Participants: LaToya Brothers Mike Dunton

Quarter SMART Goal: Quarter SMART Goal: 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 with explicit or modeled instruction, and using higher levels of cognitive complexity as measured by the DRMS Walk Through Form.

Minutes: Discussed review options for MSL’s. LaToya shared graphic organizers that were being used by some of the high school teachers that recap periods of time in American History. These are great tools to use in order to help the kids review for thier exams.

Reviewed pacing guide for 2013-2014 and discussed options for planning and testing next year.

Participants: La Toya Brothers, Mike Dunton

Quarter SMART Goal: 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 with explicit or modeled instruction, and using higher levels of cognitive complexity as measured by the DRMS Walk Through Form.

Minutes: Discussed planning for Industrail Revolution/Early 20th Century. Reviewed updated information on MSL and what the test will look like. Based on what we have seen so far we need to continue to focus on higher level thinking questions especially when it comes to Multiple Choice Questions.

Participants: Jared Wright, Luke Miles, Mike Dunton

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 with explicit or modeled instruction, and using higher levels of cognitive complexity as measured by the DRMS Walk Through Form.

Minutes: Discussed the following:

1) Working in map skills to our units.

2) When the benchmarks should be given.

3) Alignment of benchmarks to the units we are covering.

Participants: Jared Wright, Luke Miles, Mike Dunton

Quarter SMART Goal: Quarter SMART Goal: 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
with explicit or modeled instruction, and using higher levels of cognitive complexity as measured by the DRMS Walk Through Form

Minutes: Discussed, Reviewed, and edited Constitution/Gov’t Exam. All three of us will be giving this exam as a test and will review the results to collect data. Began to look at Unit 5 and 6 and discussed pacing of these units and problems encountered by CMAPP with lack of some materials. We will be using a lot of other resources we were able to find on our own through SAS Curriculum Pathways and other sites to supplement the holes left by CMAPP.

Participants: Luke Miles and Mike Dunton

Quarter SMART Goal: 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 with guided and independent instruction, and using higher levels of cognitive complexity as measured by the DRMS Walk Through Form.

Minutes: Continued to work on Assessment for Constitution and Gov’t unit. We have created a test of about 25 multiple choice questions that are focused on the creation of the constitution, the compromises during the convention, and the Bill of Rights.

Looked at some options for having a school wide presidential election in collaboration with the PTA. Mike is going to get back to Joyce Stevens about the options and what we think is best for our school.