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
  1. Standards and Benchmarks
  2. Essential questions (or guiding Enduring Understandings by grade level)
  3. Essential Outcomes (skills)
Proposed Agenda==

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


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