Durham Public Schools PL

We all have performances in some capacity at our individual schools, so we dicsussed how our schools excute those events.We shared how our schools involve each of us in the planning process, how often we have them, and what was in the works for this school specifically.We problem solved with each other in how to make them the most effective and creative performances they could be, which allowed for collaborative planning.

We have our first district-wide event coming up entitled Stargaze at Hillside High School. We will make sure everyone is ready for tha event and knows all the details they need to before we get to the week of the event.This is also the first meeting we will all be together at, so we will be doing a check-in with each other, as well to make sure we are all being supported this school year!

K-5: We each will bring in two lessons; one with cross-curicular connections and one focused on technique.We will each share how we structure our classes (warm-up, lesson focus, closing, etc) and the specific lesson topic of each type.Hopefully, this is a way for us to learn how each of us teaches the same ideas in different ways.We all can get very stuck in our ways and sometimes our students need us to teach the concept in a new way for it to click.We will discuss how we introduce the lesson focus, how many lessons we use to teach it, and how we use assessments to verify the students retained the information.K-5 1:00-2:30pm, 6-12 3:30-4:30pm

K-5: We each will bring in two lessons; one with cross-curicular connections and one focused on technique.We will each share how we structure our classes (warm-up, lesson focus, closing, etc) and the specific lesson topic of each type.Hopefully, this is a way for us to learn how each of us teaches the same ideas in different ways.We all can get very stuck in our ways and sometimes our students need us to teach the concept in a new way for it to click.We will discuss how we introduce the lesson focus, how many lessons we use to teach it, and how we use assessments to verify the students retained the information.

At the end of the school year, it is helpful to look back on lessons, events, meetings, and performances to help make the next school year even better.We will take turns sharing one new thing we implemented this year that we want to continue and one thing we want to do differently.We we collaborate on how the things we want to be better can be done differently to plan for more success next year.We will also reflect on how our meetings have been this school year and talk about any items we might want to add to next year's meetings.