Meeting+Notes+-+September+12

Community connections…with //quirky// footnotes about side conversations (where excellent ideas surfaced)!!
September Assignment: • **Kaplan** will make revisions, Am Lit teachers will hand out the assignment (curiously colored YELLOW) as such: Theresa—E period, Wednesday Kate—F period Weds. Kaplan—E period/A period • The assignment is ungraded and is to be the students “ticket to ride” the bus on Monday. • Group leaders will read the papers and use them as a baseline statement from the kids and refer back to it throughout the year as a way to watch how the students develop new ideas about what social justice is AND how they play role. Suggestion: use the document and update it during Graderoom meetings—kids write their new impressions on the original paper a la Port Huron. Sweet! • **Kate** will put up a sign in the locker area to remind the students.
 * Karen W**. will distribute to **MAHANY’**s classes during D on Friday.

Retreat
• We’re taking buses to Seward Park fieldhouse @ 8:30 ish on Monday. **Jeanne** will welcome the kids and talk to them about what the day means; **Shanti** will go over logistics. Awesome, ladies! Get psyched! • Improv, t-shirts , bonding will be the order of the morning, then… • Break at 11:30 for lunch (ALLIANCES, ENVIRONMENT will stay at the fieldhouse for lunch, which Shanti will arrange; SSDP will grab their lunch and go, other groups will take care of their own lunch business) • Return to school @ 3pm.

Other

 * We will update our Wiki spaces next meeting; Theresa will reserve a lab space for us to do this.
 * We will choose 2-3 goals at our next meeting;
 * We will brainstorm more about a Community Action MX.
 * Shanti reminded us of the following dates:
 * Community Action Fair= 9/19 during MX
 * 9/21& 9/26 (?)= Community Action Morning Ex
 * Regarding a morning ex, several possibilities were suggested for a program guide—slideshow, songs, speaking…who’s up for it?

//Quirky Footnotes://
[1] <#_ftnref1> Everyone was encouraged to note 2 things about Dwayne: his haircut (sharp) and his voicemail (professional)

[2] <#_ftnref2> As we talked t-shirts, Bigelow mentioned “STATEMENT DAY” at his old school: kids brought in blank t-shirts and went at them with sharpies and fabric pens, writing slogans, single words, random thoughts, then spent time talking to each other about what the words and images represented in terms of the kids’ beliefs, ideals, ideas, desires, etcetera. Perhaps we can do this type of activity at the retreat?

[3] <#_ftnref3> As we talked about Lunch, Theresa and Kaplan decided that the facils should have an end of the year luncheon at North Pond Café.