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I thought this might be easier than meeting. Please take a look at the following topics. These are all things we need to discuss. Write your responses following the comments already on the wiki. You can change your font color and it will help the wiki users know who is responding (or just write your name after what you type). I (Kristen) used purple. I (Diane) will be green. I (Wendy) will be red.

Pep Assembly
I think Alesia has our Zumba guest arranged. I believe Wendy will take care of getting the Zumba person where he/she needs to be on the day of the pep assembly. Wendy--will you plan on announcing our Zumba guest at the end of the assembly? Sure will! I just need to find out her name from Alesia! I have also recruited the following staff members to join the instructor on stage: Maryann, Campbell, Dunn, Dilley, and Moutray. Do you think we need more, or will this work? ﻿I think that should be enough people. If we get too many then it would be kind of tight up front.

Hi Girls! (Alesia) I think this is a great idea to take the place of our meeting. Here is what I have going with Zumba. I'm waiting for the final OK from Duane Parrot. He teaches at Robidoux, and says that he has students until 2 p.m. that day so getting to Edison by 2:30 should be fine. He asked me if it was ok for him to bring a couple of Roubidoux students to Zumba with him and I told him that sounded great. I asked him (this has all been via email and am waiting to talk to him on the phone) if we would need any adults on stage if the kids come....I am thinking we will not, so the teacher dancers may be cancelled. I'll let you know as soon as I hear from him. Wendy...thanks for taking care of getting him to the right place. I also told him that Coach would put the music on for him...I need to ask Coach if he'll take care of that. ﻿2/27 ~ (Alesia)...Duane is on for Friday...whew! He WOULD like to have a couple of teachers on stage with him, and he would like to have them go over the song with him before Friday. He is serious about his ZUMBA! I am waiting to hear what night he can drop by after school. I will ask a few of the teachers above if they would be willing to stay and dance with him for a little bit! Kristen....would you?! He also asked if 2 songs would be ok...I told him that I thought so....I guess you could cut him off if time was too close! I'm SO SAD I will not be there for it. ﻿I can't do Thursday after school because I already have 3 meetings in 3 hours at 3 different places unless he would come at 3:15 and be done before 4. Any other day works for me. Just let me know. Thanks for setting that up Alesia. (Kristen)I can stay for a bit Wednesday. Let me know who else is staying and where we should meet (your room ?). I think 2 songs will be fine. Here is the staff members who will be dancing on stage - Bellman, Moutray, Dilley, Campbell (Dunn and Timmons opted out). Alesia, are you checking to be sure they can hang out a bit Wednesday after school?

Diane said that she would be willing to announce the blue slips. I can do role call and announce the citizenship trophy. We also need someone to announce the citizens of the month. Any takers? Is the citizens of the month the students who have received it this month? I can do that unless Wendy would like to since her voice is soooooo beautiful. ﻿Since my voice IS so beautiful and loud, I will gladly announce these citizens. I believe it is the "new" citizens (and I'm not sure we have even submitted these names to Natalie/Jennifer)? Do I just ask Natalie/Jennifer for these names? ﻿I think that would be the best way to get them. I will email an agenda to everyone on Wednesday afternoon so that we will know the order of the assembly and who is announcing what. Natalie is emailing me the citizen names on Thursday so I can practice them Thursday night!

Can anyone think of anything else we need to take care of for the pep assembly? I'll send out an order of events, with who's doing what, via email later.

Do I need to ask someone to take my place and announce some? I would be happy to if you think you need another person...however, it sounds like you all have it covered. I think we have it covered.

Writing PD
The leadership team discussed finding some writing consultants for next year. It is our job, as the PD Team, to find some possible people who could provide us with PD in writing. Based on our building surveys, we would really like to find a consultant that would come to us. We all need to begin researching this topic. Post back any possible names/companies that you think are worth looking into. We will take those options to leadership team as possibilities.

Outside of Google, I thought that contacting people we know (other teachers) may be a good avenue. If you have teacher friends, ask them if they know of anyone who provides good writing PD.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I thought about contacting RPDC, as well.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know that Jerri Fischer and Misty Burright present for Prairie Lands Writing Project. I have NO IDEA what that involves, but I know that kids are invited to attend that "camp" at MO WEST in the summer the same time as summer school. Our own Leah and Maggie Bauer have attended for a summer or two...I can ask Jerri about it, unless you guys have heard that it wouldn't be something pertinent. I have seen some of the writing products from the camp and they are impressive! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Yesterday (this is Alesia!) I talked to Jerri about Prairie Lands. How it works is that we would contact MO WEST and request some training from one of the trainers. They set up the times/costs/etc. Jerri said that most of the training revolves around a rich text, and skills are pulled from within the book. The mentor text is used as a base for teaching kids the skills that you want them to use in their own writing. She described PD as beginning with some whole group general thinking, then breaking into k-2 and 3-6 groups to get more specific to writing skills. She says that Prairie Lands would want to know exactly what our needs are before they come. PD may be done during early out days or after school times. I would be happy to contact the MO WEST person if you'd like more details about time and cost. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿What a great idea! I went to a Saturday workshop in October and it was extremely good. Dori and Brenda went with me if you want any other opinions. We got a lot of practical activities for the classroom. I also shared some of the ideas with 3-6 teachers at Humboldt in Nov. workshop and they are using many of the activities that I shared with them. Good resource and probably not very expensive. The Saturday workshop that we went to was $10 each.

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Since the classroom teachers are all getting IPads next year, we discussed buying PD resources electronically (we discussed purchasing Kindles for the staff who won't receive IPads). Jennifer asked that our team research the buying process for our situation (school with multiple users). We are supposed to find out how many people could access a book if it was purchased. In a perfect world, we could purchase fewer books and have multiple people access them.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I got online and looked into this. I think that for each e-book purchased from Amazon, 6 people can access it. I found this info. through different blogs, not anything official. If anyone else can find out something, please post it here so that we can let Jennifer know. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿I have been searching the Kindle store at Amazon and it would appear that you can only purchase single downloads for each title. It will allow you to transfer a title to your PC or iphone but they all have to registered to the same account. It would still be cheaper to buy ebooks for everyone than it would be to buy hardcover or paperback books.

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Eric Carlin (the intern working with me) will be joining our team.

We need to look at the SIP plan. You should have a copy in your staff resource binders. We don't have our own section. If you see anything that needs to be revised, let me (Kristen), Alesia, or Diane know and we will take the recommended revisions to the leadership team. Feel free to post them here.