Wilson Staff Meeting 999

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Wilson Staff Meeting 9/9/9

• 330 PM - Tech. Ed. Room

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Agenda

• Celebrations 7 min
• Review of Meeting Norms -2 min
• Positive Behavior -10 min
• Leadership Circle and School Improvement Team -2
  min
• MAP/WKCE Update Paul -2 min
• Open House Information -3 min
• Conferences -2 min
• United Way Update Gail -2 min
• Middle Level Reform -30 min
• Other

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Celebrations

• Jan Parker will be appearing with her former
  college students in a recital with current
  students and their teacher. She was the flute
  instructor at Emporia State University Kansas
  from 1987-2000. She founded the ESU Flute
  Ensemble and presented for music conventions
  there twice. 
• Other Celebrations
• Judy Baseman West Cluster Assistant
  Superintendent

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Review of Meeting Norms

• Timed posted/prioritized agenda- specific
  discussion or decision tasks
• Start and end on time
• Attendance Expectations-let someone know if you
  will be late
• Limit side conversations
• Use parking lot
• Professionalism exhibited (no correcting papers,
  pay attention, respectful listening and speaking)
• Equitable Voice/Monitor Air Time (Utilize
  strategies- Fist of Five, small group discussion
  to give all a voice)
• Norm flag
• Celebrate/fun

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Committees

• Leadership Circle 1st Meeting 9/17
• Mary Klasen, Michelle Froehlke, Linda Bjella,
  Gail Alger / Michelle Kass, Kara Manuel, John,
  and Paul student reps?
• School Improvement Team 9/8, 9/22
• John Magas, Kim Ploederl, Kristen Griswold, Sarah
  Hall, Paula Cropsey, Amy McClellan, Doug Benz,
  Lori Koehler, Paul Weisse and Doug Meyer
• Kristilyn Marx and Gail Alger - Math
• Positive Behavior Committee

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MAP and WKCE Update

• MAP Week of September 28th
• Monday, Tuesday Reading Test in CA
• Wednesday, Thursday Math Test in Math
• Friday Magellan and Make-Up
• WKCE
• November 3,4 and 10, 11

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Open House Information

• 530 615 Multi-purpose room Hot Dog
  Family Social
• All teachers in attendance/nametags Help serve
  hot dogs/ drinks
• Fundraiser Kickoff
• Front Hallway
• Tables and booths set up by staff/groups to
  promote programs/fundraisers/academics/etc
• Schedules handed out in the front hallway
• Tech Ed Area
• Bring your own shirt Silk Screening Wilson or
  West
• 555 Parent Portal Training in LMC
• Wilson Works Program Presentation???
• 615 Warning Bell for Schedule Walkthrough
  Teachers to classrooms SEM 1 TTH Class and Self
  Introduction - Best way to contact you email
  list
• 622 730 Five minute periods

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Conferences

• Thursday, October 22 415 830 P.M.
• Tuesday, October 27 415 830 P.M.
• Wednesday, October 28 800 1130 A.M.
• Friday, March 19 800 1100 A.M.
• Wilson Parent Volunteer meals on 10/22 and 10/27

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United Way Update - Gail

• Information coming later in September!

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Middle Level Reform
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Why?

• Improve achievement for each individual student
  via research-based best practices each student
  meeting or exceeding individual MAP target growth
  levels.
• Given the current constraints of budget, contract
  language, and student enrollment the teaming
  structure does not exist in some middle schools
  and has eroded in all middle schools.
• We have explored ways to implement these best
  practices through conventional means for the last
  five plus years, but we have not been able to get
  there. Working within our present situation, we
  will focus our attention in accomplishing the
  priority areas identified below.

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What?

• Research-based practices to support reform
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Flexible Blocks of Time
• Curriculum Integration
• Flexible Grouping of Students to Target
  Individual Needs
• Collaborative Planning time for Student Progress
  Monitoring
• Targeted Intervention/Enrichment Time for
  Reading, Math, Writing, Problem Solving, and/or
  Project-based Learning in Science and Social
  Studies

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How?

• The Middle Level Reform Committee, with
  representatives from all sites and subject areas,
  as well as parent representatives, is in the
  process of creating a curriculum delivery
  model(s) to achieve the goals listed above.
  Committee members will be asked to rank submitted
  models, using a Likert scale. This information,
  along with an administrative recommendation, will
  be presented to the Programs and Services
  Committee of the School Board in early November.

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Time in Middle School Devoted to Communication
Arts/Reading in Area School Districts
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Current use of time as a resource

• Appleton is one of only two area districts that
  does not have an additional period for reading/CA
  at the middle level
• There is a drastic difference between time spent
  in reading and writing instruction at the
  elementary level and the middle level
• Two of three high schools are proposing a pilot
  freshman reading class due to the number of
  middle level students coming into high school
  reading below grade level

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AASD Minutes Per Week in Communication Arts
and/or Reading
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Middle Level Best Practices Research
The best practice literature promotes middle
level flexible scheduling, flexible student
grouping patterns, and sustained learning to meet
the individual needs of students and to ensure
academic success.
Middle level time on task and academic learning
time research illustrates that additional
instructional time in meaningful and engaging
learning experiences has a statistically strong
correlation with increased student
achievement.   Cotton, K. (1989). Educational
time factors. Retrieved October 22, 2008 from
http//www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu8.html