Community Meeting Statements

February 13, 2006

Small group themes

What sparks for you about the statements?

What are you curious about?

What resonates for you?

Small breakout groups gave the following statements after the Wisdom Council presented its Statements:

1. We felt strongly about the need to articulate what the next step is – how to include the teachers and administrators – through another WC or an afternoon.

2. Have an afternoon gathering with students, teachers and parents

3. What is alternative education at Salmon Bay?

4. What are the things we can say “at the bus stop” about SB? How do I tell grandma why we chose SB?

a) alternative education is fluid, temporary and not institutional

b) multi-age or looped classrooms

c) SB is student centered

d) SB is holistic and experimental

5. Transportation: Is SB an all city draw?

a) This is a huge benefit

b) How do we work with this?

c) Does this matter or not?

d) Julie D’Aniello is interested in bringing this into focus at school

6. What is our relationship to the school disctrict?

7. Composition of WC groups 1 & 2 – some similarities in participants – there are people who said “Yes” who wouldn’t otherwise be involved

8. Unifying school – some things we want to keep separate, some we want unified K – 8

a) Idea of buddies throughout the school for new families

b) Can catch new families as early as May

9. Respect for the teachers resonates strongly – sustainable job situations – make life easier for the teachers

10. We would love to have teachers on the WC – How do we do this?

11. WC has time limits for participating which might help the teachers

12. Are the teachers ready to participate in the WC?

a) They need to talk among themselves

b) What form could the WC take that would help teachers be involved?

c) Could they have their own WC?