An email sent today

"Hi all

Just a reminder that these meetings are on this Wednesday after the staff meeting.

Could I ask that you spend some of the meeting time reworking your plans (if necessary). I would like them back before the end of the term for final approval.

Thanks to those who have already resubmitted.

I would suggest that you revisit the Method in your plan for this week's meeting. Hopefully your ideas have begun to crystalise and you are clearer about what procedures you will use to implement your plan.

I would further suggest that Term 2 should be a time for research, reading, planning, writing surveys, journal writing, and conducting the interviews that were mentioned in a lot of the plans.

I would like all teachers to present a provisional summary of the above research that you have completed by the end of Term 2. The first meeting in Term 3 then should be a short presentation of that provisional research to your team.

Finally, I just want to remind you that it is not up to the leaders of your team to decide on what you will do in the team meeting. They are facilitators and are not there to run professional learning sessions.

Having said that, they are all quite generous with their time and will help people where they can. However, the idea of doing the Professional Learning Plan is so that each teacher can identify what learning / action research they are going to do and how they are going to do it. You should then spend the 12 hours (now 10) of the PL Team meetings and the 15 hours expected of you in the current EA carrying out your PLP as proposed."

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