CWCS WASC Home Groups

Meeting Agenda for September 28, 2004

Prior to the September 28 All ES Meeting, please research and think about the following questions and come prepared to actively participate in your assigned home group meeting.

1. Find the Home Group you are assigned to work with at this link:

(If you do not find your group assignment, please email jmarsh@ieminc.org).

2. Follow this link to the state standards for your assigned area:

• Group 1: English as a Second Language
• Group 2: English/Language Arts
• Group 3: Foreign Language
• Group 4: Health
• Group 5: History-Social Science
• Group 6: Math
• Group 7: Physical Education
• Group 8: Science
• Group 9: Visual and Performing Arts

3. The task for these home groups(3,4,5,7,8, and 9) will be to come up with 3 suggestions for improvements in their assigned subject area. Please make recommendations on how to improve our CWCS’s educational program in these subject areas.  Include curriculum suggestions, methods of delivery and teaching strategies. Please bring research and suggestions with you on Sept. 28 to get your group started, as our time is very limited that day. Each of these groups will also answer the following questions together on September 28:

• What 3 improvements should we make in this area?
• How could we accomplish this task?
• Who should accomplish this task?
• When is a reasonable timeline to have this task accomplished?

4. The task for these home groups,1(English as a Second Language), 2(English Language Arts), and 6(Math) will be

This will accomplish several things: provide documented evidence of our effort to help all students in these areas of special focus, benefit the student and family with specific steps they could take to address the areas of difficulty or desired improvement, help in their job ES with a list of suggestiions created by specialists in this subject field, and allow specialists in this subject to share their expertise.

5. If you have been elected to serve as the group “secretary”, please come ready to take the group notes.  Those will need to be emailed to Gary Clark (gclark@ieminc.org) and Sherri Nelson (snelson@connectingwaters.org) by October 1, 2004.