Inquiry Team

Our annual goal for inquiry was to encourage teachers to analyze and compare student data inorder to differeniate instruction.

By June 2010, the Inquiry Process will be evident as 90% of teachers gather data, plan , and set goals and develop coherent and cohesive instruction.

The Inquiry Team survey findings show that 48% of our staff are somewhat familiar with the responsibilities of the inquiry team. 23% of the staff are familiar and 29% state that they are not familiar at all. Our next steps in closing the gap on our school wide inquiry goal is to create grade level teacher teams. They will meet regularly to discuss curriculum and student achievement while using the inquiry process as the protocol to scaffold the team's work.

In September, we will continue building teacher team capacity. These teacher team's will work collaboratively to aggregate and organize available assessments on grade and school level. We look forward to the upcoming school year.

The Core Inquiry Team created a news letter to share reflections of this year's work . You can find a copy of the news letter on the NING and Lynne Gunther will also be e-mailing a copy to everyone. There is also a hard copy posted in room 216 on the bulletin board.

5th Grade Teacher Team

Hello, the fifth grade is excited to announce that our teacher team has met. We have discussed the inquiry team process and where we are headed as a grade. We have created our grade binder and discussed our next steps. We will discuss the upcoming school year's plan on how to implement strategies after studying student data.

Inquiry Update

Hi everyone.. Just a quick update on Inquiry Team...Next mtg is Monday, April 19, 2010 at 3:15 in the Library... The focus of our next few meetings is to examine where we are in achieving our goal of 90% participation in inquiry... We look forward to targeting students and studying the data with our newly formed teacher teams for next year.... Stay tuned : )

Meeting March 22, 2010

We revisited how we will measure whether 90% of the staff is actively participating in the inquiry process. We decided that it is very difficult to assess who is using ARIS and or Acuity, however grades 3-5 have been supplied with item analysis reports and these data tools are in fact widely used. We need to build grade binders to submit to administration in order to receive feedback on our accountability and the direction we should focus our efforts on. We need the administration to buy into the inquiry process and provide structured support in order to take the inquiry process to the next level. The schedule of April's inquiry meetings are as follows:

April 12

April 19

Inquiry process rubrics- nexts steps

The core inquiry team examined the rubric for implementing the collaborative inquiry process within our school with the focus of 90% of our teachers being involved. We are looking at the setup and multiple stage team and have decided that we lie between both beginning and emerging, which is equivalent to a high 1 or low 2. Our next steps are to invite more staff members to core inquiry meetings to help them establish protocol and ground rules for future team meetings that will examine student data.

New Meeting date added for March

March 22 has been added to the already scheduled meeting dates for March.

March 1

March 15

March 22

Questions for teacher team meetings

Here are some questions to ponder as your teacher teams develop:

What is the focus on your team's work at present? What goals does the team have?
What group of students has the team targeted/focused on? Why/how was this group chosen? How are you accountable to/for them?

Please feel free to post comments/thoughts.

Thanks!

Inquiry Team