Planning for 2014-15 ALREADY?! Yes, we are!!

Dear MLC Members,

We have so enjoyed spending our first year as a co-op group with you all. It has been a rewarding learning experience, and we’d like to thank all of you for your patience and flexibility as we’ve learned our way through this process.

We knew going into the first year that the Founding Members would need to have a plan in place in advance of the first day. Going forward, however, it was always our hope and intent to encourage more input from members and to open up more opportunities for members to take ownership of the group. Recent feedback has told us that many of you are eager for that opportunity, too.  We invite those of you who want to be more involved to become a part of the planning process for next year by joining one of our ‘ALL NEW’ 2014-2015 MLC Planning Committees.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN A COMMITTEE

One Founding Member will be the chairperson for each age group. Each committee will generate class topic ideas for Founding Member approval, will refine the class topics once approved, will line up teachers and/or guest speakers for each class, develop class descriptions for the website, and plan one of the four core field trips. This may sound like a lot, but if the committees stick to an agenda each time they meet, this could easily be accomplished with 1-3 meeting(s).

If you join a planning committee, it does not mean that you will be required to teach. By joining a planning committee, you are simply participating in the conversation. We know that not everyone is able to help in all capacities; rather, we encourage you to offer your ideas, thoughts, and talents in ways that you are comfortable with. With that said, however, we do want to open up teaching opportunities to more of our members, to increase the range of ideas and possibilities that we can offer to our students. If you would like to consider teaching next year, we would encourage you to join a committee. If you do not want to teach, you are still more than welcome to join a committee, and there will still be plenty of other areas where your help will be wanted and needed during the school year.

Please note that for the 2014-2015 MLC Calendar Year, we plan to separate the age groups a little differently, adding another class for the younger grades. We would like to have a separate planning committee for each of the five age groups as follows, plus Fun & Fit:

Nursery & Toddlers   |   Chairperson Brenda Wurdeman

PreK-Kindergarten   |   Chairperson Jenny Trail

1^st-2^nd Grades   |   Chairperson Jo Raymond

3^rd-5^th Grades   |   Chairperson Lisa Orsi

6^th-12^th Grades   |   Chairperson Leah Shannon

Fun & Fit   |   Chairperson Jo Raymond

Please prayerfully consider where your ideas, time, and talents might be used to benefit all of our students in the following year. Thank you for your participation and enthusiasm. We’re excited to see how things develop for next year!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN A COMMITTEE

OR Feel free to sign up Friday morning, April 11^th, where a paper sign-up sheet will be available.

Please sign up before April 16th.

Committees will begin meeting after April 16th.

All planning for 2014-15 Terms 1-4 will be completed by July 2nd.

FOR MORE INFORMATION or TO JOIN, PLEASE VISIT OUR NEW 'COMMITTEES' WEBPAGE.