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Department Meeting:

NEXT MEETINGS: 10/17, 11/14

TODAY: 1. Info-Out [10 min] 2. Use remaining time [40 min] for CARP or Professional Growth Goals
 * __CARP__
 * CARP folder [at-a-glance templates]
 * __Prof. Growth Goals Due 9/16__
 * Meetings (10 minutes)
 * __Observations__
 * Tyler (1/1/1)
 * Rishi (1/1/1)
 * Liz (2/1/1)
 * __On the Horizon: Innovation Space & Curriculum__
 * Academic Council Goal is Focus on Curriculum
 * Explore and pilot curriculum for the Innovation Space (opens fall 1
 * 1. When we have new course ideas for next year, that we give a strong message that this is an educational priority of school and we need to make this work in our departments.
 * Work with your department members to examine units, curriculum, and whole classes that could harness that space.
 * 2. No directives that Departments have expectations to create, but we want people to have ideas to pilot if they have the ideas. Core, electives, stand alone classes, units, workshops, weekends, evenings. We want the space fully used.
 * The Commons/Learn Deep
 * Visit Francis Parker TIDES program