Meeting Minutes 11/19

AGENDA
Ending Earth Science
Recovery for students currently failing
Planning ahead for forces and motion



Earth science results -- students did well overall on the DCA compared to the district average.  Students struggled on #4 due to problematic wording and diagram.  Students who scored lower than proficient on the DCA were given the chance to take a different test over Earth Science to boost their grade.  This second test was an exact duplicate of the pretest we gave at the beginning of the unit, allowing us to determine growth.

Some students failing the class have been put into an intervention class.  These students will be brought up to a 59.5% D- pending a successful completion of the the intervention.  Students will also have several major grades upcoming to help boost their grades further.  Many of the students currently failing are missing a lot of school and classtime, hindering their opportunity for success.

Forces and motion will begin in force next week, and students are already starting on velocity problems.  Students are struggling significantly even with simple multiplication and division, indicating that this will be a difficult unit for them to get through.  The egg drop and other activities will help break up the math-centric unit. 

Minutes 11/09

In attendance: Roberts & Rahmlow

Agenda: Talk about students currently failing, intervention plans, DCA administration

• Students struggling with ERQ on the District Common Assessment due to confusing wording and unclear instructions
• CURRENT FAILURES (before test results entered)
• Rahmlow: 11 students failing
• Roberts: 30 students failing
• Intervention
• Intervention work graded
• Missing term 1 work changed to a 59.5 
• Intervention Candidates:
• RAHMLOW:
• Nakaya Johnson
• Madison Bowling
• ROBERTS:
• Jasmine Garcia
• Tessa Cook
• Malique Wilcox
• Makhi St. Gerard
• Lindseanna Pearson
• Alexus Mayfield
• DCA makeup and Unit exam next Monday
• Students scoring proficient or distinguished on DCA not required to take unit exam
• Other students will receive the higher of their two scores as a mastery grade
• Students missing one of the two days will only take the DCA and receive that grade as a mastery grade

11/2

Attendance:  Rahmlow, Roberts, Roy

Gave practice problem to students to prepare for the type of questions the students will see on the DCA.   These types of questions are similar to that of the ACT.

Roberts is utilizing google classroom to analyze formative assessment immediately.

Roberts is providing immediate feedback to students based on the results of the formative assessment.

Dry Ice lab went well. No one got hurt. 

One group was not allowed to participate due to not following safety procedures.

Review on the days we return from Election Day and Test on Friday.