Frankly, I'm a bit muddled. I don't know exactly when we're officially back and when we have meetings and what not. Does someone know? If we could get that posted, we could schedule our iced tea blow out meeting--schedule the year!
Mel
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Point Equity
The majority of points should come from teachers who are rewarding academic achievement. How can we
- make it easier for teachers to award and report points, and
- show them how easy it is without acting like nannies at some staff meeting.
Not Much Scuttlebutt
Heads and Interested Others--
I check in here every couple of days, but haven't seen much new here of late. Part of that is my fault for posting my "schedule" a couple weeks back. Part of that is the "let's relax" necessity of the profession. Bearing that in mind:
1. We do need to meet some time in the prep week before school starts. I don't see any major conflicts among us, but there are a couple of issues out there which we need to lash down before school begins. We come back Thursday 8/6, right? That's largely drenched with meetings. Friday we'll be staffing a table. I will be on campus starting either Tuesday or Wednesday--probably just for a few hours--can we set up a time?
2. These issues are, to me, the following
I check in here every couple of days, but haven't seen much new here of late. Part of that is my fault for posting my "schedule" a couple weeks back. Part of that is the "let's relax" necessity of the profession. Bearing that in mind:
1. We do need to meet some time in the prep week before school starts. I don't see any major conflicts among us, but there are a couple of issues out there which we need to lash down before school begins. We come back Thursday 8/6, right? That's largely drenched with meetings. Friday we'll be staffing a table. I will be on campus starting either Tuesday or Wednesday--probably just for a few hours--can we set up a time?
2. These issues are, to me, the following
- Point equity. I have no problem with Conor coming last in 2009. I don't have any idea how we were so far behind though.
- With point equity comes two issues: raising staff involvement and improving sorting.
- Also, if we could have a calendar in place taking us through the first semester, complete with what inter-house activities/ competitions shall be held and when, we could remove that meandering feeling I had last year. I don't mind making things up as I go along, but it's a deuced difficult way to establish tradition.
- Revisit the notion of House Facebook pages. We could run it like the ECHS Alumni page. I can't see any problem with it.
Thanks,
Mel
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Two more trinkets?
This idea just struck me today and I'm not sure whether I like it or not yet, but I thought I'd throw it up here and see what everyone thinks.
We now have two "trinkets" that sit with a Head of House--the Von Snyder Plate and the House Cup. I was just thinking, what if we generate two more such items, based on other criteria? As a reminder, the Plate is for the House with the most awards at the academic awards assembly; and the Cup is for the House with the most points at end of year. The other items could be for things like school spirit (how many people wear House or school colors at a given event, or how many people show up to support House or school teams, etc), or our "athletic" competitions, or whatever else we want.
I thought it would be fun to provide more opportunities to pass some of these items around; and it could also give the opportunity to have the goal of having a "royal flush" of all four items at once. That being said, I don't think it should go more than four, because then there's just too much. Having four unique items each winnable in different ways seems kind of neat.
As you can see, I've not really thought this through in much detail, so this is all I have to say at the moment. Comment away!
We now have two "trinkets" that sit with a Head of House--the Von Snyder Plate and the House Cup. I was just thinking, what if we generate two more such items, based on other criteria? As a reminder, the Plate is for the House with the most awards at the academic awards assembly; and the Cup is for the House with the most points at end of year. The other items could be for things like school spirit (how many people wear House or school colors at a given event, or how many people show up to support House or school teams, etc), or our "athletic" competitions, or whatever else we want.
I thought it would be fun to provide more opportunities to pass some of these items around; and it could also give the opportunity to have the goal of having a "royal flush" of all four items at once. That being said, I don't think it should go more than four, because then there's just too much. Having four unique items each winnable in different ways seems kind of neat.
As you can see, I've not really thought this through in much detail, so this is all I have to say at the moment. Comment away!
Gaining Enthusiasm
Shawn had mentioned that a good way to inform students about the opportunities, clubs, etc. at Charter was at the new student orientation, which I believe is set for Friday the 7th of August. I would be willing to arm a table with info. (flyer, pins, basic purpose, etc.) and man it for the orientation.
What is the likelihood of having get togethers off campus. For instance at the movies, or coldstone, alumni could even be invited for these inter or intra house gatherings.
What is the likelihood of having get togethers off campus. For instance at the movies, or coldstone, alumni could even be invited for these inter or intra house gatherings.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Getting the "Competition" Rolling
Here are my ideas about getting things rolling--just "spitballing" as they say.
1. If we achieve "universal sorting," great. If not, start setting up the tables week 2. That same week, meet with house captains and prefects to start planning a first "in house" mixer.
2. Sort at the end of week 3.
3. In house welcome week 4.
4. House competition week 5--let's show them something different than dodgeball.
Start monthly competitions.
September (late September)--Academic League style--round robin or single elimination. This could also publicize Academic league. As we won't have started Academic League (probably), we can use more than just Friday on this.
October--screen the scariest movie of all time: Mary Poppins.
November--I LOVED our Thanksgiving celebration following Saxon Day. I think it would be cool if we could get short skits from each house into Saxon Day.
1. If we achieve "universal sorting," great. If not, start setting up the tables week 2. That same week, meet with house captains and prefects to start planning a first "in house" mixer.
2. Sort at the end of week 3.
3. In house welcome week 4.
4. House competition week 5--let's show them something different than dodgeball.
Start monthly competitions.
September (late September)--Academic League style--round robin or single elimination. This could also publicize Academic league. As we won't have started Academic League (probably), we can use more than just Friday on this.
October--screen the scariest movie of all time: Mary Poppins.
November--I LOVED our Thanksgiving celebration following Saxon Day. I think it would be cool if we could get short skits from each house into Saxon Day.
House Points
Is there any way to look and see how the house points were distributed last year? My guess is that the results were predetermined based on the class rosters of the teachers that participated the most. I rarely gave any points to Conor last year because I had very few students from Conor on my roster, especially compared to Halcyon and Sideris.
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