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PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

PLC Collaborative Team: AP English Language/Literature

PLC Meeting Norms:
start and stop time contractual hours
start and stop time regardless of attendance
proxy vote if item on agenda
no distractions (i.e.- grading, cell phones, iPads, Chromebooks)
limit side conversations
reporting on consensus - if a PLC team meets, recommendations and/or votes come back to the
entire dept.
assume positive intentions listen to one another and keep an open mind

Meeting Date: 9/28/16

Addressing the Essentials and the 4 Corollary Questions
Common Assessments (for monthly review)

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn The ability to analyze text and respond to a
(know, understand and be able to do)? prompt with strong writing skills.

How will we know theyve learned it? Practice essays measured by AP rubric

What will we do for those who havent More practice; review exemplars and low-scoring
learned it? essays for comparison purposes

What will we do for those who have Utilize peer conferencing and editing;
learned it? conferencing with teachers and additional
feedback when possible

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: K. Durand, B. Kowalke

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):
Review writing prompts for baseline data

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

 Responsible

Baseline essay from summer reading KD/BK 10/5/16

Administer practice AP exam (baseline data) KD/BK 10/30/16

PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 10/12/16 (BK met with English 11 PLC, KD met with English 10 PLC)

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it?

What will we do for those who havent

learned it?

What will we do for those who have

learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke (English Dept. business)

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):
Consistent weighting will allow for instruction and assessment to aim for common
outcomes.

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible

Consistent weighting of grades for S1/S2 BK Next PLC

(form/summ/exam)
Develop common assessments (formative or BK On-going
summative) and common lessons
(grammar/vocabulary with English 11)

Develop common language for writing BK, KD, ES 12/14/16

Students create Khan Academy accounts All English 11 teachers ASAP

PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 11/9/16

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn Understand structure/format/pacing for SAT test

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it? Review practice SAT assessment data

What will we do for those who havent Re-take policy discussion; administrative policy
learned it? re: formative/summative re-takes

What will we do for those who have Continue to practice until test day
learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):
Review SAT data/bi-weekly questions
Administer SAT questions; submit data by 11/22 and 12/14

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible
Determine SAT questions to administer BK 11/21/16

Review data from questions to inform instruction BK on-going

Submit SAT assessment data BK 11/22/16

PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 12/14/16 (optional)

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it?

What will we do for those who havent

learned it?

What will we do for those who have

learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible

Determine SAT questions to administer BK 12/12/16

Review data from questions to inform instruction BK on-going

Submit SAT assessment data BK 12/14/16

 PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 1/11/17

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it?

What will we do for those who havent

learned it?

What will we do for those who have

learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible

Introduce new department member - B. Mathis BK today

Determine consistent exam weighting - within each All today

PLC*

Testing Out - grade level semester Grade level 1/19/17

outlines/materials representative

*Exam Weights by PLC:

English 9 - Exam = 10% of summative (70/10/20)
English 10 - Exam = 10% of summative (70/10/20)
English 11 - Exam = Part of summative (80/20)
English 12 - Exam = 10% of summative (70/10/20)
 PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 2/8/17 (BK attended English 11 PLC, KD attended English 10 PLC)

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it?

What will we do for those who havent

learned it?

What will we do for those who have

learned it?

PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 2/22/17 (optional)

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn Understand structure/format/pacing for SAT test

(know, understand and be able to do)?

How will we know theyve learned it? Review SAT writing samples

What will we do for those who havent Model, conference, review SAT exemplars
learned it?

What will we do for those who have Continue to practice up until test day (4/11/17)
learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke, K. Durand

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):
Utilize technology to review for assessment
Expose students to SAT writing rubric (H10, AP Lang)

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible

Review materials for AP Lit poetry assessment KD 2/24/17

Review SAT writing rubric to inform instruction, BK, KD 3/15/17

prepare students for upcoming writing
assessment(s)

Examine strategies for teaching analysis in H10, AP BK, KD on-going

Lang, and AP Lit

PLC AGENDA: To be completed prior to meeting

Meeting Date: 3/8/17

Attendance:
Re-visit curriculum essentials - break out 9, 10, 11, 12; create standards for each
essential (this will be the focus of upcoming PLC time as well)
Discuss SAT questions to be submitted by Monday, 3/13
SAT Test proctors vs. curriculum work

PLC Guiding Questions: In PLCs, the focus of the collaboration is on one or more of the four
guiding questions. Provide specifics about your PLC teams meeting agenda as they relate to
one or more of the guiding questions.

What do we want students to learn Format/structure of SAT test and style of

(know, understand and be able to do)? questions

How will we know theyve learned it? Results of formative SAT questions

What will we do for those who havent Re-teach and continue to practice
learned it?

What will we do for those who have Continue to practice for improvement
learned it?

PLC MINUTES: To be completed during/after the meeting

In Attendance: B. Kowalke, K. Durand

Meeting Outcomes (What was decided? How will our teaching evolve?):

Action Items (Where do we go from here?) Person/People By this Date

Responsible