Discussion

Thank you Marie, for facilitating our first meeting!

What can we learn/take away from our first meeting?

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I think it would be great to take a moment at an upcoming meeting to reflect on how we have been using the protocols/facilitating/coaching.

For example, I know that Kelley has been using protocols in class, and that Kelley and Peter were working on planning/coaching for the PD day, and that Peter and Martha facilitated for ELA. And the work that Marie and I did in helping to plan and facilitate the S.S. PD day (thanks, Julie, for attending (: and providing moral support) felt important, yet it raised some dilemmas and questions for our future practice:

1) How can we explicitly support every member of the group? (in our coaching/planning & facilitating) //I plan to pose this question on the larger wiki to the folks we worked with over the summer. I am sure that Aimee and Gene were **doing** this as coaches; it is just one area of the coaches' practice that was not as clear to me as, say, how the facilitator might support the presenter.//

2) How can we model CFG "best practices" for the rest of the school and district? (We think we made some steps in the right direction in S.S., at least in addressing some misconceptions that arose from our work using the protocols last year at PD days).

-Susannah