2024-04-05 Meeting notes

2024-04-05 Meeting notes

Date

Apr 5, 2024

Attendees

 

  • @Erin Soward @Adriana Threet 

 

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

Time

Item

Who

Notes

15min

Outdoor Classroom

Everyone

10min

Licensing cleaning, wishlist items, and book donations

Kari

  • Remember classroom cleaning and checking off daily log

  •  Let Kari know if get a wishlist item so she can let people know (to avoid duplicates)

10min

Water Pump Reminders

Stephanie

  • Silver buckets are for water only, not sand

  • Do not wash hands in water pump, use bucket of water (then rinse) and pour water into sand NOT river bed

  • Make sure to fill big holes after digging

  • Redirect kids from digging next to broken stumps

  • One person pumping at a time, line goes behind. This is to avoid children falling off the rock

10min

Medication Reminder

Stephanie + Kari

  • Be sure that all paid adults have a knowledge of the allergies and know how to administer medications such as inhalers and epi pens 

  • Make sure you have a plan of who will supervise other kids, who will call 911, who will go to the office

  • Make sure you know if medication was administered at home, you know how long you have to wait between doses, etc.

30min

Undergrad Debrief and Planning

Everyone

  • Discussing how to frame discussion in a way that initiates conversation and questions "Ask me a question" instead of "Do you have any questions"

  • Bring up examples of ways you have seen them interact through the day

  • Giving undergrads a chance to talk through interactions and instructions with other undergrads

  • Walking through their goals in the beginning so they have language around it after

  • Making sure undergrads understand developmental indicators so they can create meaningful anecdotes

  • Helping them understand guidance strategies through their communication in their personal lives 

  • "Clarity is kindness" - be clear with children and adults with what you want them to do

  • Material wheel to get undergrads thinking about their projects and materials and their perimeters 

 

Emergency Procedures

Amy

  • Read handbook for detailed emergency procedures

  • Request to practice and go over procedures more often to know where we are confused 

  • Request to make drills more realistic 

  • Creating medication meeting at the beginning of each semester with teaching team and Kari and Stephanie

  • Shelter in place: Stay inside and lock doors, Danger nearby but not imminent. If you are outside come inside.

  • Lockdown: Use whistle to signify "something important is happening" and children need to run to teacher to go inside. Make sure magnet is pulled and door is locked - depends if threat is lobbyside or outside

  • Read parent handbook

Action items