Data Meeting 2 Reflection

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Data Meeting 1 Reflection

Preparation for Data Meeting 1

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.During Week 2, Judy and I agreed to hold three Google Hangout meetings per week:

• Preliminary Meetings:  Wednesday, 4:30pm
• Secondary Meetings:     Friday, 4:30pm
• Main/Data Meetings:    Sunday, 2:00pm

Adhering to a consistent meeting schedule that calls for collaboration and check-ins with one another before attending a main event like a data meeting ended up being a real benefit to our team. Judy and I met with one another on Wednesday and Friday to come up with a list of items we would both need to collect beforehand in order to be fully prepared to participate in Data Meeting 1 on Sunday. We agreed to come prepared to share individually collected macrodata (demographic and pre-test scores) as well as individually created notice/wonder statements. 

As the team leader and consolidator for Data Meeting 1, I created a formal Meeting Minutes Google Doc after our secondary meeting. The purpose of the document is to organize agenda topics as well as create a place for taking detailed notes and recording actionable items for completion before the end of the week. Overall, this document proved to be extremely helpful for Judy and I once the meeting was underway. 

Data Meeting 1

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Data Meeting 1 started off with an moderately annoying technology hiccup: neither one of us could get the audio components of our Google Hangout to work. There was some type of speaker/microphone malfunction on both ends; quick troubleshooting via Google Help, etc. did not pan out, so we ended up just using our cell phones on speaker mode to make up for where technology had let us down. 

Once we sorted out this minor communication barrier, Judy presented her collection of macrodata first, formatted in tables, and I reacted to it along the way. Judy pre-tested 51 third graders using a county provided composition assessment that has both a written and performance component. Students were expected to compose and notate a 4-measure melody in 4/4 time with at least three different pitches and rhythmic values. As she spoke, I took notes in our "Meeting Minutes" document as well as chimed in with thoughts, reactions, and questions regularly. We concluded her portion of the meeting by summarizing her available macrodata and notice/wonder statements. This discussion led to the formulation of her exploratory questions set. The review of Judy's information took roughly an hour to complete. 

Next, I presented my collection of macrodata in the same fashion as Judy, sharing my demographic and pre-test tables followed by notice/wonder statements. I pre-tested 34 beginning orchestra students using a county provided scale assessment that is performance based. Students were expected to play a D Major pentatonic scale using their bows. Now, since students are just beginning and have only played for a few weeks, it was to be expected that scores would be low as the class has not yet learned how to master the criterions on the rubric. Judy took notes, etc. while I spoke and helped me as I did her in creating exploratory questions from the notice/wonder statements in the end.

Preparation for Data Meeting 2 and Closing Actionable Items

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Judy and I finished the agenda by looking over the third step in the process--decide who will bring what to Data Meeting 2. 

Judy decided to collect the following teacher and student artifacts as well as data reports:

Lesson plans/activities 

Scanned copies of student pre-tests 

Data comparison charts 

Additional data analysis

Ashley decided to collect the following teacher and student artifacts as well as data reports:

Lesson plans/activities 

Overview of instrumental and vocal/general curriculum as it applies to assessment

Data comparison charts 

Additional data analysis

To bring the meeting to closure, the following actionable items were reviewed and discussed by Judy and I as needing to be completed on or before Tuesday, October 4, 2016:

1. Remove student names from data tables on submitted assignments to keep privacy intact and avoid entanglements with nondisclosure agreement
2. As consolidator, create and submit a Google Slides presentation that serves as our Data Meeting 1 Summary 
• Judy collaborated with me on this deliverable on Monday evening 
3. Complete Exploratory Question assignment
4. Complete Blog Reflection

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To view our finalized Data Meeting 1 Minutes, please click here. 

To view a digital presentation that summarizes Data Meeting 1, please click here.