Arts Academy Revitalization Action Team

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, October 24, 2007

Summary:

We had a short discussion about buying a domain name for the arts cluster that will point to our page on the PATHS Web site. Val will check on logistics. We did a lot of work on “what does a student look like?”.

Next week (10/31) we will meet in Val’s room (320) for a session on how to use our new weblogs. Before this session, everyone should sign up for a blog here.

Before the meeting on November 7, please look for examples of vision statements. PATHS, PPS, CBHS, others.

Agenda for 11/7:

1. What does a vision look like? Discuss PATHS and CBHS and PPS vision statements, and others. Discuss examples that people have found.
2. “small group”/”large group” discussion

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Arts Academy Meeting Notes, October 17, 2007

Summary:

We spent about 30 minutes discussing strategies for improving how we work together as a group. Starting with the next meeting, we will have a stack of Sticky Notes on the table. One person will volunteer to be the “parking lot attendant”, which means that if someone makes a comment that seems like it’s in danger of making the group get off track, the attendant will ask that the comment be put in the “parking lot” (on a Sticky Note). The note can be handed to Valerie. We will save 5 minutes at the end of the meeting to discuss any issues on the stickies and determine whether one or more of them should be on the agenda for the next week.

We added some items to the “what does our student look like” list. You can see the current contents of the list in a tab at the top of the blog.

Our meetings often run past 2:10. If you are planning on counting that extra meeting time towards your 10-13 extra contract hours, please keep track of it on your own.

Agenda for next week:

1. revisit work in progress (”what does a student look like?”) and: how to get student input : 30 minutes
2. look at the process for coming up with a vision: for example, talk about group vs. small group work: 20 minutes
3. “parking lot” issues: 5 minutes
4. agenda for next meeting: 5 minutes

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Reading: teaching intuition in Physics

Lisa put “intuitive” on the list of “what does a student look like?” at the last meeting.  I found an interesting article about teaching intuition in physics and I converted it to PDF:

Teaching Intuition (by Martin Mahy)

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, October 10, 2007

Summary:

We had a discussion of items that might be work for smaller groups. We did some brainstorming around “what does a graduating student look like?”. We had a short discussion of process and what we want our meetings to be like.

Next meeting: Wednesday, October 17 at 1:10 in Room 140.

Agenda for next week:

1. set ground rules for meetings (15 minutes)
2. brainstorming around homework: “what does an graduating student look like?” (40 minutes)
3. setting agenda for next meeting (5 minutes)

Meeting adjourned at 2:15; smaller group adjourned at 2:25.
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