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What to Do During Learning Team Meetings

When you've got 20 minutes or less...
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  • Share reactions to a professional journal article that was read since the last session.
  • Discuss how well an activity worked in a classroom.
  • Write a plus/delta for an activity tried in the classroom.
  • Identify potential resources for further information.
  • Review outcomes data for a specific learning target.
  • Brainstorm ideas for interventions.
  • Share learning from readings or a conference that is pertinent to the team's goal.
  • Record patterns that you've identified in student learning and/or behavior.
  • Determine what you will report out about your findings and assign who will do what.

When you’ve got more than 20 minutes...
  • Review student work and identify areas in need of improvement.
  • Use a fishbone diagram to generate ideas for improvement.
  • Invite an expert to share ideas.
  • Practice an activity that will be tried in the classroom.
  • Create inter-rater reliability for scoring using a rubric.
  • Use an interrelationship digraph to determine root cause of a problem.
  • Learn how to use technology to collect and organize your data.
  • Analyze data from large-scale or classroom assessments.
  • Generate hypotheses for an identified problem.

And remember—use the last 5 –10 minutes of every meeting time to
  1. Determine activities to complete before your next meeting.
  2. Plan the agenda for your next meeting.


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