• Meetings with the principal
• Academic expectations committee – met for 2 years????
• Helped to put theory into concrete terms
• Develop a set of learning goals for each grade level
• Teachers were looking for more than what is in the district curriculum ????
• Academic assessment committee
• Discussed the difficult issue of how to assess
• Random groups of students pulled out for assessment once a year
• Also attempted to address the need for ongoing feedback
• Workgroups
• Teachers worked together to help each other become more effective teachers
• Grade level meetings
• Used not so much for administrative purposes but rather to let committee members to report back
• Scoring sessions
• Looked in detail at student products for entire days after school let out in the summer
• Faculty meetings
• To reinforce and discuss issues related to the improvement effort
• Training sessions
• To share accomplishments and celebrate progress at the year end
• Followed by grade levels meetings to plan the areas of focus for the next year

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