Minutes

2/1/2011

Leader: Josh Recorder: Kindra

At the 2/1 meeting, we discussed posting our problem to the Wiki. All group members had posted their ideas of the problem. Adam was asked to summarize group thoughts for Dr. Rea's review. As a group, we decided to wait on feedback from Dr. Rea before proceeding any further. ---

2/8/11 Leader: Kindra Recorder: Fallon

We began our meeting at 7:00 p.m. We discussed our problems for the PBL project and decided to divide each problem to a specific group member. Fallon- Helping O'Connor gain the respect of the new faculty Adam- Developing collegiality, communication, and support among faculty. Kindra- Creating a structure and sense of direction for the dev't of school improvement and reform. Josh- Encouraging more design, experimentation and risk taking. Encourage them to reach out to the extensive research and knowledge to reforms and look into promising programs. Laura- Providing tangible support and empowerment for all members and staff.

As a group we decided by 2/22 have four articles posted and by 3/1 have read some articles/abstracts of other group memebers.

Our group meeting ended at 7:35 p.m. --- 3/1/11 Leader - Laura Recorder - Adam Meeting Started at 7:20 We discussed that by now everyone should have there abstracts posted on each individual page. Since everyone has them posted we have to start reading each others articles to make sure that everyone is on the same page when we are answering the questions. Laura set a date of March 15th for everyone to have read and made comments on at least two peoples pages about there articles. A date of March 22nd was set for each person to have the rough draft of the paper finished. Meeting a djourned at 7:35

-- 3/15/11  Leader-Fallon Recorder-Josh We discussed our articles with each other to make sure we were all on the same direction/path with our paper. We decided by 3/29/11 we should have our rough drafts posted.

3/22/11 Leader: Adam Recorder: Laura

Meeting started at 7:15p.m. We discussed that we would keep the date the same to have our rough drafts due (3/29/11). We decided to make PLC our main focus of the project. Also, we came up with an activity to do for our presentation. Meeting adjourned at 7:30p.m.

3/29/11 Leader: Kindra Recorder: Fallon

Meeting Started at 7:30 p.m. We each read our section of the paper in order to give each other feedback. We discussed how the paper needs to flow together and sound cohesive. Josh volunteered to edit the paper to make sure points and ideas are not repeated. We discussed Adam’s activity he will be presenting to show how collaborating with others yields better results than working independently. We discussed some big ideas that we want to target in our power point like PLC, human resource, vision & mission, staff development support, and smart schools. We agreed our first slide should discuss the problems occurring at Hickory Ridge H.S. We also discussed that we need to come up with a thesis. Laura has also volunteered to review our reference page. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 p.m.



4/5/11

Leader: Josh Recorder: Kindra

We started our meeting at 7:30 and ended at 8:23. We discussed our paper and meeting this weekend to finalize paper and powerpoint. Final revisions by Saturday. Meet on Sunday @ Calistoga at 10 a.m.

4/11/11

Leader: Fallon Recorder: Kindra

We met at Calistoga on 4/10/11 to make work on bringing all the pieces of our PBL together. We started our meeting at 10:00 a.m. and ended at minutes to 1. We decided on the oder of our presentation, finalized our powerpoint, practiced out activity, and discussed clarifications needed for the paper.