Notes+5.6.2008

Present: Emily Davison, Margaret Anderson, Claire Evrard, Ted Hall, Chris Hill, Lorrie King, Tom McDowell, Deborah Johansen, Jodi McGuire, Julie Hutchinson

Notes:

1. Check in -We celebrated Emily's last Leadership Team meeting for this year -Ted will send an email to freshmen parents regarding schedule changes for next week -Sophomores will do NWEA assessments on Monday, May 19th; Ted will let sophomores know this at Thursday's speeches

2. Review notes from last meeting -Margaret reviewed notes from last meeting -Cleaning of new study space upstairs needs to consistent; will be done by students in Life Skills course

3. Items brought by staff members for the leadership team to consider -Follow up from meetings with seniors who are at risk for not graduating needs to be consistently shared with the teachers involved -Study halls: students should not be outside during study halls unless the teacher is outside with the students

4. Review feedback from portfolio sharing session -Intentional to not ask for feedback after portfolio sharing on Monday afternoon as the goal was to celebrate our work at the end of the sharing -Feedback included: felt more relaxed because people were done or close to done, people learned from each other, people made suggestions to others for next year, many shared action research, others shared learning from a conference, work from master's program, people gained insights into the different kinds of work engaged in by faculty, amount of time was just right for 4 people, a little tight for 5 people, enjoyable, suggestion put forward to have mixed group work on portfolios optional next year, time within year to work on action research/portfolio was helpful

5. Review document outlining leadership roles and responsibilities and decide next steps -Reviewed 2nd draft of Leadership Team Members' Responsibilities -Discussed Learning Area Leader's role regarding facilitating the development of the curriculum and common assessments, as well as ensuring that the agreed upon curriculum and common assessments are implemented -Next step: Get draft to faculty for feedback

6. Updates and discussion of CEP, Freshmen schedule for CEP days, NWEA, summer reading, etc. -Summer reading assignments for students: Lorrie shared a draft of questions for us to ask when preparing summer reading assignments -If teachers are assigning summer reading assignments, use the questions to guide your work, and send summer assignments to Ted by Wednesday, May 28 -Lorrie is available to offer feedback to teachers on summer assignments -Freshmen schedule is set for CEP days -Summer work for faculty: Ted's goal is to get back to faculty on Monday, May 12th, regarding approval of summer work -May 19th Faculty Meeting: exercise to discuss grading practices -June 2nd Faculty Meeting: time for faculty to complete feedback survey