Weekly Log for Noriko Nakada, Literacy Coach, Webster Middle School April 16 – May 11, 2007
Monday Aug. 28 / Tuesday Aug. 29 / Wednesday Aug. 30 / Thursday Aug. 31 / Friday Sept. 1notes / Buy back day #1 / Buy back day #2 / Buy back day #3 / Pupil Free Day
PERIOD 1 / School-wide PD / School-wide PD / School-wide PD / School-wide PD
PERIOD 2 / School-wide PD / Everyday Literacy workshop / School-wide PD / School-wide PD
PERIOD 3 / School-wide PD / Everyday Literacy workshop / English Department meeting / School-wide PD
PERIOD 4 / School-wide PD / School-wide PD / English Department meeting / Work in classrooms
PERIOD 5 / School-wide PD / Best Practices and Literacy in PE / Work in classrooms / Work in classrooms
PERIOD 6 / School-wide PD / Best Practices and Literacy in PE / Work in classrooms / Work in classrooms
after school
Monday Sept. 4 / Tuesday Sept. 5 / Wednesday Sept. 6 / Thursday Sept. 7 / Friday Sept. 8
notes / Labor Day / First day of school
PERIOD 1 / First day supervision / ELA interest form / Coach calendar / Witham lesson: What I love
PERIOD 2 / Classroom visits: English Department / ELA interest form / SPA prep / Kantor lesson: What I love
PERIOD 3 / webpage / History interest form / Collaborate with Sung: math 4 ways / Interest form organizing
PERIOD 4 / On-site coach meeting / Collaborate with Witham / SPA prep / Roald Dahl Day prep
PERIOD 5 / On-site coach meeting / Collaborate with Goldberg / Lesson Prep for What I Love / Roald Dahl Day prep
PERIOD 6 / Seventh grade IFL notices, intro letter / Complete and distribute interest forms / Lesson Prep for What I Love / Roald Dahl Day prep
after school / Faculty meeting / CLT meeting
Monday Sept. 11 / Tuesday Sept. 12 / Wednesday Sept. 13 / Thursday Sept. 14 / Friday Sept. 15
notes
PERIOD 1 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Mandl: Step Up and the writing process / Partner Journal Guidelines / Wallace meeting
PERIOD 2 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Mandl: Step Up and the writing process / Goldberg: Cornell Notes on Cave Art / Read 180 inventory and training
PERIOD 3 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Mandl: Step Up and the writing process / Period meetings from interest forms / Read 180 inventory and training
PERIOD 4 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Roald Dahl Day! in the library / Period meetings from interest forms / Lead teacher expectations
PERIOD 5 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Mandl: Step Up and the writing process / Period meetings from interest forms / Lead teacher expectations
PERIOD 6 / ELA Concept lesson training / ELA Concept lesson training / Mandl: Step Up and the writing process / Period meetings from interest forms / ELA log
after school / Coach meeting for PD, Faculty meeting / Genre meeting / Poetry slam meeting
Monday Sept. 18 / Tuesday Sept. 19 / Wednesday Sept. 20 / Thursday Sept. 21 / Friday Sept. 22
PERIOD 1 / Winberry: Cornell Notes on Plot / ECR Training at USC / Cox: Cornell Notes on Elements of Plot / Collaborated with Wolverton / Gearin: Cornell Notes jigsaw
PERIOD 2 / Collins: Cornell Notes / ECR Training at USC / Cox: Cornell Notes on Elements of Plot / Collaborated with Miller / MacDonald: Cornell Notes: Cell
PERIOD 3 / Collins: Cornell Notes / ECR Training at USC / ELA/ELL department meeting notes / Webster webpage / MacDonald: Cornell Notes: Cell
PERIOD 4 / Winberry: Cornell Notes on Plot / ECR Training at USC / ELA/ELL department meeting notes / Webster webpage / MacDonald: Cornell Notes: Cell
PERIOD 5 / ELA agenda / 6th ELA meeting / Weekly log notes / Witham: writing a new article / MacDonald: Cornell Notes: Cell
PERIOD 6 / ELA agenda / 6th ELA meeting / Webster webpage / Webster webpage / MacDonald: Cell
after school / ELA/ELL meeting
Faculty meeting / CLT meeting
Monday Sept. 25 / Tuesday Sept. 26 / Wednesday Sept. 27 / Thursday Sept. 28 / Friday Sept. 29
notes / Prep for ELL mtg
PERIOD 1 / Read 180 training / Collaborate with Kantor / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 2 / Read 180 training / Kantor: Cornell Notes-Elements of Plot / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 3 / Read 180 training / Kantor: Cornell Notes-Elements of Plot / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 4 / Read 180 training / Kantor: observation / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 5 / Read 180 training / Daniels: Cornell Notes: / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 6 / Read 180 training / Daniels: Elements of Plot / Coach meeting / ESL Dept: Bridge to ELA / Read 180 prep
after school / PD: Writing Across the Curriculum / Prep for ELL mtg
Monday Oct. 2 / Tuesday Oct. 3 / Wednesday Oct. 4 / Thursday Oct. 5 / Friday Oct. 6
notes / No School / Language Arts Cadre
PERIOD 1 / No School / Nelson: Cornell Notes, Diego Rivera / Read 180 prep / Language Arts Cadre / Cusak: Boston Massacre
PERIOD 2 / No School / Collaborate with Nelson / Read 180 prep / Language Arts Cadre / Cusak: Boston Massacre
PERIOD 3 / No School / Nelson: Cornell Notes, Diego Rivera / Content Lead notes and planning / Language Arts Cadre / Collaborate with Cusak
PERIOD 4 / No School / Nelson: Cornell Notes, Diego Rivera / Content Lead notes and planning / Language Arts Cadre / Cusak: Boston Massacre
PERIOD 5 / No School / Nelson: Cornell Notes, Diego Rivera / Mandl: Elements of Plot / Language Arts Cadre / Cusak: Boston Massacre
PERIOD 6 / No School / Nelson: Cornell Notes, Diego Rivera / Mandl: Elements of Plot / Language Arts Cadre / Cusak: Boston Massacre
after school / ELA/ELL dept. meeting/ Faculty / CLT meeting
Monday Oct. 9 / Tuesday Oct. 10 / Wednesday Oct. 11 / Thursday Oct. 12 / Friday Oct. 13
notes
PERIOD 1 / Huffman: Cornell
notes: current event / SPA prep / Alvarez: writing process narratives / Planning: Daniels / Website updates
PERIOD 2 / Huffman: reflective conversation / SPA prep / Alvarez: writing process narratives / Read 180 prep / Website updates
PERIOD 3 / Huffman: Cornell
notes: current event / SPA prep / Alvarez reflective conversation / Read 180 prep / Coaching calendar
PERIOD 4 / Huffman: Cornell
notes: observation / Content lead prep/meeting / Website update / Read 180 prep / Content lead/ELA reminders
PERIOD 5 / Huffman: Cornell
notes: current event / Content lead clean-up / Alvarez: writing process narratives / Planning: Winberry / Log/coaching summary
PERIOD 6 / Huffman: Cornell
notes: observation / SPA prep / Alvarez: writing process narratives / Read 180 prep / Website updates
after school
Monday Oct. 16 / Tuesday Oct. 17 / Wednesday Oct. 18 / Thursday Oct. 19 / Friday Oct. 20
notes
PERIOD 1 / Prep for Moore / Prep for content lead meeting / SPA distrubution / Drayer: writing process / Moore: reading in science
PERIOD 2 / Prep for Moore / Prep for content lead meeting / SPA distrubution / Drayer: writing process
PERIOD 3 / Prep for Lisker / Lisker: Writing summaries / “Honeybees” / Drayer: reflective conversation / Moore: reading in science
PERIOD 4 / Prep for Lisker / Lisker: Writing summaries / ELA note / Drayer: writing process / Moore: reading in science
PERIOD 5 / Content Lead agenda / Sixth grade ELA meeting / Prep for Moore / Drayer: writing process / Moore: reading in science
PERIOD 6 / ELA agenda / Sixth grade ELA meeting / Prep for Moore / Drayer: writing process / Moore: reading in science
after school / ELA/ELL dept. meeting/ Faculty
Monday Oct. 23 / Tuesday Oct. 24 / Wednesday Oct. 25 / Thursday Oct. 26 / Friday Oct. 27
notes
PERIOD 1 / Prep for Mac / 7th grade concept lessons all day / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / Content Lead Notes
PERIOD 2 / MacDonald
cell poem / 7th grade concept lessons / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / Content Lead description
PERIOD 3 / MacDonald
cell poem / 7th grade concept lessons / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / Read 180 prep
PERIOD 4 / MacDonald
cell poem / 7th grade concept lessons / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / Content Lead Conference
PERIOD 5 / MacDonald
cell poem / 7th grade concept lessons / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / Printer repair
PERIOD 6 / MacDonald
cell poem / 7th grade concept lessons / Coach meeting / Content Lead Conference / SPA collection
after school
Monday Oct. 30 / Tuesday Oct. 31 / Wednesday Nov. 1 / Thursday Nov. 2 / Friday Nov. 3
PERIOD 1 / Prep for Department meeting / Prep for Department meeting / Writing a narrative / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Princeton Review prep
PERIOD 2 / SPA collection / Agendas/handouts for meeting / Winberry: revising narratives / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Anthology
PERIOD 3 / Copy and distribute November calendar / iSearch / Winberry: revising narratives / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Gathering student work
PERIOD 4 / IPS stull meeting with Bauer / Princeton Review site / Winberry: revising narratives / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Gathering student work
PERIOD 5 / iSearch planning with Bedbrook / SPA update / Prep for Content Lead meeting / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Alphasmart prep for Monday
PERIOD 6 / iSearch planning with Bedbrook / Step-Up to Writing Prep / Prep for cadre / Language Arts Cadre Meeting / Calendar/logs
after school / ELA/ELL department meeting
Monday Nov. 6 / Tuesday Nov. 7 / Wednesday Nov. 8 / Thursday Nov. 9 / Friday Nov. 10
PERIOD 1 / Strong: Alphasmarts / SPA collection / Paul Revere visit / Huffman: Compare Contrast Poems / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 2 / Content lead agenda / SPA collection / Paul Revere visit / Knerr: Compare Contrast Poems / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 3 / Strong: Alphasmarts / SPA collection / Paul Revere visit / Knerr: Compare Contrast Poems / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 4 / Strong: Alphasmarts / Prep for content lead meeting / Paul Revere visit / Meeting with interim administrator / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 5 / Content lead prep / Content Lead notes / Prep for Huffman / Princeton Review / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 6 / Spa data analysis / Lesson for Winberry / Prep for Knerr / SPA / Veteran’s Day
after school / SLC and CLT meetings
Monday Nov. 13 / Tuesday Nov. 14 / Wednesday Nov. 15 / Thursday Nov. 16 / Friday Nov. 17
PERIOD 1 / Goldberg: Alphasmarts / Cusak: Supporting claims with evidence / Book Fair / Arzanipour: Alphasmarts / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 2 / Content lead agenda / Cusak: Supporting claims with evidence / Book Fair / Collect narratives / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 3 / Goldberg: Alphasmarts / Cusak: Supporting claims with evidence / Witham: Step-Up to Writing / Arzanipour: Alphasmarts / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 4 / Strong: Alphasmarts / Cusak: Supporting claims with evidence / Book Fair / Collect narratives / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 5 / Content lead prep / Content Lead notes / Prep for Huffman / ELA notes / Veteran’s Day
PERIOD 6 / ELA Spa data analysis sheets / Cusak: Supporting claims with evidence / Witham: Step-Up to Writing / ELA notes / Veteran’s Day
after school / ELA/ELL meeting
Monday Nov. 20 / Tuesday Nov. 21 / Wednesday Nov. 22 / Thursday Nov. 23 / Friday Nov. 24
PERIOD 1 / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
PERIOD 2 / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
PERIOD 3 / Gearin: Writing thesis with support / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
PERIOD 4 / Mac Lab set up / Content Leadprep / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
PERIOD 5 / Mac Lab set up / Content Lead notes / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
PERIOD 6 / Content Lead prep / Mac Lab set up / Mac Lab Open House / Thanksgiving Break / Thanksgiving Break
after school
Monday Nov. 27 / Tuesday Nov. 28 / Wednesday Nov. 29 / Thursday Nov. 30 / Friday Dec. 1
PERIOD 1 / Cox: Step-Up to Writing / Prep for Nelson / Coach Meeting / Arzanipour: Step-Up to Writing / Winberry: Mac Lab research
PERIOD 2 / Cox: Step-Up to Writing / Nelson: Diego Rivera / Coach Meeting / Daniels: Step-Up to Writing / Strong: Mac Lab research
PERIOD 3 / Content Lead Prep / Nelson: Diego Rivera / Coach Meeting / Arzanipour: Step-Up to Writing / Strong: Mac Lab research
PERIOD 4 / ELA/ELL prep / Content lead prep / Coach Meeting / Step-Up prep / Meeting with Wallace
PERIOD 5 / Highlighter order / Department prep / Coach Meeting / Daniels: Step-Up to Writing / Prep for Ms. Mac
PERIOD 6 / Highlighter order / Department prep / Coach Meeting / Daniels: Step-Up to Writing / Prep for Ms. Mac
after school / ELA/ELL meeting
Monday Dec. 4 / Tuesday Dec. 5 / Wednesday Dec. 6 / Thursday Dec. 7 / Friday Dec. 8
PERIOD 1 / Strong: Step-Up / Narrative anthology / Macris: Step-Up to Writing / Language Arts Cadre / Narrative anthology
PERIOD 2 / Winberry: Step-Up / Narrative anthology / Narrative anthology / Language Arts Cadre / Narrative anthology
PERIOD 3 / Strong: Step-Up / Mandl: research topic / Macris: Step-Up to Writing / Language Arts Cadre / Narrative anthology
PERIOD 4 / MacDonald: genetics / MacDonald: Mac Lab / Narrative anthology / Language Arts Cadre / MacDonald: test on genetics
PERIOD 5 / MacDonald: genetics / MacDonald: Mac Lab / Narrative anthology / Language Arts Cadre / MacDonald: test on genetics
PERIOD 6 / MacDonald: genetics / MacDonald: Mac Lab / Narrative anthology / Language Arts Cadre / MacDonald: test on genetics
after school / ELA/ELL meeting / Meeting with Wallace
Monday Dec. 11 / Tuesday Dec. 12 / Wednesday Dec. 13 / Thursday Dec. 14 / Friday Dec. 15
PERIOD 1 / Narrative anthology / Coaches Open House / Macris: Polar Express / Witham: haiku workshop / Witham: haiku workshop