Professional Development Day

Instructions for November 6, 2012

12:30-1:00PM - Steering Committee and Committee Co-Chairs meeting

• Debrief on feedback from October faculty meeting
• Determine schedule for approving standards reports
• Overview of this afternoon’s activities

1:00-3:00PM - NEAS&C work

• Overview - What do we need to accomplish between now and January, 2013
• Collect assessments measured by 21st Century learning rubrics (November 15th)
• Vote on standards reports and executive summaries
• December meeting report TBD (as per today’s SC/CC meeting)
• January meeting reports TBD (as per today’s SC/CC meeting)
• Today’s tasks
• Finalize drafts of standards reports for full faculty approval
• Incorporate feedback from October faculty meeting
• Consider areas of redundancy to reduce pages, if necessary
• Ensure that each indicator has a judgment statement (always, never, sometimes, occasionally, seldom, often, etc)
• Check on evidence in the evidence box to ensure all judgements in the reports are substantiated, by indicator
• Use NEASC website as a guide http://cpss.neasc.org/selfstudy_onsite_visit/selfstudy_materials_for_2013_schools/
• If your report is ready, please start writing executive summaries

• Some Suggestions for process
• Do not try to edit the report whole-group.  Instead, split up and revise report in small groups as per peer review from 10/18
• Make it “Ready for Prime Time”

Extension activity (if you have time):
Look for alignment with other reports (now that committee members have each read a different report)

Link to this document http://bit.ly/nchsneasc1106


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