October+21

Topics
 * Quick Check for Laptops
 * How would this look?
 * Done during Advocacy? Done during a one week period. Who has laptops? Who doesn't?
 * Late November - Early December
 * Check off who has laptop & who doesn't. Follow up with students who do not have laptops. Why?
 * Use Casper to see what laptops have check in
 * Timeline for Laptop Check in
 * Harmon talked about end of year check-in today (10/21)
 * Freshman - 5/7 & 5/8
 * Seniors - 5/12 & 5/13
 * 5/14 & 5/15 - Juniors
 * 5/19 & 5/20 - Sophomores
 * Report on the Laptop Research from Doug
 * Doing Survey on Survey Monkey
 * Work with Doug and see how we can do this
 * Break down data by school - great Wednesday PD
 * Next Steps:
 * Share with staff
 * Then survey is released
 * Share with students
 * Share with site council
 * Redo survey this fall and compare fall to fall data
 * When do we want to talk about what happened when looking at the data?
 * Next month, talk about how buildings shared information.
 * Daily Check Out
 * WY - each administrator will check-in/out machines
 * WY - students will each receive the same laptop every day
 * WY - having conversations with parents about the importance of the laptop
 * WY - Used old backpacks and put plain white tags on them with Administrator's initials.
 * Fairfax Campus - Distributed from Conference Room by Ms. Walker
 * Approx. 20 laptops
 * Fairfax Campus - approx 50 take laptops home, handful have still not turned in AUP
 * Harmon - Check in going smoothly. Librarian is doing the check-in & check-out
 * Laptops will be passed out before school
 * Problem now is students are trying to get laptop during school
 * Schlagle - Not checking out yet. Not sure when check-outs will begin.
 * Will check with John
 * Building Transfer of Machines
 * Kids are saying they do not have machines because they are waiting for their laptops.
 * Not the case at Harmon or Fairfax
 * Washington (Nahm) was told to hold the Senior machines. Need to be used to hand out to other students.
 * Wyandotte - Had minor problem, but was fixed swiftly.
 * What to do with kids who transfer late into schools (now)? Do we need to be consistent across the district in each high school?
 * Curriculum Leaders meeting--Nov 6
 * Staff Development Plan
 * Administrators need to be In-serviced
 * Go to building and do some type of in-service (School Loop, pulling off video, music, etc)
 * During November there will the 3 sessions offered around Classroom Management in the laptop classroom.
 * 2 people from each SLC attend & take information back to SLC & share
 * Classroom Management will then be the focus of walk through
 * Writing Assessment
 * Done on paper because of printing problems. Why?
 * Brainstorming done on paper. Final draft could be typed?
 * TIS & Buildings will work together to purchase printers so students can type papers
 * Some schools are beginning writing assessment in December