Curriculum Council

Welcome!Prayer and Introductory Remarks will follow lunch – please enjoy your meal

and fellowship!In gratitude for our food and place to meet we’d like to thank

Lord, during this Lenten Season,nourish us with Your Word of life and make us one with You in love and prayer. 

Fill our hearts with Your loveand keep us faithful to the Gospel of Christ. Give us the grace to rise above our human weakness.Give us new life by Your Sacraments, especially the Mass. 

Father, our source of life, We reach out with joy to grasp Your hand; let us walk more readily in Your ways. Guide us in Your gentle mercy, for left to ourselves we cannot do Your Will

What teachers want in Professional Development days: (8)

 • To be motivated, uplifted and feel good about teaching in a

Catholic School• To make good use of their time• Have time with their peers and share ideas• Good advance communication• Clear directions and goals• More small group time• Good information to support task at hand• Authentic activities

Theme of Conference: Catholic Educators Make a World of DifferenceIntent: To provide an education experience that is fun and upliftingEvent décor: Airport/Around the World Theme

Décor Plans:

Airport signs and decorations: Charlotte area PTO, led by Rochelle Stewart will be at CCHS on Thursday to decorate

“Rhapsody in Blue” may be playing be playing (theme of United Airlines)

Snack Carts available in halls

Raffle table with “Around the World” theme

Lunch in “Little Italy”

HELP needed: Anyone who can stay and help PTO take down decorations will be appreciated

March 28th Diocesan In-ServiceCharlotte Catholic High School

March 28th Curriculum and Technology Conference Agenda         "Catholic Educators Make a World of Difference"

8:30 a.m. Arrival and Continental Breakfast Welcome, Visit the Health Fair9:00 AM Prayer Service9:20 AM Welcome, Honoree and Keynote Panel10:00 am General Session 1: Presentations11:00 am General Session 2: Presentations, Raffle Drawing12:00 noon Lunch (Vegetarian Pasta Bar, provided), Visit the Health Fair1:00 pm Session 3: Sharing Session (Curriculum/Grade Level Groups - PLC Groups)2:00 pm Closing Session (Remarks, Teacher Tribute, and Raffle Drawings)2:30 pm Dismissal

Wireless Access and Tech Support:

• CCHS wireless guest access has been increased to handle the number of guests expected

• IT will take down blocks on YouTube, Facebook, etc. – and will be available to trouble shoot network issues

• Tech Support – The diocese is providing 2 on-site tech support guys to help get presenters online and connect projectors/tv’s etc.

• Patty suggests that we have a HELP desk in the main office with a walkie-talkie to the tech support guys – I’ll talk to IT about this

• HELP needed: Someone to man a HELP desk

8:30 a.m. Arrival and Continental Breakfast , Registration

• PTOs from the Charlotte area are bringing breakfast items which will be available from 8:30 to 10am

• Aladdin (CCHS’s cafeteria provider) is supplying coffee and all the accoutrements

• Student musicians from Holy Trinity may be playing during registration time

• HELP needed: Setting up, making sure people get what they need (Rochelle Stewart)

Morning Registration Plans:

• The Registration Tables will have teacher’s Name Badges. The badges will have the presentation session and meeting room information printed on them. Conference bags (donated by Add Logos), filled with snacks and give-aways (donated by PTO’s) and the program will be given out.

• DECISION: Pin-type or Lanyard• Pin cost is $175 for 700. • Lanyard style is going to cost $800- $1100 (cost

of the kit is much higher and cost of the lanyard is added as well)

• DECISION: How to manage the Registration Table• By school or alphabetical?

• HELP needed: Manning the Registration Table

Health Fair

Human Resources organized a Health Fair with United HealthcareVendors include: Most are bringing give-awaysDefinite:• United Healthcare• US National Whitewater Center• Lifexcel Carolina (nutritionist)• Great Harvest Bread Company• Gold’s Gym • Costco • Earth Fare - Healthy Supermarket• Group Benefit Solutions• MetLifeTentative:• Run for Your Life• EMS (running)• American Heart Assoc.Maybe:• Massage Envy• Fresh Start Nutrition• Smoothie King

Health Fair Setup

Steve Carpenter (CCHS) will arrange tables/chairs/wireless for the vendors. Probably in the areas outside/near the cafeteria

DECISION: How long should the vendors stay? • Leave after lunch• Leave after 2:30• Leave after 3pm?

HELP needed: Vendor check in- help vendors during event• Karen Verney (HR) will be main coordinator

• Your Thoughts/Ideas about Health Fair?

9 am – Prayer Service

• Charlotte Catholic’s MJ Dawson is creating the Prayer Service • Msgr. McSweeney will celebrate the service• I don’t know yet if there will be music • MJ indicated the prayer service will be about 10 minutes

Welcome, Honoree and Keynote Panel:

• Janice will give a brief welcome • Kevin O’Herron (St. Matthews Principal) will introduce the

honoree – Msgr McSweeney as our nominee for NCEA Pastor of the Year

• Msgr. McSweeney may give a brief address• Keynote speech has been changed to a Keynote Panel (explain).

Panelists are: (about 5 minutes each)• Theme: Catholic Education - To Me

• Sandy McMonagle• Allana Ramkissoon• Jeremy Kuhn

10-10:45am Session 1

We have 37 and 36 presentation in each session for a total of 73 presentations and about 98 presenters

• Registrations:• We are capping sessions at 25. • I’m closing sessions that reach 25 registrations. 3 are

closed so far:• Session 102: Closer Look at Attention, 214 Movement,

Meditation and 234 Anxious Thoughts• Also about to be closed is Appy Hour, Brain Research,

Digital Learning, Daily 5 and Substance Trends

• HELP needed: get your teachers to complete the registrations. Let them know that they will be Assigned a class if they don’t register

• HELP needed during Presentations: Need people to help check on presenters to make sure they are connected, have everything they need

• DECISION: Lower class registrations• Should we send out the number of attendees and let

presenter decide to hold class? Should we set a number?

11-11:45am Session 2 Between sessions we hope to encourage visits to the Health Fair THOUGHTS? How to encourage this but get to session on time?

• Session 2 Raffle: “Around the World”• Patti Dickson , Rochelle and I met to plan the raffles. • Rochelle and I purchased 36 – Around the World gift sets from

World Market this weekend to be raffled off during Session 2 (must be present to win). • Plan: At the end of Session 2 the Presenter will ask each

attendee to pull out the “luggage tag” tucked into their name badge for the raffle (extras will be supplied in case of loss). The Presenter will pull the winning ticket. The winner will go to the “Duty Free Shop” to choose which prize they would like. We had a budget of $15 per prize and were able to do much better because we asked for a discount and got a 25% off coupon! All gifts must be claimed by 1pm or they will go into the general raffle at the end

• HELP needed: • 1. Someone to go around at the beginning of Session 2 to all the

presentations to make sure they know what is going to happen• 2. 2-3 people to handle the Prize Table (coordinate with Patti

Dickson)

Lunch: 11:45 – 1pm

Menu: Pasta with Marinara or Alfredo SauceBread SticksTossed Salad with Assorted DressingsBrownies and CookiesBottled WaterIced Tea

Catered by Bryan Hall - Aladdin – cost is $6.95 per person

This is also a good time to encourage visits to the Health Fair.

Sharing Sessions: 1pm – 1:50 pm

PreK-5 is meeting at grade level6-12 meeting by subject area

Facilitators: Contacted people in each area, most have replied and agreed, I’ve only had to find a couple of substitutes

Format is being left to the discretion of the groups. I’m providing the contact lists. There will be about 45 meetings going on, including a diocesan principal and assistant principal meeting.

HELP needed: ? Can you think of anything?

Closing Session: 2-2:30pm

Teacher Tribute Video- being created by the high school students in the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council, representing all schools in the diocese

Honoree: Coach Oddo, Charlotte Catholic High School (still working on this)

Thank you’s etc.

Big Raffle: To be conducted by Msgr. Mo WestMust be present to win, everyone will have a chance to win – even previous prize winners: • iPad Mini• $250 portrait session• Gift Cards• At least 10 other large and small prizes• Unclaimed “Around the World” prizes• Still working on this - if anyone gets a prize donation please

contact us and we’ll add it to the list

Regarding the conference:

Your Thoughts, Ideas, Suggestions……

Other Curriculum news:

Catholic Schools Professional Development Sessions with Nic Finelli Blended Tech Learning:Tomorrow: iPads: Essential Apps, Evaluating Apps and Classroom Management

this class is fullApril 3rd: SMART NotebookSomething old, something new, something interesting for youApril 10th: Google in Education EcosystemMay 1st: Creative MacsClasses held at the Pastoral center, $60 per class, 0.5 CEUs (3 hrs in class, 2 hrs out of class implementation/presentation)

About the next Curriculum Council meeting:

• Ideas to work on?• Summer Learning Institute?• Next Meeting:

Where, When

Other business?

Thank you so much for coming and for all your support!