Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities
We have SATs but they are different. Our SATs are single students, not groups of students. In PCLs we talk about anchor lessons and how to group students. We might discuss a student that needs to go to SAT. Usually we focus on a strategy and look at research or a book like RWM and what we are going to use to anchor the lesson and what we want as an outcome. What are we going to look for? How do we know that students have achieved the strategy? Mary On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, beverleep...@gmail.com wrote: What you define as PLCs in my state are SATs (student assistance teams) or RtI groups. Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -Original Message- From: hccarl...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:05 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities This sounds more like trying to integrate the subjects to help students see connections. This is a common practice at junior high so that students see how the different subjects are related. I see PLCs as more like Jennifer stated. You use data to identify an area that needs to be improved. Then, all teachers identify strategies or practices for their individual area to work on. Progress monitoring is a regular part of this to see if the intervention is actually working. The progress monitoring is not to evaluate teachers but rather who is the inervention working for. If it is not working, what other strategies should be in place to help the student/s make progress. Carol - Original Message - From: mrsjro...@aol.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:56:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities I am moving to a new grade level in the same school and my new team is piloting PLC's in our building. From my understanding, this is the way it will work. Our team consists of 5 teachers. One each language arts, math, science, social studies and 1 special education teacher (me). Our team leader, the science teacher, has had some training in structuring the PLC's so this is what from my understanding is to take place. Prior to the beginning of school, we are to have our curriculum maps broken down into basically three week blocks. The first three weeks will primarily be procedures and content review. So at the beginning of the year. we will be meeting daily for a while to start with planning our second three week block. We will bring our materials, activities, assessments and everything we plan to use to the table and then the five of us will work together to evaluate, make recommendations, and support each other as we develop every thing for this second 3 week block. There is a framework from which we work - don't have mine yet but I am trying to obtain information about it.So basically while we are teaching one three week block we will be in the planning and refining for the next three week block. Does this explanation make sense? Jennifer and others - does this sound familiar? June Grade 7 Language Arts / Special Needs KY **Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. Try the new Email Toolbar now! (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown0027) ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:43 PM, MARY KRAMER mkra...@cbcsd.org wrote: We have SATs but they are different. Our SATs are single students, not groups of students. In PCLs we talk about anchor lessons and how to group students. We might discuss a student that needs to go to SAT. Usually we focus on a strategy and look at research or a book like RWM and what we are going to use to anchor the lesson and what we want as an outcome. What are we going to look for? How do we know that students have achieved the strategy? Mary On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:31 PM, beverleep...@gmail.com wrote: What you define as PLCs in my state are SATs (student assistance teams) or RtI groups. Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel -Original Message- From: hccarl...@comcast.net Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:28:05 To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities This sounds more like trying to integrate the subjects to help students see connections. This is a common practice at junior high so that students see how the different subjects are related. I see PLCs as more like Jennifer stated. You use data to identify an area that needs to be improved. Then, all teachers identify strategies or practices for their individual area to work on. Progress monitoring is a regular part of this to see if the intervention is actually working. The progress monitoring is not to evaluate teachers but rather who is the inervention working for. If it is not working, what other strategies should be in place to help the student/s make progress. Carol - Original Message - From: mrsjro...@aol.com To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:56:21 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities I am moving to a new grade level in the same school and my new team is piloting PLC's in our building. From my understanding, this is the way it will work. Our team consists of 5 teachers. One each language arts, math, science, social studies and 1 special education teacher (me). Our team leader, the science teacher, has had some training in structuring the PLC's so this is what from my understanding is to take place. Prior to the beginning of school, we are to have our curriculum maps broken down into basically three week blocks. The first three weeks will primarily be procedures and content review. So at the beginning of the year. we will be meeting daily for a while to start with planning our second three week block. We will bring our materials, activities, assessments and everything we plan to use to the table and then the five of us will work together to evaluate, make recommendations, and support each other as we develop every thing for this second 3 week block. There is a framework from which we work - don't have mine yet but I am trying to obtain information about it.So basically while we are teaching one three week block we will be in the planning and refining for the next three week block. Does this explanation make sense? Jennifer and others - does this sound familiar? June Grade 7 Language Arts / Special Needs KY **Check all of your email inboxes from anywhere on the web. Try the new Email Toolbar now! (http://toolbar.aol.com/mail/download.html?ncid=txtlnkusdown0027) ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
Re: [MOSAIC] Professional Learning Communities
June, We have staff development for our entire staff once a week. It is led by the literacy strategists and the principal. Sometimes we spend half of our time studying a book. This year the k-2 group read RWM. We have PLC's once a week in grade levels that is led by either the literacy strategist or the principal. All of our meetings have a focus. We practice the focus and come back and discuss what we have learned. It has helped all of us to become better teachers. Mary On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, cnjpal...@aol.com wrote: June We have had successful implementation of PLCs in my school. They are formed in grade levels with a member of the school's instructional leadership team as facilitator. The facilitator begins each year by helping each team establish ground rules. Then, on a half-size chart tablet the team lists questions or concerns related to students or instruction. The facilitator tries to help the team decide upon one question they want to research. THe team decides upon how they will work to resolve their question...it could be outside reading, bringing in an outside person as a resource...Each team is required to keep a chart tablet with minutes from each session and they meet every two weeks for 45 minute sessions. The tablet is used not only to keep the PLC focused, but as a way of sharing what is going in with other grade levels. Jennifer In a message dated 6/19/2009 7:31:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mrsjro...@aol.com writes: I know that some of you have been involved in PLC's in the past. Would you share your experiences? I am moving grade levels next year and the team that I am joining is piloting PLC's in our building - maybe the district - not sure about that. I am trying to learning as much as I can before we return to school. Thanks, June **An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! ( http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377052x1201454391/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072hmpgID=62bcd=Jun eExcfooterNO62) ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
Re: [MOSAIC] possible weekly study of strategies?
I would love to be in. It has taken us more than a week to work on strategies in the lower grade. I have experience as a literacy strategist for grades K-6 and also as a junior high special education teacher. I hope I can help with some of the ideas that we have used. Do you know where we would start sending information or how we label it so it all goes together? Mary On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Stephanie Perry zeal4learn...@gmail.comwrote: Count me in on the strategy discussion! ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
Re: [MOSAIC] Book Study
Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller is a great literacy book. On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Jennifer Olimpieri ojen...@sbcglobal.netwrote: We are planning on reading the sisters new book The Cafe. Would be good for you since it is about balanced literacy. --- On Thu, 6/4/09, SPINELLO, Carol cspine...@branford.k12.ct.us wrote: From: SPINELLO, Carol cspine...@branford.k12.ct.us Subject: [MOSAIC] Book Study To: 'Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group' mosaic@literacyworkshop.org Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 12:08 PM Hello, I am looking for professional book titles to use for a book study in my school. We are a K-4 school but we can split-up into separate groups if necessary. We have a three year plan to implement Balanced Literacy so I am looking for professional books that will support our plan. Thank you in advance for your help. Carol ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. ___ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
