Meeting+Minutes+2011-2012


 * May 2, 2012**
 * In teams, teachers met to select and complete forms for Stellar Students for the 4th marking period


 * April 16, 2012**
 * Tim R. conveyed information about teacher observations - what are administrators looking for during a teacher observation?
 * In teams, began developing lists of nominees for the end-of-the-year character, leadership, and service awards
 * 1st period students will be surveyed about their activities in and out of school to have a better idea of those who deserve the awards; please see Lisa if you didn't receive the surveys - they need to be completed before April 25


 * April 4, 2012**
 * Meeting cancelled due to ACTL meeting and high number of absent academy members


 * March 27, 2012 - No academy meeting**


 * March 19, 2012**
 * Jen Wagner and Bob Wachowski presented nformation about PBIS.


 * February 29, 2012**
 * In teams, selected students to receive Stellar Student Awards for 3rd marking period.


 * February 21, 2012**
 * Discuss selection of student and student work to represent 9th grade Academy at Business Round Table on March 1 @ 8:00 am
 * Were limited in choices because many of our original selections are part of the musical. The assembly for the musical is at the same time as the round table.
 * Met in teams to discuss students of concern. Gave the names to Eric Shellenberger to pass along to appropriate people.


 * February 10, 2012**
 * Discuss information from CACTL/SAF meeting with academy members
 * 9th grade Positive Behavior Incentives - decided not to implement given lack of funds and time


 * February 2, 2012**
 * In lieu of a formal meeting, members assisted the focused academies with setup for the Open House Academy Fair.
 * Teachers spent half of their Open House "planning" period assisting with parents in the Academy Fair


 * January 25, 2012**
 * Becky Saylor requested that teachers need to let Case Managers know if they haven't received a student's IEP's. Additionally, please sign and return the slip attached to the flash, as well as complete and return Strengths & Weaknesses and monitoring forms, as soon as possible.
 * February 2 - Open House and Academy help
 * After school, instead of attending the normally scheduled academy meeting, teachers need to select an academy to help setup for the Open House Academy Fair
 * During the Open House, teachers should be in their classrooms to give parents course overviews during their normal instructional periods.
 * During the planning period, please select an academy and spend half of it there, helping with parents questions, etc.
 * Academy Fair feedback for Gerry Eisner
 * Positives
 * Schedule allotted an appropriate amount of time
 * Tour guides for Arts & Humanities was a great idea and appeared to work well. Can this be done in any other academy, too?
 * Negatives
 * Some students selected to "host" for an academy or strand, didn't seem to have much knowledge to share with students
 * Need to have more of the "hosting" students interact with the student visitors (more adults from the academy to help with this?)
 * Need to draw more attention to the careers that didn't have demonstrations


 * January 4, 2012**
 * Teachers met in assigned teams to review student data


 * December 19, 2011**
 * "Get Real Program" debrief with Pete F., Emmanuel B., and Charlotte U.
 * gave suggestions to implement differently next year
 * briefly discussed how to keep the "feeling" going - Advisor activities?
 * Broke into teams to discuss and select Stellar Students for 2nd marking period


 * December 9, 2011**
 * Academy Leader Meeting information
 * Academy Fair student reflection:
 * please have all 9th grade students complete //after// the fair
 * return forms to Lisa Turner by end of day on December 16
 * SchoolCenter page(s), see link in navigation bar
 * Will start by adding links for 9th grade academy teachers, as well as all Learning Support teachers
 * Will start linking examples of exemplary student work in all subjects
 * Stellar Student Nominations
 * need to have completed forms to Jeff Hamme by January 4, 2012


 * December 1, 2011**
 * General Announcements
 * 4Sight Testing
 * Monday, December 5, Pds. 1 & 4. Students will also take the 9th grade survey, as well, during ACP.
 * Monday's (Day 1) and Thursday's (Day 4) ACP's will be switched. So, students will remain in ACP on Monday so that they can take the 9th grade survey.
 * Academy Fair
 * tickets - five per student. BEFORE December 13, please have students put first and last name on tickets, as well as the name of 1st period teacher
 * depending on the schedule teachers are given, students will not have enough time to do this prior to attending the fair
 * Meet in teams:
 * Students of concern - were communicated to Guidance
 * Stellar Students - MP2 nominees due by end of day on December 9


 * November 17, 2011**
 * Academy Leader meeting information
 * Academy Fair - Dec. 13, 2011 (during 1st period - altered schedule)
 * Positive Student Behavior Recognition Incentives
 * Tiered incentives - pencils (for all teachers), lanyards (team decision), and badge ribbons (Honor Roll/Distinguished Honor Roll?)
 * Failing Students [[file:9th Grade Failures - Q1 11-12.xls]]
 * Make sure parents are being contacted regarding poor grades, several missing assignments, etc.
 * How can we assist our struggling students while holding them responsible for completing work?


 * November 9, 2011**
 * Each team met separately to select 2 Stellar Students for the 1st marking period - names and information due to Jeff Hamme by the end of the day


 * November 1, 2011**
 * Each team met separately to discuss students of concern and think about parents with whom they might want to meet during parent conferences
 * those not connected to a specific team joined one of the team meetings


 * October 24, 2011** - no meeting due to end of 1st marking period


 * October 14, 2011**
 * Discussed CACTL meeting information
 * Parent Communication - using SchoolCenter hope to create academy pages linked from the high school page
 * Academy Fair - as a means to introduce 9th grade students to the academies, students will attend an "academy fair," much like a job fair, the morning of Dec. 13. Details and schedule to be worked out.
 * Stellar Students will be selected again this year - details to be related in the next several weeks - Jeff Hamme overseeing
 * Discussed and selected 9th grade crest from the four choices Jim Howard created
 * October 5, 2011**
 * Met with Pete Fernandez to discuss logistics and information related to the upcoming "Get Real" program Oct. 25 - Oct. 28
 * Students were randomly assigned to one of four days to attend
 * Students will be out of the classroom for the entire day
 * Similar in nature to MTV's "Challenge Day"
 * At this time, no followup is planned, although teachers should feel free to discuss the day with their students
 * Several concerns were expressed:
 * Random assignment of students means that anywhere from 1/4 to 1/3 of students will be missing from a class period on any given day - select students by team in the future?
 * This means that only 3 days would need to be allotted
 * Means that teachers don't have to put four instructional days on "hold" because of the large numbers of missing students
 * Students will be less stressed about being out of the classroom - expressed to teachers after they participated in the program
 * Chose the last week of the marking period - not a good idea as many freshmen students need that week to submit late/missing work. Hold the program at the beginning of October in the future?
 * additionally, health classes give their final the last week of the marking period
 * None of the 9th grade teachers were asked to be involved (some had responded to the request for volunteers),
 * Some of the teachers would have liked to participate (relationship building)
 * How do the teachers conduct, and continue, conversations with students about what occurred if they didn't attend and haven't been trained for it?