November+2,+2010

November 2, 2010 Meeting 6:30 -8:00

 Meeting goals: Video and photo release discussion Report from specialists Discuss Nov 15 date

 Rosemary discussed the graduate class - Wants to put poems on wiki need teachers page, would like a page for her class to load lesson plans, class homeowrk (ex-poems) and a place to load student work that her class brings on student work.

 Tania shared from research dept - IRB application has been submitted to IRB board -will take 3-4 weeks for process. Control groups for Union City and Cambridge springs was maple wood. 2nd District still to come Will be setting up a date for identity brokers to meet. Beginning to contact retired teachers to see who will be willing to participate as observers-have 3 teachers so far Jan asked if there was criteria, only that they are retired teachers, they will receive training. Hope to have ready by end of Nov to start training. Names should be emailed to Tania. There will be a need for observers to come in with an anchor for training. They only need to do this once. There will be a pretest and post test observation. Comment: they need to be recently retired elementary teachers. Comment: also would be good to know their background. Comment: the goal is to norm them.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Q- How do teachers upload to the wiki? Thumb drives can be a problem. Camille shared some tech director concerns. Can we schedule teacher inservice days? It could be problematic to offer uploading before all teachers are ttrained. Camille has already scheduled a meeting with Union City. Can she do those at other schools? She proposed training- two sessions. First session overview of wiki and cameras. Second session train how to upload, document.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Clarification - Rosemary wants to have Camille upload things from her class.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Cambridge Springs offered to meet with Camille to plan a day, they will email to coordinate. Meadville will email Camille as well.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discussion what is a residency, how might it work? Cory reported on the directory and what a directory artist is.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Q- when will the residencies take place? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">A- It depends on how your school wants to schedule it, each school has a budget for 30 days of an artist residency each quarter. clarification: not 30 calendar days i.e. 4 weeks but 30 school days -can mean up to 6 weeks. Clarification- each school can spend the time as they choose, often the first week is planning, the last wrap up, however a school may choose to do 2or3 days a week etc.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Discussion: who should be involved in the planning of the residency? The classroom teachers from the core group, the building special teachers (art,music, phys Ed, library) may differ from school to school. the project will pay for subs to allow one full day of plan time per residency.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jan brought up the possibility of arranging for students to go to see Step Africa. Q- how does his connect to the curriculum?

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Jan named dance movement skills that connect to the curriculum plus the importance of seeing a live event on a stage.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Cory noted that it connects to the SAS framework and 21st century skills of appreciating diversity. The SAS framework connection can be found under School Wide Area of focus, which deals with understanding and appreciating differences. It also appears in the 21st Century skills social and cross cultural skills which recognizes the importance of using differing perspectives to increase innovation and creativity.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> Finally we closed with a brief discussion of what will happen on Nov 15th: Streams of Learning, Rivers of Change, In Art Day

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> How can arts infused instruction increase student engagement, improve student achievement and improve the effectiveness of classroom instruction? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 4:00 - 4:15 Gathering and a warm up exercise - Jan, Rosemary <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4:15 - 4:45 Connecting Arts Infused Instruction to SAS and the 21st Century Framework - Cory, Camille <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4:45- 5:45 Experience a sample residency -teachers may self select the group <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6:00 - 7:00 Dinner with the Artists- small group discussion and brainstorming- bring along your ideas, textbooks or curriculum and get a chance to think through how a residency might work in your class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Dance, Drama or Music - Cory, Jan, Rosemary