Goals:

-Reflection on Pi Day, implications for next year

-Focus on curriculum and professional development for next year

-Present at a conference?

Goals: 

-Continue populating collaboration website Kathleen created

-Keep each other updated re: collaboration opportunities

-Began reading "Prost & the Squid"

-Compiled lessons and activities

-Using more morphology lessons into the classroom

-Created resource website for teachers w/ lesson plans, games, SmartBoard activities

Goals:

-Spend time learning/reviewing SmartBoard Games

-Create packet/bag of activities

-Changing meeting times to Wednesdays @ 1:30 pm

Presented website in breakout session in order to provide awareness, get feedback and add content.

Goals: Do 4th quarter site update.

Establish procedures for adding on-going content to site.

Promote site in order to make it a part of DA common practice.

Meeting time 7:30 am every other Tuesday starting Tuesday, April 8.

-Implemented Smithsonian Curriculum (Lower School)

-MS: 2 semesters of Forces/Motion completed, 1 semester of Mixtures and

-Elem: 2 quarter of Electrical circuits completed, 1 quarter of Changes in Matter, 3 quarters of Properties of Mater completed

-Curriculum Training with Smithsonian(Fall) (Bailey, Jeffress, Kelemen, Hermann)

-WE LOVE THE CURRICULUM

Goals:

-Elementary Mtg on integration of curriculum

-Summer trainings on upcoming units

-Smithsonian Visit: Kelemen/Hermann/Fritzche

-Discuss Storage and facilities moving forward

-Visit HS classrooms (what do kids need to know.

Goals: 4th quarter Spring read-in: May Day Read-Out (b/c it will be outside on May 1st!) (To build a school-wide culture of literacy)

We plan to promote the spring read-out differently and more comprehensively. This will include a rockin' display of best-loved children's books.

Getting school-wide input.

Realizing how different divisions and grade levels utilize CASTLES.

Goals:

New data entry program on the way.

Matt Dastin to meet with each division.

Develop essential questions guide

Should a family dynamics section be added?

What's the goal of Retreat?

-to get ideas/collaborate

-to get to know each other/appreciate the amazing people that make up DA

Could it be off-campus 2015?

How can it remain vital, forward thinking?

How do we align the objectives/values we have for our students for our own PD? (like building rockets at DMNS)

-less sitting and more doing: YES!

-AG says NO SITTING

Retreat as Experiential

-teacher experiential; what can choice look like for teachers?

2. Determine award winners, reflect/review/improve STEM Expo for next year.

3. Continue to focus on collaboration, visit each other's classrooms

Goal: honors is the focus of nest meeting

- Facilitated group discussions on the topic of seniors transitioning to college, gap year, workforce, etc.

- Final meeting in May: Finishing remaining chapters of Letting Go text.

4th Qtr to do:

Schedule all classes

-Determine teachers

-Update Google site

-Summer reading for honors student

- Place Students

- Differentiate for 9th grade placements

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