Note+Card+Questions+Aug+30+2007


 * Note card questions**
 * Leftover from all staff discussion**
 * August 30, 2007**

The following questions and comments were from the leftover notecards. Some cards were discarded as repeats of issues already brought up today. The list below also includes some issues from today that were left somehow unresolved. Please feel free to comment and or answer questions using the discussion tab above. There will be a study hall/math tutoring being conducted by Richard Barbour in Room 106. Students can work on homework or projects at this time or can study for exams. Additionally, Richard is a math teacher so this is a wonderful opportunity for students to get extra help in mathe. Students can also go to breakfast in the cafeteria.
 * If we choose to have a book club in independent reading, is there a suggested reading list? We do not have a suggested reading list but we do have a book list that we put together last year that you could certainly use. You can also start your own list, ask colleagues and students to contribute to the list (even on a wiki) and that will help us establish a school list that we can continually add to!
 * If students are dropped off at school, where do they go during team meetings?
 * Is grading done with a +/- system … and if so, will there be some discrepancy with our first two years’ grades?
 * Is it wise to have a single point person on each grade team? Can the point person for the team meeting rotate, or does it have to be the same person all year?
 * As with meeting minutes, might it not make more sense to rotate this responsibility, perhaps month by month?
 * We should encourage kids to take books from the public library.
 * How will the parents be involved in PD? This is especially in regard to the Ethical Literacy work we are doing. Once we have students in advisories work on establishing the core values for our school like we did in our pd, then we are going to work with Annette, our parent coordinator, to have a potluck dinner for parents, teachers, and students to continue this work with our parents and to get them on board in establishing the core values for our school and in learning about how to make ethical decisions. We are hopeful that this triangulation will help to spread our message, get parents more involved and strengthen the home-school connection. And the students? This will be done through advisory.
 * What does “uniform grading” mean? Can teachers decide whether or not to give out letter or # grades? Can you do points or percentages?

We hope to get responses from the staff to continue our discussion from this session.