Plan

=**Plan:**=


 * **Groups of students from different grades and 1 staff facilitator will meet for 1 full period every other week. Proposed day and time: Wednesday, 3rd Period**
 * //Rationale**:**//

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//Groups of students from different grades: We believe that this helps us meet our objectives to foster cross grade communication and friendships, building student leadership, building a small community that is representative of the entire school and providing a support system for our students. **Students will be able to learn from others due to the wealth of varied experience** in the group. We believe that our upper classmen, and maybe some underclassmen, will take on leadership roles within the group. It will also be helpful for new students to have more familiar faces and people they see as supportive within the school.// =====

Rationale:
 * Will meet for 1 full period every other week:** This needs to be a regular event to make students more accountable and on track with their academic commitments. They can rely on this time to seek support from other students and the staff member. It needs to be a full period so students can individually share their experiences and be given their opportunity to get personal attention from the group. We have concerns that less time/frequency would not give significant time and also not be taken seriously by students/staff.

Rationale:
 * Proposed day and time: Wednesday, 3rd Period**: If we have this period during a class in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day, we believe students will be most focused. It should be done during a time, so the schedule rotates around it, taking a small amount of time away from classroom teaching that will be spread out evenly, and predictably, throughout the year. This respects the need of teachers to meet with every block on a consistent basis.