English Department Flex Time (Day 1) July 17, 2012 (2:00-9:30)

Time

(Subject to Change)

Agenda Item

2:00-2:15 Welcome and Introductions 2:15-2:30 Setting norms for the next two days.

• What can we all agree on to make sure the next two days are useful, productive, and help start the year off right?

2:30-3:30 Common Core State Standards Instructional Shifts • Jigsaw 3 Instructional shifts • Glossary of terms • Chart paper

o Explain the shift o Note what instructional strategies are already being used @

Ogden that support the shift. o What needs to be added or changed to address the shift?

• Present to rest of team. 3:30-4:15 Identifying Quarter Standards and Scaffold Standards

• Quarter Standards: Skills that will take ≈10 weeks for students to obtain mastery.

• Scaffold Standards: Skills that need to be constantly taught in order to master by year’s end.

• Examples (Grade 9): L.1 vs. L.2 / W.1 vs. W.6 • Working in pairs, ID standards for your grade level.

4:15-4:30 Break 4:30-6:00 Create Grade Level Standards Map

• CCSS/CPS Benchmark Standards • Knowing our students, where do you need to begin? • What standards build off of one another? • Start to think about your units of study, but don’t let that be the

only reason a standard is put there. 6:00-7:00 Dinner 7:00- 7:30 Unit Assessment Tweaks

• Wagner’s LOTF Unit • What is the assessment now? • What are his new quarter two benchmarks and standards? • How can he tweak his assessment to accommodate these

benchmarks and standards? 7:30-8:00 Literacy Planning Guide

• Help Wagner determine which texts/writing assignments he can use to help scaffold toward his assessment.

8:00-9:30 Self Planning Time (Quarter 1) • On your own or with a partner (Your choice) • Steps to take:

o Have new standards map on hand o Start by tweaking or creating an assessment that fits the

standards for Q1. o Plan texts and writing assignments that comply with the

literacy-planning guide.

English Department Flex Time (Day 2) July 18, 2012 (2:00-9:30)

Time

(Subject to Change)

Agenda Item

2:00-2:10 • Review of Norms • Agenda Overview

2:10-2:30 2012-2013 Courses, Schedules, etc. 2:30-5:00 Self Planning Time (Quarter 1)

• With a partner • Steps to take:

o Have new standards map on hand (on computer or print) o Walk partner through the unit, focusing specifically on end

of unit task. o Explain new CCSS standards for quarter one including CPS

benchmarks. o Work with partner to tweak, add, or change end of unit task

to reflect new standards. o Work backwards with partner to find texts, writing

assignments, and research options that comply with the literacy-planning guide.

o Switch roles with partner. 5:00-6:00 Dinner 6:00-7:00 Share newly aligned unit with another department member.

• Find someone who you haven’t yet worked with and take them through your new literacy planning guide and assessment.

• Ask for critical feedback on how to improve planning, the assessment, or how to more closely align to quarter standards.

• Switch roles. • Email completed Literacy-Planning Guides to Collin

7:00-8:00 Share units with entire department. • What are you walking away with to use in the first quarter? • What worked about this process? • What can be improved?

• How are you feeling about Common Core and its implementation at Ogden?

8:00-9:30 Resource sharing and discussion. • Websites, Databases, Resources that helped you find texts. • Vocab. Wordly wise 6-12? • Independent reading?