Now that you have your meeting place, your membership cards, your parent or teacher sponsor and your location set up, it’s time to plan out your meetings. You can make your meetings really whatever you want them to be, just as long as you discuss parts of the pledge and what you can do to implement them. Here are some ideas for your meetings.
v Make an agenda for your meeting
v Assign someone to bring a snack and trade off who brings it each time.
v Assign jobs to yourself and your teammates. You may want to have a president, vice president, secretary, committee members, etc. It’s important for EVERYONE to have a job of some sort though. We don’t want anyone to feel left out.
v Discuss issues and things in your school and community that you may be able to help improve.
v Plan any outside activities that you would like to do.
v Plan your meeting schedule so everyone will know when the meetings are.
v Discuss getting new members and any rules your team has.
Sample Schedule For A Meeting
3:30 p.m. - Team members arrive at location, greet your team and welcome the members to the meeting.
3:40 p.m. – The President will call the meeting to order and the Secretary will read the minutes (notes) from the last meeting to remind everyone what went on at the last meeting.
3:50 p.m. – Discuss what kinds of things your team would like to accomplish, what goals do you have?
a. Do you want to make your school a bully free zone? What can your team do to make that happen?
b. Do you want to make sure everyone has a buddy? What can you do at school to make that happen?
c. Do you want to encourage the kids at your school to be kinder to each other?
These are just a few examples. Look at your “Pledge” it will give you clues.
4:10 p.m. – Decide what project you would like to do and then make a plan on how to accomplish that. Assign jobs to everyone. (making posters, talking to a teacher, etc.)
4:30 p.m. – Make sure everyone knows when the next meeting is and then it’s time for…snacks and fun! The meeting is adjourned and now it’s time to have some fun social time. Great job!
This meeting agenda was just one example. Your meeting may be shorter or longer depending on what you decide. The idea is to always work together as a team and live by the “Pledge”.
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