Notes+9.30.08

1. Check-in (5 min) 2. Decide on notetaker (2 min) Chris will take notes. 3. Sandy Thomas and Becki Schreiber proposal regarding school-wide program on nutrition (15 min) Becky and Sandy got together over the summer to put together a new program based on the movie "Supersize Me"

They passed out two handouts: 1) Super Size Me Assembly and Advisory Activity

2) Super Size Me Discussion Questions for Advisor groups

Make t-shirts, students will earn them; students "caught" wearing one will win something Have advisory competitions (for example who wals the most w/ a pedometer) Spirit Week: class w/ "ychews" shirt wins points for that day. Looking at November 6th for a school-wide assembly. Becky: One statistic that speaks to her is that our children are expected to have shorter life spans. How are you being marketed to? So ychews? Why are you choosing the foods that you choose?

Deb: should the discussion follow the movie? Sandy: yes, so it will affect later periods Lorrie: do you have a grant for the t-shirts to get started? Lorrie: your focus on stuff other than the food (marketing, etc) is a great idea.

Ted: what is thinking behind discussion in advisory and then joining another advisory?

Sandy: to get some different opinions...that could be another day where you join a larger group. Lorrie: Will we miss out because of the long weekend? Ted/Sandy: Quarter is closed and the following week will be conferences....we could wait another week but then we get closer to Thanksgiving but it could be done later. Ted: How we could get students to be "co-presenters" in this? (so its not just coming from the adults) Deb: Only hesitation is the second meeting w/ another advisor group Ted: A question might be what has happened to fastfood restaurants as a result of this movie? Ted: Final conclusion here: 1) lets look at dates for this 2) Take it to student senate/SNAC group for facilitation/help to develop the program?

4. Review notes from last meeting (5 min) Chris reviewed notes 5. Items from the staff for leadership (15 min) Melissa: Rick D thought the club fair was a good thing, but did not feel that scheduling club fair during period 3 was a good use of time. During lunch, after school, extended advisor time? Ted: we still need to do the math on this; we still have way more instructional time w/ that period......55 extra minutes/week. So you could have a 1 hour assembly every week! Maybe we need to remind people of the extra time? Melissa: it is different for him w/ band/chorus...trying to do two classes in one Amy: Maybe he could make it so it is not grade specific time.......send them all in the first 20 minutes for example, instead of split up? Amy: The club fair really went well. Lorrie: Open House; remind teachers who teach mixed classes Period 3 that they have to do their presentation two times...some people missed the period 3 presentation Todd: Several people asked to have Open House on a Thursday night instead of Wednesday Ted: Hard to find w/out a school committe meeting on that Thursday night. Deborah: A little frustration w/ attendance and slowness of network.....also PowerTeacher itself....gitches that people are irritated with. Suzanne: Alice will hand out ethernet cords to plug in to the wall. Ted: we need more bandwidth. need more space for data transmission! Mandy: Freshmen team wants to revisit the CEP days. Would it be possible to move one of the field trips to those three days and restructure freshmen activities around that field trip. Todd: Freshmen advisors would be chaperones for that trip. Ted: That would be fine. Senior picnic is following Monday so no conflict there. Chris: Julie Raines brought a concern w/ a heads up for fire drills. If in the middle of a period where there is a test/lab it can be quite disruptive. Ted: It won't be a fire drill if we let teachers know!

6. Next steps with the school culture analysis information (30 min) We split up into two groups to pull out some common themes Ted's group: --Teacher recognition is a big one...we need to create a culture of recognition not only from Ted but form other teachers as well. Amy's group: --Also saw some recognition/morale themes --Contnue w/ observations of teachers.maybe we need to find ut who wants to do this? 7. Items for next meeting, including NEASC letter (10 min) We will get to that next meeting. 8. Ted expressed some concern that we are not moving forward with our agendas in a timely manner. Suzanne; this could be because of our current culture and people not knowing exactly what they should be doing Deborah: Agreed w/ Suzanne and thought we have moved too far away from administrivia. Solution: 1) Keep track of time on agenda items 2) Reorder agenda