Third+Grade+11-12-08

 Team Members Present: Suzanne Wolf, Dianne Bauer, Tina Oteka, Karen Byorick, Deb Sabato **  Concerns: organization, impulsivity, neediness, needs wiggle room, seeks negative attention, currently on 1s and 0s, but not successful, not aware of boundaries, in other people's business, has alienated others around her, rewards and consequences are difficult to find, significant family history.
 * Team:   Date: 11/12/08
 * Meeting Purpose: Discuss and plan intervention based on recent writing assessment and discuss individual needs of students. **
 * **Est. Time ** || **Topics/Agenda ** ||  ||  || **Products or Outcomes ** ||
 * **2 min. ** || **Check-In – review agenda ** ||  ||  ||  Reviewed student writing assessments to prepare for intervention. ||
 * **10 ** || **Discussed high needs kid** ||  || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || Karen and Suzanne discussed problems and solutions for DB.

Karen plans to:call mom and dad, check where diagnosis of RAD comes from, check if she has had any counseling support, what has been done through Kaiser, **OBSERVE, give feedback to Suzanne.** ||
 * || **Reviewed recent writing interventions** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || 3rd grade team completed a 3 day intensive writing intervention using the original writing prompt and revised it. All teachers had a group, in addition, Liz, Linnea and Deb took a group.

Thoughts-what worked?
 * Suzanne**-encouraged the use of 3 vivid details, worked on changing old sentences to new sentences, very systematic in approach (wrote old/new, old/new, old/new and then put ALL new sentences together), overall the group performed better, leads were strong and engaging with good word choice, a majority of the group were PP.


 * Diane**-went over rubric with students, she explained the goal is to go from a P to an A, paired students up with a partner to give feedback on story (I wonder, I like, I'm confused by), utilized teacher/student conferencing, used exemplars to show good examples, overall performed much better-improvement in most areas.


 * Tina**-used exemplars and rated as a class, 50% got better, 2-3 students wrote the same thing, a few did worse because they were concentrating on a specific aspect of writing and other pieces fell apart.


 * Deb**-did "surgery" on papers, a majority of the improved, encouraged students to describe and answer why questions that Deb had as she was reading their papers.

December prompt-Imagine.....you find a box with an animal inside. Focus on organization and sentence fluency but grade entire rubric Prompt will be given on 12/11 Intensive intervention 12/16-12/18, 12:15-1:15 Ability regrouping based on needs within organization and sentence fluency based on third grade writing rubrics. ||
 * Liz and Linnea** had the lower group of students-they were participating in other PLC meetings and did not share results. ||
 * **5 min.** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> **Intervention Stracegy** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || **NEXT ACTIVITY**
 * || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || Short discussion around gender issues ||
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">5 min. ** || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Next Agenda ** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Next team meeting 11/20 at 10:55 am

Input for next meeting agenda- As a team we need to decide what time works best for us to meet weekly. ** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> ** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Norms: Be Ready Be respectful Be responsible
 * **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">5 min. ** || **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Meeting Evaluation ** || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> ||
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">SMART Goal (s) ****__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">S __****<span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">trategic & specific, __M__easurable, __A__ttainable, __R__esults-oriented, __T__ime-bound: **
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">S_M_A_R_ T _
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Immediate Goal: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">100% of first graders will score a 2 or better on the Ideas and Content section of the 1st grade writing rubric by October 13, writing a personal narrative about a special person from a verbal prompt.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Year-end Goal: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">80% of first graders will score proficient or above in all areas on the 1st grade writing rubric.
 * <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Best Practices Identified: **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">during Writer’s Workshop, provide specific instruction (direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice ) of writing skills, with small group instruction as needed.