02-16-11


 * Notes for meeting Wednesday, February 16, 2011.**

Discussing books and education reform movements/philosophies:
 * Tribes, Seth Godin
 * The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch
 * NCLB
 * A Nation at Risk
 * Schools Can't Do It Alone, Jamie Vollmer

Discussing Formative Assessment, Standards-Based Grading:
 * Jo: uncomfortable grading students on things they should have learned in a previous course, but didn't.
 * Jo: there's no way to know what the students have been taught, and when.
 * Tim: this illustrates the need for an online curriculum development program.

Links to press on Waukee's Standards-based grading plan:
 * http://bit.ly/fLob7V
 * http://bit.ly/e78pgA
 * http://bit.ly/efpJUm

After-school time HAS to be available for teacher meetings, and administrators NEED to be available for those meetings.