Department Head Meeting 12/9 by Gregory M Bowman https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e To be used throughout our meeting to gather ideas and collaborate. en-us 2020-10-26 13:42:32 UTC 2020-12-09 21:39:28 UTC hello@padlet.com bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001540707 Text]]> 2020-12-09 09:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001540707 Materials bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001544737 January-March]]> 2020-12-09 09:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001544737 Content bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001545810 April-June]]> 2020-12-09 09:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001545810 Support bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001546663 July-September]]> 2020-12-09 09:50:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001546663 Professional Development bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001547691 October-December]]> 2020-12-09 09:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001547691 Pages 60-67 bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001670719 2020-12-09 10:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001670719 How often are students at your school writing? How does your school encourage writing across the curriculum? bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001712902 2020-12-09 11:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1001712902 Varies by teacher MsBarnesELA https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126525 Some teachers are combining units (when they're thematically connected) or skipping units (when the unit is not worth the time/the standard can be taught better through a different unit). Some are following pacing guide. Some seem to be following their own plans; harder to track what every person is doing right now.]]> 2020-12-09 21:13:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126525 DylanBartlett https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126807 Focusing on priority standards and the relative weaknesses of the kids.]]> 2020-12-09 21:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126807 Most of us are eliminating some of the texts but still completing the units. clarkfm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126839 2020-12-09 21:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004126839 Teachers are skipping units, but covering standards within scope and sequence with fidelity. Our school also focuses on SEL lessons. minorn1 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127036 2020-12-09 21:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127036 We are teaching standards but not getting to nearly as many texts mrsvanthillo https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127436 2020-12-09 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127436 Combining where I can... tyfletcher https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127545 Omitting some stuff too...]]> 2020-12-09 21:13:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127545 Unit by Unit https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127636 We are covering at least three units from myPerspectives. We are combining g]]> 2020-12-09 21:13:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004127636 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128119 Adapting units, combining, slicing and dicing 

]]> 2020-12-09 21:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128119 Adapting - picking out certain parts and using a connections to other texts. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128468 2020-12-09 21:14:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128468 Selectively choosing texts and standards to focus on https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128756 2020-12-09 21:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128756 Following sequence of thematic units as in textbook, but behind in pacing. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128869 2020-12-09 21:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004128869 Writing for English I and II has been focused on writing for the English II EOC - English III and IV can be crosswalk courses at my school so they can get that college level writing instruction, but in our HS level English III and IV we focus on rhetorical analysis, persuasion, and "real" world writing applications. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004160061 2020-12-09 21:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004160061 We treat Honors Eng. 1 and Eng. 2 as unofficial pre-AP courses and they are writing intensive-- writing every week and most days; 4-5 full essays per semester. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004161273 2020-12-09 21:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004161273 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004163487 English I is spent getting students to expand their writing. They review the grammatical concepts that go with writing. 
English II reinforces the claim evidence and reasoning aspects for writing. We focus heavily on textual evidence. 
English III does research-based writing. They try to focus on narrative writing to prepare them for scholarship writing. 

]]> 2020-12-09 21:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004163487 Hmm... tyfletcher https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004169063 Respect and our voices heard...]]> 2020-12-09 21:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004169063 In a perfect world, ALL students would have devices and hotspots minorn1 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004170546 2020-12-09 21:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004170546 More culturally diverse literature, or access to "quality" academic databases. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004171815 2020-12-09 21:29:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004171815 Class sets of abridged versions of novels/plays. Any posters from myPerspectives to display in our classrooms? https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004173169 2020-12-09 21:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004173169 Such teachers approach students with the will and desire to respond to our unique beings, even if the situation does not allow the full emergence of a relationship based on mutual recognition https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004182487 2020-12-09 21:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004182487 "inspired by the courage to transgress those boundaries that would confine each student to rote, assembly-line approach to learning" MsBarnesELA https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004183335 This feels counter to the push for us to standardize what and how we teach district-wide. I know that might be an oversimplification, but every time we try to tie a teacher to a curriculum, we risk turning education into an experience of going through the motions for both teacher and student.]]> 2020-12-09 21:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004183335 "Thich Nhat H anh offered a way of thinking about pedagogy which emphasized wholeness, a union of mind, body, and spir­it" bowmangm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004186178 2020-12-09 21:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004186178 minorn1 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004189877 " I entered the classrooms with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer. " pg. 14

]]> 2020-12-09 21:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004189877 Freire’s work affirmed that education can only be liberatory when everyone claims knowledge as a field in which we all labor. https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004190306 2020-12-09 21:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004190306 Give every teacher a budget to buy books based on what THEY teach and are passionate about, and what they know about their students. MsBarnesELA https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004190338 2020-12-09 21:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004190338 Douglas Greene - Early/Middle College GTCC-Jamestown https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004193814 2020-12-09 21:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004193814 Amelia Barnes MsBarnesELA https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004193851 2020-12-09 21:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004193851 Kaitlyn Mendenhall mendenk https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194044 2020-12-09 21:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194044 Terri Fletcher tyfletcher https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194055 English Teacher Extraordinaire ]]> 2020-12-09 21:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194055 :) Monica Clark clarkfm https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194086 2020-12-09 21:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194086 Tim McLaughlin https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194198 2020-12-09 21:38:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194198 Jamila Jones-Watts https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194244 2020-12-09 21:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194244 Vanessa Parmenter https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194261 2020-12-09 21:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004194261 Suzanne van Thillo Ragsdale High School mrsvanthillo https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004195109 2020-12-09 21:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004195109 minorn1 https://padlet.com/bowmangm/bp6ooyumck3jo95e/wish/1004196936 Nicole Minor -DHS

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