Making Meetings Matter – Session Resources

Your Questions, Answered.

Questions from the Session – Answered, hopefully.

What are the games you used for the “Minute to Win It” activities?

Hot Air

• Solo Cups
• Balloons
• Blow the cups off the table with Balloon’s air

 

Face Cookie

• Oreos
• Cookie from forehead to mouth

 

Nose Dive

• Vaseline
• Cotton Balls
• Put vaseline on nose, get cotton ball to stick, and then take it across to another cup and shake it off

 

Separation Anxiety

• 5 clear containers
• M&M’s or Skittles
• Must separate all the colors

 

Candelier

• 15 empty pop cans
• Styrofoam plates
• Must stack one can, then plate, then 2 cans, then plate, etc.

 

Breakfast Scramble

• Empty cereal box fronts, cut into 28 pieces
• Like a puzzle, they must put it together

 

Floatacious

• Empty pop cans
• Bowl of water

 

Back Flip

• 12 pencils
• Progressively catch pencils flipped off the back of your hand, adding 2 each time

 

A Bit Dicey

• Popsicle Sticks
• 6 dice
• Put popsicle stick in mouth and stack 6 dice on stick

 

Speed Eraser

• 6 cups

• 6 pencils

• Must bounce pencil off the eraser and land in the cup

 

Brew-ha-ha

• Tables that are set up to be a ramp
• 4 cups
• 1 crate
• Must arrange cups so that the cups can be rolled like dominoes to get the last cup to fall into the crate

 

Stack Attack

• 36 cups
• Must make a giant pyramid, starting with an 8 cup base

What tool do you use to produce the videos?

All of our videos are created using iMovie on a Mac or iOS device. We shoot the footage using our iPhones and, depending on the complexity of the video, edit it using a MacBook Pro or simply using iMovie on an iPhone/iPad. For the teaser video we showed, it is super simple to make these using Trailer templates in iMovie. Certainly reach out to me (@jeffherb) if you have questions along the way!

What would be a creative touch point when dealing with PLCs and Data Talks?

We recently changed the way we do data discussions with PLCs. When we get updated data from our diagnostic tool (iReady for us) we create a “Data Dig” where we print off (yes, paper) all the charts, graphs, and data sets that a PLC should need to really dig into student growth and progress. We set up stations that contain reports that are either similar or juxtapose data and would hopefully spark discussion. These data digs include data for all content areas and all grade levels, so vertical articulation is possible as well. We (the admin team) doesn’t interfere in their review of the data at all, unless a question is asked. We then setup a “PLC Connect” meeting with their team about a week later to dissect their thinking and create an action plan. It has turned into a “choose your own adventure” of data review and has been quite effective.

Is the PLC Clock something you’d be willing to share?

This is something that we have been working on developing over the last year. Please fill out this quick form so we can get in touch and share the components of the clock with you most effectively.

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