
A school/university collaboration serving the Penobscot River Valley
Vision and action through collaboration
I. Committee Name: Professional Development
II. Name of Person Taking Minutes: C. Perry
III. Date: 11/14/05
IV. Members Present: Faye, Meredith , Joan Staffiere, Connie Perry, Beth
V. Major Discussion Points:
- Did our report update
- Monthly presentations-started and brainstormed
- Looked at evaluations of staff development
- Offering (data not available yet)
- Talked about spring offerings and April 2007
VI. Questions/Concerns/Needs:
- 6+1 Writing Traits-Information Doesn’t get distributed in some schools
- Ideas for monthly sharing sessions
- RTI initiative info sessions-Feb.
- High School integrated Math system
- Career preparation
- Learning labs
- Teacher leaders (how are buildings/districts encouraging future leaders)
- Data management attendees- how using their learnings
- ADD, Autism, Aspergers, other mental health issues in children
VII. Next Steps:
- Ask for input from whole group on session
- Ideas in Dec. 2006-2007
K-2 science
- Adolescent literacy
- Where will we locate our April 2007 day? (need to centralize)