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ELA Department Heads Meeting
August 5, 2008
JPSO
8:30am-3:30pm
Jennifer McCormick
Sandy Landry
Freddy Waguespack, Jr.
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Protocols
• Place all cell phones on VIBRATE.
• Time is of the essence.
• Comments should be supportive,
positive, and offer a resolution.
• No side-bar conversations, please.
• Let’s move forward to increase
student achievement!
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Agenda
• Housekeeping
• Library Resources
Meg Griffon, Library Media Consultant
Bonnie Cambre, Library Media Specialist
Elaine Chauvin, Library Media Specialist
• Lunch courtesy of HOLT
Thanks, Michael! 
• Textbook Overview –Holt Elements of
Language
• Afternoon Delight- Wrap Up
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New ISGs
(Instructional Sequence Guides)
• Formatted to easily see correlations
between Reading and Writing
instruction
• Nonfiction BEFORE Fiction change
• Holt Elements of Literature and
Elements of Language page numbers
added
• Interval Assessment dates, genres and
GLEs are located at the bottom of each
ISG
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Interval Assessments
• Schedule with genres added
• Change in amount of time
allotted to upload
constructed response/essay
scores
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Read 180/System 44
• Read 180- Struggling Readers
• System 44- Non-Readers
• August Technology Inservice
Read 180 Session on the 12th @
10:35
• Training Dates August 10th - Read 180 & August 13 - System 44
• Middle School Location- Gretna Middle
• High School Location- Ehret High
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Textbooks
• Holt Elements of Language texts
• Our new workbookThink as a Writer:
Interactive Writing WorkText/
Think as a Writer:
Interactive Grammar WorkText
• High Schools- Elective texts
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Blackboard & GroupWise
• Our MAIN source of
communication will continue to
be Blackboard & GroupWise.
Please check both regularly.
• Fill out Teacher Excel Sheet
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Disseminating
Information
• Procedures
• Ideas?
– Procedure for checking out
department head meeting
binder
– Meeting with departments
during collaboration planning,
etc.
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Afternoon DelightWrap Up
• Questions, Concerns,
Comments??
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Honors Summer Reading
• Summer Reading will NO LONGER
BE PUNITIVE
• Bonus points will be awarded to
students that can be used to
replace students’ lowest test
grade at the end of the first
grading period.
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GNOCTE
(Greater New Orleans Council of Teachers of
English)
• Membership Forms
• Annual Meeting
JRC
Jefferson Reading Council
•Membership Forms
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Department Head
Meeting Schedule
• Volunteers to host meetings?
• Dates TBA- will post to
Blackboard this week
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Enjoy your first days of school!
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As Always, We’re Here To Help…
• Jennifer McCormick
349-7824
[email protected]
• Sandy Landry
349-7821
[email protected]
• Freddy Waguespack, Jr.
349-7822
[email protected]
• Melissa Dilworth
349-7884
[email protected]
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