This Tuesday was a 1:00 out here at West Marshall. Our entire staff of 72 teachers met in the h.s. library at 1:15. Our first presenter was Lara Steward, who is a health specialist. Lara showed a video with some interesting, and kind of scary, facts about the health of our general population today. She also shared a hand-out that showed how much sugar is in certain daily foods most of us eat. There is no doubt the average "Joe" and "Jill" are not as healthy as they should be, mainly because of eating the wrong foods or too much food, as well as not getting enough exercise. I hope Lara's 45 minute presentation opened some eyes and prompts some of us, me included, to live healthier lives.
After Lara' presentation, we had our PLC team leaders discuss how the PLC process is going thus far and discussed several more slides from our original power-point. As some folks pointed out, we at West Marshall are in the infancy stages of this process. We have really just begun, and now as we near our midterm point of our first quarter, there is data to interpret with goals to be made. After this whole group meeting, the teams had an opportunity to meet. PLCs are all about collaboration, and as teachers become more and more busy, it is difficult to find time to meet. That is exactly why we administrators have provided more in-service days, so time is allotted for PLC teams to meet at least twice a week.
Measurements of Academic Progress (MAP): This test is the second assessment we do that is reported to the state, and students are tested in the fall and spring. The other state assessment we do, of course, is the ITBS. For the MAP test, our 2-9 students are tested in mathematics and reading, and our ninth graders take the science test, too. The testing window is September 26 to October 15. This online testing is not timed, and the beauty of it is, students know immediately how they did on the tests. Speaking for all of our staff and principals, I hope our students do well.
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