Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #8 12-18-2013


Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #7 12-4-2013



  • Agenda (3:20 - 4:00)
  • Group Norms
  • Tis The Season
    • Secret Santas
    • 7 Days of Bucketfilling
    • Purple Cow Christmas Party - Friday, December 20th 7:00 @ Annette's House
  • Whatever It Takes
    • Academic Recovery Matrix
      • Update list as of 12.2.13
      • Update Final Whatever It Takes Game Plan Column:
        • Academic Recovery Intervention Options: 
          • 1-2 teachers from each house support students at the  Dec. 14th Saturday School
          • Discuss other options as a house.
    • Behavior
      • WIT Phase 1 students
      • WIT Phase 2 students
  • House Pride Rally
    • Brainstorm activities for Lafayette House Scholars after lunch on 12-20
    • LEADER Award Winners - Update link on house blogs
    • Generals CARE - Canned Food Drive.  Let's Rally!!! and Penny War
  • Looking Ahead
    • School Culture Evaluation/Rubric
    • Student Surveys conducted by History Team
  • Gratitude

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #6 11-6-2013

Nike Inspiration
Agenda (3:20-4:00)

Celebrate Generals and Birthday Cards

Group Norms

Future Story Supports/Interventions:

  1. Academic Recovery
Nuturing the Tree
  1. House Pride Rally Planning Checklist
  2. House Leader Culture Walk Review
  3. LEADER Prep - House Cultural Lesson Friday, November 8th. Review LEADER HANDBOOK for Lafayette House cultural issues to need to revisit.
Gratitude Circle

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #5 10-23-2013

Inspirational Quotes

Agenda (3:20-4:00)

Celebrate Generals and Birthday Cards

Group Norms

Future Story Supports/Interventions:

  1. Academic Recovery
    • All LEADERs will bring Chromebook to update the LEADER Prep-Academic Recovery Matrix during Wednesday house meetings.
    • All phone calls should be completed and updates made in the AR Matrix by next Friday: November 1st.
Nuturing the Tree:
  1. Dean's List Breakfast details
    1. Next Tuesday 9/10
    2. Next Wednesday 11/12
    3. Invitations going home today
    4. Students RSVP to English Teachers
  2. House Pride Rally Planning Checklist
  3. Monster Masquerade this Saturday - Lafayette House chaperoning 
  4. House LEADER Culture Walk this week
  5. LEADER Prep - House Cultural Lesson Friday, November 8th /What do we want to address from a House perspective? (Instructional Use of Technology?)(7 for 7?)

Gratitude Circle

Monday, September 23, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #4 9-25-2013

9.25.13

                                                                    Inspiring!
  • Celebrate Generals/ Birthday Cards
  • Group Norms
  • Halloween Dance sponsored by SOC will be held Saturday, October 26, 2013 8:00 p.m.- 11:00 p.m. (If you are unable to attend please have someone from another house trade with you.)
  • House Pride Rally Status Update - TNHS Survivor 
    • Need four boys, four girls, and two teachers per team.
    • Need two boys and two girls for spirit leaders. 
    • Seniors have asked for different students for each house pride rally. 
    • Freshman - Green, Yellow, Purple, Navy. 
    • Spirit Day Apparel -Dress Code Bottoms all day. 
    • For House Pride Rally they can change into colors but still need dress code bottoms. 
    • Select Quarterly House LEADER Awards
    • Boxes - Herberg, Travis, Horn - Generals Care Award.  
  • Senior Future Story Days
    • Brainstorm from Last Year to This Year
      • Team Building Activities
      • Posters 
      • LEADER Prep Groups. 
  • LEADER Prep Classes for IAs.
  • Plans for after lunch for House Teams
    • Sophomores - First Lunch (11:05-11:30)
    • Freshman - Second Lunch (11:30-11:55)
    • Juniors - Third Lunch(11:55 - 12:20)
    • Seniors - Fourth Lunch or First Lunch
Achievement/Responsibility
Nurturing The Tree
  • Culture Walking - What are we seeing?
  • Share some love

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #3 9-10-2013

Agenda (3:20 - 4:00)
Attitude Reflects Leadership

  1. Celebrate our Generals - Birthday Cards and Student Shout Outs (5 min.)
  2. Group Norming  (1 min)
  3. Rally behind our Sophomores!   Signs and banners by next Tuesday.  Woo Hoo!
  4. Culture Walk Glows and GrowsLeslie and David (5 min)
  5. Culture Walk Schedule (1 min)
  6. Begin inputting into SMART Goal form (establish if possible); need 2-3 questions for data analysis protocol
  7. o   What trends do you see?
    o   What are the implications of the work we are doing?
    o   What is an attainable goal?  Possible Action Step:  LEADER Prep Academic Recovery System is one way to attain our goal (10 min) 

  8. Review identified WIT Behavior Intervention students and Responsibility Contracts if applicable.
  9. Review LEADER Prep Academic Recovery System and begin inputting students
    o  Contact parents and confirm Saturday School Academic Recovery 9.21.13; LP mentor will e-mail failing course LEADERs to let them know the date and to prepare work for the student.  Once confirmed, sign the student up on the living LEADER calendar.
  10. Encourage everyone to meet us at the New Haven City Park no later than 1:30 to walk with our school in celebration of the New Haven Community at the Iron Horse Festival!  Wear TNHS polos and bring a bag of Smarties!!!  Children and significant others welcome to walk as wellJ(1min)
  11. Gratitude Circle (3 min).









Monday, August 26, 2013

Lafayette House PLC #2 8-28-2013

Agenda (3:20 - 4:00)
Dalton Sherman Delivers Inspirational Speech
  1. Celebrate our Generals - Birthday Cards and Student Shout Outs (5 min.)
  2. Group Norming  (1 min)
  3. Culture Walk Glows and Grows- Tori 
  4. Culture Walk Schedule (5 min)
  5. Discipline Data Sharing
    • What trends do we see? 
    • What are we paying attention to as a group?
    • What may be occurring that we are ignoring? If anything.
    • Are there any blind spots in the data?
  6. Generals on our radar? (5 min) 
  7. Ideas for House Pride Rally (15 min)
  8. Potluck Reminder(1min)
  9. Gratitude Circle (3 min).

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

In The Jungle


First HOUSE PLC Meeting! - 8.14.13

Agenda (3:20 - 4:00)
  1. Celebrate our Generals - Birthday Cards and Student Shout Outs (5 min.)
  2. Group Norming - How do we live in these meetings? (10 min)
  3. Culture Walk Schedule (5 min)
  4. Generals on our radar? (5 min)
  5. LEADER Prep Roster Review 3 min)
  6. LEADER Prep Lesson Review (15 min)
  7. Gratitude Circle (3 min).