Operations Minutes: 11 / 15 / 05

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Leadership;

• February 18th will be Sadie Hawkins Dance.
• Canned food drive is still currently going on. There is VERY low turnout. Please continue to support the students and give incentives.
• Pit Crew: Fear the Dome shirts are currently available for order. There are 50 students interested in participating, so far, in just a few days. It was suggested that the adult shirts be a different color than the students, so the students feel 'special' and unique.
• Mr. Lancer is gearing up. The theme will most likely be a beach-y / summer-y one. Doug suggested we remember that this should be a diverse process and really involve all students, not just a few and not just Senior Girls voting. Rainbow Coalition. There should be more of an involved process, including application, voting, skits and program, etc. April 21st was checked and is an approved date (no Baseball / Softball games that evening).

Old Business;

Parking... students are angry because we are not ticketing / booting and that there are teachers / staff not using their reserved parking spots --- that those spots are unused. If you are a staff member who is not using your reserved parking spot, please see Karla ASAP.

New Business;

PBS: Doug Kelly presented Curriculum Council critical incident responses and discussion points that will be happening during next week"s Curriculum areas meetings. Also discussed was the student leadership / unions reps meeting regarding language and attitudes around respect, etc. Whole School Dialogue: what language is and is not acceptable in our school. This would be centered around an assembly schedule and would be presented in individual classes with discussion, sharing, and thinking and teaching the values we want to create at our school. This would be similar to the assembly schedule we use for review of the Student / Parent Handbook. The group agreed that this is a very important thing to do for the climate and culture of our school. Tentatively, we will have this assembly schedule on Monday, December 5th.

Process Advocate;

Concern around CIM emails regarding "haven't these kids done something that will fulfill these requirements"... these requirements need to be done officially without begging teachers to sign students off just to get our stats up. There is a process that needs to be followed. There is also some feeling that the students need to be responsible for their CIM, also. This issue will be discussed at Curriculum Council in the near future, including how to spread the worksamples / recording around so it's not just a few departments responsible.

Staff follow procedures when booking the computer lab for class or taking your class (spontaneously) to the library... staff are not using the sign-up sheets for the computer lab, and it"s unfair to library staff to dump classes.

COW's have come home... OK, maybe not home, but they are going to be ready for check-out soon!