PLC Minutes 8/31

PLC Minutes 8/31
Members present: LeRoy, Ralston, Lawson

1. Check in: How are things going?
-Nate close to finishing posters. Estimated quiz time on Wed/Thurs of next week.
-Katie quizzed today
-Lawson quiz on Tuesday
2. Warm-up for next week--Katie
3. Transformations--How do we want to start?
-x^2 investigation and Medevial Archer Activity
-Transformation investigation (block day)
-Transformation notes
-Group Quiz
-Review
-Test
4. Look at General Outline. When do we think we can test?
-About 2 weeks from now?
5. Start grading quizzes.
-Ralston and Lawson haven't quizzed yet.
6. Any other questions/concerns?
-Talked about changes in state testing for math

PLC Minutes 8/28

PLC Minutes 8/28

Embedded PD with Dawn Roy in Rm 119 during 7th period
-Talked about the Fundamental Five, specifically Framing the Lesson and the Power Zone

PLC Minutes 8/24/18

PLC Minutes 8/24/18

1. Have we started posters yet? When do we think we will be able to allow students to start teaching?
-LeRoy poster teaching will start Tuesday
-Lawson/Ralston Thursday/Friday
-Nate will make note sheet for teaching parent function

2. Warm up for next week.
-Who will create it? Katie
-Who will make copies of warm up and closing? Making our own copies

3. When do we think we can quiz?
-Friday 8.31/Monday 9.3
-Who will create quiz? We will use the one from last year. 

4. How do we want to introduce transformations?
-Talk about next week

5. Other questions/concerns?
-Talked about grades we have put in grade book so far and point value

PLC Minutes 8/21/18

PLC Minutes 8/21/18

1. Looked at Valley Habor, specifically the Math and Algebra 2 pages. Dawn will help us add a tab that links to our PLC google drive. Set Valley Harbor as homepage.
2. Posters: looked at rubric, start posters on Thursday 8/23 (rubric will be provided to students on this day)

• Parent function posters should include: quadratic, cubic, absolute value, square root, cube root, log, exponential, rational. 

3. Possible Quiz next Friday? 8/31

PLC Minutes 8/17/18

August 17 PLC Agenda

1. First few days check in

• Things are going well
• Working on students working collaboratively

2. Talk about Water Balloon Tracker

• Like the idea
• Still need to finalize how we will allow them to earn water balloons
• 4 standards=1 balloon??

3. Check in with Nate about warm-up and closing for next week

• He will finish and make copies on Sunday

4. Backwards planning-Unit 1 Test

• Only major change is to label axes on #8

5. Look at Unit 1 General Guide and edit as necessary

• Still looking good

6. Additional Questions/Concerns

• Exchanged phone numbers

PLC Minutes 8/14/18

August 14 PLC Agenda

1. Go over/edit PLC norms and decide on a weekly meeting date (7th period
2. Create Unit 1 Assessment (backwards planning)--Look at on Friday
3. Look at Essential Standards for Unit 1
4. Discuss general map for Unit 1
5. Discuss possible differences/modifications for lessons depending on academy
6. Discuss warm up and closing grading policies
7. Divide up the following responsibilities: Edit Syllabus and Opening Day PowerPoint (Katie),

Create and copy week 1 (August 20-24) warm up (Nate), Graphing Stories copies (Arlene),

Day 1, 2, and 3 SmartBoard Files (Katie

8. Additional Questions/concerns

PLC 8/21

Set up the Valley Math blogger.