January_20_2011

· Students that are currently at a score of 43 and below, or at the Intensive level on the AIMS Web data, will move up to at least a score of 60 by the Winter AIMS Web data collection. (Jan. 2011) · 6 % of the currently Intensive level students on the AIMS Web Data, will move to at least Strategic level by the next AIMS Web data collection (approx. January 2011). · Students who are currently at Strategic level on the AIMS Web data, (12 students or 14%) will obtain a score of at least 100 by the Winter AIMS Web data collection (Jan. 2011) Students who are at Benchmark in the Fall 2010 of AIMS Web Data (17 students or 19%) will maintain their Benchmark status for the Winter AIMS Web data collection. (Jan. 2011) Math Goal: By November 30, 2010 – Ten students will move from developing to near fluent, ten students will move from under performing to developing and no student will be under 25 Fastt Facts. || - ** There was discussion about the WPM ceilings and no one seems to know if we have them. **  - ** We are seeing gains, they are slow gains but we there are gains in DRA scores! **  - ** Non-fiction writing pieces ** ||
 * ** Grade Level ** || ** 3rd grade ** ||
 * ** Date & Time ** || ** January 20, 2011 ** ||
 * ** Present Members ** || ** Sarah Manning, Chandra Tracy, Vicki Klein, Deb Waln, Tess Canet ** ||
 * ** Absent Members ** || ** Andrew Haines, Chelsea Wilson, Pat Eddie ** ||
 * ** Facilitator ** || ** Deb Waln ** ||
 * ** Time Keeper ** || ** Chandra Tracy ** ||
 * ** Recorder ** || ** Tess Canet ** ||
 * ** Process Observer ** || ** Vicki Klein ** ||
 * ** Task Master ** || ** Sarah Manning ** ||
 * ** School Goal ** || // Use most recent Aims Web data at every grade level to identify patterns, design and implement instruction in order to improve student literacy in grades K-3. // ||
 * ** Grade Level Goal(s) ** || Third Grade CWG Literacy Goal (updated 10/8/10)
 * ** Housekeeping ** || ||
 * ** Purpose ** || ** Review norms and roles ** ||
 * ** Non-purpose ** || ** to whine and complain about things we cannot change ** ||
 * ** Linking Prior ** || ** 3 week assessments: ** ||
 * ** Discussion ** || ** Ms. Tracy shared a website to help with Fluency. Zap Reader.com – You type in the text you want and can increase the rate at which you have the students read the text. Students can read as slow as 25 words per minute and up to 1, 000 words per minute. **
 * We discussed our three week assessments: **
 * -Overall we have seen gains in our Fry Word recognition. **
 * -Every one is seeing gain in DRA, all of us saw our students go up at least one level. We are going by the Spring levels for BB, B, P, and A. **
 * 28 and below = BB **
 * 28 – 30 = B **
 * 30 – 34 = P **
 * 38 – up = A **
 * -Reminder to go over the meanings of the common assessment words (posters in Tess’ classroom) to prepare for the D-STEP. **
 * - Vicki shared some information from the Florida website ** ||
 * ** Linking Future ** || - ** next meeting we will have all of our summary sheets done and turned in. **
 * ** Closing ** || ||
 * ** Next Meeting ** || ** Tuesday January 25, 2011 ** ||