Today we met in the Parent Center... kind of a change of pace.
UTLA announcements: West Area Meeting tomorrow, our site meeting is on Thursday, during lunch. There were a few additional announcements and if you have discussion points, please bring them to the meeting Thursday.
Mr. Watson then introduced himself and gave some initial impressions of Emerson. In discussions with students, they are generally happy being here. From parents, it is a unique situation. "You have a school that the community gave up on and now they want their school back." He believes we can be an 800 API school... He's noticed a nice rapport amongst teachers and students, so we can move them and he is trying to figure out how to balance parents wants and teachers' abilities to do their work. He'd love for teachers to fill out the survey so he has an idea of what we want Emerson to be and how we can get on the same page and move in the same direction. Please be candid as names are optional. He has concerns about certain numbers (attendance rates, AYP, API) and he has to be concerned with those, but he also wants to see the relationships in our classrooms and high levels of thinking from our students. Department chairs
We then moved into department meetings. English discussed SPA due dates for narrative. Lily presented her argument for making the SPA consumable and then shared her SPA analysis.
These are the novels we've taught:
Barbeau:
7th Bound, I Juan de Pareja,
8th The Outsiders 8th, The Cay,
Plans on: Call of the Wild, Shakespeare Stealers, Tangerine, Enrique's Journey
Greaney: 7th: I, Juan de Pareja, 8th, The Outsiders
Nakada: 6th The Misfits, 8th The Outsiders, 6th Mythology, 8th Three Cups, 6th Tuck Everlasting, 8th The Glory Field, 6th Esperanza Rising, 8th Midsummer Nights Dream
Cruz: 6th: Julie of the Wolves, Tuck Everlasting, IHP Julie of the Wolves, The Misfits
7th: The Outsiders, Johnny Tremain
Fraser: 6th: Julie of the Wolves but needs 80 copies, Esperanza Rising, maybe The Misfits?
Parker: 8th The Outsiders, The Glory Field, Anne Frank, for advanced ESL: Esperanza Rising and The Outsiders
Berman: 7th The Lightning Theif, I, Juan de Pareja, Shakespeare Stealer
We will meet for our next meeting in Mary's in 127.
The end.
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