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June 12, 2013, Pastoral Center
 * Diocese of Charlotte Catholic Schools Curriculum Council Meeting Agenda **

9:00 am - 11:00 am

8:45-9:10am Meet and Greet 9:10-9:15am Welcome and Prayer: "In Praise of Learning" 9:15-9:25am Introductions: Name and School (Bios are on the wiki) 9:25-9:40 am Housekeeping: 9:40-10:10am Purpose of the committee: Help guide Curriculum Development and Implementation Articulate a curriculum that is specific to our Catholic schools in the Diocese of Charlotte Develop and guide grade and subject area specific core groups (sub-committees) of teachers to touch on the content at each grade level 10:10-10:50am Current and Upcoming Projects Overview: 10:50-11am Wrap-up
 * Introduction to the Curriculum Council Wiki
 * Calendar dates for future meetings (calendar on the wiki)
 * CEU information
 * Help to review resource material
 * Vertical alignment
 * While we've always been aligned with the state (though we add Catholicity), are there things that we need to add to the standards to ensure a rigorous academic program?
 * Develop Peer Learning Communities within grade and core
 * Maintain an online sharing resource for ideas, classroom resources, maintain updated contact lists
 * Develop a venue for soliciting help and guidance from peers
 * Create a forum for sharing resources (could be a wiki or blog - we can help set this up)
 * Demonstrate the Wiki - show the Projects area and how to use it
 * Summary Curriculum Narratives for Diocesan Website
 * Develop a Summary Narrative for grade level content curriculum for diocesan website
 * Overview and purpose of the project
 * Present examples of what we'd like the narratives to look like: [|Providence Day School]
 * Feedback and suggestions from the Council
 * Set up a time-frame with the Council (first semester of 2013-14?)
 * § September 27th In-Service:
 * Give overview of the September 27th In-service
 * Present the Standards/Curriculum Catholic & Arts example document to review- will review at meeting and have the actual templates done by the September meeting
 * What will the Council be responsible for?
 * K-5: Help with scheduling K-5 teachers to the core meetings
 * Oversight of the grade / core meetings / Uploading resultant documents to the In-service wiki
 * Feedback and suggestions from the Council

Notes: Alejandra shared her Wiki. Patty, Denita, Terri, Carol, Socky; Alejandra volunteered to meet to hash out best way to communicate with peers. Question was raised – can we make teachers look at Wiki; Principals have to encourage teachers to use it. Suggestion – have uniformity of Wiki page so they are easy to navigate. 1. Summary of a curriculum narrative 2. September 27 In-service – every teacher will get together with their group
 * 1) 1. Welcome (Janice)
 * 2) 2. Prayer
 * 3) 3. Introductions: ( Present) Carol London, Karen Grauman, Julie Gehling, Connie Rafferty, Mary Read, Kay Roberts, Trish Wendover, Tammy Eason, Denita Ostsiewski, Linda Dempsey, Patti Dickson, Rhonda Shear, Nancy Farmer, Michael Smith, Judy LaPietra, Patty Fisher, Terri Taylor, Alejandra Ahrensdorf, Ramon Villacura, Socky Davaz, Jacqui Durrett, Janice Ritter, Kathleen Miller (Absent) Jean Spegal, Libby Lerner, Todd Wilson, Betsy DesNoyer, Anna Bragg, Martha Garrett, Alan Hirsh
 * 4) 4. Wiki (Jacqui Durrett) – Please put Bio on Curriculum Council Wiki if you have not already done so. Email Jacqui at jdurrett@charlottediocese.org if you need help with “joining” the Wiki. Everyone will have the ability to add information to the Wiki.
 * 5) 5. Jacqui introduced the Wiki for the Curriculum Council – To navigate the site:
 * Go to homepage. Left-hand side is for the Curriculum Council
 * Go to projects – there are different pages
 * o Bio page – to become member – click on “join” – Jacqui will approve and then you can participate;
 * o Calendar page; minutes/agenda will be posted; task lists also posted;
 * o Projects area – March 28 Technology & Curriculum conference; September 27 Diocesan Catholicism in the Curriculum in-service; Curriculum Summary Narratives
 * 1) 6. CEUs (Janice) Keep track of hours – at the end of the year you will be able to receive CEUs. The CSO will not be able to give credit for every single hour as we cannot give that many CEUs for one activity. Have those who work with you to keep up with their hours.
 * 2) 7. Discussed purpose of the Curriculum Council – helping teachers add our Catholicity into the curriculum; where do we want to add (or remove) objectives from the CC/ES; making this a curriculum that is specific to our Diocese; Develop peer learning groups within each discipline to strengthen instructional practices – create online resources within group through Wiki/Blog to communicate with one another. Jacqui will put the contact list for the diocesan schools up on the wiki – you can sort it by your grade level to make contact with teachers within grade level
 * 3) 8. There is a Wiki that has already been created for World Languages ; Last March 2012 – a Wiki was put up for the Catholic schools; Janice asked the members how to get people to use it. Alejandra sends out reminders; Ramon suggested sending out tasks for people to work on to keep it viable; Is there an external update feature on Wiki – Jacqui going to check on this. Several ideas were shared for communicating updates: Drop box might be more useful to receive update; “ Live Binder” is another source for resources; Perhaps the best idea is to use Wiki and put links to other sites;
 * 1) 9. Projects:
 * 1) 10. Handout given: “Diocese of Charlotte Catholic Schools Curriculum Overview for website” Janice explained that she wants the summary to be written for parents. Have it done before Christmas to be put on Diocesan website. Send to Jeannie Nguyen; jonguyen@charlottediocese.org Her phone number is 704-370-3270. Janice will work with Principals see where expertise of K-5 teachers lies for assigning what area they will work on during September 27 in-service.
 * 2) 11. Handout Given: “Draft of Catholic Social Teaching and the Arts in Essential Standards (2nd Grade Social Studies/Geography)”. Explained that teachers will be developing strategies to include Catholic Social Teaching in the CC/ES. The in-service will provide a starting point to begin generating ideas.
 * 3) 12. Religion curriculum – CSO will check on status of religion curriculum
 * 4) 13. Group decided to meet before September 27 Conference. Next meeting is August 12 at Pastoral Center from 1:00 – 3:00. Lunch TBD

Task List and Responsibility: 1. Durrett will upload the Diocesan Teacher Contact List 2. Durrett will contact Patty Fischer, Terri Taylor, Carol London, Alejandra Ahrensdorf, Ramon Villacura and Denita to get together to decide about a sharing platform 3. Durrett will continue to work on the Projects on this wiki