March+agenda+and+minutes


 * The following presentation is from the February meeting. Please refer to this if you need a refresher on decisions made last month. **

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 * Agenda for Monday, March 29, 2011 **

1. Summer Professional Development Please think very carefully about the format for PD this summer. Should it be like last year's? More subjects? Less subjects? Chandra is teaching classroom management and would like MTAC team members to provide input. Penny would like input from MTAC team members and their department members on the wall wisher activities. Please provide feedback from departments regarding what they think summer PD needs to look like.

2. Classroom connectivity issues Penny would like to know about connectivity issues: every day, occasionally, several students that cannot access internet, one student...

3. IMPACT Survey Please ask department members to vote on the survey. Administration would like the survey to be scheduled for everyone at the same time on a certain day. Students will take the survey on their laptops. Link is from the Friday Institute and we must complete the survey - it is a part of this IMPACT grant.

4. Forgiveness day in the media center. One day set aside for students to return books- no questions asked. They would not be charged an overdue fee. All overdue books not returned on this day would still be charged an overdue fee. Could possibly put it in the newspaper and parents may return books. Ask Mr. Fitch to put it on his Sunday announcements. Once done, would students never turn in books until Forgiveness day? Could we call it a $1.00 day? Make it a moving target. Don't present it as something that will happen frequently. Team thinks that we need to make a decision. Mary Ann moves that April 4th be Forgiveness Day in the library. Team voted to have Forgiveness Day as a one time thing on April 4th.Bring them in - free and clear. Scarlett suggested that we tie fee payments into prom tickets, drivers' licenses, etc.

Why are teachers and students not able to do updates? Vexira, Defender, Windows update... Ralph said that Lee may have this written into the policy, we are not really sure. Tina will check to see why some are not able to update their own machines.