1. Cluster week 4 September 16 & 17, 2014

2. Welcome to cluster Please sign in and take papers
Sit with your content
Popsicle stick=Questioning from the rubric
3 things=TKS

3. Use 2 activity papers to pick who reads

4. Annual Cluster Goal
By May 2015, all 7th and 8th grade students will demonstrate a year’s growth in ELA and Math as evidenced by a pre/post Galileo test resulting in a combined *AYP growth score from 55 to 60.
Skill focus ELA:
Skill focus in Math:
*AYP=Average Yearly Progress
Waiting for results of Galileo for skill focus: popsicle sticks

5. DVMS School Goal Galileo Results—GET READY!
Waiting for results of Galileo

6. Cluster Cycle 1 Goal
By the end of the first cluster cycle, teachers will effectively analyze student work and monitor student achievement as evidenced by a 3.0 or higher average score of all teachers in each of the following three TAP rubric indicators: Standards and Objectives, Assessment, and Student Work.
Popsicle sticks

7. Evaluate New Learning
Teachers will discuss at tables what Tier I interventions have been successful.

8. Identify the Need
Teachers will develop student work assignments that align to the SW descriptors by using the rubric and reviewing student work samples.

9. Obtain New Learning Rubric Study(back of agenda)
Indicator- Student Work
What are the differences between a score of 3 and a score of 5?
How do these descriptors align with Galileo data?
DOK levels of rigor, EXTENDED writing, (both have writing)

10. Obtain New Learning Standard Objective: SKS
Student work scaffolded and linked to prior learning?
3 descriptors of student work
Look at the example at your table: how is the example aligned to the rubric?

11. Develop student work that: 1. Interprets information
What are you aiming for in the TAP Rubric for Student Work? A 3 or a 5? Keep that in mind while planning.
Develop New Learning
Develop student work that:
1. Interprets information
2. Draws conclusions through writing
3. Connects what they learn to prior learning and life experience
Model our tier 1 strategy by purposeful grouping goes with Lesson plan—Tier I ideas from PBIS.com

12. Use the completed products in your classroom
Apply New Learning
Use the completed products in your classroom

13. Bring Back
Samples of completed student work: High, Medium, and Low

14. Closure Follow Up conversations in PLC
NO cluster next week due to Fall conference