See parent meeting attendance sheet.<\/p>\n
Reports<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Principal Report <\/strong><\/p>\n See below, at end of the meeting Harlod arrived and gave an update on music and drama possibilities.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Staff <\/strong> Report<\/strong><\/p>\n Jen and Natalie \u00e2\u20ac\u201c students will register for Fall 2011 Intensives on Activity Day planned for the last day of school.\u00c2\u00a0 Next year the Steller school year will start with intensives rather than before the December break, that is, they will be held during the first two weeks of school next year, not end of semester.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Students with questions should see their advisor.\u00c2\u00a0 New students will go to orientation on the first day of intensives to learn how intensives work and their schedules.<\/p>\n Permission slips for the Activity Day off school grounds are still needed and if students do not bring them in they will have to remain at school.<\/p>\n Principal selection: <\/strong> A recommendation went to the District and we will know on Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 Superintendant Comeau was very impressed with our process and may use it district-wide.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe addresses principal selection in greater detail later in the meeting.<\/p>\n A rough draft of the Fall schedule is out, and students are being asked to look at it.\u00c2\u00a0 Parents can get it from students or from their student\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s advisor.<\/p>\n The music program has been cut.\u00c2\u00a0 There is the option of a peer taught orchestra class next year.<\/p>\n The advisor note book is being worked on to make it more useful for staff.\u00c2\u00a0 In process of making it electronic, and including some of forms from the new-to-steller information on the website.<\/p>\n Credit for student government is still in process and not back to staff yet from Eliza.\u00c2\u00a0 She has been very busy lately, involved in TOB and the principal selection.<\/p>\n John \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Temple of the Bean (TOB) is doing really well.\u00c2\u00a0 We have no overhead, and are making money.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Op Group Report<\/strong><\/p>\n No report, but Op group will have a wrap-up pizza party next week.\u00c2\u00a0 It is also Spirit week next week.<\/p>\n Lounge Actions – Bo is building new furniture for the lounge at KCC.\u00c2\u00a0 Students will not be able to write on the table any more.\u00c2\u00a0 There may be high coffee bar type tables. And something else in the center of the lounge area, but the couch may not be there. This is being done with funding from op group and donated materials.\u00c2\u00a0 Bo has been in carpentry now for at least 2 years, and this is his passion, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s had on the job training.\u00c2\u00a0 Staff thinks he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be done before intensives a week and \u00c2\u00bd from now.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Treasurer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Report<\/strong><\/p>\n Rebecca provided the current balance sheet.\u00c2\u00a0 As of April 21, 2011 parent group has $14,891 dollars.\u00c2\u00a0 $8,272 was made at the auction. Setting aside $500 for next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s auction kitty for expenses, parent group has about $7,300 to give to ad board.\u00c2\u00a0 Ad board can decide where the money goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Previously about 45% went to a travel fund, 45% to technology and 10% to year book fund.\u00c2\u00a0 Please email Rebecca after ad board to let her know how money is to be allocated.\u00c2\u00a0 This year parent group gave some funds to the gardening club, the math counts, and the pizza for the principal selection meeting.\u00c2\u00a0 $600 is being held back for the beginning of the year BBQ.\u00c2\u00a0 There will be approximately $3,000 to begin next year with.\u00c2\u00a0 There is another $450 for TOB for the purchase of ice makers and a blackboard for the drink menu. There is also $2,000 for teacher reimbursements.\u00c2\u00a0 Details of these items are on the Profit & Loss Budget distributed at the parent group meeting.<\/p>\n Old Business<\/strong><\/p>\n Helen\/Facility and other needs advocacy – Helen has not yet received the information from the all community meeting and staff.\u00c2\u00a0 The short and long term wish lists have not been discussed in advisory groups yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Danielle and Eliza collected input at the last all community meeting and all student meeting.\u00c2\u00a0 Helen will get this information from Danielle and can pull together lists and summarize Steller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s priorities as expressed by the community.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe and Helen will work on getting a question on the flash to parents about wish list.\u00c2\u00a0 Helen will bring list to May meeting and send to the new principal.<\/p>\n Auction – Lessons learned \u00e2\u20ac\u201c there will be a meeting next week on what went well\/what could be improved upon next Tuesday at 6 p.m. at La Mex on Spenard.\u00c2\u00a0 The group thanked Rebecca, Wendy, Rochelle and others involved in organization and running the auction for their tremendous efforts. The community pulled together and the donations came in.\u00c2\u00a0 We need one computer dedicated to the auction. \u00c2\u00a0It would also be good to have an auction program.<\/p>\n New principal process \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Joe: most here participated in some or all of the meetings.\u00c2\u00a0 The meet and greet meeting was the culmination of our input for a new principal for the whole Steller community.\u00c2\u00a0 Ken\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s room was full and it was a relaxed process with a round robin approach, and the opportunity for feedback.<\/p>\n A consensus developed that most were interested in Dale Evern and Dave Morris.\u00c2\u00a0 The students seemed to like Morris, he was a Steller student for several years.\u00c2\u00a0 The staff appeared to like Dale Evern.\u00c2\u00a0 Mike Henry from ASD was very impressed with Eliza and entrusted to her the task of tallying the preferences.<\/p>\n The Steller advisory committee for this process – 3 students, 6 staff and 2 parents met with ASD this Monday.\u00c2\u00a0 Eliza had gone through the paperwork and summarized the voting.\u00c2\u00a0 The emerging two candidates were Evern and Morris.\u00c2\u00a0 The committee came to consensus to recommend Evern unanimously and put in Morris as a second candidate.\u00c2\u00a0 The committee wrote this up and sent this to Mike Henry. He asked if there was a candidate that we did not want considered and the committee recommended that Mariah not be forwarded as a candidate. \u00c2\u00a0Mike met with ASD administrators and went through our recommendation, and that has gone to Carol Comeau.\u00c2\u00a0 The School Board meets Monday night so we should know then who new principal will be.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe felt this was much better process than last time when the committee at Steller just gave the documented preferences of the community to the district and that was it.\u00c2\u00a0 This time we got to process this information ourselves and spend time thinking and talking about it, with a weekend to think about it and meet again as an advisory committee.<\/p>\n Rebecca commented that Joe and others involved did an incredible job, and in less than two weeks of learning Harlod would retire.<\/p>\n Recruitment and retention – we have our slots entirely filled with seventh graders.\u00c2\u00a0 54 seventh graders, and other new to Steller students in other grades.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n New Business <\/strong><\/p>\n There will be a memorial service for our founder Caroline Wohlforth on Friday at 3 p.m at St. Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.\u00c2\u00a0 A suggestion was made to find out if we can run the flag at half mast in her honor and pay for flowers for the service with parent group funds.<\/p>\n Rebecca made 2 motions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rebecca seconds<\/p>\n Both motions carry.<\/strong> Staff will pass the flag request on to Harlod to ask the district if this is OK.<\/p>\n Other Business:<\/strong><\/p>\n Rochelle passed out a school calendar with handwritten dates marking Steller quarters which are different because of intensives.\u00c2\u00a0 First quarter will be seven weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 There will be semester long classes, not quarters next year.\u00c2\u00a0 There will be grades each quarter grades but most classes will be semester long.\u00c2\u00a0 PE will stay as a quarter class. If students only need one more quarter, this will be flexible.<\/p>\n We held the Ad Board and Parent Group meetings the same night this year to see if more would attend. \u00c2\u00a0Rochelle thinks we should go back to second Thursday for ad board and third Wednesday for parent meeting. Six p.m. for parent group.\u00c2\u00a0 The group agreed to this plan.<\/p>\n Should the back to school BBQ be held on the 12 or 15 of August? Staff thought that families might still be out of town on the 12th<\/sup> so 15th<\/sup> seems a bit better \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the day before school starts.\u00c2\u00a0 A suggestion was made to have it after the intensives since they will be at the beginning of the year? Some more thought will go into this before finalizing the date.<\/p>\n The next year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s auction date is Feb 17, 2011.\u00c2\u00a0 The auction committee will discuss if this is a good date because perhaps it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bit early.<\/p>\n Funding requests<\/strong><\/p>\n Jen requested $25 for Steller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contribution for pizza at the Bartlett Math competition.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Helen make motion, which was seconded, for 25 dollars to be spent from parent group funds for the pizza for the Bartlett Math Competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n Motion carried.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jen requested $200 for rechargeable batteries and chargers for graphing calculators.<\/p>\n Rebecca makes motion to approve $200 for the chargers and batteries<\/strong><\/p>\n Wendy seconds<\/p>\n Motion carried<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Announcements<\/strong><\/p>\n The Music Program at Steller has been cut.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family has written to district music dept about this.\u00c2\u00a0 Jimmie has emailed all band and orchestra parents and sent a copy to Frank Hauser and Carol Comeau. He has not had a response. We are losing drama, orchestra and band.<\/p>\n Harlod <\/strong>arrived and said that he was in conversation regarding the possibility of ASD providing transportation to West\/Romig for band and orchestra students.<\/p>\n Harlod is meeting with the Dean of Theater Arts for an internship opportunity which if possible would only be for about 6 weeks.<\/p>\n Joe \u00e2\u20ac\u201c \u00c2\u00a0there is also the community schools option to explore<\/p>\n Next Parent Meeting<\/span><\/strong>: \u00c2\u00a0May 11, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" See parent meeting attendance sheet. Reports Principal Report See below, at end of the meeting Harlod arrived and gave an update on music and drama possibilities. 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