November+Agenda+Minutes

SSSTeachers Meeting Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Alliance Church Meeting Room Territorial Drive North Battleford, Sask

Agenda

9:30 – 10:00 am Coffee and informal networking

10:00 – 12:00 Differentiated Instruction, etc (Nancy and Kate)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch from Venice House (lasagna, Caesar salad, garlic bread)

1:00 – 3:00 Chairperson – Kim Dyck

1. ** __Popcorn opener__ ** (Deb Flegel) 2. ** __SSSTeacher Wellness__ ** (Lisa Zanyk) 3. **__EAs __**- Inservices (Kyla Snell) who’ responsible? is there a budget? what can be done? 3. ** __EA__ ** s – Evaluations (Linda Nelson) Who’s responsible? EA Performance Review 5. **__Import/Export PPPs and ROAs__** (Linda) 6. **__Read and Write Gold__** (Carmel Couture & Michelle Purdy) 7. **__Ed Psych assessments__** (Kyla) what’s happening this year? 8.  **__SLP services__** for high school (Kyla) Are there any? SLP hearing tests (Heather Labrecque) 9. ** __Using ROAs effectively in the classroom__ ** (Kyla and Kim) 10. ** __Other?__ **

SSTeachers Meeting Tuesday, November 24, 2009 ***Pick up mail at office (out of towners)** Operational Plan—things we need to do as a division (handout) Tier 1 UBD- 1. desired results, PLC-(what do we want our students to learn) 2. Assessment evidence PLC (How do we determine what they know 3. Learning Plan PLC (How will we teach)  What will we do if they don’t learn? Already know it? (This is where we move to tier 2 or 3 as needed.
 * Differentiated Instruction (Nancy)


 * THESE MODELS do the same thing they just use different language. This is on the wiki under the power point for November 24th if you want more info.

Tomlinson’s Model (Joanne Kasper) 1. Supportive Learning Environment DI-there are beliefs that we hold as teachers, how do we show them? Actions show the depth of our belief. (Is the message that is being received the message we are trying to send?)

Jigsaw activity.

Links for this on the student services wiki. http://studentservicesteachers.wikispaces.com/Supportive+Learning+Environment

RTI: What is our role? Differentiated classroom is in level 1 What are the assessments we are using? (handout) Screening: questions and discussion answers are on wiki (screens Universal Level)

***Who **is responsible for ensuring that all these practices are happening in the classroom at tier 1? (this is a good question, we may or may not find out the answer some day)

 Afternoon:

1. __Popcorn opener__. (we got to throw paper)  2. __SSTeacher Wellness__ (Lisa Zanyk) Positive psychology-focus on what is going right in your life. 3:1 RATIO bring in 3 times the positivity.

Meditation - can help us move to heartfelt positivity - deep breathing exercises - progressive relaxation - Kindness meditation o May you love yourself o May you be safe and protected o May you be free from fear and anger o May you be strong and healthy in your bodies o May you be happy and peaceful o May you be loved

- big rocks 3. __EA in-services__ Who is responsible (i.e. What are they supposed to be doing, esp. when there is school based in-service?) what can you do to keep multiple people busy for 6 hrs. And is it really our job to plan it? Budget? Who should pay for it? Is there one?

Talk to HR Dianne Ford—she will look into the budgets and funding. **BUT**—__the planning and set-up are the responsibility of the schools.__ (March 9 has CUPE PD planned but as far as we know CUPE does not have a mechanism to deal with professional development) Charmaine Landry—Behavioural Interventions (good resource person) Scott Coleman will do inservices on Trauma, Resiliency, Mental Health, stress Webinars? Is that a possibility (budget issue)

List of Presenters and topics, as well as resources, will be put on the Wiki.

Talk to your principal—this needs to come up at admin meetings as an issue, esp. as a budget need.

+++if you want a quick link to the wiki, talk to Nancy Schultz 4. __Importing and Exporting PPPs and ROAs__ On the wiki page there are 5. __EA evaluations__
 * 1) the ministry instructions
 * 2) Linda’s personal instructions
 * 3) Johnny smith PPP that will let you practice without fear of losing a “good” PPP

Has changed this fall, there is a link to the evaluation on the Living Sky School Division website  6. __Scheduling of Student Services staff visiting the schools__ If it needs to be changed, could you phone a secretary that morning? Sometimes we do not read our email until it is too late.  7. __Read and Write Gold__

There will be an in service in January for teachers to learn how to use it for whoever is interested. Kate will keep us posted. Site licenses are $500 (for one site, i.e. one computer) Can also use the flash drive, which is not exactly the same as the program. Check out the website. 8. __Ed psych assessments__

There is an ad out, interviews coming for one full-time Ed Psych Was a priority list to deal with backlog. Keep in contact with the Ed Psych who is assigned to our schools to let them know priorities and if your priorities have changed. As to SSTs giving the WIAT, we are still looking into this—issues are training and purchasing test kits. (costs 625 plus software is another 675) We will revisit this in the spring

9. __SLP services__ Everything you always wanted to know about: Hearing Screens—the machines that we use are the preferred screening mechanisms as recommended by the audiologist. Interventions for students—OAE issue—something is potentially wrong with the neurological mechanisms of the ear (this is not definitive, this is a screen only) Tympanometry—tests for fluid in ear, waxy buildup—Otitis Media can come and go—if the child has three missed within a year, then they definitely need follow up. When the doctor says there is no problem, then at the moment there is no problem at that time—it is perhaps not to a degree that it needs medical treatment. If there are 3 tests in a year, then the child should probably be seen by ENT. (worse than having a permanent hearing loss—as it changes the way they have mapped their sounds, leading to significant auditory processing issues) We need to see students at least 2 times for OAE, and 3 for the tympanometry—we need to get onto the chronic hearing cases the same way as we would with vision—use resources we have to make sure that there is follow up. --look into having a person dedicated to the hearing, to free up the SLP’s to deal with the speech and language issues that we are having.

High school referrals to SLP—what do high schools do, especially language issues Currently, high schools are not being seen at all. There is one position open that is still not filled (no takers for ads) Will division pay for outside services? i.e. Dynavox…

Next Meetings

Nancy will schedule the next meeting.