October 28th, 2015

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PD Day

Media Center
COMMUNITY MEETING
Meeting called Ms. Davis Type of Called
by: meeting: PLC
Facilitator(s): Matt Farnitano and Ashley Artis Note taker: Matt Farnitano
Timekeeper: Team Leaders
Attendees: Math Department

Please Our Goal for Southeast Halifax High School is to increase our composite score from_46%_ in 2015-
complete: 16 to 70%_in 2016-17 and achieve exceed growth status.
Please bring: Laptops, CFA/Test data, best practices for instruction

AGENDA ITEMS
Topic Presenter Time allotted
PLC PD Department Planning
Curriculum Night Instructional Staff
Planning for Extended Day Instructional Staff

CFA Dates Instructional Staff

OTHER INFORMATION

Observers:

Resources:

Special notes:
Our focus for todays meeting, and all other meetings, is and should always be increasing student achievement; while discussion of
factors that detract from the successful operation of the school and student achievement is necessary, the goal of the meeting is to
plan and implement strategies for success. Please remember our guidelines for operation:

No Fault
Collaboration
Consensus
Adhere to time limits
Be active listeners
PLC Meeting Notes
Agenda Items Action Steps

Curriculum Night Planning: Math Roller Coaster slope activity:

Students from both Ms. Artis and Mr. Farnitanos
class will be making a roller coaster as part of a
lesson to learn about slopes and rates of change.

This lesson will happen on the week of Nov. 7-11

We will pick a few students to have show off their

roller coaster work at the Curriculum Night.

Best Practices: we will have a presentation about

the practices we use to teach math in the
classroom.
---Small group and individual instruction
---Connecting math to real world situations

Extended Day Planning Focus on literacy

---vocabulary
---word problems
---writing out explanations for processes
---justifying answers in words

CFA Dates
Math I dates set by district not confirmed
---Oct 24-28
---Dec 5-9