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 * __ Minutes of the Meeting: 02/27/09 __**

**__21st Century Meeting Notes__** //February 27th, 2009// Poornima introduced the 21st Century Guiding Team to the wiki space on the Hawthorne website. We watched a short video to help us better understand what a wiki is and how it works. We discussed how we could use the wiki to have Hawthorne staff discussions in the future. A suggestion was made to post our thoughts on how we used 21st Century Skills with our Dr. Seuss lessons this week and how we thought our lessons went. __**21st Century Meeting Notes**__ //March 6th, 2009// Kristin Skolgstad discussed how we can use higher order thinking skills for our ELL students. She will be doing an activity with staff at our meeting today. The activity is about Goldilocks and how to use higher level questioning. The guiding team also discussed how we can use the wiki to share ideas on integrating 21st Century Skills into our lessons. There are 2 posts by Cheryl that staff can log on and add to the discussion. Poornima will be sharing with staff at the meeting how to create an account and add to discussion questions or start discussion questions of their own. The posts that Cheryl has written are an introduction of staff and a Read Across America discussion.

We also looked through the Ruby Payne Learning Structures book and started brainstorming how the activities from Ruby Payne relate to 21st Century Skills. We are working on creating a Ruby Payne link where you can get more information.

__**21st Century Meeting Notes**__ //March 13th, 2009// Today the guiding team reviewed the 21st Century Skills Wiki and discussed what updates we could make. We are working on adding hyperlinks to each of the skills where teachers can find "I Can" statements and examples of work the students can do to be using 21st Century Skills. We are going to be adding a graphic of the 21st Century wheel to the Hawthorne wiki page. We also talked about how the discussions on Dr. Seuss / 21st century skills lessons and staff introductions are going.

//March 20th, 2009// We met and observed Jessica's video of Word Dangle and discussed its potential for further addition to support our engaged learning goals. The group listed the various Ruby Payne Strategies for each grade level. Poornima will be video taping the strategies in each classrooms. We presented the 21st century I can goals. This is a brainstormed list of things the team had in mind that would be great to include:Kindergarten- ice cream cone ; calendar 1st grade- folders2nd grade- paragraphs3rd grade- organizer4th grade- problem-solving5th grade- CGI; generosity club
 * __21st Century Meeting Notes__**

**__21st Century Meeting Notes__** //March 27th, 2009 This week we discussed twittering, using a list of acronyms for twitter so that staff can communicate more, and determined in the 4 remaining sessions we will continue to support and strengthen 21st century skills while promoting videotape of 21st century lesson ideas and strategies in the classrooms.//