Something Very Exciting (9/8/10)

Fainnaly I am getting to do something exciting.  As a matter of fact very exciting.  Today I was asked to attend a meeting to help discuss and develop our after-school tuorial program.  Kimberley Park has always been known to have a syccessful program, which other schools envy. In this area, we are the crem-de-la-crem".  I am excited to be a part of the planning and developing committee.  To make matters greater, we met with the director of the 21st Century program to see how we can collaborate and pool our efforts to make our program even more successful.  As it turned out, I already know Mr. V, because we worked together at my old high when he was a one-on-one counselor for one of my old students.  We establihed the hours of operation for our program.  Then we talked our programs rules and stipulated mandatory parent involvement.  Next we outlined Enrichment and solicited some teachers to to teach various things that would be of interests to our students.  We decided that no child could attend enrichment unless they had also attended tutoring.  Our Principal made tutoring mandatory for students in grades 3-5.  We set up some tentative dates.  One was for our next meeting date and the other for our upcoming parent meeting.  Our program will be up and running by October 4.  We still have a lot of kinks to work out but it was so exciting to be a part of this because it allowed me another opportunity to develop a curriculum.   This is giving me good practice.  By the time I graudate I will be a pro at curriculum development.