Banana Kelly

DEPARTMENT MEETINGS
REPORT TO ROOMS LISTED by 3:35
Wednesday November 28, 2007
Rap Graph submitted by Karl Boyno from http://jamphat.com/rap/

Schedule Upcoming Professional Participation &

3:35-4:1 5 Department Team Meetings
4:15-4:4 5 UFT Meeting re: Merit Pay
Deliverables
1. Department team minutes via e-mail w/ attendance. Be sure to
explain what kind of progress has been made on your deliverables for
presentation at our staff meeting on Wed. Jan. 9.
Performance Points (P3Points)
1pt – 11.28 Dept. Team Meeting + Minutes via e-mail
1pt – 11.28/29 Cohort Round #3 Observation
1pt – 11.30 Cohort Round #3 Post-Observation
1pt – 11.30 Grade Team Meeting + Minutes via e-mail
3pt – Due 12.7 Advisors collect missing Medical Consent Forms
3pt E.C. – 12.14 For staff who volunteer to help with the UP dance that
evening.

Department Meeting Agenda 3:35-4:15 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 40 minutes

Each team will work on the goals they created on Sept 28th – Dept. heads should have copies of the initial goal sheets created that day to guide your work.
History - ROOM 317 (Amanda B) ELA # 3: DYO TEAM • ROOM 204 (Linda)
Specials + ELA#4• ROOM 205 (Gail) Science • ROOM 307 (Carly)
Math • ROOM 305 (The Dil)

UFT Meeting Agenda 4:15-4:45 TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 30 minutes

Karl couldn’t of known that his Rap Graph would set the stage for today’s discussion and vote about merit pay.
All UFT MEMBERS REPORT TO ROOM 305 (The Dil)

Reminders & Announcements

•MARKING PERIOD #2 ends tomorrow, Nov. 30 grades are due Tuesday Dec 4 @ 3:30 PM
THE ACADEMIC CULTURE TEAM PRESENTS…
COLLEGE SPIRIT DAY
Friday December 7, 2007
The rationale of our first event is to increase student awareness of college options using teachers’ undergraduate alma
maters as points of celebration and discussion.
1. Please e-mail Bethany with your undergraduate college colors: bethany.cureton@gmail.com
2. From there The Academic Culture team will place a pennant with those colors in your mailbox for you to write your
college's name on.
3. On Friday, December 7, please post the pennant on your door and wear your college's shirt and/school colors. This
will be a dress down day for staff.
4. Please take a moment during or at the end of classes Dec. 7 to share some thoughts about your college experience
with students.
•KUDOS to the Student Activities Team for organizing the incredible Thanksgiving Banquet and all the staff that
participated in and supported the celebration. If you want to see a cool slide show from the event ask Kim Burgie to
show you his photos. Reminders & Announcements cont. on next page.
 Reminders & Announcements cont.
• 11th and 12th Grade Advisors DO YOU WANT TO HELP STUDENTS GRADUATE (we’re assuming this is a
rhetorical question)? Please call your advisee’s families and tell parents remind them about Saturday test prep from 9:30 a.m. -
1 p.m.

• REMINDER ON PD ROUND #3 Nov 29:

Cohort 2: 1st Hr visit Ricky Koodie Cohort 3: 3rd Hr visit Jasmine Harper Cohort 4: 7th Hr visit Manal Grant

•REMINDER+CAL CHANGE: PD Cohort Round #4 will be Dec 5-7 . Baylor will be observed in Jen Gowers’ spot on W
12.5 - 6th Hour due to a Jr. field trip. As a result Jen flipped to W 1.09 – 6th Period. Please be mindful of the observation
schedule. Only two changes have been made because of schedule conflicts not because people “don’t like your day.”

•HEADS UP! Many visitors will continue to come by BK in the upcoming months for various reasons. Sometimes, due to
the nature of these visitors’ schedules we can’t always give the kind of advance notice some might like. To those ends it
is important to remember your classroom is a public space and you should always be putting your best pedagogical
foot forward every day with or without an outside observer. COMING SOON: a visit from the Council of School Supervisors
and Administrators President Ernie Logan. Date and time TBA.

IMPORTANT ACCOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS

FROM STUDENT LIFE SPECALIST AMELIA FRANK
DEC. 12-13: STD Screening - (slightly altered schedule for those days)
Now until DEC. 18th: Remember that we have a Battle of the Advisories going on around our Canned Food Drive.
Ask students do donate canned goods to put your advisory on top and help some people along the way.
DEC. 14th: Staff support requested United Playaz Dance that evening. Please see Amelia if you are able to help. 3
extra credit P3 Points will be made available to teachers who participate.
Friday DEC. 21st: Staff/ Student Basketball Game. Schedule TBD.
ADVISORS please make sure all your advisees have filled out Medical Consent Forms. If you’re not sure who has
handed them in or if you need more blank copies, please see Amelia ASAP. Forms were initially handed out at Parent
Night and need to be collected by Friday Dec. 7. This is worth 3 P3 Points in MP3.
COMING SOON: We are planning a day where students can get flu shots.

•THE BK SIGNATURE SPEAKER SERIES: PEDRO NOGUERA FROM NYU author of City Schools and the American Dream
and Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools will be the inaugural Signature Series
Speaker at 3:30 PM Jan 11, 2008. This event is optional for staff but you are welcome to invite peers and colleagues
from other schools to the event.

• JANURARY 31, 2008 = The Bronx Small Schools Collaborative PD. This Event occurs during second semester so it
is not on your present calendar. Three sets of BK staff will be presenting that day. All pedagogical staff are required to
attend the event.

•PARTICIPATE! If you have an announcement you would like to make in the Wed or Fri announcements please send
your announcement to Ryan as soon as possible. Also, please send quotes and cartoons for Wed agendas - I would love
to use words and images you pass along.