ISA Coaches Meeting

ISA Coaches Meeting

ISA Coaches Meeting

NYC

May 15, 2013

Agenda

8:30-8:45:Breakfast

8:45-9:00Review Agenda

9:00-10:00:Review of School VisitsPanel

  1. What evidence did your team see of students demonstrating college ready skills and knowledge and the CCSS (e.g., student-to-student discussion, multiple perspectives, use of evidence, claim and counter-claim, use of discipline-based vocabulary, engagement with complex text, etc.)?
  2. What are the connections between what you observed and the schools you are coaching?
  3. What learnings did you take away from this visit and what are the implications for your coaching?

10:00-10:15:Break

10:15-12:00:Completing Lesson Plan Templates

  • Lesson Plan Template
  • Review:
  • Notes from January meeting on what should be in lesson plans to increase the likelihood that students will engage in higher order thinking, inquiry, and demonstrate the CCSS.
  • Lesson plan templates from ISA schools and other templates
  • ISA tools on non-cognitive skills for college
  • Come to consensus on what should be in a lesson plan template to increase the likelihood that the lesson will provide students with experiences with the CCSS, inquiry, higher order thinking, and non-cognitive skills students will need for college
  • Design/adapt a lesson plan template that incorporates these features
  • Be sure to check for the following:
  • How does the template ensure that questions are those that the teacher will actually ask?
  • How does the template ensure that the activities and worksheets are those that the teacher will actually use?
  • How does the template ensure that the teacher is conscious of the learning opportunities for students to demonstrate inquiry and/or higher order thinking, and/or CCSS, and/or non-cognitive skills?
  • Give Faith the template

12:00-1:00:Lunch

1:00-2:00:Problems of PracticePoP Groups

Protocol:

  1. Presenting coach identifies the outcome he/she wants/wanted to achieve in the situation,
  2. Presenting coach tells the story in which the problem is embedded,
  3. Colleagues ask questions for clarification or more information,
  4. Presenting coach states his/her analysis of the problem, linking analysis to evidence,
  5. Colleagues may offer alternate analyses of the problem linking to evidence in the story,
  6. Using evidence, group discusses the validity of different analyses of the problem,
  7. Group offers solutions linked to the analyses of the problem.

2:00:2:10:Break

2:10-2:45Summer Institute: Getting the Most Out of the Summer Institute

Preparing with your School:

  • Discussing SI Take-Aways with the Principal:
  • What are the top 3 issues to discuss with the principal to ensure that the SI is productive?
  • From your perspective, what do the most important take-aways need to be for school leaders, teachers, counselors you work with? (CHART)
  • How do we ensure that that leaders, teachers and counselors come away with products that will be useful and that they will use during the school year? (CHART)
  • Planning Tools
  • Templates
  • How can you use your school’s End of Year Inventory or Sustainability Inventory Report to inform the work of the SI?

2:45-3:15:Summer Institute Program and LogisticsVincent & Faith

Lesson Templates Group

Nate DilworthBella Jacobson*Jonathan Shank

Jonathan Katz*Mardi TuminaroJackie Young

Toby HorowitzChris EmdinColleen Wambach

Joe Walter Mariam NaraineEileen Cuff*

Keri Scriva

Cheryl Tucker

Laura CastroKate Spence-Ado*Shira Katz

Micki St. SauvierDina HeislerJohn Miller

PhyllisTashlik*Sylvia RabinerMary Sayers *

Lance OzierCarolyn ThompsonElena Papaliberios

Maria Colon

Problems of Practice Groups

Nate DilworthBella JacobsonJohn Miller Laura Castro

Jonathan Katz*Mardi Tuminaro*Sylvia Rabiner*Jackie Young*

Toby HorowitzChris EmdinColleen WambachEileen Cuff

Joe Walter Mariam NaraineMaria ColonCarolyn Thompson

Keri ScrivaElena PapaliberiosMary Sayers

Cheryl Tucker

Micki St. Sauvier

Kate Spence-Ado

Jonathan Shank

Dina Heisler*

Shira Katz

Summer Institute Groups

Nate DilworthJonathan KatzToby HorowitzJoe Walter

Eileen CuffMicki St. SauvierBella JacobsonChris Emdin

Elena PapaliberiosCarolyn ThomsonJohn MillerDina Heisler

Laura CastroMichael Gonchar*Kate Spence-Ado*Shira Katz*

Mary Sayers*Sylvia RabinerColleen WambachJonathan Shank

Cheryl Tucker

Keri Scriva

Mardi Tuminaro

Jackie Young*

Maria Colon

Mariam Naraine

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