Principals' Meeting: August 17, 2011
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Summer Institute

·   August 22-25, 8:00 Keynote each day.

·   Teachers need to bring Teacher's Manual and Toolkit to Benchmark training.

·   Words Their Way books and Writing will be checked out at BHS library.

·   Encourage new teachers to take the IRR 101 class at the Institute Monday 8:30-10:00 or Wed. 1:00-2:30.

·   Each teacher will collect stickers from each class they take to account for clock hours and if they want the hours to apply to the IQ 18 hours.

Literacy Leads

·   Provide names of one primary and one intermediate teacher who will act as the literacy leads for your school.

·   Kick-off Meeting- Wednesday, September 28 from 4:00-5:30

·   Will provide planning information for the October visit from Benchmark Literacy at the meeting.

Literacy Materials

·   E-mail or call Amy, Elementary Support Specialist aottersbach@nsd.org if you have curriculum orders or questions regarding materials.

·   K-1 writing materials will be delayed until shortly after the start of the year. Materials for Institute training will be provided.

·   Spanish materials for Dual Language will be sent in September.

·   LC and CLC materials should be delivered by the end of this week.

Split/Combination Class Teacher Meeting

·   1/2 Day problem solving meeting, Thursday, September 29, 12:30-3:30

·   E-mail to be sent to teachers with sub code.

NEW Second Grade Reading Test- Training

·   Our new 2^nd grade OSPI Reading Test is EasyCBM a very short individualized screening test.

·   Training is offered at the Summer Institute or through a Webinar on Sept. 7.

August Advance Follow-up

·   Zoomerang survey will arrive soon for all attendees.

·   All materials up on the Teacher Leadership site.

·   Show the overview video in August or early September to all staff.

Principals' Meeting: September 14, 2011
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  Literacy Supports

• Lean into Literacy
• Grade-level Band meetings, schedule and intent
•   Additional district classes coming
• Support for schools Leadership Teams as needed
• New teacher classroom libraries
• Special Ed specific training
• Benchmark PD day and TOSA PD day (one winter, one spring each, per school)

Benchmark PD: Week of October 3

• Schedule and Agenda
• Need one primary and one intermediate classroom, Send to etosas@nds.org
• Sub code/reason- #41 Elem Literatur T2
• Literacy Leads will get information at kick-off meeting on 9/28

Science for Split/Combination Classes

• Teachers DO NOT have to teach 2 grade levels of science (per new CBA)
• Solution this year:

o If kits not taught in lower grade last year- teach those kits

o Otherwise, choose two kits from upper grade that are best fit content and for other grade level teachers and teach those.

o Defers issue to next year giving time for work to be done this year and to include this in the adoption/CMAC process.

 October 14

• PE Teachers attending state conference in Shoreline.

WERA Conference: December 7-9

• Pre-conference on Wed.- Team from Northshore and team from Issaquah to share Instructional Rounds and Star Protocol respectively.
• OSPI Updates, Common Core, and other breakout sessions
• Doug Fisher is the keynote on Friday
  
• Northshore planning meeting with Doug Friday, 2:30-4:30

Elementary Report Card Committee

• Comprised of 9 teachers, 4 central office, and 5 principals
• Will be asking for principals to serve

Principals' Meeting: October 12, 2011

Literacy Supports

• Grade-level Band Meetings- repeat sessions for primary (K-2) and intermediate (3-6) on October 19 after school. Teachers sign up on PD Place. IQ Hours may be used.

TOSA Visits: Round 1

• Need one primary and one intermediate classroom--Send to etosas@nds.org
• Sub code/reason- #41 Elem Literatur T2- The same number of subs as for the BML training.
• TOSAs are on their own at your school so please support them with your staff and the day's logistics.

Math Update

• Math Cadre resumes work started in August with Allison Hintz today.
• Math Flipchart Committee working to update all flipcharts.
• Northshore Elementary Math Olympiad (NEMO) returns. Kick-off meeting Oct. 18, 4:15 in room 208. Send a rep from each school.

WERA Conference: December 7-9

• Pre-conference on Wed.- Team from Northshore and team from Issaquah to share Instructional Rounds and Star Protocol respectively.
• OSPI Updates, Common Core, and other breakout sessions
• Doug Fisher is the keynote on Friday
• Northshore planning meeting with Doug Friday, 2:30-4:30

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Principals' Meeting: November 9, 2011

January 3 Tech Day

• Need facilitators- Training on December 2

o Review facilitator list and let us know ASAP if you have other teachers we can contact. Think of teachers new to NSD, emerging leaders, etc.

•  Overview of the day
  • Three 90-minute modules, two in morning, one in the afternoon
  • 90-minute Keynote by Doug Fisher, introduced by Larry-afternoon

• Classroom teachers- Grade-level specific modules
  • Instructional Design and Technology: How We Learn
  •   Instructional Design and Technology: Math
  • Instructional Design and Technology: Literacy
• Specialists (Library, PE and Music)
  •   Instructional Design and Technology: How We Learn
  •   Two other content specific modules
• Special Ed teachers
  •   Three modules, Special Ed specific

Literacy Update

•   Lean into Literacy Edition 2 out at the beginning of next week
• Reminder that the NSD Reading Proficiency Levels Per Trimester was updated in September and is posted on the Assessment Toolbox.
• BML Jan. visits-
  • No before or after school time
  • Same basic structure: half day primary, half day intermediate
  • Agenda of day to you the second week of December

Math Update

• Math Flipcharts being posted as they are completed.
• Gini Stimpson Study- Addressing the needs of advanced learners in the general education math classroom.

Online MSP Testing

• All schools that did online testing last year will be online testing again and may add content or additional grade levels
• Will be adding 2-3 more schools- TBD
• Need for a STS on site during testing
• More information for online schools coming soon

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