Wednesday, October 4th 2006, 6:30-8:00 pm
6:15 PM Social Time
“Community Involvement”
The Mission of Watershed High School is to nurture the intellect and embrace the creative potential of youth in a balanced environment that engenders reverence, respect and responsibility for nature and the needs of human beings.
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6:30 |
Verse, Welcome, & Introductions Approval of last months minutes Agenda review and additions |
David Woolley Endel Kallas |
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6:40 |
Admin Update |
Scott Cole |
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6:50 |
Faculty Update |
Deb Pelinski |
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7:00 |
Board Update |
Leslie Wilson |
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7:10 |
Committee Updates |
TBD |
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7:20 |
2006-07 CC Work Plan and Calendar Facilitate Volunteer Opportunities
Support Events
Improve Communications
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Chairs |
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7:55 |
Upcoming events: |
Chairs |
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8:00 |
Closing and Adjournment |
Chairs |
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Next CC Meeting: Wednesday November 1, 2006
1. Start & stop on time.
2. Be recognized to speak
3. Listen to presentations before asking questions
4. Read minutes in advance
1. Communication
2. SIPS Reliability
3. Unified intention to provide a Waldorf Education.
4. Closed campus
5. Policy enforcement and integrity
6. School size
7. Parent Education and Involvement
8. Community development – resources
9. Organizational planning
10. Traditions
Complete document is available if you need a copy.
Prioritized Workplan 2006-2007
1. Support regular communications with parents
2. Support the student organization (raise funds etc.)
3. Provide monthly communication to collaborating organizations
4. Assign CC volunteers to faculty committees
5. Produce parent educational events
6. Further develop Parent Handbook
7. Organize a joint class rep/class sponsor event
8. Hold seasonal parent/faculty social events
Reading – Author’s Abstract : American Journal of Education, May 2004 v110 i3 p215(18).
Title: Community, the missing element of school reform: why schools
should be more like congregations than banks.(Forum)
Author: Kenneth A. Strike
……schools that are communities should be rooted in a shared
educational project--a conception of the vision of the education the school
wishes to provide that is shared by all members of the community. There are
four C's of community: coherence, cohesion, care, and contact. Coherence
consists of a shared vision and a shared language--a shared educational
project. Cohesion is the sense of community that results from the shared
pursuit of such a project. Care is required for initiating students into
this project. Contact concerns the structural features of schools, such as
size, that facilitate personalization and care. Coherence is the central
feature of community. In contrast, standards-based reform privatizes
educational projects and instrumentalizes education. The emphasis on small
schools tends to see contact as the crucial feature of community rather than
coherence.
Verse
These are the days when Birds come back
THESE are the days when Birds come back--
A very few--a Bird or two--
To take a backward look.
These are the days when skies resume
The old--old sophistries of June--
A blue and gold mistake.
Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee--
Almost thy plausibility
Induces my belief.
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear--
And softly thro' the altered air
Hurries a timid leaf.
Oh Sacrament of summer days,
Oh Last Communion in the Haze--
Permit a child to join.
Thy sacred emblems to partake--
Thy consecrated bread to take
And thine immortal wine!
Emily Dickinson (1864) first published as October