Cheryl writes:
Kristen, Francine and I met for our first "official" TLLP meeting in Kincardine on Tuesday April 22nd. We had a huge agenda and worked hard to get through it. What a great team we are! We divided jobs in an attempt to conquer yellow sticky lists and then met back to celebrate periodically during the morning. We discussed our plan and made some worthwhile decisions about the where, what, when, how and why of our proposal.
We established a time line for when we would pull folks together to moderate on French writing. We got our budget code and are ready to roll financially! Yeah! We created lists of how to group teachers and grades to best accommodate needs and discussed our strengths at each division. That was fun as we are all primary teachers! LOL.
In the afternoon we prepared our initial presentation to FI teachers so that the message is clear and delivered in the same way. We are excited to get folks on board and realize how much this proposal is a collaborate effort that requires the input from all stakeholders. We are excited to create something that reflects our Catholicity and is authentically ours!
We worked on organization of information collected thus far and created binders and a bin to keep us on the right path. Francine took on the job of recording the minutes from our chart papers. The room was well decorated by the end of the day! Kristen will keep the blog going and we will all add to it as we learn and grow through our journey. I will take care of the finances and submit to the board. As far as implementation of the proposal we will share that equally.
I feel blessed to be part of this amazing team. The day was super productive and the enthusiasm was contagious. We are ready to proceed on this learning adventure!
Cheryl
