’ || __This week__

__End of year procedures__ -classes can stay as they are -welcome to leave stuff in the hallways -keep exemplars for future reference -kids who are leaving have sign-out sheets (beginning Wednesday) -send lost books report to Veronica and Edith -collect locks -plants in front of MS office -long wave goodbye; walk out with kids to buses -blog messages: final messages, good summer etc, supplies for next year (on team blog) by Tuesday the 14th; inform Jeff

6th graders will hand in their computers on FRIDAY ||
 * **2. Field Trip Reminder** || Reminder || Marian || 10’ || 8:00-8:20 Roll call and explanation of day in LLH

8:25 – Breakfast in cafeteria (catered by Eurest)

9:00 – leave school for museum (eat snack on bus, if

necessary)

Bus #1: Carozza, Kyle, Bradshaw Bus #2: Hope, Crepeau, Olivas Bus #3: Bister, Monteith, Winpenny/Spillane

10:00 – begin museum search

12:30– leave for Thumb Plaza

1:30 – lunch at Thumb Plaza (groups of 4, no crossing streets, meet at the Thumb, 1 hour long, reconvene at the big silver thumb)

3:00 - dismiss from Thumb Plaza on ASA buses

Students should bring small backpack, water, booklet, pen/pencil ||
 * **3. Last week of school** || Reminder || Marian || 5’ || -13th: Field Trip to Shanghai Museum

-14th: Field Day

-15th: HIJ Is it possible to have HB on this day instead of elective?

16th: last day for students 8:00-9:45 collect locks, sign yearbooks, pantry breakfast in your HB

10:00-11:15 ASSEMBLY

17th: last day for faculty:) ||
 * **4. Photos** || Reminder || Marian || 2’ || -top 5 and winner (labeled) due to Alfred by end of day on Wednesday, June 8

Judges for categories:

Culture: Lynnette

Nature: Alfred

Candid: Ilkka

Food: Marian

Action: David

Vista: Manon

Group: Jeanne Daily Life: Lynnette ||

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 **

**11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || Marian/Team ||  ||   || -on sale Wed, Thurs, Fri in cafeteria
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://
 * 1) //An understanding of end-of-year dates//
 * 2) //A new Mac lesson from Amanda//
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **Norms**
 * **Norms**
 * **1. Leadership Meeting Notes** || Info Sharing || Marian || 10’ || __Yearbook__

__Staff Meetings__ This Wed- meet briefly, follow-up on China Alive No Staff meetings next two Wednesdays (due to spring concert and Moving Up ceremony respectively)

__Calendar__ -this Thursday – faculty farewell -Friday- MYG night cruise (sign-up in MS office) - 6th: Dragon Boat Holiday -8th/9th: 6:30 Band/String concerts -11th: End of Year Party -13: Grades Due; 6th grade field Trip -14th: Field Day (null day) -15th: Grade 8 transition -16th: first 1 ½ in grade level; 9:45 move to auditorium; 10:00-11:15 assembly; 11:30 buses leave -17th: FFF, don’t need to take stuff down from our classrooms or hallways

__EAGLE articles__ -send in any paragraph and pictures by Tuesday end of day

__2011-2012 Schedule__ -Karl working on it -numbers! 160-grade 8 120-130- grade 7 140-grade 6

Send suggestions for new hires to Jordan (fun things you do outside of school) || Discussion || Marian, Lynnette, Jeanne || 10’ || 8:00-8:20 Roll call and explanation of day in LLH 8:25 – Breakfast in cafeteria (catered by Eurest) 9:00 – leave school for museum (eat snack on bus, if necessary) 10:00 – begin museum search 12:30– leave for Thumb Plaza 1:30 – lunch at Thumb Plaza 3:00 - dismiss from Thumb Plaza on ASA buses
 * **2. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **3. Field Trip (Monday, June 13)** || Info Sharing/

Students should bring small backpack, water, booklet || -Amanda collecting laptops on June 10th, starting in the morning. She will call Marian and David to relay the message on who will go when. -Students will take laptops to library lab 1 || -due on Tuesday, June 7 at 3:00 -teachers will choose the main winner -the top five photos in each category will be displayed in the same space -photos will be dry mounted
 * **4. Tech Talk** || Info Sharing || Amanda || 15’ || __Laptop collection__
 * **5. Photo Contest** ||  ||   ||   || -one picture per category

Judges for categories: Culture: Lynnette Nature: Alfred Candid: Ilkka Food: Marian Action: David Vista: Manon Group: Jeanne || 7th: HI 8th: JH 9th: IJ 10th: HIJ return computers
 * || **5. Calendar for next two weeks**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || 6th: Dragon Boat Holiday

13th: Field Trip to Shanghai Museum 14th: Field Day 15th: HIJ 16th: last day for students 8:00-9:45 collect locks, sign yearbooks, pantry breakfast 10:00-11:15 ASSEMBLY

17th: last day for faculty:) ||

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //an understanding of how to sign out ebooks.// //2.// //A new tech tip from Amanda.// //3.// //An understanding of last minute details for China Alive!// //4.// Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || Marian/Team ||  ||   || -Mark cautioned us about requiring too many AR points; it turns kids off from reading and they focus only on points || -Concern over where to put notes to parents and other disciplinary comments || a. Last minute reminders b. Photo lesson –Wed in Auditorium. c. iWeb overview-when? d. Where does the money go? ||  ||   ||   || a. Thursday morning (8:00-8:15). Kids go directly to trip leaders and hand in forms b. Students bring their Macs c. Marian will send the link to all trip leaders who will then show the example during Friday’s CA meeting d. Total: RMB 40, 446 To Starfish: 25, 446 To Moonbear: 15,000 ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Norms**
 * **2. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **3. E-books and AR for summer**
 * reading** || Info. Dispersal || Mark || 15’ || -Mark showed us how to borrow an e-book from the library. He also tried to show us an actual ebook, but it wouldn’t load.
 * **4. Tech Talk** || Info Sharing || Team || 15’ || -Amanda us how to backup our hard drives using Time Machine. ||
 * **5. Agendas** || Decision || Team || 1’ || -Most people are OK with e-agendas.
 * **6. China Alive**
 * waiver and trip expectations - trip leader
 * passport – trip leader
 * any other forms – trip leader
 * meds - Meryl
 * || **7. Calendar for when we return**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Regular Week ||

** Next meeting: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, May 10, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //An understanding of end-of-year dates.// //2.// //A understand of where to access and how to read the MAP data.// //3.// //An agreed upon time to meet re: next year’s HB.// //4.// //An understanding of the schedule for next week.//

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || Marian/Team ||  ||   || Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __End of Year Dates__ May 11: staff meeting on Wed. dedicated to China Alive! May 16: final packages go home; MYG night form goes home May 19: Passports and medicines come in (extended homeroom) June 1: Stepping Up June 3: Final MYG night June 6: Holiday (Dragon Boat) June 8/9: End of Year Concert June 11: End-of-Year party June 13?: Field Trip to Shanghai Museum? Team approves June 14: Field Day June 16: ½ day
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Relooking at our Norms**
 * **2. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

__Assessments__ -How are you scheduling your end-of-year assessments? -no rushed assessments - Grades due: June 13th (at end of the day)

__China Alive__ -Jeff would like to review our final packages, by end of the day Tuesday, May 10 (send to Marian who will forward to Jeff) -packages to be sent out Monday, May 16 (put reminder in announcements) -Thursday morning: extended homeroom to collect passports

__Bonding Day__ Sept 2, 5, 6? Team 6 recommends: Sept. 2 or 15

FYI: MAP testing: Sept. 19-30 || -final preparations || Discussion || Team || 10’ || We raised RMB 44,181 + 700 from teacher for a GRAND TOTAL OF 44,881! And read 859 books!
 * **3. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **4. Read-a-thon**
 * -**crunching data

Recommendations for next year: -kids can only sponsor 1-2 friends ONLY (some kids did not fulfill their pledge) -add a column to pledge sheet: “Amount Collected” -Attach collection envelopes || - Amanda’s lesson; accessing the MAP results || Info Sharing || Team || 40’ || Showed us how to access and read the MAP results ||
 * **5. Tech Talk**
 * **6. FYI on Equitrac** || Info Sharing || Manon || 1’ || Top-up needs approval from principal ||
 * || **7. Time to meet to create next year’s HB groups** || Group Decision || Team || 1’ || Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 11 at 11:40 ||
 * || **8. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Modified Regular Schedule (“surgery”/dissection happening next wek)

M: HIJ T: H Science, IJ Humanities/Math W: I Science, HJ Humanities/Math Th: J Science, HI Humanities/Math F: HIJ

Humanities: Test this Friday Science test: May 16 Math test: May 20 ||

** Next meeting: Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

//1.// //Possible dates that the sixth grade team would like on the main calendar.// //2.// //An agreement about what dates we will use during HB for our China Alive! meetings// //3.// //An understanding of the schedule for next week.//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || Marian/Team || 10’ ||  || Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __China Alive__ -tables will be set up at 7:45 for Zea to collect money. -This is a change from 8:30 am.
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Norms**
 * **2. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

__Year End Assembly(ies)__ -will happen on the last day of school -May 19th another assembly-dance that night, MUN, CISSA

__Homebase Planning__ -identify 2 people who can take a release day (1) and plan what HB will look like next year –Lynette, Marian, Timber, Jeanne -by June 3

__Calendar Meeting 11-12__ -send dates to Karl/Jeff about dates for next year -Other dates: Bonding Day: September but not 29 or 30 ( not close to October break). Sept 2 or 23 is our preference Open House: Thursday-Sept 8 Read-a-thon: Make trimester 2 the Read-a--thon time frame.

__Step Up Day__ -June 1 (8:15-10) 5th to 6th; 6th go to 7th First hour we have 5th grade and second hour 6th grade returns to core classes.

__Progress Reports__ -due this Friday -cc Timber

__Lockers__ -please remind kids to lock their locks || a. Switching trips (Grace and Michelle) b. Meeting dates c. T-shirts Who pays? Suggest 6th grade design back with each trip design on back (or viceversa) || Discussion || Team || 10’ || a. At this time, we are saying no to switches to prevent mass switches.
 * **3. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ || excel ||
 * **4. China Alive**

b. Possible dates during HB

//Wed. April 27 (Day 3):// China Alive Group-Rooming, packing, bonding, expectations,

//Fri April 29 (Day 1):// last day for read-a-thon AR Quizzes

//Wed. May 4 (Day 3)://

//Fri. May 6 (Day 1//): All read-a-thon money is due

//Tues. May 10 (Day 3):// Read-a-thon wrap-up/celebration –LLH

//Thurs. May 12 ( Day 1//)- China Alive

//Mon. May 16 (Day 3)// –China Alive

//Wed. May 18 (Day 1)-//China Alive: discuss final product and what makes a good photo

//Fri. May 20 (Day 3):// China Alive: last minute reminders

China Alive: May 23-27

c. Students would have to pay for the t-shirts || Invitation from Barbara Boyer || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Fri in LLH (9:00-10:00) || Science: Quiz Thurs, Fri
 * **5. Visiting Author (May 6)**
 * **6. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Humanities Quiz: (This week): Thurs (H); Fri (IJ)

Next Week’s Schedule Monday, May 2: May Holiday Tuesday, May 3: H, I, J Wednesday, May 4: H,I Thursday, May 5: J, H Friday, May 6: 8-8:55 Period I; 9:00-10:00 visiting author in LLH; 10:05-10:55 Period J ||
 * Next meeting: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //A renew understanding of our norms.// //2.// //A new Mac lesson and tips from Amanda.// //3.// //An understanding of what the China Alive! jackdaw will look like.//

Start/ end on time Assume best intentions Monitor speaking (air) time Have a positive attitude Food (comfort) Step up as needed Voice concerns Stay focused Loyalty to team members Humor || Discussion || Marian/Team || 10’ ||  || Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __SLC Feedback__ -overall very good
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Relooking at our Norms**
 * **2. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

__Course Registration__ -all ready to go need to have course registration forms with parent signature or no registration

__Student Survey__ -kids now have an opportunity to evaluate teachers, now to May 9th -how will be do it? In core classes? In HB? Our choice is HB in two sessions April 19th and 21st or 21st and 25th. Check with Jeff.

__Progress Reports__ - by end of April 29 - big drops/less than 70% (no surprises for the parents at report card time)

__Calendar__ -Field Day is June 14 – Tuesday before end of school

__Misc__ -need parents to update their emergency contact info in PS-especially before China Alive -office will take care of kids who are absent for ERBs

__Wishes__ -for yearbook, kids have an opportunity to write “I wish….” (put it all on a WORD document; 20 words max per student) -to be done in HB on Friday || What do we want the jackdaw to look like? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Photo based Thursday, June 10, possible date? Before computers wiped || - Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || Course registration MAP prep and reminder || April 20th – CA selection committee meets in Marian’s room to randomize and record trip selections ||
 * **3. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **4. China Alive**
 * **5. Tech Talk**
 * **6. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || April 22 = math test

** Next meeting: Tuesday, April 26, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

** Reminder of schedule for this and next week: ** Tuesday, April 12, Day 4 8:00-9:15 ERBs 9:15-10:00 Period J 10:05-10:55 Period H

Wednesday, April 13, Day 1 8:00-9:35 Period I 9:35-10:55 Period J  2:20-2:55 Course selection in HB

Thursday, April 14, Day 2 8:00-8:40 APAC Opening ceremony in HS Gym 8:45-9:50 Period H 9:55-10:55 Period I

Friday, April 15, Day 3 8:00-9:35 Period J 9:35-10:55 Period H  2:20 - 2:55 Gather “I Wish” statements from each student China Alive selection due in HB (will be determined by a lottery system)

Monday, April 18, Day 4 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period I

Tuesday, April 19, Day 1 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period J

Wednesday, April 20, Day 2 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period H 11:40 China Alive! selection (Marian’s room)

Thursday, April 21, Day 3 8:00-9:35 Period I 9:35-10:55 Period J

Friday, April 22, Day 4 Regular HIJ day:)



+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111** //1.// //A decision about a 6th grade lock-in.// //2.// //A new Mac lesson and tips from Amanda.// //3.// //A decision as to where to hold the China Alive! presentation.// //4.// //A pen pal for an incoming 6th grader.// //5.// //An understanding of the schedule for next week, April 11-15.//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __SLC__ -to include feedback on the SLP -3:00-6:00 on Thurs; 8:00-3:00 on Friday -Jeff to confirm location of specialists __China Alive__ -remind students to bring in photocopy of passport and visa page during SLC; Zea will have a table set up in front of cafeteria - all packages to be sent home on April 11 -move away from 1st come, 1st serve __ERB tests (next Mon and Tues)__ -test materials ready in the office on Thursday - Jeff will email instructions __Course Catalogue Distribution__ -distributed in HB tomorrow -remind kids to READ the descriptions __APAC Opening, April 14__ -8:10-8:30 -bring your enthusiasm -170+ students visiting for badminton and softball tournaments __Transition__ -is the 6th to 7th transition hour beneficial for our students? -maybe on June 1st; otherwise it’s the week before China Alive || Request from EAGLE Ambassadors || Discussion || Team || 5’ || -This is a privilege for 7th and 8th grade. -The sixth grade team will not be organizing this. || - Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || Amanda gave lesson on setting up blogs and calendars. || -Parent HW and passport -Are we ready? || Discussion || Team || 5’ || -Jeff created the passport; Marian will distribute to the team on Thursday afternoon || presentation? -info on iWeb || Discussion || Team || 10’ || [] Manon created the above iWeb which is very informative. It was suggested that other trip leaders create something similar to share with parents. || -For incoming faculty member’s 6th grader || Discussion || Team || 2’ || Maybe this should be a 5th grader? Names suggested Hannah and Paige ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/
 * **2. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **3. Lock-in?**
 * **4. Tech Talk**
 * **5. SLC**
 * **6. China Alive**
 * -**Where to do the
 * **7. Pen Pal**
 * **8. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || See Below ||
 * Next meeting: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

Schedule for next two weeks: Mon., April 11, Day 3 8:00-9:15 ERBs 9:15-10:00 Period H 10:05-10:55 Period I 2:20-2:55 CHINA ALIVE presentations in Danka’s Drama room Tuesday, April 12, Day 4 8:00-9:15 ERBs 9:15-10:00 Period J 10:05-10:55 Period H 2:20-2:55 Course selection in HB Wednesday, April 13, Day 1 8:00-9:35 Period I 9:35-10:55 Period J Thursday, April 14, Day 2 8:00-8:40 APAC Opening ceremony in HS Gym 8:45-9:50 Period H 9:55-10:55 Period I Friday, April 15, Day 3 8:00-9:35 Period J 9:35-10:55 Period H 2:20 - 2:55 China Alive selection due in HB (will be determined by a lottery system) Monday, April 18, Day 4 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period I Tuesday, April 18, Day 1 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period J Wednesday, April 19, Day 2 8:30-9:30 MAP testing 9:35-10:55 Period H Thursday, April 20, Day 3 8:00-9:35 Period I 9:35-10:55 Period J Friday, April 21, Day 4 Regular HIJ day:)

6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111 Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //A date to give to the admin as to when to send out the China Alive packets// //2.// //A “best time” for when 6th graders can register on Powerschool for next year’s courses.// //3.// //A schedule for next week//

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __China Alive__ -packages ready and sent home on April 15th; payment due on April 22? -give feedback to timeline to Jeff by Wed. __SLC__ -all teams on track with their preparations __Next Year Course Selection__ April 6th – Jeff/Karl meet with grade 5 students April 11-15- 6th and 7th graders choose classes for next year; when most convenient time for kids to register for next years courses? (will take 20-30 min) Our preference: China Alive Presentations Mon. April 11th, Homebase in LLH, Packets out that day, Wednesday course selection in Homebase, Trip choice Friday, April 18th First Come. || - Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || Files and organizing storage || SLC Prep Read-a-thon || Discussion || Team || 10’ || __SLC Prep__ Friday Apr 1 and Wed April 6th practice SLC days Practice Core material in Core Class __Read-a-thon__ Find Pages Total, Friday April 1st is Page Day. Alfred will do page badges that say “ ###” ask me. || Tue: H I Wed: J H Thurs: I J P/T Conferences (3:00-6:00) Fri: P/T Conferences all day ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/
 * **2. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ || Names to Timber ||
 * **3. Tech Talk**
 * **4. Homebase Check in**
 * **5. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Mon: Holiday (Tomb Sweeping Day)

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: March 8, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have: 1. A new tech tip from Amanda. 2. An understanding of what, if any, SLP rubric we will use to have students self-assess and teacher assessment. 3. An agreement about a little HB friendly competition.

- Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || -Amanda gave a lesson focusing on the first lesson we will conduct with the kids || (see attached) || Discussion || Team || 15’ || *we agreed that by March 30th the iWebs will be ready for SLCs -students will make **goal** (with parents) AFTER SLC -we tweeted the SLP rubric (supplied by 7th grade) and will have students fill out one assessing themselves holistically || -Ilkka and Rob will create a schedule || -address at the moment, and go with teachable moments -see Amanda’s link to the NY Times: [] || -6th grade will pass on being involved with this ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **2. Tech Talk**
 * **3. SLProfile**
 * -**Suggested format for use
 * **4. Homebase Volleyball** || Discussion || Ilkka/Team || 3’ || -Friendly games of volleyball after SLC
 * **5. Disaster in Japan** || Discussion || Manon/Team || 10’ || -some negative comments from some students about what happened, ie retribution for WWII
 * **6. Day without Shoes (April 5)** || Discussion || Marian/Team || 5 || -Just be aware that it’s happening
 * **7. Calendar for week we return**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Regular Week ||

** Next meeting: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room ** +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: March 8, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111** //1.// //A new tech tip from Amanda// //2.// //An understanding of what, if any, SLP rubric we will use to have students self-assess and teacher assessment//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

- Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || -Amanda began prepping our machines for the MAP test -tomorrow during the faculty meeting Amanda will show us how to proctor the tests and give us an instruction sheet -iWeb info (see attached) || Discussion || Team || 15’ || Marian will ask Lisa for their general rubric for possible use for SLCs *we agreed that by March 30th the iWebs will be ready for SLCs || Monday: Grades and comments due Friday: End of Q3 (remember to fill out your EAGLES); report cards sent home Humanities: quiz on Friday, March 18 Science: end of unit test on Friday, March 18 Math: March 15th/16th test ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **2. Tech Talk**
 * as a school we have 5 terabites (how big is that??)
 * everyone will be allotted 1GB
 * suggested using “blank” page in SLC preparation then we can tell student how to tailor it our requirements ||
 * **3. Homebase** ||  ||   ||   || The discussion continued… ||
 * **4. SLProfile**
 * -**Suggested format for use
 * **5. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Regular Week


 * Next meeting: Tuesday, March 15, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111** //1.// //A new tech tip from Amanda// //2.// //Final instructions for the Read-a-thon// //3.// //An understanding of what, if any, SLP rubric we will use to have students self-assess and teacher assess//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __Fundraising__ -Marian expressed concerned about lack of information and suggested having a centralized “approval” panel __MAP Testing (between April 18-29)__ -3 hrs of testing -measure of where kid is at that time -test in the morning – 15-20 min to set up laptops -8:20-9:20 M, T, W (18, 19, 20); makeup at the end of the week -have to stagger the test start times -there are going to be some bumps; be prepared for that __ERB- April 11-12__ -2 x 1 hr -during CORE
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

__China Alive__ -final packages are little delayed -more information later this week -still shooting for payment during SLCs China Alive - concerned that students and parents won’t have enough time to make informed choices __Schedule 11-12__ -M/W/F for HB? Still up in the air -electives quarter or trimester? -needs more discussion || Final Details || Discussion || Jeanne/Alfred || 10’ || Today at 2:15 in the LLH || - Amanda’s lesson || Info Sharing || Team || 20’ || Amanda is sick. Postponed till next week. || (see attached) - SLP Refresher - T2 report cards || Discussion || Team Karl || 15’ || -Karl did a demonstration of how the SLP portion of the report card should be filled out -We did not have time to review the SLP rubric || Friday busses leave at 3 -Encourage parents to go to specialists before as well as after SLC || M-F: Visiting author, Allan Wolf; Mon: *Allan Wolf does presentation in Humanities classes (combined in the LLH) Fri: End of T2 Science: 15 MC test Math: Retest during HOT Humanities: Illustrated journal; quiz on Friday, March 18 ||
 * **2. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ || Timber had to leave. We did not gather names. ||
 * **3. Read-a- thon**
 * **4. Tech Talk**
 * **5. SLProfile/SLC Prep**
 * -**Suggested format for use
 * **6. P/T Conference Timing** || Info Sharing || Karl || 5’ || Thursday busses leave at 6
 * **7. Homebase Partners** || Info Sharing || Marian || 2’ || Note from Jeff (see below) ||
 * **8. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Regular Week
 * All grade level meeting with author in HB;
 * dinner with author at Yasmine @6:00


 * Next meeting: Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

We are in the 1st year of a 3 year plan, a plan put together with our JUMP consultants and teachers who volunteered to serve on the Advisory committee. In the first year, we did expect to see some but not a lot of HB pairing time. This will increase as we move closer to China Alive and planning requires input from all. In year 2, H.B classrooms will be smaller (especially in Grade 6) with additional staffing. Once we have the master schedule created for next year, we will be pairing up (based on scheduling equity) specialist and Core teachers. In Year 3, we again hope to keep the numbers in HB class low by assigning more Specialist teachers to HB (again, based on scheduling equity).
 * Note from Jeff re: HB**

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have: 1. A better understanding of how iWeb works from Amanda 2. An update on the Read-a-thon 3. An recommendation about distribution of ESOL student in classes 4. A understanding of how what role 6th grade will play in fundraising activities 5. 5. An answer to a burning SLC question

- Amanda’s iweb lesson || Lesson || Amanda || 20’ || Theme choices as per guide (see One theme for whole site Pages can be password-protected- Please do a survey in HB to find out how many DO NOT want to Publish to www. Next year – Aug 21 is rollout, begins with changing password and connecting to server.(find some method of making a record of passwords). Create Blog page to document progress. Discussion of rollout for next year. || Any further questions? || Info Sharing || Alfred/Jeanne || 5’ || LLH booked for March 1 (with an ES set, is that OK?)
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. SOC (Team A)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **2. Tech Talk**
 * **3. Read-a- thon**

Packets to be delivered next week – sponsor sheet/parent letter/tracking sheets. Alfred, Marian and Mark will meet tomorrow at 11:40 to organize assembly/author dates and times-and report back || How can we ensure equal distribution of ESOL students to all classes? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Timber will gather info and report back on how the 5th to 6th transition/class planning will take place. || Proposed fundraising should be sanctioned by an approval process- schoolwide coordinator, or building (team leader meeting) and then grade level team. We need a voice at grade level. Notice to all faculty that they need to get approval and grade level support before beginning. We will not participate in round 2, grade level competition. || To make public or not make public? Blog Pages? || Discussion || Manon || 10’ || We will offer students the ability to password protect iweb pages || Tues, March 1: Read-a-thon kickoff in LLH during HB Humanities – March 7 – large writing project due (Illustrated journal) and quiz on March 18 Science – labbing out loud Math: Field trip March 29,30,31 ||
 * **4. Class Distribution**
 * **5. Fundraising** || Discussion || Team/Manon || 8’ || Congratulation to Art Dept for having kids working toward charity fundraising.
 * **6. SLC Prep Question**
 * **7. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 3’ || Regular Week

** Next meeting: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111** //1.// //A recommendation for the admin team about scheduling HB/Elective for next year// //2.// //An understanding of the activities Allan Wolfe can provide to us during author’s week// //3.// //A new tech tip from Amanda// //4.// //A review of what will be taught during next year’s elective// //5.// //An update on the Read-a-thon// //6.// //An recommendation about distribution of ESOL student in classes// //7.// //A understanding of how what role 6th grade will play in fundraising activities// //8.// //An update on SLCs//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __ Schedule __ -elective and HB scheduling -possible M/W/F = HB and T/Th = Elective -what scheduling options do we want to see for next year? -possible max on the number of kids in electives?
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

· Some like a set M, W, F – Homebase schedule with T, Th Electives · Some want to keep it as it is. They are worried Powerschool would not be able to generate schedules. · Marian discussed an 8-day block schedule option for next year. · How can we make a big school smaller? Make Homebase smaller which requires more teachers as Homebase teachers. Homebase numbers are a continuing concern. Partners are not attending Homebase classes as per the Admin directive.

__ P ____ D Days/Road To Nowhere __ -where do we go with RTN? -how much HW are we giving? – Ongoing discussion · Will be discussed at the faculty meeting. __ MAP Testing (between April 18-29) __ -replaces the IOWA test -immediate feedback -working out the technical aspects · More info coming. __ Assessment __ -survey coming out on the SAS Assessment Practices (around April 1) -the document is being finalized __ Schedule 2012 -some preliminary thoughts __ -Laura and Timber having students of concern meeting on Friday. Please send any updates for those students on LAST SOC list, NOT current SOCs || - Amanda’s lesson -Update on new year’s elective -FYI: Elective and Chinese || Discussion || Team || 15’ || Amanda will create a checklist of the scope and suggested timeline for the elective. · Geek squad – assigned student helpers under Amanda · David’s minutes from meeting with Amanda and Lynnette presented. · iWeb checklist will guide instruction for upcoming Homebase. – Getting Ready to Use iWeb. · Amanda will meet with us in small groups to get us up to speed on iWeb. · Amanda will set up iWeb with our Homebase groups on Thursday 2:20 – 2:55. · After the faculty meeting, meet in Marian’s room with Amanda to discuss iWeb. || -Admin presents on Feb. 23st In LLH || Info Sharing || Team || 1’ || · Admin presents Feb. 23, LLH during Homebase · Karl would like the Keynote placed on the Team Blog after their presentation and possibly on our class blogs. Parent awareness may help generate questions for parents to discuss at the parent-coffee March. || -Humanities teachers discuss how to use Alan Wolfe in your classes *(20 sessions for the week; 4 one hour sessions per day) *visit Alan’s website []for ideas and his different presentations *Alan’s books set up in the library *Book about the body (science) · Barb talked with Ellen today for some ideas for Allan’s visit relating to poetry writing workshops. · Read-a-thon integration and Shelfari a possible tool as well. · Thursday – High School · Middle School – 16 sessions, divided by 3 grade levels · Whole sixth grade presentation= 1 session/3 workshops · Special lunch time with the author for gifted writers. · Teacher workshop possible as well. · Mon. 1/7 - Grade 6: 2:15 – 2:55 LLH Session 1 · 3 poetry workshops – Topic to be decided. · Friday: possibly a presentation – Gathering of the Gods or Poem in My Pocket Day || · Jeanne and Alfred presented a possible schedule of events. · March 1: Kick off in LLH · Want author to help kick-off on March 7. · Parent letter with tracking sheets will go out on March 1. · Students collect names and return sponsor sheets back into Homebase teachers. · See Calendar for specific activities planned. || How can we ensure equal distribution of ESOL students to all classes? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Next meeting || · iWeb intro Thursday during Hombase with Amanda. · Teachers assign time and send to parents for confirmation. We need confirmation of final timings for Thursdays. · Parent letter will be translated in Korean and Chinese. · Core teachers responsible for giving students specific requirements for their classes. · Specialists should make students aware of their requirements if they would like to add to the iWeb portfolio. · See attachment for more details. || Wed. 23rd: Learner Profile in LLH during HB Fri. 25th: Mac Date Night ||
 * **2. SOC (Team B)** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ || __ Next meeting __ ||
 * **3. Tech Talk**
 * **4. SLProfile**
 * **5. Visiting Author** || Discussion || Team/Barbara Boyer || 10 || __ Visiting Author – March 7-11 __
 * **6. Read-a- thon** || Info Sharing || Alfred/Jeanne || 10’ || LLH booked for March 1 (with an ES set, is that OK?)
 * **7. Class Distribution**
 * **8. Fundraising** || Discussion || Team/Manon || 8’ || Next meeting ||
 * **9. SLC Prep** || Info Sharing || Ilkka/Manon || 10’ || · Excel for possible schedule discussed.
 * **10. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Regular Week

___ ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2010 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**
 * Next meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //An understanding of how the learner profile is being dispersed.// 2. //An understanding of how iWeb works and discussion as to its usability for student portfolios//.

Discussion || Marian || 5’ || __CNY__ -6th: H period; be in gym by 10:10 -7th: Spelling Bee 8th: Core schedule (B day) Lunch: 11:30-12:20
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights** || Information Dispersal/

__Learner Profile__ -How informed are kids about the profile? -We need to have the conversations with the kids about it. -Karl and Jeff are willing to come in and talk to advisories about it. -We may have a short assembly around it

__PD Days__ -Maybe a screening of “Race to Nowhere ” (as a team we would rather have planning time) -Final schedule will come out later this week - Monday, 12:30 – 2:00 -Homebase planning -Read-a-thon (Alfred and Jeanne) -SLC (Manon and Ilkka) - Amanda Mac Elective: (David and Lynnette) || How does it work? Possible student portfolio platform? || Information Sharing || Alfred || 30’ || Alfred did a great job of introducing iWeb to us all. It seems doable and reasonable to do the Spring SLCs. The SLC subcommittee will make up a schedule for when we will work on this in HB. || Tests/quizzes? || Discussion || Team || 2’ || -Math HOT on Monday for review on Feb 14th, retest HOT Feb 15th
 * **2. SOC (Team A)** || Information Gathering || Timber || 3’ ||  ||
 * **3. iWeb**
 * **4. Calendar for week we return**

Week we return Wed: HI Thurs: JH  Fri: IJ ||

** Next meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room ** ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011 ** ** 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111 **

** Desired Outcomes: ** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// // 1. //// An understanding of the format for the Spring SLC // // 2. //// An understanding of the timeline of the Read-a-thon // // 3. //// An agreement about Michele’s note re: students returning to lockers in the afternoon // // 4. //

Discussion ||  ||   || __ CNY Celebration __ -starts at 10:30 on -leave the MS at 10:10 to  - What do we want to do from 8:00-10:10? Decision by Wed. // We will do H class. Friday is I and J // __ SLCs and iWeb __ -possibly have a portfolio (iWeb? Or do we know of another electronic portfolio?) from the beginning of the year starting next year -Discuss how we want to structure our SLCs; role of specialists?
 * ** What ** || ** How ** || ** Who ** || ** Time ** || ** Notes ** ||
 * ** 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights ** || Information Dispersal/

__ PD Days __ -more details from Karl on Wednesday

•**February 7th** - Divisional Professional Learning (***Social Studies, French & Spanish, Music & Drama Curriculum Review teams are in retreat on the Puxi Campus) - Agenda to come out next week from Karl** •Seeking offerings for TTT sessions on February 8th, including mini workshops, shared reading sessions, and Round-table discussion facilitators •Please reply by Friday, January 21st at http://tinyurl.com/myFeb2011PD // Reminder for Amanda and curriculum planning for mac elective // __ China Alive __ -Wed as initial China Alive mtg -Who is going where? //All specialists get an opportunity to choose trip// -List of trips will be available
 * • **February 8th **- All Faculty meet on the Pudong Campus (***Social Studies, French & Spanish, Music & Drama Curriculum Review teams continue in retreat)

__ Yearbook __ -get pics in to Stacey PLEASE // Use Photobucket on server //

-Laura and Timber having students of concern meeting on Friday. Please send any updates for those students on LAST SOC list, NOT current SOCs || Next Wed, 26th, 1:00 pm Kai Manon’s room Friday, 1:00 pm 28th, Cameron Monday, 24th 12:45 Team B SOC Manon’s room || What format do we want to have for the spring SLC? || Discussion || Team || 15’ || Alfred will show us Iweb next week Parent Education via blog Sessions on the hour at 3:30 8;30, 9:30, 10:30. Survey Parents for preferences. Digital. || Fundraiser: Read-a-thon -Starfish, and any other charity as we see fit -Introduction on March 1 –// Advisory LLH, team meeting Feb 22 // -Starts on March 14! Quizzes and tallying Every other Friday is LITERARY FRIDAY Ends about a week before China Alive || See below || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Going to lockers is fine. Be aware that the time will come out of PE time. Marian is willing to supervise. || Tues: JH Wed: IJ  Thurs: H class; Thursday Null Day: CNY Celebration Friday: IJ
 * ** 2. SOC (Team B) ** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ || New student next week – Min Sung Kim
 * ** 3. SLC **
 * ** 4. Read-a-thon ** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Previous Notes:
 * ** 5. Michele’s Note **
 * ** 6. Mailing From Groupwise ** || Info Sharing || Marian || 2’ ||  ||
 * ** 7. Calendar for next week **
 * Tests/quizzes? **
 * Reminders ** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Mon: HI

Hope – Integer Test this Friday Manon’s class has test: H-Thursday 27th, I,J -Friday 28th ||

** Next meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **================================================================================================================================= ** 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011 ** **11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

**Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have:// //1.// //A list of tech skills needed by the new students// //2.// //An understanding of the HB activity created by Jeanne and Lynnette// //3.// //An understanding of upcoming activities and events//

What do the new students need to know and be able to do? || Info Gathering/ Discussion || Amanda || 15’ || Trial with new students – folders, servers, blog management, portal, safety, library resources, basic photo editing, pages, voice candy, imovie || Lynnette || 10’ || Begin Keynote activities, leading up to values. Proposed end date Jan. 28 (before CNY). Values lessons leading up to read-a-thon || Upcoming dates and events || Discussion || Marian/ Team || 10’ || Jan 27 null day-CNY celebration Jan 25 Alfred iweb demo Author visit – March 7th Trimester ends March 11 Quarter 3 ends March 18 || Discussion to carry on regarding SLC’s, Read-a-thon Marian quiz Friday on vocabulary words ||
 * **What** || **How** || **Who** || **Time** || **Notes** ||
 * **1. Tech Skills**
 * 2. **HB Activity** || Discussion || Jeanne/
 * **3. The weeks ahead**
 * **4. SOC** || Info Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * **5. Calendar for next week**
 * Tests/quizzes?**
 * Reminders** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Schedule: Regular week

** Next meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, 11:40, Marian’s Room **** ** * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1.// //An understanding of the schedule for Dec. 17.// **
 * //2.// //An understanding of activities we will do in HB for Semester 2// **

Discussion || Marian || 5’ || __Electives__ -need to get EAGLES done and to Edith by Friday -Amanda to run a “Get to Know Your Mac” for 3rd quarter; framework for next year’s program Who will teach this elective to 6th grade next year? Can we have some input into what is taught in this class, eg saving, naming documents, iWeb, etc? Can we do an inventory of the skills taught already this year?
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__Blog__ -please post something on your blog about what you will be doing when we return in January || -Sumo Wrestling – Lisa, David Cole, Rain, Jason + 4 language teachers -Drama Games – Fine Arts teachers + 2 Language teachers -Core teachers to escort the students from one event to the next 1st shift: Math 2nd shift: Science 3rd Shift: Humanities -See the posters and or refer to Karl’s email -Departing Students? || Jan. 29-Feb. 6: CNY March 11: T2 Ends March 18: Q2 Ends March 19-27: Spring Break April 4: Tomb Sweeping Day April 7/8: PT Conferences May 2: Tomb Sweeping Day May 23-27: China Alive! Fundraiser: Read-a-thon -Starfish, and any other charity as we see fit -Introduction on March 1 -Starts on March 14! Quizzes and tallying Every other Friday is LITERARY FRIDAY Ends about a week before China Alive ||
 * 2. Dec. 17th || Information Sharing || Marian || 5’ || -Dodgeball – PE staff
 * 3. Homebase for Q3
 * What will be our focus?**
 * When do we start fundraising**
 * for charities at each trip**
 * location?** || Discussion || Team || 20’ || Significant dates for Semester 2
 * 4. New Students || Information Sharing || Timber || 10’ || 5 new 6th graders in January; all supposed to be great kids

Alysa Palmer – Team B (Marian) Ashley Palmer – Team A (David) Georgia, Willa, Kevin going into Alfred’s HB || Regular Week ||
 * 5. Calendar for week we return
 * Tests/quizzes?** || Discussion || Team || 1’ || Jan 10th: Day 1

Next meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room =================================================================================================================== 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**


 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Attendance || Reminder || Marian || 1’ || PLEASE send your attendance to Angelina, even if you have full attendance, by 8:15

Can we all sections be made “live” links in Powerschool? ||
 * 2. Emailing in Power School || Information Sharing || Marian || 5’ || Can Arlette or MS secretaries create email groups by Homebase or have email address in the column above (next to birthday and home phone) or somewhere else accessible to teachers? ||
 * 3. Giving Tree Concern || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Can we please respect/honor core time? A Math test had been scheduled for two weeks prior. Therefore, schedule changes had to be made for all so kids could take their test.

How were these kids chosen? ||
 * 4. Warm Up Rooms
 * Math, Humanities, Project**
 * Area** || Discussion || Lou via Marian || 1’ || No problem ||
 * 5. Names for SOC (Team A) || Information Gathering || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * 6. Calendar for next week
 * Tests/quizzes** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Math test this Friday

Mon. Dec. 13 HI Tues. Dec. 14: JH Wed. Dec. 15: IJ Thurs. Dec. 16 HIJ (Science Test; Humanities project due) || Friday is a Null Day (schedule is not yet finalized) Christmas potluck/pantry parties with Homebase on Wed. Dec. 15/ Reveal Secret Santa
 * 7. Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || Secret Santa

Dec. 17th party Cake -Alfred 30 RMB each, already ordered Napkins – Marian Paper plates – Jeanne Mulled Apple Cider– Manon Forks /spoons – Ilkka Chips & Dip – Alfred/ David Coffee-Lynnette Music - Ilkka ||

Next meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 14th, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room *===================================================================================================================== 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 30th, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1.// //A final list of trips we want to offer for China Alive 2011// **
 * //2.// //An understanding of when students are expected back in school after a school trip.// **
 * //3.// //A decision about the schedule for T2 (beginning January)// **
 * //4.// //An understanding of the schedule, including tests/quizzes, for the following week// **

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __Calendar__ -Christmas celebrations coming up - Giving Tree bags due Friday Dec. 3rd -Dec. 10 – MYG night semiformal -Dec. 13th- Design Spaces Due -Dec. 17th DRAFT schedule 8:07-8:20 Homebase // Grade 6 okay with adjusting time to meet Spec needs // 8:25-10:15 Specialist Rotation (core teachers escort kids to different rotations) 10:20-11:20 Assembly 11:25 HB 11:30 Buses Depart
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__MAP Test__ (online test) -PD opportunity in HK Feb. 24-27 (send names to Jeff) -actual test in Spring (TBD) Network concerns Need more PD? Can MAP come here. How about CNY PD days?

__Spelling Bee__ -information coming -hand out bags -don’t have to do anything ||
 * 2. SOC (Team B) || Info Gathering || Timber || 5’ ||  ||
 * 3. China Alive (May 23-27)
 * Finalize locations**
 * In and Around Shanghai**
 * Wild Wall**
 * Moganshan**
 * Xian**
 * Sichuan**
 * Hainan** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || -Trip locations due to Jeff today

designed for kids who cannot go on another trip, not presented as a choice), led by Jeanne Tests/quizzes? || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Thurs./Fri. Dec. 2/3 Humanities Quiz
 * In and Around Shanghai (combined w/ 6, 7, 8; it’s
 * Wild Wall (25), led by Ilkka
 * Moganshan (26, 7 boys, 19 girls), led by Lou
 * Xian (overflow), co-led by Marian and Lynnette
 * Hainan (28), co-led by Manon and Alfred
 * Sichuan (28, backup) ||
 * 4. School trips Expectation
 * When are kids expected to be**
 * back in school after a trip?** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Students need to fill out a leave form and have it signed by teachers. When students return to school … ||
 * 5. Trimester 2
 * To block or not to block** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Keep schedule as it currently is: HIJ/HIJ Mon, Fri ||
 * 6. Calendar for next 2 weeks

Next Week: Regular week Mon. Dec. 6th: Science Project due Fri. Dec. 10th Math test (HIJ)

Mon Dec. 13 HI Tues. Dec. 14 JH Wed. Dec. 15 IJ Thurs.Dec. 16th HIJ (science test) || Can Turkey Trot be at the end of the day? And the assembly the next day? It was very slick with dew.
 * 7. Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian || 1’ || Cake – Dec 17th for team ||
 * 8. AOB ||  ||   ||   || __Turkey Trot__

__Secret Santa for HB__ for those who want to Mon, Tues, Wed – a note, a sweet, 40-50Y gift.

__Team Blog__ Jeanne will update beginning 2nd semester ||

Next meeting: Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room

6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 23rd, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1. A decision as to what role we will play in the HS Read-a-thon//**
 * //2. An understanding of what spaces will be used to design the collaborative spaces and a timeline of HB time usage//**

Information Gathering || Jeff || 10’ || Jeff presented a proposal about HS students wanting to do a read-a-thon to create a library for the ayis, and bus staff.
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Read-a thon with HS || Discussion/

Team discussed and decided to stay with the read-a-thon fundraiser that we do for China Alive! charities (Starfish organization and Moon Bears). Would like to keep our focus on our charities and not dilute the funds or energy away from that. Additionally, we feel that Starfish has come to depend on us as a donor and we don’t want to diminish the amount of money we give to them this year. ||
 * 2. Collaborative Spaces Competition || Clarification || Team || 5’ || -Marian will send out the PP if team members want to review it with students.

-Spaces kids should design for: -Outside Deputy Superintendent’s office -Outside Admissions office -Under stairs leading from 1st floor to 2nd floor) || Team A || 5’ ||  || Tues, Nov. 30: China Alive trip locations due to Admin Mon. 29-Dec. 3: PTSA Santa Workshop || Tuesday: IJ Wednesday: HI Thursday: JH Friday: IJ ||
 * 3. SOC (Team A) || Info. Gathering || Timber/
 * 4. Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || Monday, Nov. 29: Turkey Trot
 * Next Week’s Schedule
 * Monday- Turkey Trot (finishes @ 9:00)** || Discussion || Team || 5 || Monday: H

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 16th, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1.// //A date for the administration when to begin the Open Space Competition.// **
 * //2.// //A decision as to what China Alive! trips we will go on this year and who will lead these trips.// **

Discussion || Marian || 5’ || __Calendar__ -Mon. Nov. 15 –Nov. 24th: Powerschool closed to parents;not able to see comments). Remember: comments: 200 character limit - Nov. 23: Grades due @ 8:00 am -Dec. 14-15: Concerts (Tues - Band and Drama; 15 Orchestra, Mun’s group, 7th drama -Dec. 17: All school Assembly || -$3500 for each grade level -individual HB teacher will decide how much time to spend on it. || -Wild Wall (25) Bister Moganshan 28 – davey Sichuan <32, 28 – Crepeau/Olivas Xian? – Bradshaw/Kyle Hainan?- Manon will check Concerns for age-appropriateness for grade 6 in the fall. Our preference is for spring trip. || Informal check-in as needed || Emergency supply in classroom – Marian will get cups by Friday Remind kids about sanitary behavior || Math is Monday 22 ||
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/
 * 2. SOC (Team B) || Info Gathering || Timber || 5’ ||  ||
 * 3. Collaborative Spaces Competition
 * When do we want to start?** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || -Nov 22 intro (after Amanda’s gaming talk), end Dec 17
 * 4. China Alive (May 23-27)
 * 1. Where do we want to go**
 * this year?**
 * 2. Who will lead trips?**
 * 3. Fall/Spring of 2011-**
 * 2012?** || Discussion || Team || 20’ || -Trip locations due to Jeff on Nov. 30
 * 5. SMART Goal follow-up || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Blog goals
 * 6. Cupless Campus?
 * Do we need to have a stash of paper cups for kids who forget their water bottles?** || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Reminder for water bottle
 * 7. Schedules for end of trimester and testing || Discussion || Team || 5’ || Science test is week on Nov 23,24 (after trimester end)
 * 8. Reminders for Next Week

Calendar for next week **(Thanksgiving Week)** || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || Fri. Nov. 19: Mac Date Night Mon. Nov. 22: Amanda talks to whole 6th grade re: gaming/ Collaborative Spaces Competition intro Tues. Nov. 23: Grades due Thurs. Nov. 25: Report cards sent home Fri. Nov. 26: Thanksgiving Holiday

M-Th schedule. Nix Friday schedule ||

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room

6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Nov. 9th, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111

Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1.// //A list of plus/deltas to help improve SLCs for next time.// **
 * //2.// //A list of ideas of what to do with the Chinese doors near the copier// **

Discussion || Marian || 10’ || __SLC Feedback__ -begin thinking about the spring session -more interactivity potential? Eg. Parents and kids doing a lab together? -the current format works well for the 6th grade -students need more direction from specialists (some) for what to do -seeing the specialists took too long;
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__Homebase Update__ -keep the discussion going -we’ll be discussing at faculty mtg on Wed

__Outdoor Spaces__ -3:15 in John Borden’s office -send ideas to Karl and Jeff

__ Chinese Doors near the copier __ -what do we want to do with them? -Take ownership -they need to be made safer -can they be painted?

__China Alive__ -begin the discussion for 2011 CA ||
 * 2. SLC
 * Pluses and Deltas** || Discussion || Team || 10’ || __Feedback from Fall 2010 SLC Conferences__

__What Students Liked about the Conferences__
 * -Able to tell your parents your positives**
 * -no discussion about grades**
 * -Students not stressed out; students felt confident and prepared; lot of time to prepare**
 * -Free sandwiches**
 * -parents able to meet teachers**
 * -no school on Friday (if you had done it on Thursday)**
 * -liked the format of the conference**
 * -it was really organized(signage, time slots…etc)**
 * -Parents listened to rules(for the most part)**
 * -0pportunity to discuss learning**
 * -showing parents exemplary work**
 * -having all core teachers in the one room**

__What they didn’t like:__
 * -teachers were pressuring students**
 * - too chaotic – specialist – waiting time too long**
 * -not enough time to show everything**
 * -teachers hovering over students**
 * - took to long to visit all teachers**
 * - Fine Arts Lounge was confusing**
 * - specialists needed to be closer together except for fine arts**
 * - some students went over the time schedule**

__Deltas__ -regular schedule next week ||
 * -practice in native language if you’re going to present in native language**
 * -more sandwich choices**
 * -some people late in getting there; delayed everyone**
 * -want teachers to talk to the parents more**
 * -tour the parents around the school**
 * -time too short for some; too long for others**
 * -there should be a bell or something that marks the beginning of the conferences.** ||
 * 4. Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || -Fri. Nov. 19th: Trimester ends/Mac Date Night

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room

*


 * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, November 2, 2010 **


 * 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

//1.// //Suggestions for scheduling for next year// //2.// //An agreement of the content of the note to be posted on the blog re: SLC parent etiquette// //3.// //An understanding of what will happen in HB in November//
 * Desired Outcomes:** //By the end of this meeting, we will have://

Discussion || Marian || 10’ || __Yearbook__ -need to drop photos into the photo bucket to assist Stacie Nakai with Yearbook
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__ Budget __ -due today!

__Homebase__ -Tuesday will be HB; Thursday will be elective

__Tech workshops for Parents__ -Amanda will be giving workshops to parents in the library on Friday

__Scheduling__ -Karl will be working on this in the next few weeks -7th requesting passing time is >3min -any major changes need to start in November -6th grade recommendations/requests to Karl: 4 humanities teachers for 6th Marian – 8 block rotation (can supply a model) Manon-Not back to back blocks

__Powershool__ -Karl having meeting with Arlette re: emailing, comment length, changing names -DO NOT send Powerschool notes to the counseling; they cannot do ANYTHING about PS

__Null Days__ -we’re the only division who does null days -do we want to have null days or not? Do we want to have the calendar set for the rest of the year? Or keep planning a trimester at a time? -We support any decision by specialists-does not matter to us. || -When to have meeting in light of SLC? -Names || Discussion || Timber || 5’ || 12:30 on Friday in Manon’s Room Allan Mio Bobby Chow Kia Zo || -Note to parents on blog about etiquette -Are we ready? If not, what do we need to do to be prepared? || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -We will have HB every day this week SLC Parent info for blog discussed || a. What are we doing in HB for the rest of the month? b. Upcoming dates || Discussion || Team || 15’ || Nov. 10th: Fire Drill? Nov. 19th: End of Trimester 1/ Mac Date Night Nov. 26th: Thanksgiving Holiday Nov. 29-Dec. 3: PTSA Santa Workshop HBase- games, fun, read aloud, Timber is willing to push in ||
 * 2. SOCs
 * 3. SLC’s
 * 4. Month of November
 * Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || -A regular week! ||


 * Next meeting: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111


 * Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have:**
 * 1. Given feedback on the updated learner profile.**
 * 2. An understanding of what assessments are being given at the end of T1.**
 * 3. An update on what is going on with SLC.**

Discussion || Marian || 10’ || __SLC__ -food ordered -all going well
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__End of T1 Assessments__ - what are we doing for end of semester assessments? Humanities: on-going stuff, no specific assessment Math: unit test on Friday Science: on-going stuff, no specific assessment -all, or almost all, of our assessments are common -not having all assessments all at the same time -Need to have conversations about common assessments-consistency with teaching partner

__Learner Profile__ -all feedback due Nov. 10 -has to be teacher and parent/student friendly -evaluated by subject teacher || -Taking another look @ the updated Learner Profile || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -Would like descriptors turned into comments for areas of concern/needs improvement. Popup boxes? -Team is comfortable with wording and categories || -dress protocol for SLC -SLC page -skit -Passport addition -folders -blog page || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -Dress a little more businesslike/formal. Collared shirt, tucked in. Wear a belt. Nice shoes, not runners/tennis. Brush hair! You want to impress. -We’ll all have folder to put Learner Profile, core work, and parent HW/passport -Students to create a blog page (not post); sample on Alfred’s blog || Secondary question, how come the parents can email through PowerSchool, but teachers can’t? Parents click on our name and email us directly. We need this resource for communication. || -Mon. Nov. 1/Wed. Nov. 3: Practice giving SLCs in HB -Tues., Nov. 2: Budget due -Thur. Nov. 5/Fri Nov. 6: SLC conferences -Check with HB kids about their names in the yearbook ||
 * 2. Learner Profile
 * 3. SLC
 * 4. Attendance || Discussion || Team || 3’ || attendance not possible is all gr 6 classes at present because the powerschool does not allow. We don’t meet on same MS schedule as other grades. Gr 6 is supposed is email up to Angelina who is to enter them into PS. Can the chairs be lit up at all times so that we can do our own?
 * 5. Reminders for Next Week || Information Dispersal || Marian ||  || -SOC THIS Friday, Oct. 29 Team A

Next meeting: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room


 * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 **


 * 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have: //1. An understanding about what each subject area does for rewrites/second chances.// //2. A more complete plan for SLC conferences scheduled for Nov. 4/5th.//

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __Calendar__ Need more budget time or more SLC time for Wednesday?
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__Goals meetings__ Please make sure you schedule your meeting by the end of the month

__MYG Night forms__ Hand out Wed./Kids bring back on Thursday to the OFFICE Money to be collected by the MS office, not HB teacher

__Assessment- Information gathering__ What are people doing in the area of rewrites, ie second chances for test, papers, etc? Math: retakes on summative available with 80% limit Science: retakes available on summative with 80% limit Humanities: opportunities are given to those who need it

__SLC__ -start thinking of models for next year! || -SOC Team B meeting on Wed 12:30 ||
 * 2. Enrollment Update || Discussion || Timber || 2’ || -FYI: Twin girls starting in January. Will look at girl numbers
 * 3. Powerschool Note || Information Dispersal || Marian || 1’ || This is the note I received from Arlette asking about emailing from Powerschool:

Hi Marian, PowerSchool is not really an emailing system, it is a student information system. Email right now is not a part of it's function. But i'll keep this in mind. Thanks, Arlette

Team is frustrated with the current system. We NEED to have a more seamless way to communicate with Parents via email. || -Questions for parents? (see below) -Expectations/format for kids? (see below) -What role of the specials teacher? -HW/Passport on one paper? -Timeline || Discussion || Team || 15’ || -Specialist team leaders will send Marian their expectations for their subject area -Team B is doing 6 per session/Team A is doing 5 per session Generic questions for parents that add to the qualities we are trying to achieve are included in the ‘homework for parents’ which will be returned to the HB teacher within a week. Schedule for students discussed. -Please see the Wiki for the schedule and other notes about SLC: http://sas-pdgrade6.wikispaces.com/Student-Led+Conferences || (schedule is attached) ||
 * 4. SLC subcommittee
 * 5. IOWAS || Information Dispersal || Marian || 1’ || Expect materials Thu/Fri
 * 6. Social Musical Opportunity || Information Dispersal || Marian || 1’ || “Water Heavens” is staged in Zhujiajiao, a water town just under 2 hours away.

3 Caogang Tan, Xijing Street, Zhijiajiao, Qingpu District Ticket hotline (Chinese speaker only) is 13816800031. Email: water@parnassusproductions.com || -Preparation for SLC in CORE classes -HB: SMART goals, discuss how to conduct an SLC -Bat’s Musical Wednesday, October 27- 5:00pm Thursday, October 28- 3:15pm Friday, October 29- 3:15pm (MYG night) ||
 * 7. Reminders for next week (Week of Oct. 25-29) || Reminder || Marian ||  || -IOWAS in HB (see attached schedule)


 * Next meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room**

*


 * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 **


 * 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have: //1. An understanding of upcoming Oct. dates and admin expectations (budget, progress reports).// //2. An understanding of how the fall SLC conferences will be conducted.// //3. A schedule for core classes following the IOWA tests.// //4. An understanding of what SMART goals should look like.//

Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __Progress Reports (due the end of this week)__ -Students of concern -an email to parents -no need to put what is going on in your class (that is already on our blogs) -send a list to the counselors; no Google docs will be sent, but spreadsheet will be sent by Laura/Timber when all names submitted
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Meeting Highlights || Information Dispersal/

__MYG/Bats Night__ Oct. 29

__IOWAS__ Oct. 25-29th

__SLCs__ -timings will come out today (maybe 3:30-6:30 on Thursday; all day on Friday) -evening time created as we want to avoid ½ days

__Budgets (due Nov. 1)__ -all curriculum request to Dept Leaders -overseas and local: to Dept. Leader -tech: to Amanda, -furniture(new): to Jeff/Karl -furniture (wear and tear): to support services -grade level request: to Marian -Humanities to Jeff/Karl -Math: Kay Saich -Science: Michael Saich

- Wednesday: work on Budget (after Hats and Snacks) -put in for field days ($6000.00) || Report out: What SLCs will look like this year? || Discussion || Team || 20’ || SLC – It is a Celebration! 1. Oct. 12: Learner profile a. student self-assess, then teacher assess 2. Oct. 14: SMART goal a. Students create one (1) goal to complete within the next 2 weks –could be non- academic 3. Oct. 18-26: Core prep a. prep/reflection 4. Oct. 26: Modeling a. Team members will model good/bad SLC in LLH 5. Oct. 28, Nov. 1, Nov. 3: Practice a. students will practice during HB
 * 2. Students of Concern (Team A) || Discussion || Timber || 2’ ||  ||
 * 3. Progress Reports || Information Sharing || Timber || 5’ || (see above) ||
 * 4. SLC subcommittee

-Sub-committee will work on letter to parents and suggested questions/coaching for parents

-Request times ( still waiting on time schedule from Jeff who is waiting for it from top admin ) || -What’s the schedule? -What will the schedule be for core classes after the test? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Monday: IOWAs /break – 8-9 H – 9-9:55 I – 10-10:55
 * 5. IOWA Tests

Tuesday: IOWAs /break – 8-9:10 J – 9:10-10:00 H- 10:05 – 10:55

Wednesday: IOWAs /break – 8-9:30 I – 9:30-10:15 J – 10:15-10:55

Thursday: IOWAs /break – 8-9:00 Homebase: 9-10:55 – SLC Stuff

Friday: Make-ups HIJ Schedule

See attached for full schedule || What are they and what should they look like? || Discussion || Team || 5’ || See attached || 2. Time permitting (LOL) schedule a visit to the library with Mark. He has some great books to recommend. ||
 * 6. SMART Goals
 * 7. Items not discussed at Meeting || Info Sharing || Marian ||  || 1. FYI: Counselors will have a parent book club meeting in 6th grade project area next Thurs. Oct. 21

Next meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room


 * 6th Grade Team Meeting: Wednesday, Sept. 29 2010 **


 * 11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111**

Desired Outcomes: By the end of this meeting, we will have: //1. An understand of all the activities/due dates for the month of October.// //2. A list of what worked and what needs improvement for Bonding Day for next year.// //3. A subcommittee to work on SLCs.// //4. An understanding of what activities are going on in Homebase.// //5. Recommendations for the administration on the Student-Learner Profile.//

October Date It is packed! || Information Dispersal/ Discussion || Marian || 15’ || __Dates for October__
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Notes/

//Progress Reports (by Oct. 15th)// -CC counselor -70% or less or significant drop An email should be sent home to the parents if the student is 70% or less, there is a significant drop, or not working to his/her potential. In addition, admin will put a note on the MS blog and will send a Powerschool message to parents to check PowerSchool at this time

//Oct. 22nd: End of Quarter 1 for Elective// -EAGLES to be completed- Report Form. Give completed reflection sheets to Edith who copies them and distributes them in the report card envelope.

//Oct. 25-29 IOWA Tests// -through core classes (about an hour a day) -LAST time for IOWAS! -in Spring will be taking the MAP test(online, immediate feedback) Recommend a tech person on the floor during MAP

//Summative Assessments// -when are we giving our tests -end of T 1 is Nov. 19 -report card go home on Nov. 25th

//Budget// - Orders due Tues. Nov. 2 -Oct. 13 and 20th (Wednesdays) will be Budget and SLC conversations -through department Not team leader -mostly done online

//Goals/Portfolio Meeting// -set up meeting with Karl/Jeff by end of October

//SLCs// -Nov. 4/5 (on 4th is at night) -how will the conferences be conducted -will NOT have report cards for SLC || What worked? What can be done better? || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Pluses Good games Good venue Better fewer activities; more time in each than last year Coming and going from gate 3
 * 2. Bond Day Feedback

Deltas Shorten lunch, more game time or move on, don’t wait for latecomers Add transportation response to form Cellphones Gate 3 pick up needs to be on letter


 * Photos in: ** MS Shared Folder -> 6 Homebase (2010-2011) -> Bonding Day Century Park-> Gd 6 Cent Park Davey pics

Create slideshow in iPhoto and share with HB tomorrow || Who would like to work on the SLC format for T1? || Volunteering || Marian || 2’ || Manon Ilkka Lynnette · Meet during PD day · Report on 12th (next Team meeting) || What is going on? || Discussion || Marian/Team || 10’ || A. Photo slide show (Thursday, Sept. 30)
 * 3. SLC subcommittee
 * 4. Homebase

B. Learning Styles (see Manon’s blog [] or go directly to the Learning Styles blog: [|http://people.usd.edu/~bwjames/tut/learning-style/index.html] or try this Learning Styles one: []

C. SMART goals test for 2 weeks and reflect on process || Examine and Give Feedback || Discussion || Team || 10’ || Marian will share) Will these be eventually be tied to EAGLES? Come to next meeting prepared to comment Will eventually going on Powerschool (piloting end of T2) ||
 * 5. Student as Learner Profile
 * 6. No sending Thanks ||  ||   ||   || We agree NOT to send “thanks” emails. We are flooded. Be careful with the respond all; respond to sender only. ||

6th Grade Team Meeting: Tuesday, Sept. 23 2010
 * Next meeting: Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room **

11:40 Marian’s Room, M-111 Desired Outcomes: **//By the end of this meeting, we will have://**
 * //1.// //A clearer picture of the schedule for bonding day and tasks that have to be completed by Oct. 28th.// **
 * //2.// //An understanding of when we will input grades into Powerschool.// **
 * //3.// //A vision statement of our expectations for and vision of Mac usage in our classrooms.// **

Discussion || Marian || 5’ || Each team has $6000 to spend on field trips a year
 * What || How || Who || Time || Notes ||
 * 1. Team Leader Notes || Information Dispersal/

__Remuneration__ Question asked about compensation for teachers who cover for other teacher. Leadership team is discussing. Document will come out in the future/shortly. || Team || 10’ || Share folder/6 Homebase Jeanne explained the day at Century Park & schedule When are we entering grades? || Discussion || Jeanne Team || 5’ || Subject teachers are discussing what to put up and when. Grades will start to be up by Thursday next week and admin has expectations after Oct. || a. Rules/Expectations (logistics b. What is OUR vision for Mac usage/? c. Note to parents on blog about what THEIR rules/expectations are for their child and Mac usage? d What do we WANT/ NEED from admin.? e. What we (those who attended) learned at Learning 2.010. || Discussion || Team || 30’ || Group discussion How's it going? || Checking in || Team || 10’ || Tabled till next time ||
 * 2. Bonding Day || Discussion || Jeanne/David
 * During homebase go over the after school buses. Kids go to the nearest stop.
 * Students need to come to school b/c it is a bonding day.
 * Look into rainy day option
 * Get on buses by subject groups (Humanities, Science, Math)
 * LUNCH forms fill out and send to Alfred
 * Marian complete paper work and get money from office on Monday afternoon
 * Booklet- reflective thoughts
 * Discuss in homebase: politeness, behavior, what to use $$ for. ||
 * 3. Powerschool
 * 4. MacBooks
 * notes are in the section in MAC book vision
 * loaner machines are in the Apple Center
 * All kids should have USB
 * StudentHomePD is where students have dropbox to return digitally graded papers. (but don't forget to personalize)
 * Best practices ||
 * 5. Homebase
 * 6. No need to say “Thanks” emails? || Information || Marian || 1’ || Tabled till next time ||

Next meeting: Wednesday, Sept. 29th, 2010, 11:40, Marian’s Room **