Summary
11/29/99 meeting at Lincoln High School 3:45-5:00 PM

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John Stanford International School at Latona Elementary
Mission:  To Educate and prepare all students to achieve today 
and tomorrow in a global community and economy.
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recorder: Michele Anciaux

PRESENT:  
Michele Anciaux, Paul Aoki, Gordon Luke, Margreet de Leeuw,
Chris Nielsen, Rik Katz, Larry Strickland  
(and many others - mostly teachers)

NEXT MEETINGS:
  
December 6     3:45-5:15 at Lincoln
-  talk about 3 issues:  6 1/2 hour day, how to address teachers, uniforms
 (parent/community input welcome too)

December 13    3:45-5:15 at Lincoln
-  review the School/Family/Community Starting Points survey results
-  talk about the National Standards for Foreign Language in relation
to immersion and FLES programs  (the "5 C's" - Communication,
Culture, Comparisons, Connections, and Communities)

UPDATES FROM 11/29/99 MEETING

1.  Spanish classes through Seattle Central Community College
- taught by Lynn Kodama
- classes for staff have been going for some time
- classes for parents just began

2.  Banner Raising at Latona  -  December 9  9:25-9:55
- Thanks to Marilyn Hawkins - ATT has donated 300 rain ponchos
for the kids.  Also have hardhats with JSIS sticker.
- Each grade at Latona will be putting something in the time capsule.

3.  Fund Raising - Technology Update from Paul Aoki
- Estimates from proposal for 6 computers for each of 16 classrooms;
plus 16 teachers, and 32 in the computer lab  = 144 machines;
about $2500/machine = $400,000.
- With Internet 2, need special board for computer ($1000);
- Projection system needed for classrooms too
- Connection cost for Internet 2 is $2600/month (who pays?)
- Louis Fox from the UW thinks that he and Karen will be able
to find major donors to supply technology needs.

4.  Needs assessment for Regla (for January visit)
- staff is still filling out these forms.  (Regla will be visiting
Latona in late January, observing classes and making 
suggestions.)

5.  Community Liaison/School to Careers job opening
- Chris has submitted the form to the district; should be
advertised soon

6.  Update on November 13-14 Primary Years Program Training
in Melville NY (Concie, Nani, Margretta)
(Primary Years Program is the elementary level program
run by the International Baccalaureate program - which is best
known for providing IB degrees in high school.)
- Overall impression was that some info could be useful for JSIS,
but the PYP is pretty costly and doesn't really provide an intl
focus (it's more about integrated curriculum, which Latona is already
starting to do).

7.  Jan. 22 10-1 "What's next after preschool" at SCCC
- need some volunteers to staff a booth (PTSA will pay for it)
to encourage preschool parents to send their kids to JSIS

8.  Cindy Chang and Anita (?) working on UW Committee to
develop "Internet Marketplace" for UW/JSIS Partnerships,
for matching UW people/resources with JSIS needs

9.  Technical meeting with Seattle S.D. December 9
for all "new" schools to look at technology needs.
- Paul and MaryBeth will be attending from UW.
- Lucie and Magretta from Latona.

10.  Report on Port Ludlow Retreat
- Handed out UW Support brainstorm list with teachers,
and proposed timeline from Cherry, cochair of UW committee

- Michele handed out sample reports from the database
we've created that pulls together a variety of world language
standards and curriculum goals and topics.  Teachers can 
review these and see how we'd like them formatted to be
most useful.  (The purpose of this effort is to provide a
context for the language instruction at JSIS so that we know
how it fits into national and other state foreign/world language
standards.)

- Michele also handed out two reports from Office of Supt
of Public Instruction on teaching reaching in ESL setting
and curriculum guide for bilingual programs. 

- Michele reported that we have tallied the results of the
"Starting Points" survey of School-Family-Community
Partnership Practices that was done by two staff, one
parent, and Karen at the retreat.  (We'll share these results
after we get other surveys completed - see #11.)

11.  "Starting Points" survey of School-Family-Community
Partnership Practices 
- The folks at the meeting completed this survey (in groups)
- Their survey sheets will be posted in the teachers' room
so that other Latona teachers can add their votes
- Margreet will work with PTSA to get more parent input too
- If the surveys can be returned by Dec. 6 meeting, Michele
will tally the results to share at Dec. 11 meeting