Agenda 12/3/14 & Minutes 11/19/14

Post date: Dec 3, 2014 3:34:56 AM

Agenda 12/3/14

• 1. Approval of Minutes

  2. Reports

  3. Senior Exam Motion Discussion

  4. Bylaw Revision: Fall Clean-Up

  5. School Dance Discussion

  6. Notes & New Business

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing;

prepare while others are playing; dream while others are wishing.”

— William A. Ward

Council Minutes 11/19/14

• 1. Approval of Minutes

  2. Reports

     • (Mod): Ben is not here, Max is acting as Secretary.

     • (SL): Worked on the quarter 1 survey.

     • (SA): Started European sports week with handball.

     • (Curric): Discussed location of course concern form.

     • (OEC): Started approach to handbook revisions.

     • (Admin): Worked on survey results presentation.

     • (RJ): Started survey.

     • (COI): Continuing discussion of new physics course and homework at next meeting.

     • (Sec): Senior and staff alternates can vote.

  3. Student Life Survey

     • Broke into committees to review survey.

  4. Teacher Web Presence Survey Results

     • Teachers would appreciate consistency, but would rather not try and fix something that is not broken. It is important for students to learn to be self-sufficient. However, an important question is “is there a problem?”

     • See above link for summary.

  5. Teacher Web Presence Survey Discussion

     • Students should learn to adapt to different methods.

     • Teachers should have flexibility to post homework as they choose.

     • Unsettling that teachers spend so much time posting their calendars.

     • Could include how effective the teacher’s distribution of assignments in course evaluation.

     • Bottom line is that the student body is very much in favor of this and it would greatly improve an average student’s daily life.

     • Some teachers really don’t need this system to function as good educators.

     • Eventually all teachers will transfer online and doesn’t need a Council push especially when there are some teachers who are fine without.

     • Nothing in this motion is restrictive, a minimal amount of effort is required on the teacher’s part.

     • This is just to help the last couple of teachers who have not moved to the web.

     • Though we should represent the students, we need to respect the Council minority of teachers who are the ones affected by this.

Meeting adjourns.