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1. Welcome Back, Scott! 2 Curriculum Mapping (Here we go again) Update for ISACS 3. Philosophy Statement (here we go again, again!) 4. Placement of Students in West Civ Honors, AP US 5. Summer Reading for Seniors 6. Moodle Calendar 7. First quarter grades 8. NEXT CARP Meeting: Monday, November 14th 9. Next Department Meeting: Monday, November 28th.
 * We will be switching over to Rubicon
 * 21st century education language/tone
 * Freshmen teachers' duties
 * Sophomore teachers' duties
 * Packet rather than a single book?
 * training will be available
 * expectations regarding how much we'll have to enter into the calendar
 * avoid grade inflation 'creep'

Minutes: Welcome back Scott We should in the future speak to students about responsibilities re a long term sub (Steve).

__**Summer Reading:**__ JS and others have suggested a packet of readings in place of a book. Be thinking about this during the spring especially Steve suggests finding something very readable. As a matter of course a quiz could be given. What is the purpose of just having a quiz- why have them read at all? Some books work better than others. Discussion on reasoning for the summer reading. Trying to encourage kids to read and find it meaningful. What should students get from the reading?

Seems to be about perception rather than empowering helicopter parenting.
 * __Moodle Calendar__**: There will be clear parameters about how much should be up.


 * __First Quarter Grade:__** Avoid creep

last year freshmen had a test, it was a formality for next year, freshman teachers should come up with a means needs to be some objective standard that we will have a record of it We need to have something to hand to a parent and say why they are/not recommended for honors west civ
 * __Placement:__**

Bighead.

Can we get time to familiarize with the software?
 * __Curriculum mapping__**

bridged into technology: can we get the kids trained in advance?
 * __CARP__**

Need to be integrated into philosophy statement. I need to get Ben some bullet points for presentation tomorrow night.
 * __Handouts on 21st Century Learning__**

We need more robots.