Agenda of Board Meeting
January 24, 2008 Peterson Barn, 847 Travois Way, Moscow Idaho
6:30 PM
Agenda:
1. Welcome and updates
2. Approval of Minutes from Jan 10
3. Announcements/Updates
a. Charter Workshop – Boise Jan 29 – Nils to present
b. Summer Expedition – any updates/deadlines?
c. Vision Grant - information on situation
4. Other Grant seeking – Discuss strategy
5. Submission of Charter -Nils
a. Discussion of Tab 4 Measurable outcomes
b. Approval of Budget for PPSEL 2009-2012
6. Web Presence, blog, email, files, collaboration
7. Wrap-up/ review
Dates for Next meetings –
February 14th, Nils’ Barn – Summer Expedition, advisory committee
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Agenda for PPSEL Board 12.17.07
Note meeting is Cafe Silos, not Peterson Barn
6:30-8:00 PM
Cafe Silos on Styner
1. Welcome and updates
2. Approval of Minutes from Nov 25 and Dec 3
3. Approval of Revised Board Job Descriptions – Janet
4. Dates for meeting Jan-May.
5. Advisory Board – general concept orientation
6. Vision Grant. FYI, solicit feedback by email; discuss budget ideas (approve budget and submit Grant at January meeting)
7. Budget for PPSEL year 2009-2012 FYI. (approve budget and submit Charter at January meeting)
8. Mission statement revisions – develop plan to complete this work
9. Wrap-up/ review
Ashley will be sending various documents for review
6:30-8:00 PM
Cafe Silos on Styner
1. Welcome and updates
2. Approval of Minutes from Nov 25 and Dec 3
3. Approval of Revised Board Job Descriptions – Janet
4. Dates for meeting Jan-May.
5. Advisory Board – general concept orientation
6. Vision Grant. FYI, solicit feedback by email; discuss budget ideas (approve budget and submit Grant at January meeting)
7. Budget for PPSEL year 2009-2012 FYI. (approve budget and submit Charter at January meeting)
8. Mission statement revisions – develop plan to complete this work
9. Wrap-up/ review
Ashley will be sending various documents for review
Monday, December 3, 2007
Vision is an image of the future
As part of the process of educating the new Palouse Prairie Board, we have been working on key documents and organizational structures. One of the pieces we found was missing was a Vision Statement. Our November 26 meeting was devoted to talking about our vision for the school and finding words to describe it (appended below). Between then and tonight we drafted various ideas, and Ashley found the following guiding ideas.
Palouse Prairie School of Expeditionary Learning offers an inclusive, respectful and supportive learning environment that nurtures the individual as a thoughtful participant in our local and global community.
Having a vision for education is central to school leadership, because vision is a source of motivation and energy. It powerfully shapes practice within a school community. Thus vision needs to be understood, articulated and owned by the whole school community. It provides both a source of inspiration and a frame of reference for developing professional values.
http://www.becal.org.uk/lc/vision/vision.html Becal I think refers to “British Education Council on Assessment and Learning”
"Vision Statements exist to help to achieve clarification and ownership of the school's overall purpose".
Key Ideas
A vision statement is usually the first part of a three-part statement of purpose. The next part is the mission, which is a concrete and localized statement of intent, and the third part is the values that are implicit in the vision and the mission of the school.
Vision: the ideal destination. It is where the school wants to be. It should be challenging, innovative and forward-looking.
Mission: the route to the destination. A particular expression of the vision that is specific to *this* school given its history, context and circumstances. It is a more practical focus on what the school does and will do than the vision statement.
Values: underpin the vision and the mission. No school is value free and it is important to be explicit about those values that are essential to the school achieving its vision. If values are not made explicit, then the values of the most dominant individuals are likely to be those which actually operate in practice.
Total Quality Toolkit by J. Marsh taken from the BeCal website above.
Vision Statement
(adopted Dec 3, 2007)
(adopted Dec 3, 2007)
Palouse Prairie School of Expeditionary Learning offers an inclusive, respectful and supportive learning environment that nurtures the individual as a thoughtful participant in our local and global community.
The essential role of vision
Vision is an image of the future.
Vision is an image of the future.
Having a vision for education is central to school leadership, because vision is a source of motivation and energy. It powerfully shapes practice within a school community. Thus vision needs to be understood, articulated and owned by the whole school community. It provides both a source of inspiration and a frame of reference for developing professional values.
http://www.becal.org.uk/lc/vision/vision.html Becal I think refers to “British Education Council on Assessment and Learning”
"Vision Statements exist to help to achieve clarification and ownership of the school's overall purpose".
Key Ideas
A vision statement is usually the first part of a three-part statement of purpose. The next part is the mission, which is a concrete and localized statement of intent, and the third part is the values that are implicit in the vision and the mission of the school.
Vision: the ideal destination. It is where the school wants to be. It should be challenging, innovative and forward-looking.
Mission: the route to the destination. A particular expression of the vision that is specific to *this* school given its history, context and circumstances. It is a more practical focus on what the school does and will do than the vision statement.
Values: underpin the vision and the mission. No school is value free and it is important to be explicit about those values that are essential to the school achieving its vision. If values are not made explicit, then the values of the most dominant individuals are likely to be those which actually operate in practice.
Total Quality Toolkit by J. Marsh taken from the BeCal website above.
Words we chose to describe our ideas about PPSEL
(Vision meeting Nov 26, 207)
(Vision meeting Nov 26, 207)
- Active and reflective learning
- Community (for everyone)
- High yet achievable goals, challenging, rigorous, successful
- constructive assessment
- Collaborative, collaboration, interactive way
- Supportive
- explorative learning, curious, active participant,
- safe (physical, cognitive, psychological) learning environment, respectful, respectful participant in our local and global communities
- responsible, personal responsibility
- Inclusive
- ownership
- supported in their efforts to learn
- Innovative
- lifelong learner, passion for learning, self-sustaining adult, life skills
- Excited, joyful
- Environmental, relationship with the environment (outdoor), environmental responsibility
- fun, friendly, warm
- efficient, ordered, professional
- nurturing
- civic engagement
Monday, November 19, 2007
Unapproved mintues from 11/05/07 Palouse Prairie board meeting
First, this is not where I'm envisioning uploading notes from meetings - I just couldn't figure out another place to do it and Nils and I have conflicting schedules today (we work in the same office). So, for the time being this is where they are. Nils had in an earlier post suggested that since these notes are public information, we should be as tranparent as possible and I agree.
November 5, 2001 Peterson Barn, 847 Travois Way, Moscow, Idaho.
Present, Nils, Ashley, Janet, Kirsten, Lahde. Absent: Linda and Donal.
Meeting started at 6:30 and ended at8:08, 38 minutes over targe time.
1. Welcome: Hellos and 1 minute update where we are on our tasks.
3. Address issues related to incorporation: Nils.
4. Address changes to by laws: Lahde
5. Review, Approve and Assign School Board Job Descriptions: Janet
6. Other business.
Notes: first draft of school board job descriptions were unanimously approved. Nils: chair; Linda: vice chair; Janet: treasurer; Ashley: secretary; Lahde and Kirsten: board members. Decided we would try to share our individual vision statement drafts prior to the Nov. 26 meeting so people can prep in advance.
November 5, 2001 Peterson Barn, 847 Travois Way, Moscow, Idaho.
Present, Nils, Ashley, Janet, Kirsten, Lahde. Absent: Linda and Donal.
Meeting started at 6:30 and ended at8:08, 38 minutes over targe time.
1. Welcome: Hellos and 1 minute update where we are on our tasks.
- Ashley: moving forward on vision grant budget and the advisory board job descriptions.
- Lahde: progress on 501 c3 - she'll email us with info requests should she have any.
- Nils: filed IRS form on 10/31; next is due 1/08.
- Janet: collecting info on budget planning.
- Kirsten: working on the vision grant - cutting and pasting from the charter.
3. Address issues related to incorporation: Nils.
4. Address changes to by laws: Lahde
5. Review, Approve and Assign School Board Job Descriptions: Janet
6. Other business.
Notes: first draft of school board job descriptions were unanimously approved. Nils: chair; Linda: vice chair; Janet: treasurer; Ashley: secretary; Lahde and Kirsten: board members. Decided we would try to share our individual vision statement drafts prior to the Nov. 26 meeting so people can prep in advance.
Proposed Vision for Palouse Prairie School
In preparation for our next board meeting, November 26th, I am posting my proposed draft of our vision - please post your drafts as a comment. I'm thinking we can all review the proposed visions prior to our meeting.
Proposed Vision: "Palouse Prairie School will become a leader in expeditionary learning. We will promote active and reflective learning throughout the school community that honors the learner and the learning process".
I initially had thought to include something about environmental stewardship and civic engagement - it's somewhat in the wording of Nils' notes from Boise, but chose not to as both are integral to expeditionary learning.
Proposed Vision: "Palouse Prairie School will become a leader in expeditionary learning. We will promote active and reflective learning throughout the school community that honors the learner and the learning process".
I initially had thought to include something about environmental stewardship and civic engagement - it's somewhat in the wording of Nils' notes from Boise, but chose not to as both are integral to expeditionary learning.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Refining the web strategy
After a Board meeting tonight I'm figuring out more of how to organize the web tools.
This blog now emails to a Google Group (Palouse Prairie), where you can subscribe. The purpose of the blog is to chronicle Board events in detail. There is also a Board Calendar who's RSS appears on this Blog.
For the less addicted, there is another Google Group (Why Palouse Prairie) which can serve as a newsletter for prospective parents. RSS from that also appears on this page.
Google Docs offers a mechanism for posting and editing documents, but the hosting for PDF files is not yet resolved.
This blog now emails to a Google Group (Palouse Prairie), where you can subscribe. The purpose of the blog is to chronicle Board events in detail. There is also a Board Calendar who's RSS appears on this Blog.
For the less addicted, there is another Google Group (Why Palouse Prairie) which can serve as a newsletter for prospective parents. RSS from that also appears on this page.
Google Docs offers a mechanism for posting and editing documents, but the hosting for PDF files is not yet resolved.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Developing a new web strategy
Ashley and I (Nils) were discussing strategies for managing the web presence of Palouse Prairie. Its a public organization, so why do we not make documents public? Why not post most all our business straight to the web?
So, here is where I'm going with that thinking. Blogger (this blog) permits multiple authors posting, so authorize all the Board. Allow comments from people with Blogger accounts.
We already have a Google Calendar. Use it for Agendas and link to Minutes. The Calendar has an RSS feed.
Google Docs allows collaborative writing, and publishing of documents. I can't recall how well it does RSS, but documents could be mentioned in the blog and published from Docs. Docs does not do a great job of formatting, so when a document gets finalized, it should be run through MSWord, then printed to PDF. Its not clear where to store the resulting file.
The website itself is hosted in Google Pages, but last time I was there, it only allowed one person to edit. This is a real problem, which makes that tool unappealing. Perhpas we can dump Google Pages all together. Blogger and Calendar and Docs might do it.
Finally, I have created a PalousePrairie Google Group. This has the advantage that it can allow people to manage their own subscriptions to email. It can be set up are Announce-only. What I'm doing right now is exploring what happens when the blog is linked to send email to the Group. I suspect it will quarantine this post, but maybe (hope) I can teach Groups to just pass through posts.
So, here is where I'm going with that thinking. Blogger (this blog) permits multiple authors posting, so authorize all the Board. Allow comments from people with Blogger accounts.
We already have a Google Calendar. Use it for Agendas and link to Minutes. The Calendar has an RSS feed.
Google Docs allows collaborative writing, and publishing of documents. I can't recall how well it does RSS, but documents could be mentioned in the blog and published from Docs. Docs does not do a great job of formatting, so when a document gets finalized, it should be run through MSWord, then printed to PDF. Its not clear where to store the resulting file.
The website itself is hosted in Google Pages, but last time I was there, it only allowed one person to edit. This is a real problem, which makes that tool unappealing. Perhpas we can dump Google Pages all together. Blogger and Calendar and Docs might do it.
Finally, I have created a PalousePrairie Google Group. This has the advantage that it can allow people to manage their own subscriptions to email. It can be set up are Announce-only. What I'm doing right now is exploring what happens when the blog is linked to send email to the Group. I suspect it will quarantine this post, but maybe (hope) I can teach Groups to just pass through posts.
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