Monday, February 28, 2011

Friday, February 25, 2011

Meeting: 2/25/11

This meeting runs through B block and lunch. We began the meeting with signups for multicultural feast serving and a petition to move the relay for life to May.
-Salman presented his future trip to Atlanta, green team update
-Zainab presented her drawing gift to Shinnyo-en!VERY well done!!
-Britton Elementary project presented by Caitlin.
-Walk the World reintroduction by Jasmine, set date attempt: Memorial Day (Monday May 30). You don't even have to be with the rest at the event. You may walk on your own location. Take lots of pictures!
-Global Youth service Day -  National volunteer day april 11-17. (?)
-Friday fedex tme review- the attempt to restructure and reorganize YAC, Caitlin to Mr. Huestis. Most notable highlight is about small projects and large projects attentionwise
Monday's class meeting - move to april? Quick summary then split into detailed introductions
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Monday, February 21, 2011

YAC F-Day: B-block and Lunch meeting: February, 25th

Lunch provided for B-block,lunch meeting.
Agenda
1. Class meetings with Freshmen and Sophomores. First one: Monday, February 28th.

2. National Volunteer Week-Global Youth Service Day

3. YAC collaboration with Multicultural Week
Feast Day: YAC servers: Mrs. Clay and Christine. Jasmine will choose a language to pray

YAC FEDEX TIME: February 18, 12:30-4:30

Attendance:Caitlin A. Christine L., Arjun, Shiva, Aamina, Zainab,Tina, Defne. Minutes will be updated shortly.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Class Meetings schedule for FEDEX TIME, February 18, 12:00-2:30

Monday, February 28:  YAC Presents.............................FEDEX TIME:  Tomorrow, 12:00-2:30, Vegetarian P FOR 10 PEOPLE.  MONDAY, YEARBOOK PHOTO AFTER CHAPEL, WEAR SIX BILLION PATH TO PEACE T-SHIRT.
EXPECTED ATTENDANCE:  Christine L., Caitlin A., Caitlin H., Rebekah Davis, Tina R., Jasmine, Zainab, Salman,


Tuesday, March 8:  Fee taken by Art Department

Friday, March 25: The OU Faculty Quartet is confirmed to play for the orchestra at 3:00 pm, March 25th.


Monday, April 4: 9th graders for Dances of Universal Peace? Elizabeth Mueller> Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the Hunter.~African proverb


Tuesday, April 12---National Volunteer Week: Mrs. Joan Korenblit-9th and 10th graders April 12: Celebration of Service: YAC connected to YOU at Chapel; April 13: Presidential Service Awards-Ice Cream celebration at Woods Community Center; Ben and Jerry Ice cream provided by CPO, April 14: Chapel speaker: Mr. Gene Rainbolt, April 15: YAC, STUCO, String Quartet, Foreign Language Department, Middle Division, Upper Division, Lower Division, Primary Division, JASO, Shinnyo-en, Habitat, Food Bank, Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum, Habitat, Food Bank, Mr. John Kennedy, Mr. Chris Black, Dr. Sumeeta Nanda, Green School Committee: Les and Christina thank you lunch (B-block and lunch: Check to make sure, it is on an F-Day. Send save the date notices)


Wednesday, April 20

Monday, May 2

Tuesday, May 10

Wednesday, May 18

Thursday, May 26


April 12: Respect Diversity Foundation CEO, Joan Korenblit, The art of HAIKU trough the day. Mr. Rainbolt speaks at chapel in the morning. April 10-14 is National Volunteer Week! We will have a carefully crafted presentation of awards at chapel this week. We are hoping to have a representative from the Corporation of National Service or Learn and Serve facilitating the chapel awards delivery. April 12 will work for me. I prefer to work with all 150 students at once. The title of this workshop is The art of HAIKU- - Throughout the Day. They will need pen and paper. Warm regards, Joan


April 20: Guest: Elizabeth Mueller: Dances of universal peace connected creatively to service projects. Multicultural Week: Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. African Proverb
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YAC meeting 2/17/11

As we are greeted with a wave of humid wind and seventy-degree weather to melt massive piles of snow, we meet again after weeks and weeks of dormant activity.
This month (or whatever is left of it), we are going over Relay for Life activities, collaborative art project (Pay it Forward), and RAK week.
RAK is a simple activity project standing for "Random Acts of Kindness". The purpose of this is to practice daily acts of kindness throughout the Casady campus. The world is really becoming a mean place. This is part of our six billion paths to peace.
Our current mission is to spread out our community and restate YAC.
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Walk the World - now lead by Jasmine

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From your friendly neighborhood YAC yak:
Before next year when we have incoming Freshmen and other new yakkies, YAC needs to be cleaned up. We need a YAC retreat to really get our ideas together, especially before our senior president chair Caitlin leaves for college. So, if we begin a (if I may) YAC Reformation project, YAC would look less intimidating as a whole.
This year, what began as a simple community service club has branched out into a beautiful tree of broad new ideas. There are many different "branches" of YAC such as Relay for Life, Habitat for Humanity (Service Saturdays), and even some new twigs that have sprouted, such as YAC Asian Connections.
Our first step should be establishing what YAC is, as in what YAC stands for. YAC has a great past. This year has been experimental and we need to establish a firm base now.
Our deadline is the A day February 28th for the Freshman class. We are addressing them because they are the future of YAC. We want their ideas.
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18TH FEDEX TIME 12-a maximum of 2:30. Lunch is provided.
sign up TODAY! All information about and from this meeting will be ONLINE right HERE AND NOW! Stay tuned!
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CREATE THE YAC THAT YOU WANT IT TO BE.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

YAC meeting

1. RAK WEEK

2. Collaborative art for RDF:  




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3. Relay for Life Update:  Mrs. Clay and Mrs. Milligan will be participating.  We have a tent.  Mrs. Clay will be walking in memory of Alejandro Rendon and Linda Esser.  YAC will have a tent.  All YAC members welcome!  T-shirts are $15


4. Class Meetings with Service-Learning start on February 28:  How does YAC want to help?

5. Multicultural Week:  What does YAC need to do?  Mrs. Clay will be presenting 6bptp at UCO.  Would like to have YAC students helping during the presentation.  We will make another quilt for peace. Caitlin

6. Walk the World 2011:  Brainstorming meeting this coming Saturday at the Food Bank.  Grant for $2000 written, 500 volunteers needed the weekend of April 14-17. Jasmine, Shiva, Mrs. Clay

7.  Next YAC meeting will be a National Volunteer Week planning meeting.  We will have a FEDEX Time in MARC for National Volunteer Week, Class Meetings and Walk the World.  Last YAC meeting in February will be a B-blog and lunch to finish the collaborative art and finish brainstorming Class meetings. Freshmen and senior chairs

8. Green Team YES update:  Salman

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Global Youth Service Day: Childhood Hunger Awareness-WtW2011

Global Youth Service Day
We have applied to $2,000 from Youth Serve America to have a special advocacy and awareness project at the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma on Saturday, April 16 and Sunday, April 17 if Church who has reserved the Food Bank allows us to volunteer with them. 

PASSPORT TO A CHILD HUNGER FREE WORLD
Youth and compensated adults from pertinent organizations will manpower the following information booths. Volunteers will received a Passport to a Child Hungry Free World and get stamps-STICKERS- at every booth. They will also have the choice to make small and giant banners for Walk the World OKC 2011 or a patch of the Hungry Free World Quilt


Awareness and Advocacy Booths
1. United Nations of Greater Oklahoma-Information about the United Nations World Food Program, School Meals and Walk the World OKC 2011

2. Food Bank, Food-4-Kids Program

3. Food Bank, Kids Cafes Program

4. Food Bank, Summer Feeding Program for kids

5. Sodexo, Institutional meals for kids

6. Casady Service-Learning: Global Youth Service-Day

a. One heat, one beat, one mission: A Hungry Free World by 2015 Quilt area

b. Walk the World 2011 banner making area (local & global hunger statistics and quotes)


Schedule
7:30-8:00:  Set-up booths and supplies

8:00-9:00: Childhood Hunger awareness booths and activities time

9:00-12:00 Working at the Food Bank

12:00-1:00 Box Lunch at the Food Bank . Booths and activity time.  Booths end, but activity area remains open until 4:30

1:00-4:00 Continue to work at the food bank.

4:30:  Activity area closes (If Food Bank volunteer Coordinator approves)
Breaks: Opportunities to keep on visiting booths and making banners or quilt patches



POST GYSD Plans

May 22, 2011: Walk the World OKC 2011, at Casady School, time of day TBA after February 18th meeting at the Food Bank. $10 per lap around the lake. Proceeds benefit school feeding programs at the Food Bank and the United Nations World Food Program

September, 21 2011: Intentional awareness of childhood hunger challenge during International Day of Peace and Pinwheels for peace. Pinwheels and Walk the World OKC 2011 banners will be placed around the Casady Lake.

October 2011: Casady Cans Do, Students Against Hunger Food Drive. Collaboration between all divisions at Casady School. On October 2011, STUCO, YAC, Gales, and Art Club motivated creatively, 840 Casady students, grades k-12 to collect 8,000 cans and $1,500. 1=7 meals through our Food Bank. Casady students volunteering twice a month at the Food Bank sorted the donated cans and personally delivered the Casady fundraising Check

For the past 5 years, on MLK Day, the Casady YAC has sponsored a service opportunity at the Food Bank in collaboration with our rival school Heritage Hall High School to honor the memory of a Casady student uncle, Dr. Robbie Johnson, who graduated from Heritage Hall and passed away due to Lou Gehrig's Disease. On January 17, 2011 we made healthy snacks for one the Food Bank's Kids Cafes, Boys and Girls Club at Memorial park with supplies provided by the Kid's Food Bank under the guidance of the director of the Kids Cafe, Mrs. Debbie Bell. We could not serve that day at the Food Bank because it was scheduled to capacity. Casady pioneered MLK Day at the Food Bank 5 years ago. We were the only students at the Food Bank then.

November 2011: Work with Positive Tomorrows, school for homeless children and families: Service projects: healthy snacks, fitness and clothing drive

May or June 2012: Walk the World OKC 2012

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Random Acts of Kindness Week-Weather Permitting

Tuesday: High five day
Wednesday: Compliment day
Thursday: Do you need a hug day?
Friday: Lend a helping hand day...have a heart!

Updated STUCO/YAC Habitat Build and Construction
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Monday, February 7, 2011

February 7 YAC Agenda

NEW BUSINESS
YAC chairs items
Senior Chairs:
 RAK Week, Random Acts of Kindness Collaborative Art (Art Club and YAC)
Tuesday: High five day
Wednesday: Compliment day
Thursday: Do you need a hug day?
Friday: Lend a helping hand day...have a heart!
Johnesha will ask permission from Mr. Pena

Junior Chairs: THANK YOU YAC GIFT TO SHINNYO_EN: Zainab explained her thank you artistic creation for Shinnyo-en Foundation to be exhibited at the Respect Diversity Foundation Annual exhibit at the Science Museum in March.  She hopes to have it finished by March. Mrs. Clay will present it to Shinnyo-en in April at the Atlanta conference, where she will be presenting how Casady is Actualizing the Six Billion Paths to Peace.  Johnesha suggested for all YAC members to sign it.  Zainab will make a special place for YAC to sign.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, KNITTERS FOR SOLDIERS, RELAY-4-LIFE:  None of the chairs were present. 

Habitat: Liz B. talked on behalf of STUCO and shared STUCO's fundraising plans:T-shirt sales, lego construction competition in UD and they are also thinking about including other divisions .  YAC offered to help with other divisions and the building of the lego house for $1 per brick. 

RELAY-4-LIFE: None of the people present were planning to participate in Relay for Life.  Mrs. Clay will contact Mr. Fresonke for YAC to have a tent.  YAC might not fundraise, but will help as needed.  The leader of the YAC tent will be Mrs. Milligan, who has had experience with Relay for Life.  Mrs. Clay invited YAC to see the visit of the knitters to OSU in pictures available at this blog.



Sophomore Chairs: WALK THE WORLD 2011.  None of the chairs were present and Mrs. Clay reported that Christine might not be able to lead the effort this year.  Jasmine volunteered to lead this project.  YAC will sponsor this project until 2015.  Ending Hunger/poverty = #1 UN millennium goal.  (The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that all 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. They include eradicating extreme poverty, reducing child mortality rates, fighting disease epidemics such as AIDS, and developing a global partnership for development)
Jasmine will attend the UN lunch meeting. Mrs. Clay will encourage Josh and Shiva to attend as the organizers of last year's walk.  She will start meetings with the UN and the Food Bank next week.
It's that time of the year again when UNAUSA OKC will be having their Spring Luncheon (April 23rd). This spring, the board decided that we would like to have some sort of panel or discussion with different UN-involved groups in OKC and we thought it would be nice to have one or two of your kids involved in the Walk the World event come and talk to UNA members about themselves and their event. We are also hoping to have a couple of Model UN students from OU and OSU. The idea is to either have a panel or just have kids talk about what they do.

Let me know if your students would be interested in participating. We would love to have them at our Luncheon! 
Luis Daniel Palacios luisdaniel@gmail.com







Freshmen Chairs: CLASS MEETINGS-4-SOPHOMORES AND FRESHMEN (January 20th agenda).  Arjun, Jasmine and Shiva did not give ideas in this regard.  We will not have a class meeting tomorrow, but we need to have meetings with the sophomores and freshmen soon.  Mrs. Clay contacted Christine L. They will try to attempt working on this via Internet tomorrow as we will not be in school again due to inclement weather. The A-days left are:

CLASS MEETINGS: 9th and 10th: YAC, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Korenblit
-April 12 will work for me. I prefer to work with all 150 students at once. The title of this workshop is The art of HAIKU- - Throughout the Day. They will need pen and paper. Warm regards, Joan
How about Monday, April 4, with the 9th graders for Dances of Universal Peace? Elizabeth Mueller> Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the Hunter.~African proverb
As unexpected as this is (and disappointing!!), these are not available dates for me due to teaching and travel. Thank you for the gracious invitation. Wishing you great success! Cheryl Steele
Only Mrs. Webb has not responded

Friday, February 18: Mrs. Clay: What does the Service-Learning Office does? What has YAC Done in 2010-2011? Requirement, Presidential Award for Service,
Monday, February 28: 9th graders for Dances of Universal Peace? Elizabeth Mueller> Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the Hunter.~African proverb.

Tuesday, March 8
Friday, March 25

Monday, April 4:
Tuesday, April 12---National Volunteer Week: Mrs. Joan Korenblit-9th and 10th graders April 12: Celebration of Service: YAC connected to YOU at Chapel; April 13: Presidential Service Awards-Ice Cream celebration at Woods Community Center; Ben and Jerry Ice cream provided by CPO, April 14: Chapel speaker: Mr. Gene Rainbolt, April 15: YAC, STUCO, String Quartet, Foreign Language Department, Middle Division, Upper Division, Lower Division, Primary Division, JASO, Shinnyo-en, Habitat, Food Bank, Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum, Habitat, Food Bank, Mr. John Kennedy, Mr. Chris Black, Dr. Sumeeta Nanda, Green School Committee: Les and Christina thank you lunch (B-block and lunch: Check to make sure, it is on an F-Day. Send save the date notices)
Wednesday, April 20
Monday, May 2
Tuesday, May 10
Wednesday, May 18
Thursday, May 26

OLD BUSINESSSponsor a. Class meeting days: Who, what, when, why, how-KINDNESS CHALLENGE, MLK DAY 25 CHALLENGE
b. Relay-4-Life: YAC participation, Mrs. Millagan sponsor.  Mrs. Clay only volunteer so far.  Mrs. Clay will make arrangements for tent with Mr. Fresonke.
c. Habitat-4-Humanity: YAC participation in construction &and fundraisers: We will help Stuco as needed.  Not much luck on request of donations of art for future coffee house yet.  Stuco is working on other fundraisers.  Silent Auction, if art is donated might have to be a YAC fundraiser.
d. Collaborative art: Yac participation-March due date Only Aamina signed up to participate.  We will have a Russian artist coming to paint tomorrow.  Art club and YAC have been asked to welcome and be with the artist.
e. Presidential Award hours, Sweatmonkey progress.  Tabled for a future meeting
F. Shinnyo-en thank you reflection, healing stories with stuffed animals from the fence Mrs. Clay thanked Zainab for her wonderful gift to Shinnyo-en and reminded YAC members present to create the healing stories if we have another snow day.  Stories need to be finished at the end of the year. 
G. JANUARY 20TH AGENDA  Postponed until next meeting

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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