Professional Development Departments

I'm at the somewhat chaotic English department meeting here in Carrie's room. The math department is in 130, history is in Mr. Perez's room, science in Ms. Nagle's room, electives in Wilson's room and PE in the girls' PE office.

After a quick pic Megan Schooler, our title 3 coach, is introducing a faculty book club selection: The Hunger Games. She then went on to clarify her role here on campus to work with our English Language Learners. Lily gave some background on the title 3 course and how Lily is now teaching a support class for PRP support.

Sharon let us know some information about her group of ESL 2B students and then left to take care of ESL portfolios. Sheila mentioned how seventh graders (the middle child)have little to look forward to and it seems to be "a lost year." Carrie mentioned possibly bringing best practices to our next meeting.

Lily mentioned articulation and incoming sixth graders being in 2B. She summarized the meeting Lily and I had with the department chair at Uni, and shared the CORE literature lists. 

Mr. Jones mentioned the possible shortage of Esperanza Rising books. Issue resolved after some discussion.

Carrie talked about the new REVISED SPAs!  Answer sheets aren't here yet but we checked out our SPAs.