Penobscot River Educational Partnership

A school/university collaboration serving the Penobscot River Valley

Vision and action through collaboration

Home

About Us

Annual Report

Calendar

Committees

Contact Us

Initiatives

Members

PREP/State Collaboration

Professional Development Opportunities

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)