Meeting+Feb+8+2010

Present- Karen Wood, Karen Alvia, Jeff Ridlington, Evy Marcetoni, Ava Weeks, Ila Pavesic, Bill Pavesic, Lynn Pendleton, James Kelley, Kathy Clement, Marilynn Slaughter, David West, Gary Donahue

Recommended Vendor List- Approved by Andy, Based in North America- Consolidator is in NA, so that is why the emphasis is here-Google doc of Vendor.Office supplies can be found locally- Office Depot. What about Lakeshore Learning?- Evy and Ila support. We should try to use these vendors first. Rolly has distributed the form for ordering- we need to be very precise, perhaps training needs to occur. Jim will ask if lakeshore can be added. We should order for the year. Grade level teams should come up with a plan, perhaps k-1, 2-3,4-5 Jeff asked about Delta for Foss (it looks like this is part of "School Specialty" already on the list) type science kits and Ila asked about Really Good Stuff Gigi asked if we could make a list of additional vendors, Lynn relayed that we should try these vendors first Are there lists of missing classroom items- especially regarding exposed wires. Technological supplies need to be added to this list. Some things need to be added Discuss technology later this week. Part B of the kit- what do students need to have. Two groups are needed to one to design a kit- with grade level neighbors and one to look at handwriting program and dictionarys- could they be electronic at some level What about general supplies like rolls of paper? Who will manage this? We will have an account with fake money for the store room

Lynn needs 4 at least one primary (k-2) and one intermediate (3-5) people to come to Johnstone and Bell- a bookshop with English books- in Gangnam on Wednesday.

A discussion about reading groups and book sets has ensued Gary brought up a classroom budget with an ambiguous total. A discussion of how school budget ensued

PE equipment orders-David is doing a global order, but would like ideas from classroom teachers, including storage plans. Playground storage is limited. David recommends Gopher sport as the friendliest vendor on our list. David will act as consolidator to check for redundancy. David is setting up training stations. Assume that David isn't aware of the things which you are aware.

Gary share interesting information and resources from Professional Development in Hong Kong How much technology should our school include? Apple program is called "challenge based learning". Challenges are based on tangible outcomes, framing real community issues rather than invented issues. Items happen just in time, designed with students. It may be difficult to develop a plan in advance. At the elementary level, we need to build some background. The question remains, when is learning student directed versus teacher directed. Should our units include a challenge element? PYP includes student initiated action. Gary will send a pdf of the packet. Discovery school has reporting ongoing with conferences as needed. Another school has a core time with an open schedule. Gary has developed some interesting contexts. PYP planner is a living document that can evolve through interaction. Gary wants confirmation that plans can be flexible as we explore big concepts. A balance between challenges and desired outcomes need to be reached. As we read this document, Jim asks us to keep in mind, "Why is Apple pushing this program?" A short discussion on Jorge's article of Web 3.0 ensued

Updates on Affordance/Learner GPS project and demonstration of MS reporting Renaming "GPS" to talk about where students are at. Reflections are video instead of written. Parental input is included. Video includes demonstrations of student skills related to objectives. Spoken input may not be as accessible for non-native English-speaking families. Gary feels that this portfolio system is needed for challenge based learning. What are the consequences of real time reporting. Gary would like to have people take a closer look at the program.

A discussion of Apples versus PCs ensued.

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