K-12 Principal meeting note-taking sheet – High School
Agenda Topic
Questions, Comments, Thoughts
District Endorsed
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
District Endorsed
School Site Optional
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
School Site Optional
The Proposed Adoption Cycle
1. What if we want digital textbooks with just a few hard copies?
2. How do digital texts (with yearly updates and yearly costs) fit into this
plan?
3. Where does technology replacement align with this? i.e. What if we
want digital texts, but no technology to support it?
K-12 Principal meeting note-taking sheet – Middle School
Agenda Topic
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
Questions, Comments, Thoughts
District Endorsed
1. Language! As a Tier I for SPED causes concern as it only addresses
phonics, phonemic awareness, and some vocab- no comprehension.
Should be Tier II
2. Thank you for making Success Maker a secondary – only intervention
District Endorsed
School Site Optional
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
1. Step-Up to writing should be maintained as a resource for some
struggling writers – not as a curriculum
2. Six Minute Solution should move to endorsed
3. Co-teaching would be a Tier II/III intervention
School Site Optional
The Proposed Adoption Cycle
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Will individual schools have the choice to go digital?
Support material to be web based?
Many facets (work areas) to put into place.
How will you disseminate this to key people like LTEs, certain school
personnel?
When will training occur?
One to One tech resource is that a district supported goal?
Why no MS allocation in years 4, 5, 9, and 11?
Elementary has allocations each year. It is also not being funded in years
5, 6, 8, and 11.
Why is the allocation for middle school less than either HS or
elementary?
Do language arts allocations allow for both writing instruction and
reading instruction?
Are the interventions included or excluded from budget?
Textbook - Does the cost for materials preclude the school from the
historical 1/3 share?
K-12 Principal meeting note-taking sheet – Elementary School
Agenda Topic
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
District Endorsed
Narrow the Focus / Build
Capacity
Revising the D11 Pyramid
School Site Optional
Questions, Comments, Thoughts
District Endorsed
1. Common Reading Lesson Plan template?
2. Fidelity to core – vs.- using materials outside of core (leveled texts
outside of curriculum)
3. When will the district decide if we go to one elementary math core?
4. Which one are you looking at?
5. Who is responsible for creating pacing guides?
6. When will they be ready?
7. Non title schools need Tier II math interventions paid by the district
since SuccessMaker is taken away.
8. Ongoing professional development training in adopted series.
9. Align Professional development with adopted interventions.
10. Lots of programs…..is training out there for all of it?
11. Reading – Adams 50 is an assessment we use in PSMs, for a body of
evidence. Please do not remove.
12. Principals, assistant principals and teacher representatives need to be a
part of this process.
13. Kim Sutton number lines teaching multiples, Balanced Math- do the
Math; Step Up – Instructionally helps with K-2 alignment of instruction.
SuccessMaker – for high impact non title schools.
14. Step Up to writing is a critical component of setting the foundation of
writing – the organization of writing.
15. Who is making this decision?
16. Were elementary principals asked?
17. What are the supplements for writing?
18. If you remove Step up – what do you have? Tier I, II, III
19. Assessments Tier I – AIMSweb Benchmarks – Target assessments are
listed in TieNet, so should this be listed here?
School Site Optional
1. Orton Gillingham is that included in multi-sensory?
2. Keep Lindamood-Bell, LIPS, Seeing Stars, Visualizing Verbalizing
3. Read Naturally is more a Tier II, not a Tier III
4. We need interventions that will allow us greater face time for
interventions. i.e. computer assisted interventions that will allow small
groups to remain small (not greater than 5)
5. Could SuccessMaker be place on school optional list – it has been
successful at Jackson
6. Edmark for SPED
7. Step Up to Writing need to remain as an option as a supplement to
Writers Workshop at elementary (please listen to principals on this: V.
Anderson, C. Carlson, and C Stone
8. We are using Mountain Math school-wide, What is the rationale for
excluding it? There are few math tools!
9. It would be n ice to hear (receive) the rationale for removing programs.
10. Every Child A Writer has tremendous potential – if ongoing staff
development is provided. Place on School optional list.
11. We used the program with fidelity! We don’t have some of the other
programs; especially for math. We have no $$
12. King obtained the additional licenses and newer version of
SuccessMaker. We used it extensively before, after and during school.
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We made double digit gains in reading. Now what?
Kim Sutton not a program it is how to use hands on manipulatives
effectively.
What is the intervention available for math if we don’t have
interventions or time
SuccessMaker we now have it working with fidelity after school time
(time and staff available)
Step up – need to continue as D11 supported for Tier I; need those
strategies for organizational non-fiction writing. Kids won’t necessarily
get the structure from writer’s workshops.
Need Step Up to Writing to establish organizational skills in student
writing!
No SuccessMaker?! What a loss for my school! My teachers used this so
well this year to support gaps in learning.
Please keep mountain math. We at Henry, have used it in Tier I, and
provided the review we need. (II repetitions) 3rd, 4th, 5th, (Math, CSAPS)
Please reconsider Step Up as an intervention Tier II and Tier III – Gains in
CSAP – Henry, Thanks
Montessori is core Tier I at Buena Vista. We are looking at gaps when we
align to CAS and will look for ways to fill those gaps with supported D11
core and supplemental materials.
Mountain math supports cycle scaffolded learning
Kim Sutton strategies is not a program. It’s a motivational piece to build
support for mastering state academic standards. 3
Step up to writing is a foundational piece to help support all writing
programs.
Need Kim Sutton materials (they are supplemental materials using brain
research not a program
Mountain Math this is a Madeline hunter strategy (it is like DLI)
Step Up to Writing a supplement for writers workshop on organizational
tool
Kim Sutton number lines bring a K-5 alignment to help children develop
number sense, pattern awareness
Step Up K-2 brings organization structure to beginning writers and is
easy for balanced math.
Do the math, SuccessMaker for non title high impact
Step up to writing!! Builds a foundation – we use it to develop gender
specific mini-lessons
Step Up to writing is important for teaching mini lessons for developing
organizational skills in expository writing within the writer’s workshop
framework!
Target assessments are listed in TieNet so should Assessments AIMSweb
benchmarks
International Baccalaureate philosophy, expectations, strategies,
requirements must be part of our Tier I plans throughout the building at
Midland and aligned to the CAS.
Daybooks for intermediate, from Write Source for reading.
K-12 Principal meeting note-taking sheet – Elementary School
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What is the writing curriculum for 11-12 on replacement budget?
Training for new staff in currently used programs.
Ongoing training for any newly adopted series.
For 2011-2012, there is $1,005,920 budgeted for writing….what does
that entail??
Need to provide yearly training in all programs for newly hired staff
through new teacher orientation.
What are we adopting for writing?
Math Interventions>
Why are facilitators making lots of decisions 1st – Should be principals
and teachers who are on the front line?
5 Schools at our table have no writing curriculum. What will is instead
5 components of reading are not an intervention
I am so happy to hear there is a plan to address curriculum material
needs.
Budget – Is it possible to give us papers that are black and white to save
$ for colored copies? (for general leadership)
Budget – Just curious – Is there too much $ in elementary foreign
language with so few schools offering foreign language?