Kennedy School Family Community Partnership Team Meeting
Minutes from Meeting
Thursday, September 13th
7- 8:30pm

The meeting came to order at 7pm.
Introductions were made by all members in attendance. (See attached list for attendees).

Principal’s News: Don Perry reported that KJHS won a School Partnership Award from Johns Hopkins University, third year in a row. Congratulations to the team; Thanks go to Lisa Trycta and Jessica Jozwiak for their efforts and reporting.

 Mr. Perry also reported about building issues:
    We have 1148 students at KJHS this year.
    We added a new section of PI this year. This meant 6 new classrooms. We are crowded, but dealing with this well.
    We have all exits under surveillance; children who use the outside pod have swipe cards for the pod and the entrance into KJHS.
    We have the buzzer at the office, so visitors must see office personnel in order to enter the building.
    We are off to a great start.

Home and School Update: Annette Loritz reported that the first Home and School Meeting will be September 27 at 9am at KJHS. Please join us.

SFCP Overview:  Lisa Kolick gave a PowerPoint presentation on the organization and framework of SFCP. She highlighted the framework and the research from Johns Hopkins University.

Programs for 2007-2008: Jessica Jozwiak presented the programs that will be ongoing this year for KJHS SFCP. They are:
            *Support Character Counts Program
            *New Parent/Principal coffee including 6^th grade parents
            *Sixth Grade Survival Guide

*Volunteer Coupon Book

*Open House-Technology Tour with Technology Committee

*New Student Welcome Packet

*Sports Brochure

*Club Brochure

*Support Business Partnerships

*Parent Huddle

*Public relations/communications

Jessica then presented the new programming for 2007-2008.

New Programs:

*Diversity Committee

*Web site support and development 

Jessica requested that any member interested in joining or working on these projects, please sign up on the sheet goin around the room.                       

Final thoughts and input: The question was asked: If you cannot attend meetings can you still volunteer to help? The answer is clearly YES. Please help with whatever you are interested in working on, most work is conducted outside of the SFCP regular meetings.

Submitted by Lisa Kolick on 9/16/2007