AMS 6th Grade Team Meeting Agenda/Minutes
Date: 10/21/2015
Participants:
Marie Flynn
TraceyAnn Smith
Chrissy Lathroum
Samantha Wilson
Melissa Panackal
Gail Gast
Ken Allen
Agnes Dickert
Erica Aaron
Lynn Elliott
Alice Buckner
Heather Vandenberg
Brian Mangiafico
Julie Pierce
Sarah Fultz
Taylor Edwards
Mary Kay Graham
Johnna Alexander
April Jones
Shannon Johnson
Nichole Lee-Kalif
Denise Jackson
AMS Vision
Arbutus Middle School students will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to reach their potential as middle level learners and
be prepared to participate in their high schools and communities as responsible and productive 21 st century learners and citizens.
Desired Outcomes:
By the end of this meeting, the following outcomes will have been met:
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Participants will ……Student Academic Progress Related Topics (Can be sharing time for strategies and student work using data teams, lesson studies,
tuning protocols, and the “non-workshop”)
Participants will ……Student Emotional/Social Progress Related (Team works in conjunction with counselors and support staff)
Participants will ……. “Housekeeping” Items (Scheduling, field trips, school policies and procedures)
Topic
Outcome
Follow-up
D/E Interventions - Monitor D/E grades
What interventions are we providing for students
who are not thriving? re-teaching, pull backs for
making up missing work, have given multiple
copies, contacts home
PD ~ 6th Grade Book Study
At end of meeting, all teachers will review possible
book selections and vote on their top 3 choices for
a group book study. The book will be divided up
into sections, discussions will be held every 2
weeks. Book chosen Productive Group Work
Due 11/4 ~ Intro and Ch 1
Due 11/18 ~ Ch 2 & 3
Due 12/2 ~ Ch 4 & 5
Due 12/16 ~ Ch 6 & 7
*China Dancers 11/4 during specials
*Be sure to monitor your grading-academics vs
behavior; our grades should reflect academics not
behavior (executive function or home situations)
*Bell to bell instruction!
*American Ed week coming-we will do school wide
theme
*minions?
GLT discussed issues that we feel should be handled
with a school wide policy: Dress code (especially no
under garments showing) & late to class. We will
Teachers will monitor
their grade books to
ensure that appropriate
interventions are in
place for students on
D/E list
Once book is chosen,
Denise will copy for
those who need hard
copy.
Housekeeping
School wide initiatives
Teachers will monitor
missing assignments for
students to ensure that
grades reflect ability.
Teachers will continue
to monitor dress code
and discuss new
follow the 7th and 8th grade policy which the
administration supports. 1st time warning; 2nd time
ld; 3rd time ld with sir and phone call home; 4th time
after school det with sir and phone call home; 5th
time office referral. This is for each class so
teachers will need to find a way to monitor this.
Please hang new poster.
lateness policy with all
classes so that students
are hearing it multiple
times from multiple
teachers. We will
impliment this for 2nd
quarter.
Arbutus MS Grade Level Meeting Agenda Topics
Meetings will be conducted in a flipped format. Teachers will review the information/data prior to the meeting, to be able to discuss
during the meeting.
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Student achievement data: grades, assessments
PD topic: twice/monthly
Interdisciplinary connections: share curricular concept topics to foster collaboration among content areas; once/monthly
PBIS data: behaviors and next steps (chronic issues, red zone students, possible mentors for students reaching 3-6 SIRS,
homeroom reminders for SIR hierarchy and Eagles bucks buyback, support from available human resources i.e. counselor,
psychologist, etc)
Other grade level activities