September 20, 2016 & September 27, 2016
Two Rivers SIP Goal Planning Meetings

 In September 2016, Two Rivers engaged in the collaborative inquiry process to use i-Ready data for establishing SIP goals for literacy and numeracy for the 2016-2017 school year. 

Dr. Margie Johnson facilitated two sessions on September 20th.  On September 27th, Executive Principal Dr. Shelly Dunaway, Assistant Principal Kristin Rowan, and Numeracy Coach Robert Reynolds used the recommendations with the leadership team to reach consensus for their 2016-2017 SIP goals and action steps for literacy and numeracy.  Click HERE to access their meeting materials.

Activating and Engaging

The activating and engaging component of the meeting was Know, Think I Know, and Want to Know (Lipton & Wellman, 2011) activity about the collaborative inquiry.  Since Two Rivers was part of the spring 2016 community of practice, it was a great springboard for our conversation.

A review of collaborative inquiry was provided, then the meeting continued during grade level team meetings.

Collaborative Inquiry Overview

Collaborative inquiry is a data-based team process that consciously uses the collaborative learning cycle (activating and engaging, exploring and discovering, and organizing and integrating) and the qualities of effective teams (fostering a culture of trust, maintaining a clear focus, taking collective responsibility and data-informed decision making.

Grade Level Team Meetings
Exploring & Discovering
Organizing and Integrating

Exploring and Discovering

Using i-Ready data for literacy and numeracy, grade level teams made observations of the data and posted them on chart paper.

Organizing and Integrating
The observations were used to generate multiple SIP goal recommendations for literacy and numeracy.

Observations

Recommended SIP Goals for Literacy and Numeracy

Meeting Feedback

IC Map Feedback

Plus

Suggestions for Improvement
  • agenda, norms, expectations for measurement
  • established a better understanding of what we need to do
  • student data focused
  • started/continues important discussion
  • material was covered thoroughly
  • good presentation and kind presenter
  • stayed on task
  • informative
  • analyzing group data and setting goals
  • awareness of data
  • stayed on topic
  • helpful info
  • data observations
  • enjoyed working together to come up with SIP goals
  • team collaboration
  • kept time frame
  • good agenda & communication
  • thanks for the purpose and how to utilize data when we gather
  • creating smart goals
  • leading the process
  • continue with consistency
  • more time (2)
  • more data
  • more time to reflect and write smart goals (less hurried)
  • more time to present concerns
  • not meet twice in same day could be beneficial to have an evening to think of more meaningful goals
  • more time to meet with teams
  • need more time to work with data
  • we lack time
  • paper handouts of more data to look at longer
  • too many assessments
  • bring data prior to meeting
  • environment
  • more data to look through
  • better able to see where we are and need to go
  • multiple sources of data