AGHS+-+2007-08+-+Monthly+Updates

October 29, 2007 Meeting Request

Our school has been concentrating on the implementation of phase two of the CFF (Classrooms for the Future) grant. With this phase, we have been awarded approximately $412K for year number two. [|See announcement for more info.]In year number one of the grant (last year), our school received approximately $158K for equipment to begin equipping our classrooms with the hardware and tools necessary. Last year, our concentration was on the English and Mathematics departments to receive the equipment, while this year, we are focusing on the Social Studies and Science departments to obtain the equipment needed. In addition to equipping the Social Studies and Science departments in year two, we are adding 14 additional mobile lab carts to be given to the four core departments involved in the grant. With all the new equipment being given to our school under year two of the grant comes all the work to prepare for the equipment to arrive. A CFF leadership team has been formed and includes high school and district administrators, teachers, computer techs and the network administrator, the district's electrician, ITLT members, the CFF, literacy, and math coaches, and the president of the AGEA. The CFF leadership team is meeting three times during the remainder of this year to discuss all the logistics and challenges and circumstances surrounding the grant. In return for all the equipment we are receiving, we need to complete professional development, do teacher observations, and comply with other grant obligations.
 * November through January 11th:**

Grant obligations include: 5 CFF classes in which all CFF teachers (English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science) must take. Course #1 was offered last year and most teachers have finished the course that was facilitated by CFF coach, Kristina Hurley. Course #2 is being offered this year and being facilitated by several people (Kristina Hurley - Math; Charleen Forba-Mayer - Social Studies; Clint Jones - Science; English - Jane Hershberger). Kristina, Charleen, Clint, and Jane have met a few times about the course and how we are going to handle the job as facilitator. Kristina has provided us all with a binder of articles and course content. We examined the binder and began to discuss how we should proceed. Clint and Charleen had to sign up on Embedded Learning for our role as facilitator. Kristina briefly went over how the course is handled online and what was expected of us as facilitators of course #2.

Kristina will be presenting the CFF course #2 information to our faculty during the January faculty meeting. Course #2 will begin during February's in-service and CFF teachers will have a planned at-home in-service day to work on the course for one day either in March/April. We will be using our April in-service day to hopefully finish course #2, but may need to go into the month of May to complete the class. The group will provide additional information as it is released.

Kristina Hurley (with the input of ITLT members) worked on a proposed professional development schedule for next year to be presented to Dr. Sharp.

**February 2008 - AGHS Update**
CFF course #2 is set to begin on the February 29th in-service.

The course moderators, Kristina Hurley, Charleen Forba-Mayer, Clint Jones, and Jane Hershberger have been busy getting the teacher guides ready to roll out to the four core departments (Science, Social Studies, Math, and English). Teachers will use this inservice, along with one planned in-service day on their own, and the April in-service to hopefully complete the course work.

Kristina, Clint, Charleen, and Jane will meet on Monday, March 3rd afterschool to begin the work to document the progress of our individual groups.

2nd round of Map testing the week of March 10th...also P-T conferences