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This Week's Teacher Collaboration News
Columbia Elementary School's second collaboration of the New Year came after a two snow-day four day break. Everyone seems to be very happy to be back at school.
~Kindergarten worked with the DIBELS reading assessment and trained the new para-educator to assess the students for this scheduled assessment cycle.
~1st/2nd Grade reviewed their collaboration process and discussed Title I Reading. Additional discussion surrounded which writing prompts to use for the writing assessment system that is going to be in place by the end of this year.
~3rd Grade discussed a variety of things, including; quarterly assessments for math, the progression of the math program and how to rearrange to schedule due to last week’s snow days and the switching for reading, science and math.
~4th Grade reviewed the student groupings for math and discussed how to prepare the students for the Measurement of Student Progress coming later this year.
~5th Grade evaluated how to work the DARE program into our schedule and how to provide for the missing of two day of school last week. Further conversation discussed the teacher mentor meeting that all fifth grade teachers are involved with this Friday.
During the January 23rd teacher collaboration at Columbia Middle School teachers broke out into three groups to discuss the quality of work they give to students. One teacher in each group presented a lesson or assignment they have asked students to do in past years and plan on having them do again in the near future. Once they presented the lesson, the group discussed and analyzed the assignment with the effort of improving the level of student engagement and overall quality of the work they ask students to do.
The staff at Columbia High School spent the January 23rd collaboration time working on two main topics. The first was scheduling the make up of final testing for periods 1, 2 and 3, which were missed due to a snow day last Thursday, and were also unable to be made up on Friday due to a second snow day! The schedule for Monday was adjusted so that all classes met, though periods 1, 2 and 3 were lengthened greatly to accommodate for both testing and end-of-semester procedures, while periods 4, 5, 6 and 7 were shortened tremendously while staff was still asked to complete all end-of-semester activities in the shortened timeframe. We agreed that the start of second semester would officially be listed as Tuesday, 1/24/2012. The second topic for our collaboration session had to be truncated in order to deal with the finals make up issue; however, our six staff PLC groups were taught a new protocol for both information exchange and lesson design/redesign. The protocol originated with the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform. The basic components of the protocol include a lesson or design presentation, clarifying and probing, participant reflection, feedback and response. The original plan for the morning included a working protocol session, with the time constraints, this will be moved to a subsequent meeting.
DNA of Learning and Teaching
Curriculum Guide (includes C-Terms 360)
Fingertip Resources to support CSD's Delta Model
Technology Updates
Columbia School District is working to enhance technology in the classroom. Interactive Whiteboards are our latest addition.
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Cold Weather Center
Watch this page for any school delays or closures during our winter season. We will be posting the details in a scrolling banner like last year.
Also check www.KNDU.com for area school delays and closures.
