Minutes
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Roy Flores joined from 1:30-2:00pm to discuss concepts about the how the process of the proposed Student Center can be organized. We identified several areas to keep focus on. We briefly discussed strategies for raising money, decision making with the creation of a committee, and creating a vision for future students and campus community members. The most important of these in establishing and maintaining open communication with the facilities department on campus. We also explored some potential ideas and visions for the Student Center itself. We interviewed a potential candidate for additional Student Administrative Council team member positions. We then worked through items on our agenda for the main portion of our meeting.
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Public Meeting Minutes - Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This was the second public meetings held in the Green Room by the Student Administrative Council. This meeting was held in the evening to give those students not available for our last meeting a chance to get involved and share in our efforts to better this school. Again this meeting was designed to be an information sharing session in which we as council members could share some of the things that we have been doing to enhance student life here on campus. By inviting two guests to speak our goal was to have an open dialogue to get down to some real issues students face. Although one of our guests was not able to attend the meeting we feel like we were successful in our goal. We received some wonderful feedback from the audience and some suggestions about how we can further the work that we do to.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
We began our meeting with an overview of yesterday’s Strategic Planning Committee Meeting which was held in the ED building. We briefly discussed the questions we had and the fact that we had questions about the process in general. In recognizing this, we will work to foster confidence in the students in the cabinet who are working on other campus committees. Questions arise for a reason and we all should have the confidence to ask them especially in regards to the important decisions being made on these committees.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, October 28, 2008
As a group, we reported back to each other about several topics and areas of work that we have been involved with. The focus of this meeting was around these topics as well as the upcoming public meeting for the evening of Thursday, November 6th. We hit the points briefly in order to continue with our method for tightening up our meeting times.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
In this meeting we gathered to discuss a refinement of our meetings as a process. In particular, we want our meetings to be more focused and action item oriented. Thursday meetings in particular will be held in the format of revisiting prior action items for basic info and updates. Our goal is to maximize the output of our meetings in a way which will allow time for regular work to be conducted in our allotted time for the day. With this format in mind we should be able to knock off a fair amount of time on our Thursday meetings. Being mindful of this as a goal is also important to achieving more productive meetings. Our Tuesday meetings may also benefit from this as we learn to organize the time we have to get the most done.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
We were joined by Kendall Harris at this meeting to be briefed about the focus groups which are going to be held by Sodexo Inc. in the beginning of November. Sodexo (http://www.sodexousa.com/) is a nationally recognized evaluation firm. They will be holding these meetings for students on:
* Tuesday, November 4th at 12:45-1:45 & 5:00pm-5:45pm
* Wednesday, November 5th at 10:15am-11:15am
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Public Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 16th, 2008
This was the first of what will be many public meetings held in the Green Room by the Student Administrative Council. This meeting was designed to be an information sharing session in which we as council members could share some of the things that we have been doing to enhance student life here on campus. We went over some reports ranging from our schools current security protocols to the results of a survey taken at the Welcome Barbeque. We discussed how to sell and buy books on our new Online Book Exchange and how to navigate our wonderful website. We received some feedback from the students during the question and answer portion of the meeting and successfully communicated to students how they might get involved in campus business and activities. The meeting went very well and we are all proud to have reached this milestone.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
ESL Student Welcome: SAC needs to have a presence at these events with the goal of making students feel welcome, awareness of resources, availability of assistance. Jeffery is targeting this group because the rates on ESL Students that are successful at north are failing. The ESL demographic needs to have connections established and emphasized. Sixteen Faculties will be involved and using class time to be so; they will also be bringing their students.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Thursday, September 25th, 2008
We had a list of items to discuss during this meeting, some of which we did not get to. As requested prior to the meeting, we allocated thirty minutes for discussion of our meeting/tele-conference with the Joint Oversight Access Group and members of the Higher Education Coordinating Board before moving on to other items.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Alexis opened the meeting with a role playing game to help develop individual “elevator speeches”. There were several questions that were asked of each person and the answers were recorded to help shape our answers.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - September 10, 2008
9:00-10:20: Discussions opened with Janet reviewing the hierarchy of North Seattle as well as an overview of our relations as a school district. Throughout our time together members of SAC have expressed desire to learn more about school operations as well as an administrative overview.Janet outlined North’s administrative setup. Attached are copies of Seattle School District organizational charts for our review.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - September 07, 2008
The first hour of this meeting we discussed various technology which is available for our use as well as the desire to create a position for a software developer who would be available for advice and implementation of software tools for our organization. In theory, these tools would be utilized to increase productivity and maintain organization. Some suggestions are:
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SAC Meeting and Minutes - Thursday, July 10th, 2008
We had a productive meeting regarding project management applications which we could use to facilitate our work and goals. We discussed a variety of options from subscription services to free and open source Google Apps. We identified some of the benefits and limitations we may incur from using either of these options and decided we would go with Google Apps. There is a lot of technology and service provided by these applications that will no doubt, with some work and effort, become a good foundation for keeping track of our work on the SAC.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The purpose of today’s meeting was to clarify summer work expectations, training schedules, next steps etc. We had a candid discussion about time commitments and expectations. Though this may have been somewhat uncomfortable we welcome and encourage honesty and tough conversations. In the long run candid communication will strengthen our effectiveness and teamwork and overall satisfaction and success.
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Work Session Meeting Minutes - Friday, June 20, 2008
Everyone arrived at the meeting not only on time but early! This is a good indicator. It shows that we have hired the right people and that we are off to a successful start! Within in a few minutes we launched right into the first agenda. Feeling that he might be moving too quickly Jeffrey paused briefly to mention that he tends to be task focused but understands the importance of balancing meeting work with the social interactions that makes work enjoyable. He encourages us to help him create this balance. A question was raised about taking minutes. Jeffrey explained that since this is a leadership development program this responsibility will rotate among members. Taking minutes (documenting work and decisions) is a critical tool that is used to keep teams focused and on task. By the end of the year we want all of our team to be
skilled and confident in documenting useful minutes.
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