Middle_School

Next Meeting:
== February PD Days - Thursday (Puxi - 12:45), Friday (Pudong 8 AM) Target: Present a MS framework to the Task Force by March 11, 2010 Proposed Agenda==
 * 1) Standards and Benchmarks
 * 2) Essential questions (or guiding Enduring Understandings by grade level)
 * 3) Essential Outcomes (skills)

8:30 AM Greetings, Connections, and Shared Reading 9:00 AM Review draft Philosophy, Essential Agreements, Enduring Understandings and MS Standards & Benchmarks

//**What is the background, historical perspective on these three documents:**// Vertical articulation, bringing the entire department into harmony, respecting the Humanities and Social Studies/Language Arts model. There has not been a review school wide of the subject.


 * What do you need to know?**

9:30 AM Vision Casting - our dream for MS Curriculum (resource sharing) @http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjLSovmANWnpdFlRYWwxa2JiTkN0NXBIOTg3Si1wSEE&hl=en 10:15 AM Break 10:30 AM Webbing Curricular "Big Ideas" by grade level 12:00 PM Lunch, campus tour (as desired) 12:45 PM Creating Enduring Understandings, verifying "epochs", and I.D. Essential Outcomes ( Unit refinement and creation (goal - 2 per grade level)) 2:15 PM Progress report out and next steps 3:00 PM Finish

Partcipants
Team Leader Representative: Linda Wegener
 * Pudong:** Marian Bradshaw, David Cole, Angela Nall
 * Puxi:** Marie Williams, Melanie Ryan, Michael Pruden