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6th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 04/25/2013

Participants: Meghan Clark, Lew Nelson, Molly McDermott
Absent: Doug Sturdivant (tracked out and happy)

Quarter SMART Goal: 100% of students wil participate in End of Grade Testing; This year student score results will not be available until after the start of the new school year.

Minutes: Plans for next year: Invite Nicole Earnest to help differentiate lessons for AG students. Some suggestions for enrichment would include paideia seminars.
Teams discussed Dolphin Time; team discussed remediation ideas for this year and next
Team reviewed the end of grade released test.

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6th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 04/18/2013

Participants: E. Fahnestock-Sutton, K. Johnson, P. Ward, M. Baum

Quarter SMART Goal: Eighty percent of our CA students will pass 3 out of 4 of their core classes.

Minutes: The team updated information about high school transition meetings. We do have a representative from Millbrook coming on the 7th and 13th of May. Heritage rep will be available on May 9. Sanderson will not be able to send a representative. We have not heard from Knightdale or Wakefield High Schools.

We discussed a new font that helps kids with dyslexia.

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6th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 04/02/2013

Participants: Kay Holland and Caroline Miles
Tracked Out: Kristen Davies

Quarter SMART Goal: During the 2012-2013 school year Social Studies classrooms will demonstrate an effective learning environment through students working collaboratively 60-70% of the time

Minutes: Minutes:
1. Discussed Benchmark 3- Difficulty distinguishing between charts- colors
2. Vocabulary in questions was difficult for students.
3. Kay shared Middle Ages Test
4. Caroline shared Middle Ages Review
5. Kay set up weebly with Africa

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6th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 03/21/2013

Participants: Garinger, Boltz, and Kuni

Quarter SMART Goal: SMART goals are specific to each discipline area.

Minutes: Group congratulated Kuni and Band for Superior Rating!
Boltz- Mini-concert today.

Group discussed-

Leadership Meeting updates-
fundraisers
Parent Survey
Technology Update
Testing schedule (will receive this schedule shortly via e-mail)

Next Year 2013-14-
7/1: Protected workday with no meetings
7/2: Meeting Day
7/3: District Meetings
7/4: Holiday
7/5: Unprotected workday

Boltz will meet with possible Dance sub for the rest of the year.

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6th Grade Language Arts Meeting on 03/14/2013

Participants: K. Johnson, E. Fahnestock-Sutton, D. Powell, K. Monroe, E. Sedore, H. Colella,
T Washington
Tracked out: M. Baum, P. Ward

Quarter SMART Goal: Eighty percent of our CA students will pass 3 out of 4 core classes

Minutes: We discussed student needs and planning for the 2013- 2014 school year. We talked about students who are not utilizing Curriculum Assistance to their advantage and the criteria to use to exit students for CA. We also talked about the grading systems that we use for the different CA classes.

Next weeks meeting will include reflecting on our SMART goal.

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