Department Meeting Thursday, January 18th

Last week we had to cancel our department meeting as I had to be somewhere else. We need to meet and discuss the following issues:

• AP Vertical Planning - Read the post below on putting together a team to help backmap the curriculum.
• Fluency - We need to assemble stats by February. It is Anne's expectation that each of us are pretesting fluency, employing strategies in our classroom, and giving a post-test to guage overall gains (or losses).
• ELA 11 Practice Exam - Per previous, Mia and others raised the idea of giving a practice ELA task to the juniors and grading them as a department. This would help us get a better sense of where the 11th graders stand, as well helping to norm our collective understanding of the rubric and grading procedures.
• Bloggedy Blog - BLOG...HUH...WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING, SAY IT AGAIN, CHIL' (Seriously...let us discuss some possibilities.)