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Orange CIG Group Meeting Minutes 9-25-09 10:30-12:00 12:30 -2:15

Attending: Cory, Diane, Joe, Jacki, Jessica, Lorraine, Tracey

What do we want to study? Our GPDP

Our past experience of professional development:

“professional development has been what we go to for inservice and it usually doesn’t pertain to the arts.”

Brainstorming: Paper People Exercise:

Talk About Challenges in Your Classroom Similarities: - time - money - updating (curriculum, tech,, ideas) - relationships - administration/paperwork - expectations

Talk about Triumphs in Your Classroom Similarites: - taking a challenge and making a success - balancing interested and uninterested students - meeting the needs of the students in the classroom

Possible Themes: - student based learning - exploring the balance between application and pleasing administration - community awareness/advocacy for the arts (education)

For next time:

Need to pin down theme into a line of inquiry. Need to choose 2 GPRA measures to document (we will follow and self assess to maintain vigor) Need to plan ways to document our work.

GPRA MEASURES: Required: Measure #1: % of teachers who receive professional development that is sustained and intensive (Required: document the time you spend and the quality of that time)

Required: One additional GPRA- choose from one of the following:

- Measure #2: % of teachers who demonstrate //increased// knowledge of teaching standards based arts education (document changes in teacher knowledge) - Measure #3: % of teachers who demonstrate the ability to teach standards-based arts education (document practices in your classroom)

Next Meeting: We will connect by email to plan the next meeting date- we will try for a face to face meeting in Waynesburg, PA.

Next Steps: Cory to contact IU to ask about meeting place at IU in Waynesburg Cory to email all to coordinate meeting date and time