QUINCY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Curriculum and Instruction

Meeting Notes

Team Name: MS Vertical Teams: 6-8 English Language Arts Meeting Date: October 23, 2018

Professional Development? Yes Title of Professional Development Topic: Collections Pacing Guides/Small Group Instruction

Team Members Present: ELIZABETH ANGELL, REBECCA BAHARIAN, KAITLIN BARRY, NORAH BLANEY, MARY BROOKS, KIMBERLY
CRISSINGER, KIMBERLY DELISLE, MARTHA DEVER, JENNIFER DUMAS, MARY FLAHERTY, MELISSA GARRAHY, MEGAN KEOUGH,
JOANNE MACFARLANE, LAURA MALONE, AMY MARKARIAN, KATHLEEN MATTHEWS, BEVERLY MCAULEY, ANNE MCGUIGGAN,
CHARLES O'BRIEN, MARYELLEN PHILLIPS, CLAIRE QUINLAN, ELISE REGAN, HOLLY RENDLE, SUZANNE RIZZO, EMILY ROONEY,
STEPHANIE SHIELDS, KRISTIN SMITH, KIMBERLY TAGLIERI, BRIDGET VAUGHAN, THEODORE WALSH, LAURA WILLIAMSON-
BRUNELLE

Team Members NOT Present: JOHNA DOWDALL, JULIANNE GILBERT, NICOLE MANTVILLE, HILLARY MOSCA, KATHLEEN SMITH

Goals
Description Status

Goal 1: During the 2017-18 school year, ELA and reading teachers will continue instruction in close reading and
purposeful annotation strategies with complex text, leading students to independence.
Goal 2: During the 2017-18 school year, differentiation strategies will be implemented in all ELA and reading
classrooms to meet the needs of all learners.
Goal 3: In the 2017-18 school year, ELA/Reading Pacing and Alignment Guides will be revised to include
revisions to the English Language Arts and Literacy Framework, and to include the new Collections
Digital and Print Resources.

AGENDA ITEM(S) NOTES STAFF RESPONSIBLE

Working with HMH Digital Collections Teachers moved into 2 groups at Central: Team Members
Grade-level groups will explore the First floor computer lab: Grade 6 and Grade 8 from Central, Point
digital components that support the texts Webster, and Sterling
Second floor computer lab: Grade 7 and Grade 8 from Atlantic and
Broad Meadows

Team members logged into Collections digital resources and began

Align Digital Components to Pacing
Guides
Add more digital components to the
grade-level pacing guides
Delete pacing guide elements that are Bridget with all of these changes. Educational imbedded videos,
not being utilized
to explore various resources that would be useful for each text.
Teachers worked together and reviewed last year's pacing guides. Bridget Vaughan and Team
Note-takers created shared Google docs with suggestions for Members
additions to and deletions from Collections. Rationale for these
changes were included. Several Google docs were shared with
channel one news reports, supplemental texts, level-up tutorials and
interactive lessons are examples of some of these changes. Bridget
will make these changes to the grades 6 and 7 pacing guides.
Grade 8 made changes directly to the pacing guide.
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Curriculum and Instruction

Meeting Notes

Team Name: MS Vertical Teams: 6-8 English Language Arts Meeting Date: October 23, 2018

Professional Development? Yes Title of Professional Development Topic: Collections Pacing Guides/Small Group Instruction

AGENDA ITEM(S) NOTES STAFF RESPONSIBLE

Add small group lesson activities from Teachers worked in groups to address 2018-19 goal 2: implementing Bridget Vaughan and Team
Collections to Pacing Guides close reading and purposeful annotation strategies with targeted Members
small group instruction. These ideas will be shared with all grade
levels in a shared Google doc. Some of these are:

-Use FYI site and Explore as Tier 2 Interventions with small group
scaffolded lessons under the xplor lesson plans for fluency, small
group discussion etc.
-Use Cornell Notes to work on comprehension
-Loom app for reteaching writing strategies
-Collections: Interactive writing lessons
-Collections: Using the audio to have students read along with in
stations especially for EL students
-Interactive notes based on Collections, print out notes and have
students add to them and using them for
-Guided studying with a focus on executive functioning strategies
-Use children’s literature to teach author’s craft
-Annotate Close Reader stories by assigned paragraph for each
paragraph.
-Each station: short written responses for text-based questions (
different scribe for each station.)
-Vocab practice (image creation, story board, google slide, comic
strips)
-Root Scramble--give students a mixture of roots, affixes, suffixes
and then have them create words.
-POV Stations--read a 3rd person story with at least 4 characters;
each station is assigned a character and must retell story from that
character’s perspective.
-Speaking: Think/Pair/Share
-Grammar--stations could review concepts already taught.
-Level-up Tutorials on varying tasks.
-Create a google Forms regarding texts read or concepts taught.
-Write Alouds--teaching kids how to model writing.
-Figurative Language--each station creates or finds specific pieces of
figurative language.

Documents were shared, evaluations were filled out and PD

Certificates were distributed by administrators.

Next Meetings
Date Time Location
1/22/2019 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM TBD
3/12/2019 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Point Webster Auditorium
5/14/2019 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Point Webster Auditorium