LGF Meeting - March 6, 2016

Strengths and Opportunities for Growth - Individual and ES Group

Strength and Opportunities for Growth

Thank you for the conversation today.  I appreciated the time and energy to look at some of the artifacts from the last few years of our Adaptive Schools work and the reflection and discussion about things we can do to move forward.  

I walked away from our meeting with a feeling that there are a lot of great things taking place and the opportunities for growth, both individual and as a group lie with refining and either building or maintaining the base we have for the work we are doing.  

To that end, here are some of the ideas generated as to ways we might move forward.

For our LGF

I will make it a point to identify opportunities for us to enhance our skills in using the norm of paraphrasing.  Wherever we are at, to grow in our use, comfort and ability to "shift" as necessary.  

For our Staff

A number of ideas and themes came up for how to support our staff in the Adaptive Schools work.  Included in that list were:

• Identifying a similar activity to the one we did today incorporating the norms to learn about our comfort level and knowledge individually and as a group.  
• Identify Role Playing opportunities related to issues in our school that would model the norms or other aspects of AS work.  This could include paraphrasing, posing questions, etc.  
• Create opportunities for staff to share ways that they are incorporating AS into their work with students.  Sharing and Learning from each other.
• Create a purposeful component to the staff meetings which shares the strategies used and allows for review and reflection of purpose and effect. 
• Consider ways for us to extend everyone's learning about and comfort with Adaptive Schools work.  This could include whole staff as well as differentiation opportunities.  

We left next steps for our staff meeting on March 20th as follows:

Present Agenda 

• Technology - Showcasing our ES Work - Mike H

Possible Agenda Items 

• Adaptive Schools - What it is with Power Point
• Peer Observation Structures - Discussion
• Math Professional Developmen - Discussion
• Calendar - Next Year - Feedback

So, If you have an idea or something to share, please post it on the blog or provide a comment to this post.  Hopefully the thread will be useful in one of those ways.  If I don't hear from anyone by Sunday, I'll consider the timing poor and look for ways to incorporate some piece of the work in our next staff meeting.  

Thanks for the take aways today as well. 

~Dan