Meetings+and+Minutes

Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Members Present: Laura Wernicke, Linda Fullhart, Amber Robinson

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 A. Eat outside on nice days as positive incentive (Might need trashcans.)  B. Perfect Attendance Board outside of teacher's door (with class picture posted every 9 weeks)? The children's names in Newsletters to parents?  C. Is the order staying the same?  D. Great!  E. Power of Two or the Power of Dos (because we have dual language)  F. Green team to start at 2:30 again. K Star- Tues/Thurs or M/W/F? KC Club - might do entire grade level service projects, or might meet before school instead of afternoons? Tech or Computer Club? (Kids could be available to help out with basic problem solving with teachers.)  G. Maybe we could separate events from cadres, and everyone signs up for one of each. Action research people could bring information and collaborate in small sized cadres. A smaller cadre would allow for a greater selection of topics that would cover more specialized needs. Just like this year, self selected would make it more enjoyable.  H. Character trait of the month is great. Maybe kids could come show what that trait looks like on announcements (a skit, student work, a short story from the classroom). Daily sharing of a kindness link on announcements (maybe one of the most legitimate examples). Set a goal for amount of links. Occasionally have a Give A Link day where teachers and counselor pass out links in hall as they walk in. Then at the end of the day they could share out as a class. Since the traits we use don't match the posters, the teachers could receive a Wordle or some kind of visual for the trait of the month.  I. Good amount of assemblies. Red Ribbon Kick off assembly with KidStand the Friday before RRW.  J. Good job of this, and the sunshine committee handles it well. We enjoy the off campus, staff only Christmas party. No more than two a semester for potlucks is great, too!  K. We enjoyed when we used to have a social team (the X teams - a multi-disciplinary, team building group). Maybe we could buddy up faculty members (Professional Buddy) if we do a Power of Two theme for the year. (Not gifts, but maybe notes and encouragement throughout the year.) An example would be buddying up all of us without a homeroom class to those with a homeroom class (like old Project Wisdom teams but not necessarily with the weekly lesson).  L. Offer socials to parents that are not dual language parents so all feel included. Maybe one grade level social throughout the year some time? Volunteer Appreciation maybe a different way next year, like in the mornings or starting around 2:00?  M. Train parents/teachers to use the website and calendars more. We could do Green households in addition to Youngest Child so that we send fewer papers home. We could have a day once a month where we update websites together (like Website Wednesday) so that parents will find updated resources there.  N. We are thankful that they don't have us do constant fundraising.  O. We like Wacky Wednesdays and Warm Up Wednesdays! However, maybe we could do Mellow Monday instead of Warm Up Wednesdays? Teachers could do some kind of de-stressing activity or relaxation technique as well as wear sweats. We also like team building activities on Team Tuesdays. Not sure what we could do for Thursday, but that would give us every other day of the week! <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #810081; display: block; font-family: CooperBlackMS; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">P. Difficult to do Career Day in May or January. Maybe in the Fall semester, like Sept or Oct? And maybe Field Day later in the month next year?