PLC Meeting 5/4/16

Curriculum Committee Update

The curriculum department has been very pleased with the participation and dedication of all of the members of the curriculum committee and the teachers running the curriculum pilots.  Committee members have worked hard into the "informed consumer" process and the piloting of the materials of the chosen materials.  The pilot process has been completed, and an adoption recommendation will be brought to the school board meeting at the May 4th meeting.  The following recommendations will be made to the school board:  

• K-2: Houghton Mifflin Journeys
• 3-6: Benchmark Advance
• 6-8: Houghton Mifflin Collections

Music Program Update

Music teachers and the curriculum department continue to work on the logistics of implementing the new "Traveling Troubadours" schedule where music teachers will travel together during the school day to provide instruction for band students at each K-8 school site.  Music teachers will work with administration to recommend plans for a new schedule.

End of Year BBQ Plans

The end of year district wide BBQ has been scheduled for Friday May 20th  at 2:00 P.M. and will be held on the quad at Mountain House High School.  The BBQ will start with a tournament between all of the schools in a fun game of live-sized Hungry Hungry Hippos.  Get your school's team together, come hungry, and leave happy!

LCAP Feedback

The PLC meeting finished off with PLC subgroups meeting together to go through the latest revisions of the LCAP plan.  Each team looked at the plan through the lenses of communication, culture, data, instructional norming, and special populations.  Each group filled out a portion of a table to provide their specific feedback.  You will find some of this feedback in the table below:

Sub Committee	Ideas
Communication	Cliff’s Notes Version needs to be created Actual document needs to be formatted for general consumption Electronic Version Created
Culture	When something is piloted we need to make sure we go back to revisit how things went? Ie. middle school model, go quest, Moby Max.
PD/Data	What do parents need to know from this? What do students need to know? How do we communicate that in a manageable way?
Instructional Norming	How are we deciding our SMART goal percentage?  I.e 5% raise in students taking AP exams.  Is this a good goal? Too aggressive? Not Aggressive enough? How do we know?   Do we need to be more specific about ‘adequate’ resources(pg 37). What’s adequate? Why are we still having students take the MAP Language Usage test? What does it measure?
Special Populations	How will the $66,000 for Operating Expenditures and Professional consulting