Community Time Minutes

Jon facilitating

Terry ordered in an RTI (Response to Intervention) book. It's not required, but it's a good one. We are going to have a section on RTI, so it won't hurt us to know.

Vicki had us do a shout out to ourselves. We rock.

Catey brought up Heartsparkle Players at 7:30 at Traditions.

Alaina, speaking on behalf of the GSA thanked us for being good people and going to the potluck.

Ryan brought up soccer and wanted to invite the first years. Day and time is TBA, depending on everyone (except the first years availability).

Every Friday at 5pm the 1st year cohort meets at the BroHo. We're invited.

Katey B is going to go sing Karaoke at Jake's. Details TBA.

Eastside next Thursday a band is playing. Six bucks.

Terry: a teacher at Bush Middle School would like us to score and assess science fair projects. For details, check ELM.

Something else that I missed, that is apparently costly, sciencey, and in April.

Schedules were passed out for the new teacher candidate meetings.

Terry recruited people for working for the MiT. Jen, Alex volunteered to help with the ceremony. Emily and Alex volunteered to help with the formatting of stuff for the ceremony.

Guess what! We actually are going to get to be in the Library. But the drop deadline is due 2/23/10. The paper must be virgin. If you are looking to print this stuff at a lower price, get together with people and bat your eyes at Minuteman Press.

Here is what is due, just to be clear: 1 virgin due (required), PDFs to Lenora, any extra that you want, you'll have to bring. Like if I want one at my home library, I'll bring two copies.

This must be done at a printers. Tell them "virgin paper, fresh drum".

The link will be (re)posted by Monday on our handouts and assignments page.

We learned about Terry.

My personal favorite part was the biography her sister wrote about her.

Examination of what we want to do with Fridays:

• Theatre and dance across the curriculum.
• Three different seminar groups, should we, and if so how should we hear about what is going on in different seminars.
• Community meeting time with announcements and such.
• Group building activities

Theatre Across the Curriculum

• Break into content area groups and perform a concept from our content areas
• There are many roles you can play, you don't really need to perform
• Looking for feedback on who would like to be in what groups
• See calendar for dates and details.
• We would be revisiting our art/theatre EALRs from fall '08
• They struggled with whether or not to include a TOT or a performance

People seemed to be vastly in favor of doing Theatre Across the Curriculum. Or at least not opposed.

People would love to get Tracy's boyfriend Dan in to have a puppet workshop.

There was also interest expressed in mask making.

Catey agreed to post the list to ELM.

Moving right along... Ryan asked what "performance" would mean. There will be a performance, there is room for interpretation, but there will be getting up and doing something.

Emily raised the question about the workload of a performance, and considered what she would get out of it in a classroom. The reply was that this can be helpful, and that there is a lot of potential.

Liz brought up that this has a lot of potential for student engagement.

Joanna brought up that this could help fill our lesson bank.