Teacher Partner Meeting

September 18, 2002

 Notes

  Marshall University Student Center

Room 2W37

 *9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (Note Change of Starting Time)


   MU Teacher Partner Meeting Pictures - September 2002

Goals

 1. Clarifying the Vision and Focus for the Marshall University ARSI Resource Collaborative and ARSI Districts.

 2.  Utilizing the ARSI tools for short and long-range planning.

 3. Formulating the 2002-2003 Professional Development Activities and Planning Calendar.

 4. Conversations concerning ARSI on-going projects and summer activities.

 5. Reviewing the NSF Drivers and Phase II Goals to build capacity.

 6. Building partnerships and leveraging resources to sustain leadership.

 

Resources Needed

                  Please bring copies of any tools, documents, instruments, and/or forms that you believe would be useful and appropriate in planning for the upcoming school year. One of the major goals of this first Teacher Partner meeting will be to begin assessing your personal growth needs, as well as establishing professional development needs for the 2002-03 school year to implement your District’s Year 3 Plan.  Consequently, copies of your District Phase II, Year 2 & 3 Implementation Plans; Current County and School Unified Improvement Plans; 2001-2002 Teacher Profile; Teacher Partner Action Plans; District and School Implementation Dimensions Matrix; Personal Growth Plans; School Calendars, and relevant data will be very helpful in establishing the scope and sequence of Marshall University’s ARSI Resource Collaborative’s activities. Also, bring your copy of Nancy Love’s Using Data/Making Decisions book.

Guiding Questions: Please reflect on these questions before our September 18, 2002 meeting!!!!!

 1.  What kinds of resources and activities will be reflected by the Project and Planning Calendar?  Are we utilizing the ARSI Marshall University Resource Collaborative Website?

 2.  What ARSI tools will we utilize to develop the Teacher Partner Action Plan?

 3.  What Topics of PD will support the Teacher Partners’ Action Plan?  Will a review of last year’s survey help to focus?

 4.  Where does the data point to and what type of data can we collect to build local, regional, and state support for ARSI Teacher Partners?

 5.  How can we collaborate and gain more resources to improve standards-based teaching and learning to increase student achievement?

 6.  How can we ramp-up/scale-up/sustain to become a Full ARSI Implementation District and sustain?

 7.  Where do we need to focus? How do we develop “critical mass?”

 8.  How can we strengthen the Leadership Team and Catalyst School?  

 9.  Where do the PIR/RePIR, Student Research Project, and ATEC Technology PD fit?

10. What are the burning issues that need to be addressed involving curriculum, assessments, standard-based, inquiry, problem solving, hands-on, engaging, higher order teaching and learning strategies and lessons?

11. How can we improve and make the TP meetings better?   

12. What role do the NSF drivers play in your plan/work?

13. Have you made your reservations for the WVSTA?  Are you presenting?

14. Have you made your reservation for the WVCTM?  Are you presenting? 

15. With the new policy changes in 2510 what strategies do you have to strengthen the math/science cadre at the catalyst school, as well as working with the district leadership team?

16. What other questions need to be asked?

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Agenda

 

 8:30-9:00     Welcome with morning refreshments

 9:00              Teacher Partner sharing of summer projects/activities

10:00             Teacher Partner reflections of 2001-2002 successes and

                        lesson learned

11:00              Group Activity:  Teacher Partner Profile

12:00-12:45   Lunch

 1:00               Planning (Nuts and Bolts)          

 2:00               Group Activity:  School/District Implementation   Matrix

 3:00               Group Activity:  Using Data/Getting Results   

 4:00               Next Steps and Closure