Brrr...Snow and Ice, Ice and Snow...What is a Lead Team to do?!

Well, since we missed our time together, here is an attempt to get everyone up-todate...

I AM SENDING THE FOLLOWING IN THE COURIER:

- Agenda from last week's meeting

- Student Recognition Handout (Blue - is this what we all agreed on?)

- A Playground Visual (Color - This is what we are going to order - Upper portion for younger students, lower for older. We plan on two spinner bowls and two spicas. Note that the "Glacier" will not be part of the order. We still plan to order benches/tables and exercise equipment). FYI.

- PTA (this is just capturing what we felt the PTA could/should focus on in terms of fund raising to help the school).

- Technology ordering information (Purple - this is the same as we last spoke). FYI.

- Furniture Update - (SEE LINK TO THE RIGHT)

- Mission & Vision (Yellow Handout from Kristi - I added a box on page two that we put some thought to our work from our last meeting. We have a lot of work to do here - I am open to your thoughts. It directly relates to our Book Study reading. SEE LINK TO THE RIGHT).

-Lunch & Tour (Hah! We will make up the tour - more to come)

-Book Study (On hold until we meet again)

-Room Choices (Those who can choose, may choose. I have included a map and expected the tour to help, but if you already know what/where you want, feel free to let me know).

-Art In Public Places (Green - Ken is heading this up and we would like one more member from our Lead Team on the committee. First of six meeting times/place is on the handout, as well as some committee selection and role information. Let me know if you have a passion to serve in this area).

-October 2nd Dedication (This is our date for our official dedication. It will be at the end of the school day...kids, staff, families, builders, ESC folks, perhaps dignitaries, etc. This is the formal ribbon cutting ceremony, but we need to put some thought to whether we want to do anything else - I love Dave's idea of a "Formal Evening". It could take place earlier in the year...just kid/staff presentations, some music, tours, cake, etc. - more of an "Us" thing than the 10/2 larger thing....put some thought to this. I also plan to create a couple summer opportunities for our community families - picnic-type thinking.

-Upcoming Interviews (SEE LINK TO THE RIGHT)

-I also inluded: 1) Meeting Minutes from the last Construction Meeting on site. It is just FYI so you can see what goes on weekly there. 2) A Timesheet for those who have attended a New School Info. Meeting. Jot down the hour you were there, your personal info., sign it, and return it to me.

-OTHER: We are currently scheduled for Feb. 13 AND 15 for our next Lead Team meetings. I will clearly communicate between now and then on how/if we are using those days. It will be smack-dab in the middle of our hiring efforts...more to come. How will we "make-up" our time we missed last week? I don't know right now. My initial thought is that we do have to meet prior to interviews. Therefore, I am thinking of trying to pull a 1.5 or 2 hour meeting of our Lead Team some day after school - I know this may be difficult with everyone's schedules, but I think it is important to get together...again, more to come. We missed 3 Info. Meetings. Right now we do not know what we are going to do to make them up...we will have to do something, but whether we do them all or not will be determined this week by HR. Finally, I am beginning to work on a newsletter for our Edge community. If you have great ideas or want to share anything in it, I'd love to hear from you...I will send out a "draft" before it is sent to families.

Have a super week back! Let me know if I didn't answer something you have questions on. We will be in touch! Take care! -Guy