Happy New Year ELA Overall January Learning Team

Happy New Year, ELA! Overall January Learning Team Agenda: 90 minutes total 10 Culture Builder: Graffiti 10 Sharing & Reflecting on Spring LTP 3 Goals for January & Transition 55 Individual Problem-Solving Around Gaps / Deep-dive into Reading-Level Gaps 10 End of LT Survey / Survey to sign up for Innovation Fair & a TFA-Delta t -shirt ELA-everyone’s contact info is here: tiny. URL. com/ELAroster 1

ELA-Spring 2012: Goals & Trajectory January February 3 weeks! March 2 weeks! April 5 weeks May: Year End Summit 5 weeks 2

The Rest of Our Time Together… 55 55 10 Priority #1: Structured Problem-Solving about Reading Level Growth GOAL: We will analyze mid-year reading growth data, prioritize a gap, & create a solution. We will all consider sharing our work at the March Innovation Fair. Priorities #2 - 4: Choice-Based Problem-Solving Writing, Discussion, State-test Results GOAL: We will all create solutions to solve ELA priorities. We will all consider sharing our work at the March Innovation Fair. Share Solution, Sign Up for Innovation Fair, & Order a Tshirt! Survey Time 3

Choice-Based Problem-Solving 4

3 Corners, 3 Priorities Students don’t know their progress as writers in response to literature. They aren’t invested in their writing in response to literature goals and they aren’t steadily improving Students aren’t getting to talk to each other in partners & groups to carry larger and larger amounts of the reading & thinking in class. OR Students’ talk isn’t helping Ss think deeper about reading & writing— instead it’s leading to some less Students aren’t making appropriate growth on statetest aligned assessments, such that they aren’t on track to EITHER perform better on the state test than they did last year OR at least proficient 5

ELA-Survey 1. Share solutions, so we can see if 100% of us generated next steps. 2. Elect to share at the March ELA Innovation Summit 3. Order the VERY FIRST Delta-ELA T-shirt! 6

Guided Reading Level Problem-Solving 7

4 Corners, 4 Realities You haven’t given the Gates/ another reading level test again in the middle of the year, so you & your Ss aren’t clear on reading -level-progress yet. You’ve given it but not graded/ tracked it yet (basically, you & your kids don’t know how they’re doing, yet, but you could figure it out quickly) You’ve given it, shared results with Ss but haven’t changed any of your practices yet because of the results. You’ve given it, shared results with Ss, & made a few changes to your class structures/ expectations because of the data. 8

Solutions! Access the soft copy version of the Mid-Year Reading Solutions Packet http: //tinyurl. com/midyear. READ 9

ELA-Survey 1. Share solutions, so we can see if 100% of us generated next steps. 2. Elect to share at the March ELA Innovation Summit 3. Order the VERY FIRST Delta-ELA T-shirt! 10