Meeting+notes

9/16/2009 What is the role of our student members?
 * keep us on line and not off a tangent -reality check
 * Ellen reported she had been give a rubric the first day of school for problem solving in math
 * Do students like them?
 * After laptops we should pole the students on rubrics

John will make a form by 9/25/09 which is the cover sheet for student work. David will work on getting the mission statements printed and framed.

Assessment of Student learning 1. Is there going to be a single electronic "meeting place"/repository/collection point for NEASC information as we move forward? People have talked about groupwise folders and Goggle Docs and Wikis and Noeshare, but there is no consensus yet. Can we come to a consensus? Soon? 2. How is it difficult for teachers to incorporate the use of rubrics in ther classroom? Are there any roadblocks to incorporating the rubrics? 3. How will we measure civic and social expectations here at Morse? Who is in charge of that data?

9/25 1. Someone should ask Sara Bingham and ask if she is keeping data on the 5-2-1-0 through the grants.-Karen 2. Ask Carolyn, Eric, Cindy about what data was kept for the GIS-John 3.Mid-coast arts participation, see Jason Karen 4.MOHIBA 5.Borders book trip-Dawn 6.NHS- 7. SCLC-Glenn 8.Special Olympics-Glenn

9/25/09 Louise and Martha

1)The school shall have a process school-wide and individual student progress in achieving the academic expectations in the mission based on school-wide rubrics?

The school is still in the developing stages of this and is just beginning to use the rubrics departmentally. We will asses the use of the rubrics each semester. This is still a process in development at this time. Once the rubrics are more in use we will be able We are actively developing a process at this time.

The school is continuing to develop common assessments that will use the school wide rubrics. Eventually, these common assessments and rubrics will drive the curriculum revision. Hot Summer Reads: (Borders Book program) Eighty students participated and 13 staff members; follow up will be a luncheon and a survey/Teen Read Week

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2)The school's professional staff shall use data to assess school success in achieving its civic and social expectations.

Hot Summer Reads: (Borders Book program) Eighty students participated and 13 staff members; follow up will be a luncheon and a survey/Teen Read Week Advisory is an important aspect of this. There is a civic and social expectation checklist in the student handbook. Service learning hours will be coming in the future. Community Service Day; Mohiba; Pep Rally at the end of Spirit Week; Advisory survey for data for this. This type of survey will continue to develop. Post Secondary Day;; that is just being started. MELMAC grant and college trips for 10th graders; CREA Cathance River will involve all 9th graders; Education Alliance; PE kayaking trips; volleyball tournament; SCLC ; every SPED kid has to do a transition form and consult Voc. Rehab- 95% of seniors are involved in this; MidCoast Arts data: Project Success is a substance abuse grant: three year grant; id. high risk kids through class activities, surveys, and speakers Mohiba: a min of 100 students and a maximum of 200 students involved with 2000 attendees on the three night event The Spring Play involved app 5% of all the African-American students Suicide Prevention: Alcohol Awareness: Tobacco Workshop: 5210 and the Wellness Policy: district wide teachers' assembly; display cases; advisory contests; a grant and a final teacher survey; Suspension and detention data:

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8)The school's professional staff shall communicate: individual student progress in achieving school wide academic expectations to students and their families; the school's progress in achieving all school wide expectations to the school community 9th grade BBQ College Night Parent Teacher Conferences Open House Standardized testing is reported through the school board, local newspaper, the newsletter, the school website; each individual parent MHSA report and a PSAT report d.Newspaper articles, posting on school bulletin boards e. Art work displayed in a local restaurant; Senior Project exhibitions; local newspaper articles Karen and Michelle

7) The school's professional development program shall provide opportunities for teachers to collaborate in developing a broad range of assessment strategies

The Literacy Initiative grant last year with Pam Thompson helped us to jump start our literacy inistiative. Then we became part of the five year grant for MCLP Maine Content Literacy Project.

a. Reading Reminders class offered to all staff which was on reading comprehension strategies and assessment; 14 people took this class in the spring of 2009 -Ongoing Study Strategies class for ed-techs starting in fall of 2009;training them to be able to know how to grade students in Study Strategies classes with a study skills rubric -Nancy: MLR common assessments have now shifted to using protocols for looking at student work and quality to determine or focus on students and what they learn. Now the shift is looking at from the LAS to now PSAT's and SAT's; shifting from course embedded information to responding to standard high stakes assessments i.e. PSAT and SAT; we have focused on how does one interpret the results to derive instructional implications and curriculum revision;

Drop Out Prevention- RTI 9th grade teams Read 180 Training and System 44 training a. get a list of professional development offerings and days from Peter and Wednesday late start schedule


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Students are informed of relevant school wide academic expectations:

Math: Have course objectives presented at beginning of lessons, and beginning of math textbook readings. Dispersed school wide rubrics.

English: KO, dispersed school wide rubrics.

Science: Have students self-assess using rubrics for projects and labs.

Foreign Language: Have students fill in activity objectives, learner outcomes 6. **DI** Morse has moved from "literature-based" decisions to more student "data-driven" decisions about curriculum and program change. Some key examples: 9th grade team. Four years ago, several teachers shared a strong feeling that the ninth grade year was not going well for Morse students. This has been a problem since the late '90's when the middle school concept arrived in Bath and 9th grade came up from the old "junior high" to the high school. Teachers and administrators gathered data from the Schoolmaster data package about student failure rates and disciplinary events. The data showed freshmen accounted for an extraordinary proportion of the attendance problems, discipline problems, and academic failures in the school. Although only 25% of the population, they were consistently accounting for more than 50% of the problems. The result was the ninth grade team. After three years, team members continue to monitor student success using data from Infinite Campus and Survey Monkey surveys. The Science department has used student data to drive decisions about ninth grade programming and advanced programming for Physics. Advisory programming has been reviewed by the entire school through survey data gathered by the Data Committee. We discovered that students, especially younger students, were more enthusiastic and supportive of our current version of Advisory than we suspected. We also learned that certain students were very unsatisfied with their Advisory experience, and that is correlated with the preparation and qualifications of the Advisor. We adjusted accordingly. This year's advisories include groups run by Guidance staff and fewer Ed-Techs to assure a higher quality experience for students during Advisory.

Notes 10/7/09 Assignments for sections: 1. Louise & Martha 2.Louise & Martha 3. Michelle 4. Glen and John 5. David 6. David 7. Karen 8. Louise & Martha

John is tweaking the cover sheet for student work.

The group decided to do the document in Buzzword. David showed them how to join.