Group+09+2011

Group 9 Early Childhood Group

Guiding questions:
 * Best ever use of faculty meetings for professional development
 * Challenges and obstacles to using faculty meetings for prof growth

Brownstone School - Julia, Brooke Teachers have difficulty sharing, become more active Meeting were every month, bi-weekly Half hour, 8AM Red Rabbit lunch - menus online
 * What is the structure of our meetings? **

Town School –Odette meet every week, division 3x a month Divisional broken down by different topics Understanding by design – Grant Wickens, way to format curriculum Housekeeping in email Icebreakers at the beginning of every meeting <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Looked at management style <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Early drop off starts at 7:30

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Brick Church - Emily <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Every Monday, full faculty <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lunch provided at noon, good incentive, difficulty for PM teachers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Have challenging teachers take ownership of meetings <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dr. Lydia Soifer – speech language talks (5) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Meets with individual teams

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">All Souls - Marjorie <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Individual meetings 3x a year (beginning, middle and end) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Full staff meetings on Friday <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">3 teacher as co-head, meeting with them every 2 weeks <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">2x a month team presents to another team, an administrator sits in <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Housekeeping items <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Presentations for the PA <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Early drop off run by different team of teachers in their classrooms <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">3 classes working on class pages, extra parent meetings from 8:30-9:00 on topics, teachers volunteering to hold the parent meetings

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Church of the Epiphany - Whendy <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">5 minute check-in every morning with teachers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">No afternoon sessions <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Afternoon meeting every Friday <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Around till 3:30, 11:45 dismissal <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Lunch provided <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Older children go to 2, <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">2-3:30 to plan <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Icebreakers – ball toss, just playing, completing art <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Provide bowl of fruit <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Guitars for all the teachers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Early drop off - available for PA parents to hold meeting, 8:15

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dwight School - Caroline <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Full faculty meeting 1x a month <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Division meetings 1x a week <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Team meetings 1x a month

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Topics for Faculty meetings**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Discipline
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Anti-bias curriculum, Louise Dermans Sparks - ask faculty to read a chapter from book
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Gender neutral language with faculty (Director, Director of Diversity and School Psychologist)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Listing of all of the language that is gender specific and come up with a different way to say it
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Look at curriculum through a gender neutral lens

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Experience in education// with John Dewey, We don't play with guns here by Penny Holland <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Falling for Science// - Sherry Terckle, teaches writing to MIT people, what experiences they had as children //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Scientist in the crib // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">//Mind in the Making -// Ellen Gallinski <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Ted talks was inspiring and appealing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Helpful with staff to read together -Book Suggestions to read with Faculty **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Ways to enhance your meetings** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Coordinating food for teachers <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Giving teachers more responsibility during a faculty meeting <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Looking at culture of teachers, making sure the teachers know the administration is a resource <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Give teachers attention and getting to know them

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Professional development form/questions to consider/bringing learning to practice** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">What would you bring back from the classroom and what would you leave there as a gift? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Accountability partner