1-14-13

1-14-13 ~ Meeting Summary

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 * Process: **

Everyone presented his/her prompt and the student work product. The questions addressed in the email were addressed. Comments and questions were posed and recorded as presentations were made. General concerns remain about the scope, nature, and purpose of the initiative and those were expressed in some detail.


 * Questions: **

Is the purpose of this initiative to set a designated amount of student writing building wide?

In foreign language classes is the expectation that student writing will be in English or in the language being taught?

Can the writing assignment include picture and writing?

Should there always or usually be a time limit to the writing assignment?

Should the student writing always be in complete sentences?

Is it essential to have the students skip a line?

Will all teachers eventually be required to correct grammar?

Is there a specific range of writing prompts that we are trying to reach each week, month, semester?

Why isn’t the writing done on in class assessments sufficient?

Is it appropriate to engage students in writing prompts in all classes due to time constraints and the lack of writing space etc?

Why not administer the writing prompts during Advisory?

Should we have school –wide writing prompts?

As far as the overall initiative is concerned have we established any baseline data – about the frequency of writing and type of writing that are students already engage in? How will we measure improvement? Do we have specific improvement goals that have been shared with the faculty?