Cohort I Fellow: Ryan Hurley Your Coach: Tom Williams This activity log pertains to the following week:

October 24, 2011 Did you have any absences this week? No If Yes please explain (include all types of absences including NELA classes) Classroom Visits Total Number - 21 Formal Evaluation - 0 Observations - 6 Learning Walks 15 Meetings with Teachers Post Eval/Observation 1 Student Discipline - 5 Curricular - 2 With Parent - 1 Other Building Meetings Attended (Check all that apply) PLC - 1 Professional Development School Improvement Staff/Faculty Meeting - 1 Building Administrative Team Maintenance/Safety Curricular Meeting -1 Other List all district-level meetings you attended this week I attended a meeting to introduce TeachScape, an online classroom walkthrough data collection and disaggregation software. All administrators in Warren County will begin using the survey developed by all principals until December. At that time principals should present suggested changes to the survey. List all community contacts and meetings you made this week.

This week I met with Deborah Ferrucio and local community college teacher and longtime community organizer. I met with Mrs. Ferrucio to talk about Warren Countys past, present, and future. I wanted to hear her vision for WCs future, and what role she sees the local school system playing in her vision. Parental contacts made this week Return Call Student Discipline -1 Acknowledgement - 1 Other Please list any other activities engaged in this week that were not acknowledged above. I met with the 2/3 of the third grade team during their planning on Wednesday to discuss the NELA problem of practice assignment. These teachers have been brainstorming possible interventions for students who struggle in math, and on Monday, coach from DPI presented a plan for teachers to track students and provide remediation. So, this was an ideal time to meet. I informed the team that through this project my intention is simply to help all of us find a creative, effective way to track our students, so as to identify those who are struggling, and to implement in-school interventions. The meeting went well, but was very quick and I didnt accomplish all that I would have liked. Still, my next step is to obtain the materials showcased by Dr. Harvey from DPI, specifically intervention calendars. At this point the third grade team would like to follow a set schedule for interventions. I also met with three teachers on Wednesday afternoon to walk through how to use the Mimio (interactive whiteboard) and find ready-to-use materials online. They were very excited. However, two of the three teachers have the devices but do not have the necessary whiteboards on which to mount the Mimio device. I have already emailed the person in charge of the Golden Leaf grant at the central office and was essentially told that we are still in a holding pattern. This is frustrating because our school could simply purchase the whiteboards if we just had the go ahead. Please list any concerns you have: Last weekend I spent a great deal of time creating looking at the calendar in an effort to plan out some evaluations. This activity left me with a much more comfortable sense of what my week was going to look like. Reflecting back on the week, it didnt exactly go as planned, but I felt as though I had a much greater sense of control over the events that took place, even those that happened to be unforeseen.