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Minutes of the second meeting of the Professional Learning Team June 5th 2007**

1. **Minutes** The minutes of last session were distributed by Margaret Bendall, TEAM Solutions, along with Learn2Inquire folders, kindly organised by Alison Davis. The sections of the folders to be established were:

Ø Minutes Ø Notes from Literacy Team Reports Ø Notes for a shared vision Ø NIRC Sheets (Notes/Implications/Reflections/Commitments) Ø Readings

It was noted that minutes would be sent out electronically in future.

2. **Restatement of purpose and way of working** (for the Professional Learning and Literacy Teams). Following a request from participants in feedback from last time, Alison Davis, Lynfield College, provided a diagrammatic overview of the project and spoke to this overview. It was noted that the nature of an EHSAS project was exploratory and outcomes could not be predicted in detail at the outset –sharing of knowledge and experience among the participating schools would result in new understandings, some of which were unpredictable.

3. **Report from the Literacy Team #1.**

An overview of work at the first Literacy Team Session on Thursday 10 May was presented by Jennifer Glenn, TEAM Solutions. A key theme was the connections between the language of literacy and language related to teaching and learning/pedagogy, thinking, and assessment.

4. **Language Exercise** The PLT worked through an example of this language connectedness by exploring the language used in the participating schools related to **//Learning Intentions.//** This could be classified as a term related to __pedagogy__, because it reflects theories such as Vygotsky’s view that learning is social and therefore there is value in shared language that allows learners and teachers to talk together about their work. But the term is also used in __literacy__, and in __assessment__.

The many different kinds of language used by schools to describe //learning intentions// (such as WALT, WILF, standards, assessment criteria, learning objectives, goals, SLO’s were all terms used in other dimensions of teaching and learning, like thinking or assessment.

It was generally agreed that all participating schools could agree to use the term **Learning Intentions**, even if they appended to it their own preferred terminology.

However, the point was made that before we commit to this, we need a clear and well-understood definition of the term (for example, some teachers will use the term to describe what is really a learning activity (ie what students will do, not what they will learn).

5. **NIRC Sheet** Participants began to fill in the NIRC Sheet and undertook to complete these for the next meeting.

At the end of the term, the Literacy Team would report on progress so far to the principals of participating schools.
 * 6.** **Overview of next meetings**

Next term, the PLT meetings will be held at the same time and the same place, followed as usual by the Literacy Team meetings on:

30th August**
 * 25th July (this is different from the date first proposed so**
 * please note change.)

and the report to the principals on progress will be on
 * 13th September**


 * 7.** **Undertakings for next meeting:**

· All PLT members will be ready to share their NIRC sheets with the group. · Folders will be brought to every meeting (these minutes to be filed for acceptance as a good record) We will work on a shared definition of Learning Intention, for use in all participating schools.


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July 25 2007**
 * Minutes of the third Meeting of the Learn2 Inquire Professional Learning Team

Apologies : Margaret Bendall, Delanee Dale Changes to team : Victoria from BHB Primary has been replaced by Amelia – welcome Amelia

1. Welcome – to Amelia, and to Robyn King from Team Solutions who will lead the Literacy Team with Jenny Glenn. Robyn will also be providing Professional Development sessions regularly at Lynfield College.

NIRC sheets – sharing. PLT members shared their reflections with others at their table using the Circle Of Voices format (introduced by Jenny). Each school spoke of one activity that has been undertaken within Learn2Inquire so far.

2. Literacy Team presentation – David White (BBI), and Raneeta Prasad and Esther Buetow (Lynfield) repeated the presentations they gave to the principals Team at the end of term 2.
 * 3.** Learning Intentions – the planned work on this was deferred due to Margaret’s absence.
 * 4.** Learn2Inquire wikispace. Alison Davis showed the PLT members the wikispace website as it has been developed so far. Each member has received an invite to join the space and each member has editing right. Can each school go to their page under Cluster Projects and enter information under the headings. The project log should be updated each month so a record of what is being done and achieved by the cluster is maintained. The wikispace is public for viewing but only PLT members can enter/edit material.

The website address is http://learn2inquire.wikispaces.com

5. Each of the cluster schools presented on an allocated “thinking model”. Meeting concluded at 10.30am Next meeting scheduled for 30 August 8am.
 * Literacy Team** **–** workshop led by **Jennifer Glenn**

[| Minutes August 30 2007.doc]