Day+1+2009+2010

Day 1; Tuesday September 29, 2009 Agenda ** 1. Welcome 2. Catch-up: Conference sharing, DI initiatives in LSky SD, What's happening in your classrooms? 3. Getting Started:
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a)What is DI? Tomlinson's old model and new five Non-Negotiables. b)Cubing activity c)Integrating DI and UbD overview of essential principles, planning template. d)Correlation of division initiatives - model shared. e)Action Research: What is it? What will our question be?

Lunch

4. Supportive Learning Environment

a)Activate knowledge - sticky note activity b)Aquire knowledge - ASCD video clips; resources (read and summarize) c)Apply understanding - Discussion of key elements for inclusion in Toolkit d)Decide upon Action Research question, the action that will take place in the classroom and the data collection tool that will be used.

//Your homework// //Nancy and JoAnne's homework//
 * Action Research: Choose an action and a form of data collection to experiment with a Supportive Learning Environment. Carry out the action and bring your reflections and insights to the next meeting.
 * Journal - Can you keep a bit of a journal about your learning, either on your wiki page or a print copy? It should be a collection of your reflections, student comments, joys and frustrations. It doesn't need to be extensive, but it will help with summarizing and interpreting your data.
 * Update the wiki
 * check it out and feel free to add any links to the Supportive Learning environment Page
 * Toolkit page will ahve a draft template tos tart us thinking about what it should contain
 * collate the essential points from your chart paper summaries

Responses from the day:

[|**Classroom Climate Survey**]

my students and will see how that goes.**
 * Kathy Chomey - I am going to try to do something with Celebrating Success. I am currently creating a survey for