Arts Academy Revitalization Action Team

Arts Academy Meeting Notes, January 30, 2008

January 30, 2008 at 3:19 pm | In Minutes |

Summary:

We discussed having a recruitment day back-to-back with PATHSFEST, and we would invite middle school students on that day. Vicky will talk to John M. more about this.

We did some work on “what does a graduating student look like?”

Agenda for 2/6/08:

1. Review John M.’s response to a second day of PATHSFEST for recruiting (5 minutes)
2. Revise/review PATHSFEST timeline (10 minutes)
3. Visioning (30 minutes)

Present:

• Vicky Stubbs
• Phil Divinsky
• Dave Beane
• Val Green
• Diane Manzi
• Dave Nichols

Agenda:

1. craft an invitation to middle schools for PATHSFEST (20 minutes)
2. Visioning (30 minutes)
3. Agenda/ parking lot (10 minutes)

PATHSFEST:
Many clusters are happy to have middle school students come to PATHSFEST.
Some want to have PATHSFEST be a “fun day” and not a recruitment day. Do they have to be separate things?
Our first priority is a celebration for us.

What about: inviting all of the students who have visited this year? Then we’re responsible…which means that we would have to figure that out. That would be a tough thing to do. Maybe there’s a day that we can focus on recruitment and have it be separate from PATHSFEST. Maybe we do 5/22 AND 5/23? It’s sounding like it will be either/or, or that we should separate PATHSFEST into 2 separate days.

Who do we choose to invite, if we’re inviting outside groups? The big issue is chaperones.

We definitely need a recruitment day! Like a trade fair, where programs get to show their stuff. If we’re already set up for PATHSFEST, we could have a recruitment day back to back with PATHSFEST. BUT we can’t take on 5/22 AND 5/23. Someone else in the school needs to take this on.

We can’t give a presentation about PATHSFEST at the Feb. staff meeting because we don’t know enough details. Moved to March.

Visioning:

we did some editing on the “what does a graduating student look like?” list.

“map their own course of study” is something we need to discuss in the future, but it doesn’t necessarily fit in our “what does a student look like” list. Having “majors” and electives, etc…these are things that we need to think about.

Agenda for 2/6/08:

1. Review John M.’s response to a second day of PATHSFEST for recruiting (5 minutes)
2. Revise/review PATHSFEST timeline (10 minutes)
3. Visioning (30 minutes)