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Design Team Agenda September 9, 2008  ·  PLC/Faculty Meetings (What does our data say?) Every first and third Wednesday will be a PLC/Faculty meeting. The Design Team will meet again on Wednesday, September 17 to finalize the content of these meetings. Every second and third Tuesday, Sherry, Whitney, Laura, and/or Barbara Davis will meet with each team to hold a “Nuts and Bolts” session or to go over data.  ·  Tutoring After School With I.S.  Our intervention specialists will be tutoring third and fourth grade after school. We will meet on Tuesday, September 16 with third and fourth grade to design the best way to implement tutoring.  ·  Room 117 The committee discussed the use of this extra room for the 2008-2009 school year as a nap room, a teacher relaxation room, relocation for staff members, a parent resource room (Parents could set up their volunteer work in this room. In addition the parent resources would be moved to this room.), health off the stage, or a science lab (All materials for suggested and the required lab would be placed in the cabinets). The Design Team members will be talking with their individual teams to gather their input. Design Team members will report back at the next meeting in order to make a final decision.  ·  Intervention Labs The committee felt that intervention labs would run Monday- Thursday in order to ensure the consistency of support for students in need. The intervention lab will serve our students with the greatest needs. Data will be taken from MClass and TPRI. Our data specialist will take a look at data September 22-26. New groups will be assigned to the labs. New lab groups will begin on September 29.  ·  Worksheetless Wednesdays Worksheetless Wednesday starts Wednesday, September 17.  ·  Testing Buddies Dawn Mesnard spoke to the committee regarding an idea for “testing buddies”. It was proposed that TAKS test administrators will be assigned to small group testers during the first semester. Throughout the year, the test administrator would get to know their small group of students with whom they would be administering the test. Dawn would facilitate these small meetings by putting birthday cards, stickers, notes, etc. in the test administrator’s box in order for the administrator to give to the students from time to time during the year. In doing this, the students get to know the person giving the test and eliminating any fear or anxiety about high stakes testing with someone they do not know. The committee approved this project. The program will be called “TEAM” or Taking Every Available Minute. Using a few minutes of our time to connect with our students can go a long way in helping them feel like we care about their success. Mrs. Sellars will begin work on building small groups for the 2009 testing season.