Week+Five

In the best spirit of Gloria Gaynor, WE WILL SURVIVE!!! **We are doing just fine:) You are truly on the ball getting our page set up before we even meet online:) Thank you!**

This week we'll be examining School Reform Models.

 * ** The Whole Group discussion will have three parts: **

We must look at the Baldridge Criteria and also the NETS*A Standards.
 * **React** to Century and Levy's 5 Themes (we might want to make a Webspiration chart?)
 * **Compare** Rand Report and Implementation Research to Century and Levy's
 * With several on the list, we'll need to select carefully to address the ones most critical.
 * For your school, **determine best model** and **assess effectiveness** of implementation
 * **Post**
 * **Respond** to @ least 2 comments || **For Ourselves**

= **For our Team** = This is something I am less familiar with than others and feel a bit unsettled. Three strike me: We're looking for Lynne's direction in knowing which to select and study.
 * **Chart** comparison among Baldridge Seven Criteria, NETS*A, and ELCC standards
 * **Write** 2-3 page APA style Reflective Essay including:
 * Value of Baldrige Model
 * Effective or NOT as a school reform model
 * What you learned ||
 * Marzano's "What Works in Schools" - **This is one that we should definitely cover (I see it coming up again in the Baldridge Paper)**
 * I don't mind completing the Marzano one since it is referenced again this week.
 * Professional Learning Communities (PLC's)
 * I hear A LOT about PLCs in our district. Does this one sound familiar to you? I know that we currently have some very effective PLCs and some very ineffective PLCs.
 * **﻿I was in a meeting today in which we discussed how to define and move from "teams" to PLC's and if we were ready as a district to do this. I can do the PLC's.**
 * Coalition of Essential Schools.
 * I'm hoping that we will get some direction of which two to focus on AND that we will be given access to a course-wide chart.

[|Google Doc for Reform Model Comparison]s

**//Shall we set a goal for this week?//**
 * My personal goal is to complete this week's assignment and to have Part I & II of the Leadership Assessment completed.
 * As usual, we're on the same page....I agree with working on Parts I&II but am struggling to force myself to get after this--so many "urgencies" but school starts Thursday and Friday and I'll be on a better schedule, I hope ;)