BHS

• What worked – teaching to new standards this year? The mapping last year helped to clarify what went where -- very good for incoming teachers as well others. Standards helped with scope and sequence. It helped as far as writing daily objectives.

• What didn’t work – teaching to new standards this year? It was difficult to incorporate the Personal Financial Literacy standards. It would have been nice to have time to have more time to do the Backward by Design.

• What might be the areas of overlap between our grade levels (including ones you've heard about from students/other teachers at the MS level)? Core Knowledge totally overlaps with history content at the high schools, and since there is no core knowledge high school, the students will have it again. American History in 8th grade and 11th grade overlap.

• What might be the areas of gap between our grade levels and in our own grade level? We're not 100% sure what the question is asking, but...Civil War/Reconstruction -- might not get to it in middle school and it's not taught in the high school. In American History, shortened version of 1970s to present. State and local government gets shortchanged because Civics is a semester now.

• What are ways you have endeavored to integrate/support the new financial literacy requirements? A little light on the insurance and didn't probably cover identity theft and fraud.

•Technology support- what do you need? (e.g. Doc Cams/iPods @ BHS - Mimeo @ MVHS & BHS) Need Mimeo access. Need someone to get the iPod Touches synched and charged. Additional training for maximizing document cameras (e.g.: how does one record on it?). Training in stuff like Google Docs, databases, etc. AND time to implement in lessons.