Thursday, February 4, 2010 PUDONG HS VC 216
Proposed Agenda
Please browse the Departmental Philosophy, Enduring Understandings, and Essential Agreements pages to the left.


8:15 AM Coffee, Greetings

8:30 AM Greetings, Connections, and Shared Reading
Modified 4A Protocol:
http://www.socialstudies.org/positions/elementary

1. Jigsaw read the sections of the Article, considering the following to report out (15 minutes):
• What Assumptions does the author of the text hold?
• What do you Agree with in the text?
• What do you want to Argue with in the text?
• What parts of the text should we Aspire to?

2. Report out bullets 1, 2, and 3 (10 minutes)
3. Collectively discuss bullet 4, round robin, 30 seconds per participant (10 minutes)
What parts of the text should we Aspire to?

4. Debrief the process (5 minutes): Did it give you a comprehensive enough understanding? What about the the facilitator? Participants? Process?

9:00 AM Philosophy, Essential Agreements, Enduring Understandings

  • Atlas Reviewing Reports from Scope and Sequence in Atlas: What is already being taught where?
    Mixed grade level teams, e.g., preK, 2, 4;
    K, 1, 3, 5

  • Webbing Curricular "Big Ideas" & Essential Outcomes by banded grade levels



10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Continue work from above (11:00 - AHL out)

12:00 PM Lunch, campus tour (as desired)

12:45 PM Continued review of Standards & Benchmarks- ID Essential Learning Targets

Move into Unit Development (vis a vis, content) as appropriate. Strongly recommend development in Atlas or in a shared google doc linked here: (click edit to modify).

2:15 PM Progress report out and clarify next steps
for PD Days

3:00 PM Finish; Shuttle to Puxi departs

Next Steps:

  1. Receive Team feedback; share questions, concerns, and hopes in "Discussion" tab above. Please let our 10 Aspirations & the Task Force's Philosophy & Essential Agreements be our guiding principles for all decisions or impasses. Please make modifications in a different color for easy recognition in the google document
  2. Consult the 21st C Skills Standards and ISTE Nets on the Standards and Benchmarks page, remembering the "Position Statement" was written in the last century.
  3. Over the holiday, I will crosswalk the primary & intermediate standards for review prior to our chek
  4. March 15th Video Conference (Admin VC (PX) and MS Conference room (PD)
  5. Unit-writing meeting tentatively scheduled in Puxi for Wednesay, March 31st, to be confirmed March 15h.