Attendance = 17 including guests Dave & Linda Grahek and Laura Miller’s mother Cathrine Lee.
President-elect Kathy Johnson presided over the meeting as President Tim was absent.
REMINDER – IMPORTANT DATES:
Friday Dec 03 = Bell Ringing at Pat’s IGA in Calumet.
Tuesday Feb 15 = Club Visioning project at 5pm Irish Times. We need and expect all members to attend. <
Laura Miller announced the Calumet Theatre expects to be approved to participate in the December 2010 Pepsi Refresh challenge. This opportunity will put the theatre in the national voting competition for funding. The $$ would be used for a new roof. Laura will let CLK Rotary know when to start voting. The key is – vote daily and get friends/family to vote daily!
Jim Lowell – CLK Rotary CHOICES chairperson, gave the program today. CHOICES is a 25 yr old program focused on 8th/9th grade students with the objective of 1) Addressing the high school dropout problem, 2) increasing the positive school engagement and, 3) improving students' knowledge, learning, attitude and motivation related to education and their future. Bottom line, help the students learn the short-term and long-term consequences of choices they make today and tomorrow.
Kudos to the CLK Rotary CHOICES team: Tom Tikkanen, Jim Lowell, Keith Stenger, Chris Davidson (Horizon School),Kevin Store, Tim Baroni, Janis Vivian, and Kathy Johnson. These folks have been trained to present the program to the CLK, Lake Linden/Hubbell and Horizon’s Schools. November 11 & 12 saw 41 ninth grade students in Lake Linden/Hubbell receive the CHOICES training. CLK schools will see 98 ninth grade students attend the presentations in January 2011.
CHOICES is presented by community members, not teachers, over 2 days. Each 50 minute presentation is interactive. It is a holistic approach expecting support from the families and teachers. Presentations are done by community members & organizations investing their time and money to get the students engaged in their own future. CLK Rotary will spend approximately $600 for teach materials this year in addition to the time the Presentation Team has invested.
Jim explained the CHOICES program does review the curriculum and presentation methods. The program is being restructured to address 8th grade children. It is also going digital. Most of the children are cell-phone savvy. The presentation will be completely interactive and focus on using game apps on cell phones for expressing the consequences, both good and bad, of making choices.
Jim closed the program by thanking the CHOICES team and the club. He reminded us all there is always a need for more Rotarians to become trained instructors. If you are interested, contact Jim Lowell.
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