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PAC Meeting Minutes – October 20, 2020

No Sweat Fundraiser Report

  • No Sweat Fundraiser – Please contribute to the HB community by making a monetary donation. Money is used to fund items which are not covered in the APS budget.
  • Raised a little less than $30,000 so far this school year.
  • Committee decides what to spend the money on given the requests. There were only about a 1/3 of the normal requests.  No requests for in person activities.
  • 15 requests were submitted and 10 were approved. 5 were not approved because they can be funded in a different way.
  • Theater Department – purchase microphones – have decided to fund half of this because they are not anticipating live performances this year. Art supplies, math team competition, chorus groups to be able to provide a synchronous concert, etc. This all totals about $15,000.
  • A little over $3,000 – gives each teacher $100 to spend in their classrooms however they see fit.
  • $8,000 – for Casey to have discretion to spend for items that come up that need funding this school year.
  • No dissents in the vote, so approval has been given.

Casey’s Report

  • As we come to the end of the quarter – we met with senior parents last night. Lot of going on with college applications.  There has been a lot of adjusting to workloads, virtual learning in all grades.  Many discussions among staff about how long things should take, how to hone and tweak what is happening in classes.
  • Trying to organize different activities for the kids to look forward to such as a virtual Halloween party next week on Friday afternoon.
  • Grade prep day is election day, November 3rd.
  • Return to school – no secondary students are part of level 1 or level 2 at HB Woodlawn except for 10 students who have particular classes at the Career Center. There is no date for when the survey will be coming out for level 3 families.  They are getting information from teachers this week about who will be teaching from home and who will return to teaching in person.  Parents will be asked to indicate how their student will get to and from school.
  • APS is trying to be sensitive to the wishes of teachers. Particularly at the secondary level there may be more opportunities for teachers to teach virtually. APS is listening to teachers and trying to work with them.
  • We are having town meeting every other Friday. This past week, we spent time talking about Halloween.  Our next one we will be talking about students’ opinions on their workload.  We have had great attendance at town meeting so far.

 

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