2012+09+17

09-17-12 Monday, September 17, 2012 2:27 PM Please bring your estimates on staffing for your department based on 375 for 2013.
 * **CAPITAL REQUESTS **
 * Please make sure that you have large expenses attended to (new furniture, new equipment, etc.). Cut off is $5000 minimum. **Please talk to Rosie Tuesday, October 16th. **
 * e.g. Acoustical tiles? A lot of the classrooms have awful sound.
 * **PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS **
 * Due to **department chairs TODAY, to Rosie by the 19th of September **
 * SUGGESTIONS
 * o Announcements folder on Outlook
 * o Email Subject Line protocol
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 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Response required by ##-##-####
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Universal Outlook Calendar on which deadlines and events are listed
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">APPLE TV PILOT **
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Wireless projection capability
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This will be piloted with the World Language Department
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Department to share their experience with others
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Haiyun has been using it
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS **
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">8th grade class="85" currently
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We typically have 12-15 new freshmen. This year, we have 28.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Limiting factors
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Dining Room
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lockers
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Theater Seating
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Class size
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">MATH: Steve put together a proposal NEED COVERAGE OF 3 SECTIONS
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Exhibit A: Current State (ideal)
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Exhibit B: With 15 new students
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Exhibit C: For ideal class size, we would want 31 classes. We have staffing for 28 classes.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">HISTORY: Ben's proposals NEED COVERAGE of 2 SECTIONS PLUS ELECTIVES
 * o <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">23 classes now
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ENGLISH: We lost electives and miss them. NEED COVERAGE OF 3 SECTIONS
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">WORLD LANGUAGE: We have 37 classes. NEED COVERAGE OF 3 SECTIONS (2 French, 1 Spanish).
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">SCIENCE: QCP enrollment drives enrollment elsewhere. NEED COVERAGE OF 5 SECTIONS.
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">QUESTIONS/ISSUES: **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Students we are getting are absorbing free period and personnel resources. We still have the super-high performers but increasingly weak students. We need to have staff who can carry all aspects of the load. What accommodations are being made to address this? **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">How will counseling and learning support staff be augmented to deal with additional needs **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Elective programs. They are being reduced, despite student interest and faculty interest in teaching **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Class size is already too large for many sections where we have to bring in extra furniture. We need to be able to meet the same result--same quality of education, experience, scores **
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Should we be comparing ourselves to schools/numbers in cities where we are NOT like other schools? e.g. Latin has a waiting list **
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Project Based learning and more independently driven and motivated learning requires smaller sizes **
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Furniture in classrooms--can we fit everyone in using exisiting **
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Impact on Harkness method teaching. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Too many part time teachers detract from unity, morale, and support of ancillary programs like advising, lunch, assembly duties, etc. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Impact on the Global Scholars program. With loss of electives, that diminishes the program. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Academic Support - the program is already full and we will need to have adequate coverage. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">College Guidance load - Counselor couldn't teach a section in order to hold the number of necessary one-on-one and family meetings and the requisite preparation. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Social and Emotional Counseling loads - is Lizzy's 8/10 load adequate? **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Fire code safety in the theater. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Science Fair can't be adequately staffed and overseen. **
 * o **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Lunch - having people fit and get the announcements and benefit of lunch table assignments **
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">SCHEDULING **
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We will try to address schedule issues ourselves
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Please come to the next meeting with ideas how you would want to address the schedule to meet your needs.
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">ISM was contacted: expensive (over $14,000 and 2 years out)

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Getting observation visits scheduled.
 * **<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">NOT ADDRESSED **
 * <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Other?

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