ELA TL Meeting

1. Picking up the PACE! Planning for Increased Student Talk throughout the ELD Block ELA TL Meeting 8:00-10:30 12:00-2:30 October 14, 2009

2. Celebrate and Share! • Think/Writeon your own in your journal • How are you structuring co-planning with your teachers? What has been successful? • Pair: Take turns talking with an elbow partner • Sharewith your table • Decide how you will synthesize your table’s thinking for the whole group Picking up the PACE!

3. How are you structuring co-planning with teachers? What has been successful? AM Session • Using reflection questions to guide team through planning • Set ELD time (ie after school) for leveled groups/teams to meet • Planning is getting better and faster each week • Teachers who have the training are taking it on • Teams are planning for other teams • Plan dump sheet for teachers ahead of time • Releasing support to help teachers take on responsibility (having teachers take on different parts) PM Session • Restructuring planning to meet needs of specific language levels • Set aside planning time • Creating/using a unit plan so all teachers are on the same function/topic • Meeting with a grade level and using content to help determine topics • ELAchieve training has helped teachers be more successul • Co-planning focused on 1 part of the lesson plan • Monthly meeting with language levels, everyone starts planning one lesson. Jigsaw planning • Grade level planning for credit Picking up the PACE!

4. Outcomes • Teacher Leaders will plan for opportunities for student talk throughout the ELD block. • Teacher Leaders will deepen their reflective practice through exploring goals and ongoing action plans. Picking up the PACE!

5. Feedback Trends ELD offers students: • a chance for every student to have multiple opportunities to practice language throughout the block • Upping the “miles on the tongue” • Eliminating “broadcast questions” • cognitively demanding and authentic learning • When kids leave, have they learned something new and can they talk about it? • tools that are transferable • natural social and academic language Picking up the PACE!

6. Expectations Learner: • We don’t just do action plans, we use them to reflect and push our thinking. Leader: • Teacher leaders are able to visit classrooms to support co-planning sessions • Teacher leaders are co-planning with individuals/teams and using/adapting structures learned at TL meetings. There is a clear outcome for teacher learning during co-planning. • Teacher leaders make time to meet with their Consultant each time the consultant is at their school. Advocate: • As we consider redesignation, we need to remember our role as an advocate for these students. Picking up the PACE!

7. Expert Groups • Setting the Context • I Do It • We Do It • You Do Together • You do Independently • Wrap up and Reflection • Create a Group Chart • What is the student’s role? • What would this look like? • Examples you’ve tried • A visual representation • EVERYCOLORNEEDSTO • BEONTHECHART! Picking up the PACE!

8. Expert Groups: Setting the Context Picking up the PACE!

9. Expert Groups: I do it Picking up the PACE!

10. Expert Groups: We do it Picking up the PACE!

11. Expert Groups: You do it together Picking up the PACE!

12. Expert Groups: You do it independently Picking up the PACE!

13. Expert Groups: Wrap Up/Reflection Picking up the PACE!

14. Planning • What will students say during this time? • How will we structure this talk? • Use 4.1-4.2 as a resource. Setting the Context/ Bringing the Language to Life Picking up the PACE!

15. Planning • What will students say during this time? • How will we structure this talk? • Use Tab 4 as a resource. Picking up the PACE!

16. Planning • What will students say during this time? • How will we structure this talk? Wrap Up and Reflection Picking up the PACE!

17. Facilitation Debrief • What did we do? • How could you replicate this process with your teachers? Picking up the PACE!

18. Goal Setting for Quarter 2 Picking up the PACE!

19. Action Plan • Action Plan: • Teacher Leader example • Choose a question/goal for co-planning and a question/goal for your demonstration classroom that you would like to explore through your action plans. What are you really wondering about? Picking up the PACE!

20. Whip Around Picking up the PACE!