E-Day, A-Block YAC Meeting-Service-Learning Office

Agenda: YAC will continue to meet on E-Days, A-Block on a weekly basis. We will no longer meet at the Harper Wing. We will meet at the Service-Learning Office. Students in Debate Club or unable to attend meetings due to conflicts, seeking extra help, or making-up work can keep up with YAC meeting information through this blog.

1. New guidelines for YAC and Service-Learning next year
2. Home Groups
3. Casady Book Fair: Volunteers needed to motivate people to donate for Guild
4. National Volunteer Week-Charity Water Week-STUCO Crazy Fun Week-Earth Day (April 19-24)
5. YAC Quilt
6. YAC T-shirt
7. Six Billion Paths to Peace Retreat in San Francisco, August 13-15 ( We must leave a day early and we will consider staying one day after)


Meeting Minutes: Braden, Elizabeth, Nicole, STUCO President, Andrew, Jerry (Consultation)

YAC Consultation: Jerry provided the opportunity for a teachable moment of YAC's new role next year. He was seeking for a service option to complete the requirement. After a Q/A session, Jerry will attend the Saturday site visit to the Vineyard. He was provided instructions on how to get there. He will explore teaching computers to the elderly. His only concern is going alone. Mrs. Clay will try to find a partner. Jerry is also considering Project Ignition.

1. New guidelines for YAC and Service-Learning next year The requirement is still 45 hours, but reflection is not required. YAC members will continue to promote group reflection and will create service opportunities for the entire school next year. They will also be advisors to classroom teachers like Josh and Mrs. Zesiger have been this year to Miss Bornhoft and her carbon footprint project in Spanish IV. Teachers with service in the curriculum will provide hours and reflect their students. Mrs. Clay just will add hours to the transcript. For projects away from the curriculum, students will only need a site supervisor evaluation. Proposals will be recommended, but not required. The 35 hour internship requirement for sophomores is new. It is a career exploration internship with resume building and practices for job interviews. Service-Learning and YAC will help students find internship possibilities to job shadow two to three possibilites first with the intention of staying several days at a preferred one.

We do not know if there will be homegroups or not next year. We will have a pizza lunch meeting before the end of February and we will invite Mr. Huestis to share his vision regarding the new YAC role. YAC and Service-Learning will have direct contact with classes on selected times during class meetings. Our question to Mr. Huestis is: Will Home Groups and Service-Learning Fridays how happend during class time? Braeden will set-up a time for the lunch after next week. Service-Learning will pay for the lunch. Braeden will also set-up a time for YAC-B-day celebration in March. YAC will pay for pizza and movie requested by Andrew.

3. Casady Book Fair: Volunteers needed to motivate people to donate for Guild
The collection of toiletry has not been succesful with just announcements. Tomorrow we will have people asking for donations for Friday at the parking lot. Nicole and Elizabeth will be helping the boys who have been trying to give reminders to the student body.

4. National Volunteer Week-Charity Water Week-STUCO Crazy Fun Week-Earth Day (April 19-24) Service-Learning brainstorming with Khadija sent a suggestion for chapel speeches, out of uniform days, collaboration with Environmental Club, and Global Youth Service Day project idea to administrators during the break. There was nothing in the calendar, but then we were told that the week is already taken for other activities. We are on hold until STUCO/Charity Water decides what will be happing that week this coming Monday. Nicole will represent YAC and we will plan accordingly after that meeting. We only want one day for the DVD being created by Sarah and Josh, and a day to distribute Presidential awards. Mrs. Clay sent an e-mail to Caitlin asking her to consider H2OPE as a Global Youth Service Day project for Casady. We might also also consider the clean-up as our Global Youth Service Day project. Mrs. Clay talked to Rita to make sure community connections were made to make the clean-up bigger than it was last year. Challenge 20/20 is going to be planting trees and bringing a coupe of electric cars to the celebrations!

5. YAC Quilt: The first part is ready. We have to have it finished by March 5. We want student and community organizations to make a patch for the next quilt. Cheerleading took a patch. Nicole will take a patch for STUCO and YAC will do theirs during the lunch. We will suggest the environmental club do their during the clean-up as a matter of reflection.

6. YAC T-shirt: We will like to have one by April, but now we are promoting Project Ignition. This item was tabled for next meeting.

7. Shinnyo-En Foundation Retreat in San Francisco, August 13-15: Mrs. Clay is recruting students for this opportunity. The group will leave on the 12th in the afternoon. Then travel from San Francisco to Marshall, where the retreat center is located via car. Friday afternoon to Sunday noon, students will participate in the retreat. If we can get a flight returning on Sunday, we will be back late evening, if not we will flight on Monday. The problem with the date is that sports are in pre-season practices!