Operations Minutes: September 28, 2004

• Hareem reported that 9th grade elections were held
  today and that sophomores are working on Homecoming activities.
  

• Marilyn Curtis provided a historical
  perspective on the White Day.  IHS has one day in fall and one in
  spring where they have all-school assemblies.  From the beginning,
  Churchill has wanted to make sure that IHS alpha and omega days aligned
  with Red and Blue days.  White day in the fall was a compromise
  solution to maintain that balance.
  
• The group discussed several options including structuring some
  type of activity for all Churchill students on that day.  Options
  discussed included community service day, career day, mini-courses,
  late start with an afternoon activity.  It was suggested that we might
  want to form a committee to look at the issue and plan early.  We will
  discuss further next week.
  

We reviewed a draft of the October 13 staff meeting.  Agenda items include: 

• United Way, committee reports
• Eric Jensen Brain Research Team presentation
• Group Agreements
• Staff Process Advocate. 

• It was reported that a few teachers are not taking
  attendance at all and that some are having difficulty with the Esis
  system.  Don suggested that we contact CIS to see if teachers could
  have more than one day to go back and correct attendance.  Dennis will
  contact CIS.
  

• Teachers need to be reminded that we need lists
  of students involved in field trips e-mailed to all staff at least two
  days in advance.  Trips should be approved by operations in advance. 
  Audrey suggested that it would be efficient if we had a template form
  on the web that teachers could use so that the same information goes
  out each time.  Dennis will ask technology folks if this is a
  possibility. 
  
• The issue was also raised of teachers moving their classes to
  an alternate location.  If possible, the office should be notified (in
  case we are trying to locate a student); teachers should also leave a
  note on their door.
  

• Dennis mentioned that he had heard that there were
  problems with the current system of supply distribution. 
• Some teachers
  have felt that they had obstacles to securing supplies or that supplies
  were not available on weekends (ie. transparencies, toner).
• Office staff also reports that many teachers are not e-mailing request in
  advance and are sending students are  lining up in the morning. 
• After an open discussion, several possibilities were discussed; these
  included, storing some extra transparencies and toner in the library,
  providing staff access to the supply room before 8:20 a.m., and having
  someone provide service to teachers for supplies each morning. 
• No action taken at this time, but we will come back to this next week.