ADL Parents as Partners Meeting Minutes - February 6, 2014

PARENTS AS PARTNERS

Meeting Minutes – Thursday, February 6, 2014

Facilitators: Kelley Charland (tkmac22@hotmail.com) and Paul McLaughlin

ADL Parents as Partners Links:

Our page on the ADL website:   http://www.ccsuvt.org/adl/parents-as-partners/

Blog you can subscribe to: http://adlpap.blogspot.com   (announcements and news)

Knowledge base: https://sites.google.com/site/adlparentsaspartners/kb  (how-to documents)

School calendar in Google format:  https://sites.google.com/site/adlparentsaspartners/calendar

ADL Rideshare Request Form: http://tinyurl.com/adlrideshare

WELCOME:

Attendees: Kelley Charland, Paul McLaughlin, Lauie Singer, Mindy Deibler, DeAnn Chau, Elizabeth, Suzette Potvin

PRINCIPAL’S ADDRESS:

A new action plan is getting started: Strategic plan (3-5 years), brainstorming what ADL learning environment might look like in 3-5 years (and we did a little brainstorming exercise among the group as part of the discussion). There’ll be a day in March (TBD) and another in April to work on the plan. It’d be great to include a couple parents and students (please contact Mrs. Singer if interested).

FINANCIAL REPORT:  As of January 31, 2014, we have a balance of $2900.81.  This is unchanged from last month.  

  

ROLLING CALENDAR: February:

2/13-Band Concert 7 pm

2/17-ADL Spelling Bee 8-9 am

2/19-2/22- 44^th Annual ADL Basketball Tournament

2/24-3/4-Winter Break-No School

Dance dates: 3/7(8th grade only with EMS, Westford at EMS), 4/4, 5/16

PaP dates: 3/6,* 6/5 with School Report Night *Please note date change from 4/3 to 3/6

NEW BUSINESS:

•       G.A.S.P. (Games And Sports Party) is getting started. DeAnn, Elizabeth, Mindy, and Suzette expressed in helping along with Paul.
•       Volunteers for ADL Basketball Tournament are needed:
•       8^th Grade Spaghetti Dinner is planned for Thursday, March 6^th.  The plans are well underway and volunteers are signing up to help. 
•       Staff Appreciation Week Committee- week of May 5-May 9^th.
•       We are in need of a co-facilitator for Parents as Partners beginning next year. 

    

Follow Up Business:

•       “Wonder” Book Project email follow-up.  Parents as Partners to make a donation? We voted and approved a substantial donation of $1000 to help the project.
•       How did Winter Olympics go? Great spirit. Some teachers described it as the “best day of teaching ever!” The greeting of the torch relay folks was special. We had Barbara Cochran as a speaker.

Please remember to continue to turn in Box Tops to the front office. 

Once again, we are signed up in the Price Chopper Tools for Schools program.  Please go onto to www.pricechopper.com to enroll your Advantedge card points to be assigned to ADL and we will receive enough points at the end of the school year to “purchase” some art supplies that the entire school gets to use.

Our next meeting date is March 6, 2014 at 6:30 pm in the ADL Learning Center.  Please join us!