Planning Team Agenda Sign-up to bring snacks for the rest of the year!
YAC Tea Time!
1. Cathy: Minutes of last meeting. No minutes because there was no meeting and Cathy was unable to attend December 1st meeting
2. Aubrey and Dylan: Blood Drive, additional YAC Logo created by Fiona Posters and permission slips passed out. Concerns about people passing out at chapel were raised. Aubrey asked all students to take posters and place them around campus. No discussion of Fiona's logo, but Grace will follow up and update. Grace also presented Mrs. Clay request of YAC members bringing special snacks to celebrate the holidays for the next two meetings.
3. Johnny. Cathy, and Grace: Placemats for Children's Hospital Most members present work on the placemats. Mrs. Clay asked the leadership to decide when we will delivered them and to consider inviting as many members to attend. Perhaps go after the delivery to do a fun activity together... Hot chocolate was one suggestion.
4. Isaiah and Miranda: MLK Day discussed, more details forthcoming. We have a house, possibly Mr. Pena as a sponsor. Since the job will be for 30 people painting the exterior of the house
5. Katherine: ICS Hope for the Holidays
discussed. Katherine needs 2 members to volunteer at the LD, daily this week and PD next week. Dylan signed up for every day. The assignment is in the morning before chapel. Volunteers will be excused from Chapel and they will get service hours
6. YAC Membership: New items. None presented
7. Mrs. Clay: ON PARKING LOT
-Global Giving Games, Youth and Schools Play it Forward 12/1-12/11.
Mrs. Clay away Snack: Chocolate at YAC Community Center Activity: Placemats for Children Hospital - Pinwheels for Healing Classrooms Please leave area as you found it.
Agenda Final account from the Food Bank for Casady Cans Do Food Drive 2015
The trailer had 4,623 pounds, then after the 171 and 92 deliveries the total weight is 4,886 pounds from Casady.
The total monetary donations (150 in personal checks, 397.31 school check, 515.62 cash) ended up being $1,062.93. Altogether, that provides enough food and funds to provide 9,386 meals!
2. Classroom with a Cause: Hope for the Holidays Project - Katherine S. - needs volunteers on December 7th- 11th to help with kids 3. Pinwheels for Healing Classrooms Project Anyone making them? For each pinwheel you send in, the Bezos Family Foundation will donate $2—up to $400,000—to IRC’s Healing Classrooms program. The more pinwheels you send, the more children you’ll help!
Since the civil war began, nearly 11 million Syrians have fled their homes. Of those, more than four million Syrians have sought refuge in neighboring countries of Lebanon, Northern Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. Nearly six million children have been affected by their country’s civil war and on average, it takes 17 years for most refugees to return home. This means millions of Syrian children will likely spend most—or all—of their childhood as refugees.
Even though the Syrian struggle seems overwhelming, we can take action and see change for children!
EDMOND LIBRARY HAS CRAFTING WITH A CAUSE ON DECEMBER 18 FROM 3-5 PM. Is anyone in town to take the pinwheels to the library as a craft with a cause?
Last year, Ananya introduced YAC to the Students Rebuild Bookmark Challenge and she sent over 7,000 bookmarks for literacy projects in Peru, Mali, and Nepal. See the webcast with Peru that features Dylan, Mallory, Gabrielle and Natalie below.
Deepen your learning and about the Syrian refugee crisis and connect with beneficiaries of the Challenge through our free learning resources and tools.
What will happen to your pinwheels? The International Rescue Committee will distribute a selection of them to Healing Classrooms students in Lebanon and Iraq. Funding generated by the Challenge will train teachers in special techniques to engage conflict-affected children with social-emotional learning opportunities and to create secure, nurturing learning environments. Learn more about Healing Classrooms.
What is The International Rescue Committee ? Helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. IRC teams provide health care, infrastructure, learning and economic support to people in 40 countries, with special programs designed for women and children. Every year, the IRC resettles thousands of refugees in 22 U.S. cities. Students Rebuild partnered with IRC on the Healing Classrooms Challenge. Here is a possibility of making pinwheels at the Library in Edmond if anyone will be in town on December 18
National Service Day - Making a Day on Service of a Day Off from school
@ Rebuilding Together, Food Bank, City Care, Quilt Making @ Casady School
Projects are at investigation stage.
2016: MLK DAY , Monday, January 19th Projects are at investigation stage.
National Service Day - Making a Day on Service of a Day Off from school
Rebuilding Together, Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, City Care-Homeless Alliance, MLK Quilt Making @ Casady School
YAC Junior Chair, Isaiah L. has completed the request form for Rebuilding Together for a direct service opportunity for students 14 and older. The experience will be painting an exterior of a home of an elderly, handicapped Oklahoman. 30 volunteers needed. If temperatures do not permit painting, Cyclones will volunteer at the Food Bank or other alternative locations below.
Mrs. Clay is contacting the Food Bank for an indirect service opportunity for students 8 years old +, and to have an alternative if the weather does not permit outside painting with Rebuilding Together. Mrs. Clay is also working on exploring possibilities with City Care for a direct service opportunity to feed the homeless on MLK Day.
Mrs. Small, Casady CFO, was approached to provide an advocacy service - philanthropy opportunity through quilt making. A Roots and T-shirts of Service MLK Day Quilt will be started on MLK Day with a completion date during National Volunteer Week in April.
The Casady Service-Learning Program will continue to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and servant leaders from Casady and Heritage Hall (Rivals on the field, partners in service) who have passed and inspired us with their example: Mr. Larry Bruce, Bennett Hanneman, Mr. Arnel Gil, Dr. Robert Woolsey, Dr. Robbie Johnson, Mrs. Jeannie Rainbolt, Mr. Anthony Shadid, and Mr. Colby Sartin with MLK Day service experiences available to Cyclones and the greater Oklahoma City Community.
Sign-up will be done by sign-up genius.
5. Changes in service requirement
Class of 2019 :
Hours completed and certified by August 1, 2018. Class of 2016: From Mr. Bottomly, Service Learning hours are a graduation curriculum requirement that Casady reports on all transcripts to colleges in the application process.
If a Casady student has few hours (of the 45) reported on their transcript (at the time of college application submission), then the college may see that as a student who has not taken this requirement seriously. This will probably not negatively impact an admission decision, but it might.
If a student has not completed his or her service learning hours by graduation, then that senior's final transcript will be frozen by the college counseling office and not submitted until the hours are complete. A frozen transcript can be very bad for a matriculating student. He or she may not be able to be able to participate in freshman college orientation programs, and, therefore, not able to enroll in classes and move into their dorm room.
6. What is service learning? Katherine introduced us to the S-L stages. The service-learning office would like YAC to consider making a video to teach Cyclones and the OKC community about service learning.
Investigation, Planning, Action Reflection (Ongoing) Demonstration of learning and Evaluation of Project
Compassion Games International offers fun and creative ways to ignite compassionate action in communities around the world. The Compassion Games bring the Charter for Compassion to life through the power of coopetition, catalyzing tangible acts of compassion and organized service projects in our communities.
There is a deep connection between affirming the Charter for Compassion and playing in the Compassion Games.
The Compassion Games started as a way to engage individuals and communities to actualize the vision of the Charter. The Games occur a number of times throughout the year and measure the progress of compassionate action over time, capturing the number of volunteers, hours of service, people served, and monies raised for local or global causes.
Seattle, Louisville and hundreds of other communities, schools, businesses and organizations have played the Compassion Games, collectively serving over 1 million people in more than 34 countries to make communities safer, kinder, and better places to live.
The Compassion Games: (1) Ignite engagement; (2) Amplify what's already working; (3) Establish a framework and baseline for measuring compassion strength; (4) Stimulate and enhance reflection and learning; (5) Provide a platform for cultivating open participation; and (6) Connect participants to a global movement.
The Giving Games are played globally between youth, educators, and mentors to inspire acts of generosity and organized service projects that create a culture of compassion and help foster safe and fulfilling places of learning.
Help spread the word. Share this newsletter with your networks!
Upcoming 2016 Compassion Games Coopetitions:
Martin Luther King Weekend | Jan 15 - 18
World Interfaith Harmony Week | Feb 1 - 7
Love This Place! Serve the Earth Week | April 16 - 24
New Items Activity: Placemats for Children's Hospital - Junior Project Request from OUR TOWN: 12 Ushers needed, 2 per performance day. Free tickets to performance Contact Grace or Mrs. Patton Final account from the Food Bank for Casady Cans Do Food Drive 2015
The trailer had 4,623 pounds, then after the 171 and 92 deliveries the total weight is 4,886 pounds from Casady.
The total monetary donations (150 in personal checks, 397.31 school check, 515.62 cash) ended up being $1,062.93. Altogether, that provides enough food and funds to provide 9,386 meals!
LOCATION of the 2015 Blood drive will be finalized by Coach T. Date: December 10th
- blood needs to be renewed b/c it only lasts for a little while
- the Oklahoma Blood Institute is the key provider of blood in Oklahoma
- 16 year olds need permission from parents
- you need an i.d. with you to give
- you need to be under 125 lbs.
- about a 40 minute process
- every pint of blood can save three lives
- people everyday needs blood (every age)
- 0 negative blood is the most in need
- Mr. Crawford interested in talking in chapel - will need projector to show story about blood drive - December 1 at 8:00 am - be hydrated and eat breakfast before giving blood
2. Classroom with a Cause: Hope for the Holidays Project - Katherine S. -Thank you -Reflection of the Service-Learning Process - helps both giver and the person being served -Demonstration of learning - needs volunteers on December 7th- 11th to help with kids 3. Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Project Proposal - Could this be another YAC health related project? - Any teen interested as a personal project? Update YAC will not undertake this project in 2015-2016. Individual students might. 4. Pinwheels for Healing Classrooms at Peace House Festival Peace Festival on November 14, in the Civic Center Hall, 9:00-4:00 PM - Table without cost- Sharing with a former teacher from Westminster selling a cookbook with proceeds going to Syrian refugees. - Volunteers needed: Shifts available. Mrs. Clay on the premises from 9:00-12:00. The festival goes on until 4:00 pm. Please tell the Secretary (Cathy) to place your name here with your shift if interested - Mrs. Clay (10:00-12:00) Update: No volunteers signed up. Opportunity cancelled For each pinwheel you send in, the Bezos Family Foundation will donate $2—up to $400,000—to IRC’s Healing Classrooms program. The more pinwheels you send, the more children you’ll help!
Since the civil war began, nearly 11 million Syrians have fled their homes. Of those, more than four million Syrians have sought refuge in neighboring countries of Lebanon, Northern Iraq, Jordan and Turkey. Nearly six million children have been affected by their country’s civil war and on average, it takes 17 years for most refugees to return home. This means millions of Syrian children will likely spend most—or all—of their childhood as refugees.
Even though the Syrian struggle seems overwhelming, we can take action and see change for children!
Last year, Ananya introduced YAC to the Students Rebuild Bookmark Challenge and she sent over 7,000 bookmarks for literacy projects in Peru, Mali, and Nepal. See the webcast with Peru that features Dylan, Mallory, Gabrielle and Natalie below.
Deepen your learning and about the Syrian refugee crisis and connect with beneficiaries of the Challenge through our free learning resources and tools.
What will happen to your pinwheels? The International Rescue Committee will distribute a selection of them to Healing Classrooms students in Lebanon and Iraq. Funding generated by the Challenge will train teachers in special techniques to engage conflict-affected children with social-emotional learning opportunities and to create secure, nurturing learning environments. Learn more about Healing Classrooms.
What is The International Rescue Committee ? Helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. IRC teams provide health care, infrastructure, learning and economic support to people in 40 countries, with special programs designed for women and children. Every year, the IRC resettles thousands of refugees in 22 U.S. cities. Students Rebuild partnered with IRC on the Healing Classrooms Challenge.
5. The Giving Games Proposal Sent by Dr. Marcia Moore On parking lot
Dear Friends,
Our children will one day inherit this world, and face the challenges of a future we will never see. Perhaps the greatest gift we can provide for our youth today is the gift of remembering, celebrating, and putting into practice who they truly are. Compassion is not only at the core of living a healthy and fulfilling life, it is also our greatest source of strength and resilience, compelling us to care for one another and work together for the safer, kinder, and better world we all wish to live in.
Without further ado, we give to you...
The Giving Games: Youth & Schools Play It Forward
The Giving Games: Youth and Schools Play it Forward are an 11 day global challenge to inspire, develop, and celebrate our shared humanity through acts of generosity and compassion. Beginning on December 1st – a day known as Giving Tuesday – and going through December 11th, the Giving Games are played worldwide between youth, educators, and mentors to foster safe and fulfilling places of learning, helping the next generation develop into happy, compassionate, creative, and resilient members of our world!
The Giving Games start the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, and are a way to explore new ways to be generous with others, ourselves, and the Earth. Let’s play the Giving Games with generosity and celebrate giving!
UPCOMING EVENT: GIVING GAMES INTRODUCTION WEBINAR!
Join us for a webinar with the Charter for Compassion to announce the Giving Games! This call will be a great way to learn more about the Games, get any questions you have answered, generate ideas, and connect with other educators around the world.
When: Saturday, November 7th, 2015 | 9:00 AM PST /12:00 PM ET
6. Items in the parking lot from previous meetings -MLK Day Project(s): January 18th On parking lot Make a day ON Service, not a Day OFF from school Memories of MLK Days of the past at http://casadymlkday.blogspot.com/ -Changes in service requirement On parking lot Class of 2019 :
Hours completed and certified by August 1, 2018.Class of 2016: From Mr. Bottomly,Service Learning hours are a graduation curriculum requirement that Casady reports on all transcripts to colleges in the application process.
If a Casady student has few hours (of the 45) reported on their transcript (at the time of college application submission), then the college may see that as a student who has not taken this requirement seriously. This will probably not negatively impact an admission decision, but it might.
If a student has not completed his or her service learning hours by graduation, then that senior's final transcript will be frozen by the college counseling office and not submitted until the hours are complete. A frozen transcript can be very bad for a matriculating student. He or she may not be able to be able to participate in freshman college orientation programs, and, therefore, not able to enroll in classes and move into their dorm room.
Sign-up to bring snacks for the rest of the year!
1. Cathy: Minutes of last meeting. No minutes because there was no meeting and Cathy was unable to attend December 1st meeting
