Pasadena Lakes Elementary School
Leadership Day Meeting Agenda/Minutes
February 10, 2016
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Principal’s Cadre 2 Walkthroughs and Feedback
Positives/Deltas/Next Steps
Positives / Deltas / Next Steps• Students were
engaged & on-task / • Student
work displayed looked“old-fashioned” / • Move away from Letter of the Week; Double Bubbles instead of Venn Diagrams
• Learning
goals & scales were evident at centers and on whiteboards for whole group instruction / • Differentiation of
Standards at centers and during all activities / • Move toward additional differentiation at centers and during activities/whole group instruction (e.g.- not having students copy the same things from the whiteboard)
• Clear Focus, standards-based
centers/activities / • Degree of Rigor / • Move toward increasing DOK levels at centers and in whole/small group activities
• Classrooms have book tubs / • Book Tubs- classroom libraries should be organized by genre / • All books in tubsshould be leveled by lexile using Rigby and BAS(organization)
• CHAMPS / • More specific feedback through journals, on student work and at the Reading table / • Give students specific feedback using scales language (e.g.- I love the way you used the Word Wall to help you with your writing,” etc.
• Schoolwide Behavior Plan / N/A / • Continue implementation of SWBP
• Student Behavior was great / N/A / • Continue incentives to encourage appropriate and respectful behavior
• Classroom Management / N/A / • Continue NESS support for new teachers and “buddy” teachers for teachers new to the school
• Thinking Maps / • Students should not be copying a circle map off the whiteboard / • Move toward students generating their own TM at all grade levels
Discussion: teachers are feeling stressed and unappreciated. This is a district and nationwide issue. Perhaps we need team building activities? Perhaps we need to chunk initiatives? Try giving only positive feedback? Keep going with Random Acts of Kindness and helping keep one another UP? Need support regarding the discipline matrix every year.
ICL Grant implementation over the next few years to build classroom libraries- are we interested?
Donors Choose.org- can provide books for classroom libraries; Ms. Barnes received 5 Kindles and books
Adopt a Classroom.org- Mrs. ***** received additional books to build her classroom libraries
Digital Scholastic Webinar- free Resources that come with our Scholastic magazines- TLs received instruction to share with their teams
Adjournment