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As you know, Carrie

Ekey is coming thismonth.

She will be working with all grade-

level teachers from KG1- Grade 5.

Lone will send out a schedule of these

meetings. I realize taking time away

from your kids is stressful, however

having a consultant like Carrie here for

an entire week allows us to really dig in

and work through some important

topics.

KG1 is moving to a full day

and will be using a new program

called Creative Curriculum. This

program will allow KG1s work in

literacy to flow directly into the types of

skills and philosophies we use with our

Reading and Writing Workshops and

Continuums. Exposing our new full-

dayers to an environment rich in

print, authentic literature, and plenty of

reading and writing experiences is the

goal.

KG2-Grade 5 teachers will

meet with Carrie to think about

how to use our instructional

a id e s t o in c r e a s e s t u d e n t

learning. As a school we are very

lucky to have TAs in every grade level.

However, knowing exactly how to

utilize these highly-skilled ladies in our

classrooms, on a daily basis, can be

difficult to pin down. Carrie will be

giving us ideas for using TA support in

Reading and Writing Workshop.

The Reading and Writing Teams

will work with Carrie on using

the Developmental Continuums.

Although all the teachers will be part of

the discussions about using the

developmental continuums, assessment

notebooks and student notebooks in

our full-staff meetings (Monday and

Wednesday, Feb. 22 and 24), Carrie will

conduct more intensive training for the

Reading and Writing Vertical Teams.

Representatives from these teams will

share with the grade levels what is

accomplished and learned.

W h a t E l e p h a n t ? W o r d

Study!!! We are ready to begin

thinking about Word Study and where

we can go with best practice

approaches in the future. Carrie will

offer some general hints, tips and

guidelines for teams and especially for

the WS Team who will have their first

meetings with me in April.

Here comes Carrie!

Lit Coach NotesJEN MUNNERLYN FEBRUARY 2010 ACS, ABU DHABI

Check my blog for reflections on WritingWorkshop, Parent Communication,

Interesting blogs and more!

ES TEAM: Heather, Laura,

Farah, Nandita, and Alison

How Exciting!These five ES teachers, myself, and three MS

teachers will be attending for ACS!

EverybodyknowsCarrie!IworkedwithherinShanghaiandLauradidsoinDenver.Althoughshehasaninternationalpresence,she wasmostrecentlyconsulting inNew

York.

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EARLY RELEASE DAYS

We have had our first set of

collaborative goal meetings. This

work, aimed at helping us practice

using protocols to examine studentdata, is important to the identified

next steps of the school. So far,

both groups have found the

protocols useful in pushing their

thinking further.

Of course, as with any new

undertaking, this process will be

reviewed, refined and tweaked to

ensure we get the most out of every

meeting.

At this point though, I

celebrate two things:

1.We are continuing the

collaborative work which has

been one of the most influential

sources for learning this year.

(According to many of the ERD

Surveys.)

2.We are digging into data.

Although it might not seem like

much, it is a solid start.

Early Release Days are important

p r o f e s s i o n a l d e v e l o p m e n t

opportunities for teachers. Here is a link

to a post at the National Staff Development

Counsels blog: http://www.nsdc.org/

learningBlog/post.cfm/fixing-pd-s-respect-

problem If you read it, let me know what youthink.

After our last Regie Routman

session KG2-5 teachers were asked to

c o m p l e t e a s u r v e y a b o u t t h e

effectiveness of ERDs. The results of the

survey will be discussed at the next RR

session, February 14.

Thank you for taking the survey! :-)

AT A GLANCE-A few of the FEBRUARY MEETINGS WITH JEN

DATE MEETING TIME

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY10TH

KG2 DRAANALYSIS

DURINGCOMMON

PLANNING

TIME

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY

10TH

3-5 WRITING

CELEBRATION

(AND PROTOCOL)

FOR UNIT 3

3:30-4:30

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 -

PD DAY

RR SESSION 9 FIRST

SESSION OF

PD DAY

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14 -

PD DAY

K-2 GOAL: PM

ANALYSIS

LAST

SESSION OF

PD DAY

FEBRUARY 21-25: CARRIE

EKEY HERE

KG1-5 SEE

SCHEDULE

Collaborative Goals

K-2 and 3-5

Type to enter text

Be sure to see the ES Meetings Q3

Document Lone will send out.

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