Meeting Minutes 02/22/2019

• District Assessment will be given on Tuesday
• Gravity and electrostatic forces
• Many students are struggling 
• Review sessions Friday and Monday
• Failures
• Roberts - 51 students failing 
• All parents contacted via email or text
• Mostly due to missing assignments and attendance issues
• Implementing test corrections for recovery
• Second six week recovery program in Google Classroom

• Rahmlow - 15 students failing
• Rahmlow reports student apathy at an all-time high
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Meeting Minutes 01/11/2019

AGENDA:

• Momentum Unit Wrap-up
• Gravity Unit Planning
• Grade Data Analysis
• Final Exam Data Analysis

• Momentum Unit Wrap-Up
• Gravity Unit 
• Critical writing piece - does gravity need air/atmosphere?
• Galileo experiment
• Free falls
• Newton's law of universal gravitation
• OK Go Video
• Grade Data Analysis
• Fails:  Rahmlow - 11; Roberts - 13
• A's:  Rahmlow - 27; Roberts - 27
• Final Exam Analysis
• Average score around 70
• Most students did well

Meeting Minutes 12/04

AGENDA
Final Exam - format, writing
Egg Drop logistics
Egg Drop paper re-write from last year
End of year planning



Final exam will be done on Google Classroom form/quiz so it self-grades and students get instant feedback.  Questions will be taken from previous tests, quizzes and exams as well as newer content from most recent unit.  The final will be open notes and open internet. 

Egg drop is scheduled for December 12 and 13.  We need access to the roof and one teacher needs to be on the ground level while the other is on the roof.

Egg drop paper will be rewritten by next Wednesday so students know what they will be writing when the egg drop is complete.

This week we will have students learning about forces and motion, with additional time on Monday for review.  Tuesday students will take a diagnostic quiz over the material to see what they're still struggling with.  The egg drop will occur Wed/Thurs.  Students will write reflection papers on Friday.  Review will occur on Monday/Tuesday, Exams on Wednesday/Thursday, and makeup on Friday.

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.

Meeting Minutes 10/26

Roberts/Rahmlow in Vermillion's Room

• Ending Earth Science unit next week and giving district assessment. 
• District assessment requires a lot of graph and diagram analysis so students need extra practice with that
• Roberts in lab next week for dry ice lab
• Roberts/Rahmlow convection current lab
• Students need extra help with plate boundaries