PLC - Minutes
4/9/2008

1. Where are we?

• Start of the year - established norms, ELO's (Marchetti)
• Then productivity leveled off...not effort (Marchetti)
• Positives - We are doing more than most schools, Gathered tons of data to pass on for other groups to learn from (Marchetti)
• Problems - Was our SMART goal too big for us? Was it attainable? (Marchetti)
• Would combinging honros and non-honors change the apathy issue? (Fuller)
• Why has this issue not been addressed on more appropriate levels within the school structure? Why are people turning away from the apathy issue? Did we select the apathy problem because no one else was dealing with it? (Gonshor, Wentz)
• Should the PLC focus be on teaching strategies and less so on establishing the "perfect" SMART goal? (Fuller)
• Are "common assessments" being used improperly within the PLC framework? (Marchetti)

2. We will be creating a notebook to pass on to next year's PLC. We will use up some of the last days PLC time to coallate this information.

3. Honors vs. Regular Meeting -

• We discussed topics to be addressed at the Honors vs Non-Honors meeting taking place on Friday, April 18th.

4. Pit Unit Assessment -

• We will use the previous year's Pit Assessment and add a question that covers curve fitting.

5. Tasks for each person until next meeting -

• Wentz & Fuller - They will work on curve fitting in their classes and creating an Honors version of the Pit Assessment.
• Jason - He will contact Margaret Whalen and Don Hatfield about setting up a thirty foot pendulum on April 24th & 25th.
• Chris - He will email a copy of the Pit Assessment to everyone.
• Chris - He will email acopy of the Pit Assessment to everyone