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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Jan. 29, 2007

January 29, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Minutes | No Comments

Summary:

Next meeting: Thursday, January 25 @ 1:40 in the Music room

Meeting adjourned at 2:40 (30 minutes extra staff dev.)

Elizabeth will work on starting a newsletter.

Work we need to keep doing:

  • “elevator speech”
  • exit criteria / transcripts - what do they look like?
  • curriculum discussion: college-style schedule? How do we decide what a "course" is and how to "major" in an area? How to design majors?

Staff meeting: 30-minute presentation to staff during an upcoming Wednesday, including:

  • reason for starting the work
  • value of small-school learning (researched/presented by Val)
  • inclusivity (model for rest of PATHS)
  • HOME project
  • MET and BAA visits (PowerPoint presentation by Phil)
  • examples of cross-curricular work currently going on

After the presentation, we’ll ask staff to fill out a short survey showing support or not, as well as comments.

Val will keep track of contact hours past 2:10.

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Jan. 25, 2007

January 25, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Minutes | No Comments

Summary:

Nat’l Standards for Arts Education – Elizabeth will photocopy pp. 52-83 for reference.

LIT request for staff meeting time – Informational meeting of AARAT

Alert: Casco Bay may be looking to corporate sponsors for $ to fund expansion – at the same time we may looking for same.

Look at area theatres and community spaces for ideas when we plan our glorious Arts Academy Space.

Lisa Defranza: Co-Curricular HOME project scaled down, include Bo Hewey.

LIT request for Professional Development funds to pay for HOME project.

Track the hours spent on this work – Contact Hours toward fulfilling the contract, and toward lane changing pay scale. Use a chart.

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Jan. 22, 2007

January 22, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Minutes | No Comments

Summary:

Next meeting: Thursday, January 25 @ 1:40 p.m. in the Music room.

See below.

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Jan. 18, 2007

January 18, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Minutes | No Comments

Summary:

Next meeting: Monday, January 22 @ 1:40 p.m. in the Music room.

We did a recap of the Wednesday presentation.

We will ask Sue Steele to manage Art Academy monies so that those accounts will be separate from the PPS budget, and thus not affected by the budget freeze.

We had an update about the visit to the MET School in Providence.

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, Jan. 16, 2007

January 16, 2007 at 2:40 pm | In Minutes | No Comments

Summary:

Next meeting: Monday, January 22 @ 1:40 p.m. in the Music room.

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