Learning in Community - Baseline

Baseline and Ideas


I like reading the comments and posts from colleagues in our DL2 Community, but it is helpful to have another person, Mary, in the same building, too. Many of my closest friends (and my husband) are educators. Almost all my team-teaching experiences have been positive, and I enjoy sharing common planning time with my colleagues (but dislike meetings). Our grade level teachers meet four or five days a year, and that helps keep us connected. Over the years, I have also tried to develop both social and work related groups. For instance, a group of teachers in my current district meet socially the last Tuesday of the month at a local restaurant. We call it our "Treasures" Meeting based on the meetings we used to have when we were piloting the Treasures' reading book series. I have also organized education book discussion groups and staff get togethers and student get togethers in my home.
How can we improve the communication in our DL2 Community?

What are other ways we can increase communication with others?

Smart Goal

My goal is to implement math cooperative groups in my class and create an algebra learning community on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school with the result that I will have ten students complete a pre-algebra self-study course and at least three students complete an online pre-algebra course by the end of the 2010-2011 school year.