Monday, March 11, 2013

March 11 2013 Minutes


Commended Students list
  •  Announce lists together – intensive and rotation
  • Should we change way that teachers allocate points?

·         Should we continue to make it all about effort?
o   Notes of praise v. commended students list
o   Don’t want to take away academic recognition
§  History of program: replace honor roll, wanted to make a culture of success (public acknowledgement of student academic success)
§  Don’t want to make it an “A for effort” thing?
·         Can we make faculty take it more seriously
·         Make it mandatory for the faculty
·         Should it be private or public
o   Not enough academic recognition
o   Is having 40 names read aloud at once diminish value of list?
·         Do we need to normalize how we’re commending people: what makes someone “commendable?”
·         Should not be for the sake of spreading academic recognition (don’t recommend students who were commended last semester)