Meeting+Minutes

__**09/16/2010**__ I will post Angela's notes to the wiki since she is having problems getting on here. Hopefully Dr. Rea will be able to help her.

Team Leader: Renee'

Recorder: Angela

Contributing Members: Gwendelyn and Kasandra

During our meeting on September 16th we agreed to continue looking for articles on school reform, and try to post at least 2 by next meeting. The articles need to be pertinent to our project though all may not possibly be used. There is so much going on for all of us that we agreed to share articles though perhaps this would be done after skimming and finding it beneficial though the entire articles may not be read. Our group doesn't feel the need to summarize the articles as by clicking on the links to each, our team members can peruse the abstract to see if they find it beneficial for our project.

Our group also decided that it is important to look over questions one and two and bring thoughts for discussion at our next meeting which will convene after class on September 23, 2010.

Please note that Renee' will not be in attendance at our September 30th meeting due to a schedule conflict with Curriculum Night at her school.

__**09/23/2010**__ Kasandra, Renee, and Gwendelyn met tonight after class. Kasandra is the recorder and Gwendelyn is the team leader.

The staffs at Hickory Ridge high school are divided and have a poor relationship with each other. The older crowd are resistant to learning new technology techniques and the younger staff are good. The older staffs have been in the community in for a long time and understand the environment. The students have low achievement scores and not motivated to do their best (we need to understand the culture of the students to capture their interest). The school needs social and team building activities. We need to make the staff a cohesive unit. Maybe the first thing we need to do is create a mission as a team. We are also going to find a way of implementing technology within the school. We are going to look for team building journals and research.

__**10/07/2010**__ Gwendelyn, Angela, Kasandra, and Renee met tonight after class. Gwendelyn was appointed recorder, and Kasandra team leader. Contact information was exchanged and we decided to post it as a page on our Wiki for easy access.

Tonight, we divided up the paper into assignable parts including the 'elements' from pg. 416 in our text to guide us in research and starting to write our individual portions of the group paper. The following designations were made:

1&2 (and team building) - Kasandra 3&4 - Angela 5&6 - Gwendelyn 7&Introduction and Conclusion - Renee

We are each going to research material to support our individual portions of the paper, all with an eye toward the initial/overall problem at Hickory. Each team member will post their research to the Wiki. Each team member will create an initial set of PowerPoint slides to support their part of the research, and Kasandra has volunteered to be the tech guru who will put them all together for one, fluid presentation.

It was decided that we will meet after class next week.

Angela will not be at class Oct. 14th, and Reneee will not be at class Nov. 4th.

Team Leader: Renee'
 * 10/20**

Recorder: Angela

Contributing Members: Gwendelyn and Kasandra Continue researching your piece of the PBL. Angela ad a concern over the meaning of risk taking. The group defined it as using new and innovative programs that may be in the beginning phases of research. Next meeting will occur on October 28th at 5:00 in our classroom. Everyone should bring their laptop and be nearing the end of research for theie piece of the project. Next meeting we will begin placing our selected topics together to form a rough outline of our group's project.

Next Meeting: October 28th @ 5:00pm

Team Leader: Angela Recorder: Gwendelyn Contributing Members: Kassandra and Renee
 * 10/28/2010**

We met in the classroom and worked until just before 8pm on both our individual parts of the paper and piecing them all together. The vast majority of the individual portions of the paper are complete, and the rest are to be completed on our own and sent to Renee for incorporation into the final paper. Renee has been circulating to all members the working copy of the paper for each of use to continually review and contribute to the revision process. Each person will pull information from their parts of the paper to put on PowerPoint slides and send them to Kassandra our PowerPoint guru. I believe that Reneee stated that she will not be at class next week. No meeting has been set for next week as all work and discussion will more than likely take place over the wiki and via email.


 * 11/04/2010**
 * We agreed on updating our paper through wiki and adding the date it was updated on the top so everyone is aware on what has been reviewed. Everyone will post there ideas for the PowerPoint's page.**