“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Schools (Saturday PM)
Convenor: Molly Stoner
Next Meeting:
Participants:
Stu Meggiolaro Jody Normandeau John Pandelaki Kristina Naylor Molly Stoner Sarah & Chris Evans Jared Flynn Amy Dews Enid Wainwright Bob Wainwright Nancy Polseno John Warren Alex Blakeson Aisha Pandelaki Amelia Farnum Rita Ramirez
Saturday P.M.
Sheet 1
Communication and community ownership
Local foods
Parent/staff meetings
Activities that bring people into the school, e.g. walking club
Communication for all community
Kids needs outside school hours
$-communicate immediately when born
Sheets 2 and 3 (Brainstorming?)
Preschool needs / after care/ senior/foster mentoring (working parents)
After school program
Teen groups/programs
Funding to bring back programs
Direct parent/admin. communication
Community resources
Use physical and cultural landscape
Link with community to build investment/buy-in
Local foods à schedule (VT Fresh Network)
Mentoring opportunities
Creative movement of $/resources
Assess why private/homeschoolers not using school – what brings them to us
Educating tax-payers on why so expensive in Dummerston
SIT linkages / multi-cultural
Share language and music with Putney, others
High school BB/BS in Dummerston (does this mean baseball & basketball?)
Use of school building àsocial services/elder care/library
Importance of teaching kids to be civically aware … voting thereAvailable now at school:
1) BB/BS w/ Dummerston kids
2) Meetings re: next year after-school enrichment program
3) Walking program for community members
4) Opportunities for community members to teach mini-units or lessons (communication)Sheet 4 – School Communication Committee
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Visioning for future
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