MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLSMonthly Planning Template

Mary MooneyTara RaymondFebruary 8, 2012

Learning Intention

• We are learning to use a monthly planning template as tool for analyzing the Instructional Guide.

Success Criteria

• We will be able to fill out each section of the planning template and explain how the template can be used with your staff.

Standard Focus

Critical Area of Focus: Timeline:• CCSSM Content Standards: (Summarize in your own

words)

• CCSSM Practice Standards: (Pick 2 standards to focus on for the month)

• By the end of the month my students will be able to:

Digging Deeper Instructional Guide

• Student Misconceptions and Ways to Avoid Them: • Instructional Practice Notes:

• Differentiation– Below Level:

– Above Level:

Planning and Resources

• Textbook• Navigations• Internet Lessons• Other

• Assessments

• Vocabulary

How it’s used

• During Grade Level Meetings• Filled out continuously throughout the month• Begin with standards/pacing guide– Textbook is used a guide to decide what the major

CCSSM is

• Helps to keep grade level teams on the same page

Example 1 1st Grade (orange sheets)

• 1/31– Standard Focus (page 1)• Looked at textbook along with pacing guide

(expressions) to verify standards• Read standards and summarized in their own words• By the end of month…• Chose lessons to be taught for the upcoming week

1st Grade Continued…

• 2/7– Read instructional practice notes for the standard• Discussed anything new or different• Summarized on sheet

– Team discussed differentiation ideas for the upcoming week

– Misconceptions read and summarized– Planned for upcoming week using the additional

resources in the Instructional Guide

Explore

• Work with your grade level team to fill out the monthly guide for March

Summarize

• Share out – What would work for your teachers?– What would you change?– Where any parts of guide difficult to fill out?

Apply

• Use this with at least one grade level/teacher.• Be prepared to talk to your team about how

the process went in 2 weeks.

Learning Intention

• We are learning to use a monthly planning template as tool for analyzing the Instructional Guide.

Success Criteria

• We will be able to fill out each section of the planning template and explain how the template can be used with your staff.

Milwaukee Public SchoolsMonthly Planning Template

MPS Board of School DirectorsDr. Michael Bonds, PresidentLarry Miller, Vice PresidentMark Sain, District 1Jeff Spence, District 2Annie Woodward, District 4Dr. Peter Blewett, District 6David Voeltner, District 7Meagan Holman, District 8Terrence Falk, At-Large

Senior TeamDr. Gregory Thornton, SuperintendentNaomi Gubernick, Chief of StaffDarienne Driver, Chief Innovation OfficerTina Flood, Chief Academic OfficerDr. Karen Jackson, Chief Human Resources OfficerMichelle Nate, Chief Operations OfficerGerald Pace, Esq., Chief Financial OfficerAnita Pietrykowski, Chief School Administration OfficerDenise Callaway, Executive Dir., Community EngagementPatricia Gill, Executive Director, Family Services Sue Saller, Exec. Coord., Superintendent’s Initiatives