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Music Program Conference Feb 15, 2010

Agenda:

1. Program Goals and Objectives

2. Activities we may offer

3. Age Levels and Group Sizes

4. Review Time and Place and possible alternatives if needed

5. What needs to be accomplish during April Visit to Los Toros

Participants:

Mark Bennett & Beth Delorit & Don Kabara

Notes:

1. Introduce music education to the children of Los Toros; demonstrate music enhances their cultural and language experiences. Help to establish structure systems and discipline systems in their lives. Help them to gain a lifelong skill. Gain self confidence and a feeling of accomplishment and self esteem. Establish a follow-up program to continue this experience.

2. Activities to include lessons on the recorder, percussion and rhythm lessons, vocal and choral training.

Simultaneous classes of each area, alternating every 30 minutes. Students must attend all three.

3. Age Levels - Grades 4 to 6. Groups of 6-8 students in a class.

4. Daily Morning classes at primary school using open classrooms. If not available find alternate sights.

4. April meetings in Los Toros to establish time and place and initial registration of students. Take along flyers and posters to advertise program. Announce at churches. Establish collaboration of adults and young adults in Los Toros.

Next Steps for planning program:

Establish a syllabus for each area. Determine how many students will attend. Establish class procedures and expected behavior. Determine needed resources.

Action Items:

Don to meet with people in Los Toros to discuss above issues.

Beth to contact Katie, Carolyn and Mark about lesson planning, prepare Posters to advertise Program, enrollment forms for children. Beth to poll team to set time for next conference.

All - to add comments and additions to this conference.

Comments:

Katie: We could introduce some English Songs in the vocal choral section - this would help them pick up some English. The words could also be integrated in the English classes.

English Program Conference Feb 20, 2010 - 11:15AM

Agenda:

1. Program Goals and Objectives

2. Activities we may offer

3. Age Levels and Group Sizes

4. Review Time and Place and possible alternatives if needed

5. What needs to be accomplish during April Visit to Los Toros

Participants:

Ryan Henke, Katie Tunder, Aaron Lorge, Kelly Tunder, Peter Schindler, Peter Bennett, Don Kabara

Notes:

1. Our consensus is to try to do English classes for Primary and Secondary students in Los Toros, Sananoja and Las Guanabanas and Young Adult classes in Los Toros. We also want to raise the bar a little and offer some more advanced techniques including writing sentences, using stories and songs to learn English.

2. We will use some of the same activities as previously however we will add notebooks for primary students and some sort of workbook for young adult and perhaps secondary school students.

3. Primary students levels 1 -6, all ages; Secondary students any age; Young Adult 17 - 29.

Primary groups of 7-10, Secondary groups of 10-12, Young adult groups of 6-7. We will try to group students together by ability and by social interaction.

We wish to establish two leaders for the young adult group, one man and one woman and have women in a separate group and then combine all at the end.

4. Primary and Secondary students from Los Toros will meet in Library and perhaps in new sewing center; Sananoja students probably will meet in church (Don to Check). Las Guanabanas will meet in community center. Los Toros Young Adult will meet in new Los Toros Foundation Center.

5. In April Don will meet with leaders in Los Toros, Sananajoa and Las Guanabanas to arrange for schedule and facilities. Ryan and Katie will lead effort to make posters for each site to advertise and establish guidelines for program. Ryan, Katie and Peter Schindler will lead effort to make recommendations for possible workbooks, etc.

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Dental Program Conference Feb 27, 2010 - 1:00 PM

Agenda:

1. Program Goals and Objectives

2. Activities we may offer

3. Age Levels and Group Sizes

4. Review Time and Place and possible alternatives if needed

5. What needs to be accomplish during April Visit to Los Toros

Participants:

Notes:

1. Program goals and objectives include dental hygiene education and introduction to Los Toros Dental Clinic and awareness of its services to other villages.

2. Activities to include Classes - presentations on dental hygiene using, demonstrations, posters and graphics, tours of dental clinic and instructions on how to get treatment at the clinic. Separate agendas will be prepared for each village. We discussed using balloons, etc. to make the facilities look more inviting and set the children at ease - especially in the dental clinic.

3. Age level is primary school and we will try to work with small groups.

4. We will set up dates in April and confirm facilities. Los Toros will start in community center, Sananoja will be at church and we will try to use the community center in Las Guanabanas.

5. Before April trip we need to prepare posters 3-4 for each village with blank space for entering date. Don will coordinate local workers, etc. during April visit.

6. Resources - we have already 500 tubes of toothpaste plus the inventory at St. Joe's - to be counted. We will mainly need toothbrushes and will start asking for donations immediately. Ryan will contact St. Joe's school and ask if they can collect Toothbrushes for us. We will check inventory and project final quantities after April visit.

Core Team Conference Mar 9, 2010 - 7:00 PM

Agenda:

1. Responsibilities - Roles - Descriptions

2. Los Toros Core Team

3. Planning - Preparation

4. Rreview of our Philosophy, Goals and Objectives

5. What needs to be accomplish during April Visit to Los Toros

6. Open discussion

Participants: Ryan Henke, Peter Bennett, Katie Tunder

Notes:

1. Core Team members will assume the responsibility to supervise and direct programs, this does not mean they lead the program but that they work closely with the leader and make sure the work gets done. As a Core Team they will be "go-to" people when someone needs help or direction. We will redo the work schedule and indicate which core team member will supervise which project. Again it is important for everyone to understand that every participant has a leadership role and each persons needs to take on the work of the project they are assigned.

2. Don will work in April to establish a core team of Young Adults in Los Toros; they will work closely with the St. Joe's team.

3. We will add more time in training for English and also some "Blank: sessions to cover material that is not completed in previous meetings. Don will rework the training agenda and publish it for all to review. We will schedule Skype conferences to work on "Music", "Volleyball", "Haiti", "Dental" and "English" projects with team leaders.

4. Our philosophy embraces making the people of Los Toro self sufficient and to assume more responsibility for organization and leadership of projects. Our goal is to train more leaders; we will work hard at getting more people in Los Toros proficient in communicating in English.

5. In April Don will organize Los Toros Core team, set up times and places and start to recruit people to participate in the programs. Katie will organize people to make posters advertising our programs and we will distribute them in April. Peter will create some objectives for the water program - Don will investigate.

6. We will schedule "down time" for the St. Joe's group to gather and renew themselves. It looks like the Los Toros Foundation Center may be completed by May and this might be the gathering place where people can relax a little and compare notes.