JHS - Department Chair Meeting
ASC, Room 306
April 6, 2016
 Sylvia Berry
 Outlook
 Core Lab
 We’ve completed all the writing of the new Core Labs and updates to the Pacing Guides
 Changes to Pacing Guides will come out in late May to early June
 Updated District Science Lab Webpage by June 1
 Core Lab Training for all teachers (get materials for next year’s Core Lab Program) in
subject areas is as follows
 Thursday, April 28th 3:00-4:00 – 7th Grade (Room 100)
 Tuesday, May 10th 3:00-4:00 – 8th Grade (2nd Floor Conference Room)
 RISE Training, May 10th from 4:30-5:30 at the ASC
 Category Training Fair
 Need 7th and/or 8th Grade Teachers who would be available to talk with teachers about
conducting Engineering Fair and Robotics teams at their sites?
 Tasks:
 Inventories: Updated
 Upcoming Meetings
 Department Chair Meeting May 18th @ 3:00
 Looking Ahead 16/17SY
 New SDS/GHS compliance
 Must have all Chemicals newly labeled by June 1st.
 Chemical Resistant Labels will be coming in May.
 Have new SDS sheets printed or stored in a file on main computer in classroom
 Red Binders available for keeping the SDS Sheets.
 Vertical Team Meetings will continue next year
 5th-8th Grade meetings have been awesome.
 Will continue the vertical alignment throughout next year.
 Thoughts on High School alignment???
 Thoughts for PD
 Science Snippets - 30 minute meetings 2:45-3:15
(Coordinator Led, Teacher Led or Co-Led)
 These would be done at Schools in each region
 Region 1 MWJH & BJH, Region 2 SRJH & HWJH, Region 3 CJH, HEJH & Vista
 You could come to any meeting, but for driving purposes I would do 3 meetings at 3
different sites in a week or two. (One in each region)
 Training Ideas:
 Online Discovery – So that’s what my Online Textbook Access Gets Me!!!
 I also want to discuss reserving a computer lab day for your students so teachers
can train students on accessing their textbook.
 Core Lab – Am I doing this Right?
 OAS-S, what, when, where, why, how?
 OAS-S Progression – Do I really have to teach these standards?
 Laboratory Management for Large Class Sizes.
 Any other ideas????
 During the School Day Visits, by request (I’m looking at visiting in the fall and Spring)
 I will be setting up a schedule to visit any new teachers hired this year or next year. This
will give me some time to spend with each of them.
 All other teachers I will set up a schedule and e-mail teachers 3 weeks in advance that if
they would like me to visit on the day specified then I’ll come by and visit. All other visits
will be by request from the teacher.
 Ideas for Visits:
 Plan Time Meetings
 Discuss lessons, implementation, web navigation, share ideas, etc.…
 Co-Teaching Opportunities
 Co-Teach a lesson or lab together, etc.…