Meeting Minutes - December 4, 2018

• Banquet- looking for ideas to better promote the Pandamonium & increase parent engagement

• Pandamonium- considering making it part of farmers days. The fundraising should be occurring throughout the year as part of the intelligent curriculum.

• Water bottles, AofK, etc- Why? NOT because we're tree hugging environmentalists. Everyone understands that plastic is bad, but not everyone knows recycling is not universal and nota solution. Change starts with you; what can you do? Responsibility & empowerment. These are the best tools at our disposal to teach empathy and compassion. Students want to reuse a disposable water bottle? No- poor leadership. No one else knows its full of tap water & all it does is send the wrong message & undermine our ability to teach the other kids.

• Think about the lion dance, altar, items on the walls; everything has a purpose.

• Don't expect a child to transfer information, notices or concepts to their parents. Talk to the parents directly. 

• Assume children that are acting out, not listening, etc. have some sort of mental limitation. Hands off kids you don't know unless there is a safety issue; physical contact can become a trigger. Students that leave for a duration eg. Cohen Johnson need to be eased back into where they were.

• Avoidance as a strategy with anxiety is common. If you allow a student to avoid the situation you are reaffirming avoidance as a strategy and you are doing the individual a disservice. 

• Animal badges- must be on every uniform. Yitzik to send Khona the spreadsheet from the Tiger Challenge so an animal team winner can be determined. 

Please feel free to fill in the gaps.