The Balance Beam

Today’s time was spent primarily on an intense but highly productive planning meeting. Audrey, Suzanne, Amy, Dana, Frank and I engaged in an amazing conversation around planning the rollout and implementation of a Tier 2 structure for ELA-E students at BC. Amy’s expertise and inquiry approach was instrumental to developing a plan that included strategic and thoughtful decision-making around student needs, teacher concerns, implementation obstacles and resources both human and capital. As a first step some diagnostic testing and targeting of the ¾ classroom were agreed upon. Upcoming responsibilities for me include supporting and attending the planned PD. Additionally, I will be generating a spreadsheet to collect and analyze student data in the targeted classroom. I will attach the preliminary version I created but it is likely I will be adjusting this worksheet in the future.

bc_tier2_data

This session focused on continuing our discussion of the budget and introduced us to the multiple measures organizer. We have been working hard on collecting our budget information to generate a meaningful and accurate budget for our school. Additionally, we are planning how we will use the multiple measure article and organizer to accurately portray our school data. This is going to be quite challenging and I am trying to conceptualize how I might collect and visually represent the data in a meaningful way.