Colorado Elementary Science

F.E.A.T.S.

MEETING NOTES

In Attendance:

DPS: Sarah Gan (Sarah_gan@dpsk12.org) 720.253.2777

DPS: Patty Kincaid (Patricia_Kincaid@dpsk12.org) 720.423.3395

DPS: Patricia Pluta (Partricia_Pluta@dpsk12.org) 720.424.7042

DPS: Rob Beam (robert_beam@dpsk12.org)

Douglas: Cathy Hill (

Aurora: Ryann Patrick Stuart (repatrick-stuart@aps.k12.co.us) 303.326.2000 X28357

Aurora: Laurie Waalkes (lswaalkes@aps.k12.co.us) cell 303.378.7694

CDE: Barry Cartwright (Cartwright_barry@cde.state.co.us)

Adams 14: Hollene Davis (hadavis@adams14.org) 303.853.5602

Adams 14: Lara Eddy (leeddy@adams14.org) 303.982.6593

Jeffco: Donnie Seibel (dseibel@jeffco.k12.co.us) 303.982.4903

Jeffco: Sharon Linn-Jeffrey (slinnjef@jeffco.k12.co.us) 303.982.4903

Unable to Attend:

St. Vrain: Jeremy LaCrosse (LaCrosse_Jeremy@stvrain.K12.co.us)

St. Vrain: Robert Orbanosky (Orbanosky_Robby@stvrain.k12.co.us)

DPS: Linda J. Morris (Linda_Morris@dpsk12.org)

Brighton 27j: Cindy Ritter (ccaldwell@sd27j.org)

Boulder Valley: Samantha Messier (Samantha_messier@bvsd.org)

1. Funding News: The Colorado Department of Education will provide partial funding for the 2009 FEATS project through State Title II monies. The caveat is that the project needs to be self-sustaining by next year and FR BOCES needs to replicating the project outside the metro Denver area.
2. Two Objectives for 2009 as specified in the Request for Grant Funding:
   1. Facilitate a process through which elementary schools that are currently implementing FEATS may share practices and products for the purpose of extending and refining learning and thus implementation.
   2. Conduct a FEATS Summer Leadership Academy 2009 for the purpose of expanding the implementation of the model or approach to instruction to additional schools (beyond those that began implementation during the 2007 – 2008 and the 2008 – 2009 school years.)
3. Going Deeper in Facilitating Elementary Achievement through Science –
   1. The Team determined that a half-day event be held in April 2009 (date to be determined) (possibly 16^th or 23^rd) to partially address objective above. Please see attached DRAFT agenda for that day. Please provide feedback on how accurately this document represents the team member recommendations. Feedback should be sent to csauer4510@msn.com.
   2. The audience members for this event are principals and teachers who are in their first year of implementing the F.E.A.T.S. model.
   3. As soon as the agenda is approved by the Design Team (December 11), the information will be ready to provide to pilot school principals and teachers.
4. FEATS Summer Leadership Academy 2009
   1. The Team determined that we would offer a two-day summer academy structured similarly to the ones held in 2007 and 2008.
   2. The audience will be composed of NEW SCHOOL TEAMS. Ideally, we will have ten schools from ten districts with ten participants from each of the new schools. The principal of each new school MUST attend both days of the training.
   3. We want to include more life science examples of FEATS lessons in addition to the physical science lessons.
   4. The current eight districts that have “pilot” elementary school teams participating will have the first opportunity to send a team from a new elementary school in each district. The Metro FR BOCES Board will have the second opportunity to send a new team of teachers to this event. Other districts will be informed of the opportunity through the Colorado BOCES Association and the Regional Managers. The cost for the pilot school team members is $50 per person. The pilot schools will be registered through the Design Team representatives and/or principals of schools.
   5. An additional 100 participants may register on a fee-for-service basis as teams or as individuals. Those slots will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis. This will be an online registration through the FR BOCES website.
   6. Registration will be offered for the Summer Academy 2009 after March 30^th. Pilot school teams must register prior to April 15^th. At that time, NEW school teams on a waiting list may register.
   7. Dr. Michael Klentschy is holding the dates for this event. He will now be contracted.
   8. The local teacher-trainers (identified last summer) will conduct the break-out sessions. We will attempt to have six break-out sessions to keep the number in the break-outs to approximately 35 and to allow some adaptations in instruction for primary teacher participants.
   9. Specific planning for this event will begin about March 1, 2009.
5. FEATS Website Development
   1. Each Design Team member is asked to send artifacts (student work, classroom video segments, rubrics for grade-level notebook entries, website resources for links) to Ryann Patrick-Stuart (email above).
   2. Rob Beam will build at the “claims and evidence” section of the website first. If you have helpful video segments, rubrics, or student work to share for this element of the instructional model, please send them to Rob Beam. (email above)
   3. Jeremy LaCrosse is working on connections between the FOSS lessons and the FEATS model and will begin to link those to the website.
   4. The Design Team is welcome to become more involved as administrators of the site.
6. Design Team as a Professional Learning Community – Promote Sustainability
   1. The Design Team wants to expand the planning meetings to include time and structure for their own learning about the FEATS model. Coaches, principals and Design Team members are invited to attend these meetings.
   2. The first meeting will be held at Central Elementary in Adams 14^th on December 11 (12 – 3:30 PM). Hollene Davis will arrange a classroom walk-through opportunity followed by a debrief after each visit. The last hour will be used for event design facilitated by Charl Lee Sauer. We will need to have you RSVP so that we can arrange the walk-through schedule. We will also share copies of our engaging scenarios and/or rubrics/criteria/protocols for creating the scenarios. Please bring 12 – 15 copies of your engaging scenarios to this meeting.
   3. The leadership for the PLC structure will be shared among the Design Team members.
   4. Our intention is to develop a schedule for January, February, and March at the next meeting.

NEXT MEETING: December 11 (Thursday) at Central Elementary in Adams 14 (12 – 3:30 PM) More location information to follow. If you have questions about this meeting, please contact Hollene Davis (phone above).

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