B2

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B2

 * Does the professional staff use research-based knowledge about teaching and learning?
 * Does the professional staff design and implement a variety of learning experiences that actively engage students at a high level of learning consistent with the school’s philosophy and mission and expected schoolwide learning results?

ANSWER: With the effective use of technology and collaborative activities, and with the aid of research-based knowledge about teaching and learning, professional staff designs and implements a variety of learning experiences that actively engage students at a high level of thinking and learning consistent with the school’s philosophy and mission and expected school-wide learning results.

Professional staff could make better use of community resources to enhance lesson plans, make ESLRs more transparent for all students, use portfolios to more effectively assess growth, and help students better understand “spiritual” growth vs. religious growth.

Suggested Areas to Analyze:

 * the degree to which teachers of various subject areas support students’ spiritual growth experiences
 * the degree to which students are actively involved in their own spiritual formation
 * the planning processes for the implementation of a variety of learning experiences that actively engage students at a high level of learning that is consistent with the school’s philosophy and mission and the expected schoolwide learning results
 * demonstration that students are actively engaged in learning, especially through examination of students working and their work
 * student use of resources for learning beyond the limits of the textbook such as effective use of technology, collaborative activities, community resources
 * the degree of student understanding of the expected level of performance
 * the degree to which teachers implement teaching techniques that enhance the active involvement of students appropriate to the subject matter
 * students’ working and their work that demonstrates critical thinking, problem solving, knowledge, and application
 * student portfolios, projects/performances/discussions
 * the degree of involvement of students with diverse backgrounds and abilities
 * observations of students working
 * perceptions of students about the learning experiences and their relationship to the expected schoolwide learning results
 * student and parent interviews
 * the degree to which various learning styles are addressed through the instructional approaches
 * the level of teacher currency and master of instructional content relative to the subject matter
 * additional evidence

Guiding Questions


 * Areas of Strength || Evidence ||  || Areas of Growth || Evidence ||
 * use of technology || WASC survey page 4 ||  || using community resources to enhance lessons ||   ||
 * collaborative activities || lesson plans / observations ||  || using portfolios to assess growth across departments || survey departments ||
 * the use of rubrics for clear expectations || teacher assignments / teacher web pages ||  || student understanding of "spiritual" growth vs. religious growth || student interviews ||
 * higher order thinking skills || lesson plans / assessments ||  || ESLRs could be more transparent to students || WASC Survey page 1 ||

Detailed information on 02/04

B1: Evidence from WASC/WCEA Parent Community Survey  99% parents, 95% strongly agree / agree that classes are challenging (4)


 * Areas of Strength || Evidence ||  || Areas of Growth || Evidence ||
 * __**use of technology**__ * create, revise, peer review process essays in google docs
 * record essays in Word to assist with the editing process
 * participate in collaborative discussion via Skype with public figures
 * compose and collaborate with online blogs
 * discuss literature on forum discussions online
 * conceive, design, create iMovies
 * utilize Webquests
 * Learn and review flash card by using Quizlet
 *  Check for understanding: Flash card games on computer
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Compose and writing for daily life :twitter/penzu
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">recall vocab: Provoc/Zdt
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visualize authentically : Google Earth
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">collaborating: wiki
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Practice recording: Audacity
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">communicate with target language: ichat/skype
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research, create and design new religions using keynote/powerpoint and independent internet reearch
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of iMovie or PowerPoint to create a successful marketing campaign to market Jesus to a young demographic
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating independent videos to convey/teach catholic virtues and vices
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PowerPoint/Keynote to research, design and create legislation to address 4 areas of social improvement in CA.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Smartboard

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Journalism press conferences and tutorials) * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">communicate and Practice with native speakers and culture exchange: dimdim
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Design: Photoshop
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make / create Animation: Flash
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create/ record a tutorial video to share/teach the strategy : Quick time

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Studies interactive timelines, tutorials and video games * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Publish and Design: InDesign
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Publish and Design: Fireworks
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Youtube
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Acrobat


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">transformation of the functions into three dimensional world application
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">skype / interviews
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create films in another language
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">• Create and design websites using iWeb

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">•Visual Arts: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use digital cameras to document and create artwork.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Manipulate work and create work on Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research Images and Artists on Google, and Online museum sites.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use iMovie to create films: Stop motion animation.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communicate and participate in critique through Facebook.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating iMovies and use of PowerPoint/Keynote in group projectsUtilizing Wikispaces for collaborative studying
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Displaying web videos about current events
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Powerpoint/Keynote presentation to present student ideas on morality
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using BlueJay to teach students about the creation of Java programs
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students learn about far-away places through 360º online tours

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sciences: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participate in Creating Project-based hands-on problem-solving activities around themes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Product: model of seismic resistant residential home, or
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a Product: Rain-water catchment, storage and purification for residential structures
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explore evidence for and Create a study of: Seismic-events around the Hayward Fault considering [a] safety issues for the home, [b] early warning detection at Moreau CHS with instrumentation permanelty installed in the school, etc.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participate in online activities: NSTA Case studies allowing virtual world studies online using MacBooks in biology, geology, physics, chemistry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CK12.org “Science Strand Creation/Publication for students to access online
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ProjectMoreau.org activities [5 activities now under construction: Earthquakes, Air quality, Life Science, Potholes on 238, et. al. || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> WASC survey page 4

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Student artwork. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Artist Statements on their work of art.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lesson Plans exist for: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Case study scenarios now being studied. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Student presentations are PPT (10 minute + 5 minute Q&A)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Engineering students now <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [1] Designing a model to build. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [2] CAD tools used for dwgs. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [3] Wood model is under construction. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [4] Presentation will defend the choices made, relevant science principles defined/described <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [5] Daily Journals monitor progress

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Paul Moller -engineer talks to students about development of his M400 Skycar.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> City of Hayward Sound abatement engineers will talk to class. ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">using community resources to enhance lessons: * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Visiting Art museums and gallery spaces so students can see artists and their impact on visual culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Have visiting artists give presentations and workshops about their work or use of certain media
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Promote more cultural events.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Creating a JETS for students Spring 2011. (JETS= junior engineering and technology society) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Comparing CHALLENGE BASED with INQUIRY BASED with PROBLEM BASED with PROJECT BASED stratgies. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Use of curriculum maps. ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__**collaborative activities**__ * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">interviews in other languages language
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Skits representing different daily situations. (in modern languages)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discuss current events with other students to gain different perspectives
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create scripts and perform skits using vocabulary words
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">participate in Socratic seminars / fishbowl discussions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">writing peer review
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">carousel discussions
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">silent discussions with passing notes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literature circles
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">appointment discussion
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">cultural celebrations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">organizes, plan, collaborate, perform, and produce culture project
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Participate in group critique of artwork.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Communicate and help each other in studio time.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Creating, designing and playing Old Testament Board Game || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lesson plans / observations ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">using portfolios to assess growth across departments

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**asking departments for:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">participation in various strands serving a general theme: i.e. A Strike/Slip 7.0 Seismic Event is expected for Hayward Fault within 15 years. [1] Video / Graphic arts produce a “Moreau-Safety Brochure” [2] History produces an Earthquake timeline for Hayward Fault, [3] F/L produces “Moreau EQuake Brochure in other languages,[4] Chemistry monitors Radon levels (Plate movement detection evidence in well water) [5] Earth/physical sciences, Mathemtatics study energy produced and estimate destructive capability of a 7.0 event at the Hayward fault || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">survey departments || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ESLRS could be more definitive, less amorphous and generic; generalities might be reigned in,
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__**the use of rubrics for clear expectations**__ * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Projects
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Oral Presentations
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Classwork Assignments
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Essays
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Homework Assignments || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">teacher assignments / teacher web pages ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">student understanding of "spiritual" growth vs. religious growth || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">student interviews ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__**higher order thinking skills**__ * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Story telling in modern language
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Problem solving
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conceptualize projects and Execute them.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use different media to produce artwork.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Derivation of problems
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Group communication and collaboration
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ethical implications of engineering design when designing solutions to social problems.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Problems of “Mismatched expectations” and “Unintended Consequences” || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">lesson plans / assessments ||  || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ESLRs could be more transparent to students

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ESLRS include a strong(er) “ethical/ empirical point of reference for a lifelong learner and graduate of Moreau Catholic High School || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">student interviews ||

Virtual Evidence Link
__**NOTES FROM 1/4/11**__

Reviewing the revised ESLRs:
 * two 1.1's
 * no mention of technology in FORMATION and TRANSFORMATION


 * B2 Focus Question**: Does the professional staff use research-based knowledge about teaching and learning? Does the professional staff design and implement a variety of learning experiences that actively engage students at a high level of learning consistent with the school’s philosophy and mission and expected schoolwide learning results?

Discussion about "spiritual" versus "religious" -- determined that spiritual does not have to be religious (such as the ability to look outside of yourself)


 * Questions for departments to consider:**

To what extent do ...
 * 1) your students connect to the work outside of the assigned academic task?
 * 2) your students identify the moral and ethical implications of the issues raises in your discipline?
 * 3) you implement the school mission and philosophy and ESLRs into your instruction?
 * 4) you assess students' engagement and active participation in the learning process?
 * 5) you use technology, collaborative activities, and community resources in your instruction?
 * 6) you communicate and inform the students of your expectations? -- discussion about how we know that students know what our expectations are
 * 7) you ask your students to engage in higher order thinking skills (critical thinking, problem solving, knowledge, and application)?
 * 8) you use student portfolios to help students recognize their growth?
 * 9) you adapt your lessons to accommodate different learning styles?
 * 10) make the ESLRs transparent for each learning unit / lesson / activity / discussion / etc.?


 * Revised Questions for Google Doc.:**

To what extent do ...
 * 1) your students connect to the work outside of the assigned academic task?
 * 2) your students identify the moral and ethical implications of the issues raises in your discipline?
 * 3) you implement the school mission and philosophy and ESLRs into your instruction and make this transparent for all students?
 * 4) you assess students' engagement and active participation in the learning process?
 * 5) you use technology, collaborative activities, and community resources in your instruction?
 * 6) you communicate and inform the students of your expectations?
 * 7) you ask your students to engage in higher order thinking skills (critical thinking, problem solving, knowledge, and application)?
 * 8) you use student portfolios to help students recognize their growth?
 * 9) you adapt your lessons to accommodate different learning styles?

ACTION PLAN: Questions will be posed to each department in the form of a google doc. asking department members to list specific examples -- evidence. (15 minutes of the next department meeting on 1/13) Google URL: **http://tinyurl.com/mchs-wasc-b**

NEXT MEETING: February 4th -- review results of google doc and plan how to gather evidence from each department

2/04 Survey file :



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 * Notes from 2/4/11**:

-Reminder to think about learning OUTSIDE of the classroom as well as in (speakers, Chinese New Years, Skype, etc.) -Suggestion to go through each area and saturate with information with bullets -Narrative should be written in the point of view of students (students conceive, organize, etc. a project on __) -Bullets describe process -Evidence is the product -Include projects -STEM