Arts Academy Revitalization Action Team

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Oct. 23, 2006

October 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm | In Minutes |

Summary:

Next meeting: Wednesday, October 25th, at 1:10 p.m. (during Staff Development) in the Music room.

Please see full text. It’s short!

 

Present:

• Vicky Stubbs
• Jane Krasnow
• Dave Nichols
• Lisa Hicks
• Elizabeth Watson
• Jill Irving
• Valerie Green

Full Notes (paraphrased):

Dave Nichols will be attending Crisis Response Team meetings on Thursday afternoons.

Our plan for meeting is to always meet on Monday, and to meet on Wednesday (during staff dev. time) whenever possible. If we can’t meet on a Wednesday because of another staff development item, we will meet on Thursday instead.

Vicky read a great quote from the Midcoast Saturday newspaper about why art is important, and how it keeps our minds flexible in our technology-filled era. Elizabeth will collect quotes like this, to use for our visioning process and for PR.

Elizabeth distributed contacts from Lee Urban (city planner), who sent a mass e-mail to gather contacts for us. Elizabeth has a folder for everyone she is actively contacting, if anyone is interested.

The rest of the meeting revolved around curriculum sharing; specifically, where are we already sharing curriculum? We will be keeping track of shared curricula in a separate document, available here.

As we talked about ways to share curriculum, it became obvious that there are different ways we [could] do this:

1. on a project-by-project basis, with each class doing its part
2. around a theme, with each class individually doing its own take on a theme
3. sharing students with no plan to share curriculum
4. sharing students around a theme (such as the Music class taking a unit of Web Design with the theme of "learn to publicize your band online").

Dave suggested asking students how they would create a learning experience for themselves at PATHS, given a list of the curricula offered. It might be interesting to ask for this feedback from students, to see what connections they draw between curricula.