Study Group Review
Meeting
Jennifer Herbold
February 19, 2014
Agenda
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UbDs & Cheat Sheet
Study Group Goals
Curriculum Days
NMSD Insider
Work in Groups
UbDs & Cheat Sheet
• Reviews are progressing. If you have not gotten your UbD reviewed,
let us know.
• Submit in a timely manner so you can get sequential feedback.
Often, the feedback for all of your UbDs are the same.
• Do resubmit after receiving feedback.
• “Expert teachers” will get less and less feedback as time progresses.
• Some problems with Essential Questions. More problems with
Assessment/Evidence.
• Review Cheat Sheet.
Study Group Goals
• Data Driven Instruction:
• Put on hold for this year.
• Have a clear written plan on how you will gather baseline and ongoing
data on your students next year.
• Complete key standards if not done so already. Those will be
reviewed/incorporated in our standards lists via highlighted text
during the summer.
• All subject areas/grade levels should have a list of key topics for
each course taught. This should come from the standards. The key
topics will help guide our pacing/UbD development.
• Give each other feedback on UbDs.
Curriculum Days
• Heather is now working on organizing curriculum days.
• We will, with your and your supervisors’ input, assign staff to work
in different curriculum groups. These groups will be largely similar
to the Study Groups.
• We will have subs for you those days starting at 9 and ending at
3:20.
• We will work on various study group goals. Some groups will have
additional goals (ELA-Literature List Review, for example).
• Curriculum days will mostly occur on Tuesdays.
NMSD Insider
• http://www.nmsd.k12.nm.us/intranet/nmsdinsider/general/
• Refresh for new pages every once in a while (does not automatically
refresh).
• Password to Subject Area Resources (Units, pacing guides, etc): 1885. We
did not want those open to the public.
• If you feel anything is missing, let Jen know.
• This is a work in progress. A lot of curriculum things will be added in the
next couple of months. We will review the contents of NMSDInsider again
later.
• NMSDInsider and PowerSchool should be your go-to websites.
Go forth and continue the good work you are doing!