English Department

6th grade teachers meet with the history/social studies department.

7th and 8th grade teachers meet with the English department — bring your Instructional Guides — standards based lesson planning is the agenda.

~Department Chair Election

~Compensatory Education Standards-based lesson plans and assessments: development of lesson plans in preparation for Categorical Program Monitoring (CPM) in October.
~Backward Planning: Standards Based Lessons with Written Assessments

~CST/CAT 6 Preparation

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April 8, 2008

~NCLB, Title I, State Compensatory Education (CE) Standards-based lesson plans and assessments: e-mail your chairperson with sample lesson plans in preparation for Categorical Program Monitoring (CPM) in October.
~A Standards Based Poetry Lesson
~Revising Agenda Books to be Advisory Class Textbooks — Meet in grade level groups and then e-mail your chairperson: What skills do 7th and 8th grade students need to be successful?