PD SCHEDULE

Friday 12.7.07
“You can’t depend on your eyes when you imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain

Schedule Upcoming Professional Participation &

12:25-1:10/20 – Lunch
1:20-2:10 PD Post-Observation Cohorts
2:15-3:00 Grade Team Meeting #6
3:00-3:30 Grade or Choose Your Own Adventure
Deliverables
• Grade team minutes via e-mail w/ attendance. ONLY ONE MORE
GTMeeting prior to presentation at staff meeting on Wed. Jan. 2.
• New B-Day List (last one got lost)
Performance Points (P3Points)
1pt – 12.7 Cohort Round #4 Post-Observation
1pt – 12.7 Grade Team Meeting #6 + Minutes via e-mail
1pt – 12.7 Participate in College Day (remember to e-mail Bethany)
3pt – Due 12.7 Advisors collect missing Medical Consent Forms
1pt – 12.12 W Dept Meeting #5 + Minutes via e-mail
3pt EC - 12.14 For staff who volunteer to help with the UP dance that
evening.

Prep for DYO Graders 1:10-1:20 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 10 minutes

This is for people who will missed PD Observations (see break out rooms)facilitated by team ELA in Gayle’s Room 205

PD Post-Observation PD 1:20-2:10 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 50 minutes

Each team will work through the post-observation protocol.
Cohort #1 (Lance) - ROOM 317 (Baylor) Cohort #3 (Steph) - ROOM 210 (Arantxa)
Cohort #2 (Josh) - ROOM 306 (Nic & Annie) Cohort #4 (Ryan) - ROOM 310 (Hunter)
DYO GRADING TEAM- ROOM 205 (Gail) Gail, Jason, Emily. Kim, Mabel, René

Grade Team Meeting 2:15-3:00 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 45 minutes

You do not have to set specific goals (as we have done with the leadership and department teams) but YOU DO have to use this
time to make strategic decisions on how to improve student learning and log those decisions in your minutes. You will be
presenting Jan 2. Ryan has visited 9&10 and will visit 11&12 to discuss presentation expectations.
ROOM 201 (Ricky) 12th Grade ROOM 306 (Nic & Annie) 9th Grade
ROOM 209 (Kyle) 11th Grade ROOM 310 (Hunter) 10th Grade

Reminders & Announcements

• REMINDER ON PD ROUND #5 Wed Dec 12:
Cohort 1: 6th Hr Visit Bethany
Thurs. Dec 12:
Cohort 2: 1st Hr visit Kim Cohort 3: 3rd Hr visit René Cohort 4: 7th Hr visit Karl

PER SE$$ION FOR DYO GRADING: Come by after school Monday December 10th from 3:30-5:30 to participate in
DYO grading around BK’s literacy initiative. To sign up please communicate with DYO coordinating rockstar Andi
Brown (e-mail fivedialogues@aol.com)

WANTED: Staff (does not have to be a teachers) sponsor to take over the Building with Books Program. BWB is non-profit
program involved in community service work domestically and internationally. OT pay will be made available for BWB events that
take place outside of the school day. If interested see Andi Brown for more information and then Josh.
Reminders & Announcements cont. on next page.
 Reminders & Announcements cont.
• 12th GRADE ADVISORS: Senior yearbook photos will be Tuesday December 18th, 2007 in Amelia's room 207. Seniors
should see Amelia by Friday to schedule an appointment time. Also, If Senior advisory teachers could begin to collect baby photos
for the yearbook I would appreciate it. I would like to have all baby photos by December 21st. For more information see e-mail
sent to 12th Grade from Amanda Baylor from Dec 3, 2007 Subject line: Senior Stuff

IMPORTANT ACCOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS

FROM STUDENT LIFE SPECALIST AMELIA FRANK
DEC. 7 AUDITIONS: For the BKHS step team after school Friday 12:30pm. Boys and girls are welcome
DEC. 12-13: STD Screening - (slightly altered schedule for those days)
Now until DEC. 18th: Remember that we have a Battle of the Advisories going on around our Canned Food Drive. Ask
students do donate canned goods to put your advisory on top and help some people along the way.
DEC. 14th: Staff support requested United Playaz Dance that evening 7-11PM at BKHS. Please see Amelia if you are able to
help. 3 extra credit P3 Points will be made available to teachers who participate.
Thursday DEC. 20th: Flu shots, Thursday Dec. 20 from 9am-3:30pm. Students will need consent form. Sign Up in room 207.
Friday DEC. 21st: Staff/ Student Basketball Game. Schedule TBD.
ADVISORS please make sure all your advisees have filled out Medical Consent Forms. If you’re not sure who has handed them
in or if you need more blank copies, please see Amelia ASAP. Forms were initially handed out at Parent Night and need to be
collected by Friday Dec. 7. This is worth 3 P3 Points in MP3.

•HEADS UP! Many visitors will continue to come by BK in the upcoming months for various reasons. Sometimes, due to the nature
of these visitors’ schedules we can’t always give the kind of advance notice some might like. To those ends it is important to
remember your classroom is a public space and you should always be putting your best pedagogical foot forward every day
with or without an outside observer. COMING SOON: a visit from the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators President
Ernie Logan. Date and time TBA.

•THE BK SIGNATURE SPEAKER SERIES: PEDRO NOGUERA FROM NYU author of City Schools and the American Dream and
Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools will be the inaugural Signature Series Speaker at 3:30
PM Jan 11, 2008. This event is optional for staff but you are welcome to invite peers and colleagues from other schools to the
event.

• JANURARY 31, 2008 = The Bronx Small Schools Collaborative PD. This Event occurs during second semester so it is not on
your present calendar. Three sets of BK staff will be presenting that day. All pedagogical staff are required to attend the event.

•PARTICIPATE! If you have an announcement you would like to make in the Wed or Fri announcements please send your
announcement to Ryan as soon as possible. Also, please send quotes and cartoons for Wed agendas - I would love to use words
and images you pass along.