March 2006 Minutes

March 21st 2006 7-8:30 pm Library

Finance Report

Barnes and Noble have not yet sent us the check for the book fair held in November We have $4678 in the account but expect to receive the Barnes check, grocery store checks, and money from the Palapalooza dance. It is estimated that we should be on target for planned expenditures of about $15K

Spring Awards

There were 6 requests from teachers and staff, for book binding, library books, benchsteps, weights, freshman folders, LaCross sticks . It was recommended that we approve all 6, although not all requests were fully funded – total given out would be about $3200. A formal vote of yes was taken. Michelle Anderson will tell all the staff and the awards will be publicized by Gail in the newsletter.

Parent Ed Night March 30

There will be discussion about communicating with teens. This is for parents of children of all grade levels.

Nomination Committee

Gail Gosne and Debby Pattin will continue as cochairs. Cynthia Wolfe will continue as Secretary. Lynda Sulenes and Cynthia will organize the Father Daughter dances next year. The other volunteer spots remain to be filled.

Committee Reports

Senior Class – There are 130 confirmed Yes for Graduation night party, the highest ever at this time of year We need to find storage because the Questi’s are selling their home and have been generous with their garage space for the parent org storage! The school kitchen will be closed for construction June 1st ,so the senior breakfast will be held at Jefferson Junior Class – will put on the Father Daughter dances in April Sophomore Class – will hold a car wash sometime Art Recognition Night – will be May 24th Cougar Connection – there will be a work party March 27 for the newsletter Grocery vouchers – We earned over $1,000 from Safeway,$2400 from Top Foods up to 12/05

Updates from Site council and School Board discussions: “Listening Post” was an opportunity for parents to give feedback to the school. The hope was to encourage parents to help identify areas of need, brainstorm, and also to give positive feedback where due.

Discussion about IB program ended in deciding to make it more flexible – To develop a new math option for the Senior year To change the two years of science for IB from Biology to Chemistry To eliminate the “pre IB” wording and testing of 8th graders, with the hope that more students will be attracted to the program and there will be a less elitist sound to it To get consistently better English and history classes, and to try to raise the bar for all students at the highschool

There still is difficulty for IB students who take four years of music to fit in the Occupational Education requirement. It was thought that the GenTech class could be taught Zero hour in place of Psychology, but a poll of students showed only a few with the interest/need. Most IB students are having to take summer classes to meet their Occ Ed requirements. This will be an ongoing problem for each entering class now; the requirement used to be waived for IB students. The school is still working on making more classes Occ Ed equivalent, but it involves curriculum changes and the process is slow.