The Portfolio Group

In attendance: Cheryl, Ron, Donna, Gayle and Michaelann

It was a great time reconnecting. Michaelann distributed copies of the traveling journals from last year and copies of the color portfolio from year two.

First we shared what we had already reflected on in our journals.

School Leadership, Michaelann shared about the question what is leadership and what is power? In addition to if not me, then who?

Students First, Ron shared one of his questions. Is no child left behind the same as students first?

Reflective Practice, Cheryl shared about her own learning and what expectations or control come from funding.

Community, Donna shared how an article she read about pastoral visits has impacted her vision of working with coaches in schools.

Gayle shared about her school year and busy schedule.

The group decided to continue journaling and each person chose a journal from last year to read and start looking for critical incidents and/or common threads.

Journal Tracker
Community - Donna - Cheryl
Reflective Practice - Cheryl - Michaelann
School Leadership - Michaelann - Ron
Students First - Ron - Donna

Our next meeting is October 30, 2007 at 4:00pm at Gayle's school.

Carl Glickman will present his lecture and has requested a panel of professors to do a tuning protocol on it. The lecture and tuning will take place at the AATC conference. The following is the proposed protocol that will be used.

Critical Colleague session with moderator and panel
After the Glickman AATC talk
(Suggested guidelines)

Moderator introduces the format (focus on content of presentation)
Section one (15 minutes)
Glickman answers questions to gather further background information only, he then removes himself from the group to listen and take notes.

Section Two (30 to 45 minutes): Moderator asks each panelist to respond to each question and holding each person to 2 to 3 minutes per response
As you followed the presentation, what were the central ideas found in the presentation by Glickman?
What would improve this presentation; additions, revisions, deletions, transitions?
What further application of the ideas, could have been made to your own professional and personal work?

Last 10 to 15 minutes of this section, comments from the floor

Section three (15 to 20 minutes): Moderator has panel synthesize and make three to five recommendations as to how to improve the presentation in the future.
In addition, each person in attendance is asked to write at least one statement as to how Glickman could improve the presentation

Section 4 (10 minutes) Moderator asks for any lingering thoughts about the process itself and what was learned and ensures that all written comments are collected.

Section 5 if time allows, Glickman concludes

This is very interesting in that it does not use specific CFG lingo, but the essence is there.