District-Wide+Site-Based+Management

Notes from meeting on July 7, 2011:

__**Attendance:**__ Amy Bilger, Suzanne Brown, Casey Hanlon, Sally Steward, Amy Miles, Mary Anna Sieber, Teressa Bilger, Maureen Hockenberry, Brett Gilliland, Cheryl Smith, Suzi Bender

__**Notes**__ (as taken by Dr. Gilliland) from the July 7 meeting:

Initial thoughts!!!

World - Faster (click) - technology - Social networking - less jobs (different) - family base change - wars - travel - HAS changed - hope school will provide it - MIDDLE class disappearing - make do to make kids better and keep up - challenging - change occurs fast - work globally - instant communication - touch oriented (at fingertips and done by fingers) - connected but disconnected (lost face to face) - lost togetherness

Students - more multi taskers - shorter attention span - kids have to do things - stressed out to limits - wide variety of social economic (extremes) - less respectful to teachers and staff - less motivated - handed to them (spoon fed) - don't know how to play (interactively) - lack of creativity - want to use technology - Don't have it at home - a lot come to school using different tools (tech/ street/ life) - need more choices - get bored - not protected - not changed needs and wants - more vocal - less responsible - NEED connections - think they are more than they are? - look for instaneous success and gratification - need one step or one press - attention spans - boundaries - space changes -

Schools - computers/ tech - more movement during school days - have to go back to basics (potty trainings, self issues, ) - lack parent support (can't read themselves) - paper & pencils - less time (get ready for test) - ability to enforce discipline - opportunities - bullying program MUST continue and used with fidelity - haven't kept up - can't keep teaching the way used to be - haven't changed enough - need to be unified with partners, outside sources to help - discipline - lack of embracing technology - stuck in rut - TESTING - Budget ISSUES - Staffing Issues - Should be integrated (Business fit into Math/Rdg/ etc) - elem. at MU required to show connections/anchors/standards - let students know what learning - need to be problem solver - need to teach to differences - nothing was hands ons - must teach to passions - applications - more group work - no filter and what do you trust online - data - need to promote independent learning and learning goals

Phase 2: Key assumptions: - Kids know what they want - may be afraid to say it. - Individual learning needs to be addressed. - pre during and post (LP) - problem solving - Everyone can do it - relevance - practical - need to know technology how to use it and where it came from - respect - teamwork - flexible

Needs (to do) Feed back from kids model problem solving - show how to solve problems teach how to think teach how to test look up online (google) be open-minded make it relevant show them respect - teach what it is provide cooperative learning experiences group work activities teach roles of group work common language learning inventories - have had pd on this have the kids know what they are - advocate for selves communication with teachers from past loop more teachers english 9-12 co-teaching loops centers two different activities keep lessons varied - change strategies so often centers ability group - provide movement Look at time arrangements

What we believe Individual programming – mass customization Problemsolving Adaptive expertise-flexibility Trust/respect Real/relevant/rigor Cooperative learning/teamwork