Next Meeting January 25, 2010

Our next Inquiry Team meeting will be held on Monday, 1.25.10 in the Library.
We will be reflecting on last weeks Quality Review. On our agenda are the following topics:

Revisiting transcribing with StoryTown
Steps to an Effective Inquiry Team Process-Phase 1
Creating Protocols for teacher teams

What are Protocols? A protocol consists of agreed upon guidelines for a conversation, and it is the existence of this structure(which everyone has agreed to)that permits a certain kind of conversation to occur--often a kind of conversation people are not in the habit of having. Protocols are vehicles for building the skills and culture necessary for collaborative work. Thus, using protocols often allows groups to build trust by actually doing substantive work together.

We would greatly appreciate your thoughts/comments on: Why use protocols?

Welcome Back Inquiry 2010!

We would like to wish our colleagues a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! At our first meeting of the new year, we discussed the low inference transcriptions taken prior to the break. We recognized that the transcribing was not in line with our newly implemented Storytown literacy program. We will start transcribing next week, implementing our new transcribing protocol. Our next inquiry team meeting will take place January 11, 2010. At this meeting we plan to reflect on quality review and curriculum audit, which will take place January 6-8, 2010. As part of the inquiry process, we will examine the role of EPAL in second grade.