CW Leadership Meeting Notes
May 10, 2004

Attendance: Rolff Christensen, Chris Linder, Janet Marsh, Theresa Myers, Catherine Miller, Sherri Nelson, David Moll, Nancy Record, Cher Silva, Pat Nesbitt, Ingrid Kiehl, Tammy Hushaw
Facilitator: Gary Clark and Sherri Nelson

Focus Group Meeting Preparation

• The Leadership Group reviewed the focus group agenda for May.
• The main focus will be to analyze student work samples using a rubric to evaluate achievement of the selected expected school wide learning results and targeted academic standards. Each sample will be evaluated; the rubric stapled to the sample, and then turned in to the leader to keep until they are needed.
• Gary will be editing the rubric that is in the agenda link to include grade evaluations of below, meets or exceeds. This is not part of the score but added to the top of the rubric. If a student gets a high grade on a 3rd grade level assignment but they are in 7th grade this needs to be noted for accurate evaluation. If it is lower level work it could be appropriate because it is remedial or the student is special ed this should be evaluated. It would be good if we could show an improvement even if the student is below the standards for their grade level.
• A link to the California State standards is available on the Connecting Waters web site in the Accreditation Data resource section and the May focus group agenda as well as other places on the site.
• There are student work samples available through a link in the agenda but the more samples we have the better.
• Catherine Miller will send out a sample email to leadership members that they can forward to their focus groups. The email will ask Ess to bring work samples and a copy to be collected to the focus group meeting. The focus leader should bring a copy of the standard for the subject that the group will focus on.
• Work samples should not have the student’s name on them. Some of the samples in the agenda link do have the name still on them leaders should white or black out the student name.
• The groups led by Cher, Tammy, Nancy, Catherine, and Ingrid will focus on English Language Arts. The groups led by Marsha, Dave, Theresa, Rolff, and Pat Nesbitt will focus on Mathematics. Sherri will get work samples to Pat and Ingrid.

Responsibility of the Leadership Group

• Group will write a report that will be added to a binder that will be presented to WASC in January.
• The visiting team that comes in March will check on the things claimed in the report. The parent/student groups do not have to write a report.
• The goal is to have a draft of the report completed in the summer and then we would just add to it through out the year until it is sent in January.
• Reports will be written by leaders or someone from the group that would be interested in writing. Leaders will ask their groups if anyone would be interested in doing the writing over the summer for a possible stipend. Leaders will forward the names to Sherri for consideration.
• A designee from one focus group could collaborate with the designee of the other and do the writing. Each writer will be given the criteria questions and samples of formats and reports from other schools.