Faculty Meeting 1/28/15

Faculty Meeting Notes

Staff Meeting January 28, 2014

 

Day of the Heart: Friday, February 13, 2015

• 3-5 min. performance.
• Kirtan,
• Photo Booth (Any fun props top hats, neckties, etc.
• Peace Flag
• Checker station
• Word Search
• Tic Tac Toe,
• Sensory Station Essential oils, music
• Waltzing/Waltz lessons for older students
• Volunteers for centers
• E-mail to parents for volunteers: announcement for newsletters
• High School Rewards—Any HS. (Get ideas for H.S. involvement)
• Request for Wednesday before
• Science stations
• Appreciations Station

Recap of meeting yesterday 1/27/15

• Marketing
• Grant committee
• Sign on Broadway
• Blind Pig,
• Odyssey business or brand

Raised 20,000 from community

• Local family without children in the program/ Matching donation 30, 000.
• Still need to raise 36, 000.  Ask each family 725. 00. Admin will connect with every family and possibly sponsor other other families/ scholarship for this fund.   Some donations already today.  Thermometer will track progress out front.
• Be a compassionate ear for families that cannot give.   Encourage them to check with admin for alternative giving options such as sponsoring,  payment plan with 3 payments
• Moonwalks the length of the gym when we reach that goal.
• Connect with alumni has already happened.
• Budgets will be made at next month’s board meeting. We have been frugal and are looking at individual line items.

Visit the Future Open House/Brainstorm

• Pie Social, food, pie, tea, lemonade,
• Interactive Games in Classrooms
• Technology
• Gathering in 1^st ten minutes
• Student Performance
• Combine with a Festival/Day of the Herat Performance
• Teacher Presentations
• Scavenger Hunt
• Trifold walk-through to create a long view/samples of work, slideshow, work samples

Same idea –teachers stay in their classrooms.

Mini-presentations/mini lessons/slideshow on projector/ teacher presentation/ studetns available. ( Sign-up in advance)

• Movie night for kids.  Each classroom had an activity,
• Continuous slideshow in Smart Board Room
• Present parents could collaborate with prospective parents
• Recycle already made games/ curricular tools, work samples
• Incentive for parents /volunteer hours.
• Sell copies of the music video/Burned CD/
• Percentage of parents that show up for a pizza party.
• Coupons from grocery or restaurant.
• Door prizes
• What makes this grade level Integral/design
• Make it on the weekend and make it an event

Compilation Notes:

• On a Weekend event, that would bring people in, Free Planet Radio, River’s band, Billy Jonas, etc.
• Games and activity on a  fun Day
• 2-3 minute performance from each grade level,
• Social and Mingling
• Short combined session: What is Integral and What is Design.
• 2 sessions Childcare with work samples
• Combined with Raffle/Night of the Arts.
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• Kids greeting prospective families at the door and
• General introduction.
• Photo Scavenger hunt: Take a picture of buddy, music performance, art work and ceramics, lab, something to highlight the gym, fish in aquaphonics, slide shows art work displays, etc.
• (Each classroom have a 5 item scavenger hunt for children with parents/bumper sticker)
• Parents break and go into individual classrooms.  Parents and students
• Sample lesson,
• Pie social in evening. Prizes and drawings
• Students guides
• Meet and greet, food and tables, sign in, door prizes, name tags,
• Scavenger hunt
• Questions and prizes, prospective parents join up with new parents.   Questions could be clues for a prize ( coffee, tea, students make hand-made scarves, etc.)
• 6PM-7:30
• Centering or interactive game, slide show, faculty poem video,  pair up prospective parents with new parents explain buddy program.
• Move to classroom.  Students talk about their experience of those classes.
• Poll everyone to see what the experience was for a feedback loop.
• Presentation during Day of the Heart.
• Each teacher share knowledge and it might showcase their program.   Showcasing 1 of the Strand.  This is how the strand or strands are addressed in
• This is how Integral is addressed; This is how Design is addressed.  This is how This is how the Strands are addressed.

Melding:

• Incentive is getting kids involved
• Megan–Really short introduction
• Teachers do a very short presentation in teaching teams (2-3)
• Staff poem and/or middle school video
• In student orientation, do more Presentation and less interactive to move things a little faster
• Talk about buddies. Pair up parents from different grade levels or old/ new families.
• Students perform Day of the Heart (1/2 to 45 min) or as guides
• Then go back to the classrooms
• Computers with mini-mester films, poems, classroom videos on computers with ear phones in the back of the gym
• In K-1 have the Pre-K faculty in the play area and Samata and I are talking to parents
• Classroom scavenger hunts 5 things with bumper stickers
• Presentation with work samples and slides or video (Can be used in Open Houses to come)
• Manipulatives
• Parents engage with current students.
• MS or HS students running a game for new student visitors. Gym set up as a dedicated play area or visit classroom that they are visiting with a child care option.  Calder and HS students can earn points by planning game centers as a reflection of the buddy thing.

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