Future+Staff+Meetings

What do we need to discuss or do for professional development?
 * See Ron's log of when doors are unlocked and rooms are open
 * What are the best practices for when a student makes a mistake (checking for understanding during lecture, group work, individual practice, tests, homework)?
 * [|Self esteem], [|break flow? and tips], [|Foreign Language1],and [|FL2], [|Be specific>>]
 * Direct Instruction has a script to follow (say it correctly, have all students say it correctly, then ask student or multiple students to say correct answer)
 * Should this be universal - PK through 6th grade or should it change?
 * Is there research of what works best?
 * Doing what works site is getting snippets of short staff meeting videos
 * Example - [|Asking higher order questions] (e.g. -- Jill volume exercise -- how did you come up with that estimation, Dana linking learning on habitat to many ecological concepts). Come up with name on agenda -- Training Bytes.
 * How do we engage students?
 * See picture (page 6 of document) and note about brain: This is a picture of marketing to an adult. How would we change this to creating engagement for students -- either reading, listening to the teacher, or doing other classroom/homework activities? (Document is WhatDoesYourBrainWant stored on my computer).The idea for the PD is to have the staff create a figure for students.
 * [[file:Stop and Think.doc]] From the Pedagogy ListServe comes this Stop and Think form used by Andrew Petto at the University of Wisconsin. Is there something similar we should create for 6th, 5th... grade? This is for Science, but I don't know why it couldn't be used for other subjects.
 * [|Infinite Campus] trainings.
 * [[file:Student Survey Elementary Core.doc]], [[file:Student Survey Elementary Optional Scales.pdf]] Review School Climate survey -- enough information or should we conduct a broader one? See examples.
 * Parent teacher conferences
 * What kind of tools can we give parents to help them with the education of their children -- discuss plan -- see [], see [|Edutopia article about conferences].