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Minutes __**March 20, 2012 Good To Great Instruction**__

Mechanics of our meetings.

We need to send out e-mail reminders for everyone to post in order to stay on task. The Wiki needs to be updated and the element pieces need to be listed down the side of the page with a holding page. We then can come together to look at things on the holding page and we can then place them on the correct page.

What is a 21st century classroom? How do we get there? It will not happen over night.

We hope the elements will keep us grounded in our thoughts.

Things we need to keep in a 21st century classroom. Flexible grouping should stay. The idea of choice needs to shift from the teachers providing the choice to the children making the choices.

We will be organizing the Wiki and combing the weebly with it.

Everyone will be working on an element.

Ron- Collaboration Mindy- Problem Solving Cheryl- Digital Citizenship Brad- Reflection Kimberly

We will meet in Auburn at 4pm on April 17th. · A look back at our last meeting · What is the Good to Great Focus Group talking about? · Comments about Ian Jukes’ “Education and the Role of the Educator in the Future” · Defining the Digital Native · Defining the Native’s Needs Also, take a look at the following:  December 8, 2011 Instruction Meeting 
 * Good to Great**
 * Instruction Team**
 * May 10, 2011**
 * Ron Pedro reviewed the November meeting

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 * [|ATLAS Curriculum Mapping Tool]
 * Today will be a gathering info session
 * Mindy discusses... Augmented Reality...Thinkfinity.org (Dr. Chris Dede)
 * Organize according to the medium the belong in
 * "Is Problem Based Learning a Problem for Your Curriculum" Krynock & Robb
 * [|www.wonderopolis.org] (Mindy: problem of the day...wonder of the day)
 * [|thinkfinity] & [|P21]
 * [|www.criticalthinking.org]
 * [|TED] - Ron's info
 * flexibility is needed in curriculum
 * Imagine It - [|eInquiry]
 * [|CCSS]
 * [|"Spaced Learning"] - method of embedding info into long-term memory

 November 10, 2011 Meeting      … November 10, 2011 Instructional Meeting:
 * 1) Ron's Prezi (insert link)
 * 2) Personalize Education
 * 3) TASKED: Problem Solving...what are some great 21st C problem solving instructional lessons...authentic problem solving
 * 4) mindybedard@comcast.net

Ron's Notes / Email from this meeting: Hi All,

Thanks to all who participated in the last meeting. We had a great meeting and did the following:

Reviewed our work from last year Went over our 2011-2012 Goals

2011-2012 Goals: 1. 1. Outline excellent Instructional methods and strategies that align with 21st Century Elements. 2. 2. Create an online resource web page for teacher access.

Reminded ourselves of our guiding questions.

Guiding Questions: · What is effective K-8 instruction? · What tools are needed to effectively instruct in grades K-8? · What does the research say? · What are the best practices in effective instruction? · What programs, organizations, and educators (state/national) embody great instruction? · How do we share instructional practices and individual student plans with parents?

Developed our major tasks.

Major Tasks:

· 1. Develop Components of Instruction (Based on the 21st Century Elements) o Problem Solving o Creative & Innovative Thinking o Collaboration o Reflection o Media Literacy o Global Awareness o Adapting to Change 2. Present Most Current Research-Based Best Practices, Leaders, Organizations · 3. Professional Development Ideas and events · 4. Personalizing students’ learning · 5. Look into Sakai

Focused on Task #1 and our Process: Choose an element (We chose problem solving) Each person will research current best practices that are grounded in 21st Century approaches. Bring these ideas for our next meeting. The group will look closely at ideas and present them to the Admin Good to Great Group. With approved strategies and methods, develop a list and explanation to include on our web page/document. Over time, all elements will become part of a dynamic and useful web page/site/document.

We also looked at the following clips to get an idea of some great ideas about the changes in the traditional lecture method: [] []

Our next meeting date is Monday, December 12th, 2011.

Please come to the meeting having researched new methods and strategies in the area of Problem Solving. You might email me a clip, a website, or bring something else. We are at a great place right now in our process and we all need to do our best to participate. If you get stuck, just send me an email. Remember that Problem Solving relates to many disciplines. You might want to start off by visiting the SAU website and look what is available under the 21st Century element of Problem Solving. Ideas for website to visit are available as well.  