MINUTES 

Transition Committee Meeting – Thursday, December 8, 2005

Culinary Arts Dining Room/SST – 6:30 PM

 

Present:  Robin Scott, Bill Thompson, Evan Mousseau, Peter Stackhouse, Richard Pratt, Jerry Frew, Vicky Avery, Vic Sokul, Jennifer Kinsey, Angela Lennox, Joanne Pare, Ben Allen, Sam Bruno, Holly Tisdall, Anne Plumer-Fisher, Peg Gaillard, Ellen Cooke

 

Absent:  Christine Coronis, Jim Daley, John LeSage, Roy Morrisette

 

Pledge of Allegiance

 

Committee reports –

                        PR Committee

                        8th to 9th Grade Transition Committee

                        Organization of Students and Faculty Committee

 

Committees gave presentations of their reports.  (These handouts are available upon request).

 

The Transition Committee will make recommendations to the school board on 1/24/06.

 

PR Committee:

PR – Vic noted  the committee put together a presentation to do in the community.  They  have 3 engagements so far:  Jan. 17 -  Exeter PTO; Jan. 18 -  Brentwood Library; Feb. 6  - Exeter Rotary.  Would like to do another taping on channel 22 and picked a couple of dates and would like representation from the other 2 subcommittees.

There will be an update in December from Walter Pierce on the building to the public and then the committees could do their presentations at the same time.

Suggestions for the PR Committee were to target other areas like, library,  embellish the presentation with pictures and then email to people, Exeter library, etc.

 

Vic noted they should feel good about what we have accomplished to this point.  All agreed.

 

Curriculum Philosophy Committee meets in a few weeks and will hear snippets from each report on December 15.  The January meeting will be used to discuss how we should present to the full board. 

 

January meeting date?  12th is primary meeting date  19th  if needed. 

 

Channel 22 - Ellen, Ben and Vic will represent the committees on December 19 at 4 PM at the Town offices in Exeter.

 

It was noted the PR Committee’s report should be in the same format as the other two subcommittees (PowerPoint presentation)

 

What is committee’s function when these recommendations are done…

Vic: Once recommendations  are made we need to reorganize and get on with the move and at the end of next year will need to start thinking about accreditation process again.   Sees our work after January to be done for a while and then maybe in the fall meet again.

 

Roundtable:  great, fine, good, pleased, etc.

 

Meeting adjourned:  8 PM

 

Respectfully submitted,

Mary E. Murphy