Introductions

Approval of Agenda
Approved

Approval of Minutes
Approved

Round Table

1. Summit:

   • Summit has a new school web site that posts school events, permission forms and class forums and really improves the school-family communication

   • Upcoming field trip by 7/8s to Macskimming to do multi-year team building

2. Churchill

   • Do to numbers, there are a few straight 1 and 3 classes this year

   • Planning underway for the impact of full day kindergarten next year

3. Lady Evelyn

   • New principal: Paula Seslar

   • Freedom Fridays: Student-directed projects in multi-age teams being experimented with this fall. ASAC would be interested in a report on this as the project unfolds.

Selection of new Chair
Richard requested that a succession plan be worked on, as he has been chair for over 8 years. Sheri offered to take on an assistent roll but warned that she does travel a fair bit. To be discussed more at the next meeting.

Planning.
After much discussion, review of last years planning items and the May ASAC Meeting minutes, the team brainstormed on what ASAC wants to accomplish this year. Here is the initial list:

Active Items:

1. Tenet Review (Pam, Patty)
   Continuation of the sub-committee work from last year

2. ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) (Dave)
   Opportunity for the Alternative Schools to work with NASA. This may not come to fruition for one to two years, and needs only a limited amount of initial work this year.

3. Program Awareness (Sheri)
   This will come out of the tenet review and will be focused on raising program awareness across the city. It may include preparing the areas outside the greenbelt for a demand survey, as proposed by trustee Rob Campbell. It may also have a goal of preparing an Alternative presentation (slideshow) for various groups, such as OCASC.

4. Joint Resources (Sheri)
   A place to gather common material that can be shared between schools, such as Summit's Supply Teacher primer.

5. Lecture Series (Dave, Dan)
   As a possible follow-up or alternate to the Alternative Activities Day, ASAC may want to plan a lecture or lecture series to be shared across the community. Possibly held in the Summit Auditorium.

6. Review Board Motions (Richard, Frank)
   Review the motions passed by trustees in 2010 and see where we and the board are at on acting on these. Related to this, ask the board to provide Alternative Enrolment numbers by zone.

7. Alternative Instructional Coach (Discuss more at next meeting)
   Can we convince the board to free up (or pull from retirement) an experienced Alternative resource to work with staff across the program on a part-time basis.

8. P4E response with Toronto ASAC (?)
   People 4 Education seem to be reacting to charter schools by championing Community Schools. Do we want to work with Toronto ASAC to respond to P4E on this?

1. Anecdotal Reporting.
   We could push to make anecdotal the default instead of requiring parents to ask for it.

2. Secondary Schools Committee.
   We have been invited to participate, but it is a four year commitment with some meetings during the day.

3. Parental Involvement Committee.

4. Board Strategic Plan

5. Special Education Changes.