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Meeting Notes May 2007 - Curriculum Mapping

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Date: May 5, 2007
Location: Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield HIlls
Attendance: Jane, Chris, Bob, Camille, Sue M., Carol I, Angie 
 
 
Introductions and what’s new in your tech life? - anyone going to conferences? NECC?
  • Angie is going to NECC
  • Upcoming conferences One to One Detroit  at Detroit Country Day May 10  free
  • WIPTE at Purdue June 11- 12
  • Angie says that ASH will be using ePortfolios to facilitate their 6th grade student-led conferences
  • Jane is going to Alan November's Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston July 17-20
    • Jane followed her daughter (online) who was running the Boston Marathon through chips in her shoe
  • Carol K, Bob G & Carol I - Went to Wayne State's Instructional Technology Poster session last Saturday and shared info about the 9 masters presentations.
  • Carol I. (an alumn) shared flyers promoting the online WSU Instructional Technology Degree Programs  - these have also been sent to ALL Michigan School districts!
    •  note the "Readiness Survey"
  • Chris is going to MITS in Traverse City June 20 to 22  and pre-training with Don Johnston
 
Discussion of district cutbacks, layoffs, career shifts, buyouts, class size and various similar issues.

Post secondary education opportunities, motivation and alternatives.

Student discipline, bullying and aggressive behaviors - ASH is developing a rubric for consistent discipline.
 
  
Business Meeting
Old Business
           Notes from last meeting –  Protopage meeting notes (widgets)   PBwiki: Meeting Notes April 2007 - MACUL reports
           Dues (meeting fee is $10 for non-members)
 
 
New Business
           Summer get together? 
                      suggestions: August - discuss on the blog
           Meetings  07-08 – suggestions
                Topics - discuss on the blog
                Snack coordinator  - JANE volunteered
           Prize drawing
 
 
 
Program: Curriculum Mapping - Angie Saylor, Academy of the Sacred Heart
            Jane used her multitasking blogging skills to take notes - Thank you Jane!!

 

See THE Journal article- March 2007 - Online Collaboration: Curriculum Unbound - http://www.thejournal.com/articles/20337

 

 

Why map?

To  make sense of students' experiences over time. through two lenses - a year's curriculum for a particular grade (zoom) and see K-12 perspective (wide angle).

 

Heidi Hayes Jacobs  Curriculum mapping guru

Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 - ASCD - http://shop.ascd.org/ProductDisplay.cfm?ProductID=197135

*Active Literacy Across the Curriculum -www.eyeoneducation.com - http://www.eyeoneducation.com/prodinfo.asp?number=7023%2D1

Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping  ASCD - http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=104011

 * Angie's favorite

Curriculum Mapping: Charting the Course for Content - The Essentials of Mapping  - created by ASCD, 1999- Angie's notes from video. 

Angie will send these out by email.

 

 

 

 

    • Free curricululm mapping for up to 3 teachers for a year.
    • Sign up for free one-year subscription.
    • Can import lesson plans into curriculum map.

 

eDigital portfolios - kids could connect to the Curriculum Mapping as part of their portfolio. Recommended by HHJ.

 

Michael Rush - Curriculum Mappiing consultant - www.clihome.com

 

 

 

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