Submitted by: Aedin Larkin

Present: Nick, Carrie, Joan and Aedín

We spoke about the drama position and how the hiring process was coming along. It is a very big job- 110%. Megan used to direct the HS musical and when she stopped Joanne took it over on top of her full workload.

What is the structure of the performing art department? We talked about presenting a restructure proposal of our department to our administration. The HS may benefit from an additional drama teacher to teach technical theater. There is nowhere to build sets nor do we have the full time personnel to support kids who want to work with their hands in theater. We don’t have the full scope of the curriculum from the 4’s through 12th grade and we need to begin collecting information from the members of our department to find out what their job description entails and what their curriculum looks like.

Some questions we asked ourselves: What is the philosophy driving the performing arts at LREI? What does access and equity in the PA department look like?

Difficulties that have arisen this year include lack of management over the PA spaces and calendar. Calendar in general – scheduling shows/performances alongside trips. It would be helpful to have one person in charge of spaces.

Upcoming Events:
Protest Music Elective (Nick) Wednesday April, 13th 9:00am
PA Night Middle School April 20th
MS musical May 19,20, 22
Spring Festival of Plays and PA Saturday May 21st
Spring Concert May 26th
LREI Street Fair June 4th

We began looking at the Curriculum Assessment Tool/ ideas for summer working groups and started documenting HERE.

Next time we meet we will continue the discussion and think about specific approaches to teaching and pedagogy.