CoP Meeting Dates

Edina High School's NUA Community of Practice (CoP) will meet five more times this school year.

Here's the schedule:

October 17, 2007 at 8:30 a.m. in Room 271

November 27, 2007 at 8:00 a.m. in Room 271

February 26, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. in Room 271

March 21, 2008 at 12:00 p.m. in Room 271

April 8, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. in Room 271

NUA EHS CoP Members

At EHS 43 staff members have studied NUA strategies through either a cohort or the Community of Practice. Many others have incorporated NUA strategies learned at staff development days or from teachers on their course-alike teams.

The following staff members make up the 2007-08 Community of Practice:

Elizabeth Barniskis
Chis Dalki
Rob Gardner
Ruth Mary Gens
Jim Hatten
Heidi Howard
Sarah Jarrett
Ann Little
Eric Nelson
Betsy Nimmo
Jackie Roehl
Rachel Tholen
Brian Simpson
Sarah Striffler
KC West
Scott Woebler

EHS Community of Practice Norms

During the first meeting together, the NUA Community of Practice developed the following norms:

Members will respect and affirm each other's ideas.

Members will respect each other's time by attending meetings.

Members will explore the research behind and the implementation process of NUA strategies.

Members will address applications outside the classroom for NUA strategies.

Members will communicate comments and findings at http://www.edinanua.blogspot.com/.

Jackie Roehl's Coaching Action Plan

This school year Edina High School has implemented a part-time Culture, Language & Cognition (CLC) Coach to work with teachers on NUA strategies. During this pilot year, Jackie Roehl will work with staff to sustain NUA through the following activities:

• Showcase NUA strategies in Roehl's World Literature classes so that all interested teachers could observe an NUA strategy at work.
• Co-teach a lesson with interested teachers as a way for those teachers to learn a specific strategy.
• Attend English 10 and American Literature meetings to offer lesson design assistance as requested.
• Meet with other interested teachers to plan lessons and discuss NUA strategies.
• Be available to sub for teachers if they would like to observe another teacher implement an NUA strategy and debrief that observation with the teacher. Alternatively, secure a sub so that Roehl and an interested teacher can observe an NUA lesson together for a more meaningful debrief.
• Facilitate EHS NUA Community of Practice, keeping members connected throughout the year with this blog to share strategy successes and weaknesses and to discuss articles of interest.
• Work with Scott Woebler, the EHS Numeracy Coach, to clarify NUA strategies and develop joint coaching plans.
• Organize the NUA Cohort 4 & 5 calendar.
• Attend Cohort 5 large group meetings and site visits to work with the cohorts and the NUA consultant on a sustainability plan.
• Meet monthly with the Culture, Language and Cognition Committee led by Gwen Jackson to discuss a K-12 NUA sustainability plan.
  Review WMEP Cultural Collaborative Brochure and suggest classes to staff, especially look for Thinking Map Train the Trainer.
  Meet monthly with all K-12 Literacy Coaches.
  Showcase student work and strategies at staff meetings, on an NUA bulletin board, and through this blog.
• Assess NUA strategy use through staff surveys, blog posts, and through tracking observations and other coaching activities.
• Teach Introduction to Thinking Maps at LINKS.
  Hold a Thinking Maps course with Nguyen Dang for teachers K-12.
• Observe St. Louis Park's implementation of NUA strategies in their International Baccalaureate classes and offer suggestions to Edina's Advanced Placement teachers.