Project Log
| Date | Hours | Activity | Total Hours |
| 1/19/06 Week 2 | 1 | Surveyed Long House garden site and noted suggestions and questions. | 1 |
| 1/21/06 | 1 | Met with education and curriculum group to discuss ground work | 2 |
| 1/23/06 | 2 | Went to Tacoma Public Library & reviewed potential books for education and curriculum group use. | 4 |
| 1/24/06 | .5 | Went to Gray Middle School and met with Sheila Swift, office coordinator, regarding classroom observation and participation. | 4.5 |
| 1/26/06 | 2 | Worked on web page in computer lab. | 6.5 |
| 1/27/06 | 2 | Met with principle and natural science chair at Gray Middle School regarding classroom observation. Then called around to various diff rent district offices or make appropriate arrangements. | 8.5 |
| 1/30/06 | .5 | Talked to Sheila Austin at professional development for the Tacoma School District and submitted all of the necessary information for background check. She will send my information to Mr. Gillus who will get everything started. | 9 |
| 2/4/06 | 2 | Helped set up and tare down at the lunar new year calibration. | 11 |
2/6/06 |
.5 | Talked to Sheila Austin again regarding observation. She says that she will have Mr. Gillus call me. | 11.5 |
| 2/6/06 | 1 | Talked to Skip Gillus who called me. We discussed in more detail my project and the program. Mr. Gillus told me that we would need to set up my observation through Loren Petty who is the student teacher coordinator for Evergreen State College. | 12.5 |
| 2/7/06 | .5 | Talked to Loren Petty. I explained my program and project and what I needed. He explained the process to me for getting the ok through the Tacoma School District (what a pain in the...) He set up an appointment for me to come by his office tomorrow to fill out paper work and get finger printed. | 13 |
| 2/8/06 | 1.5 | Went to Loren Petty's office today and filled out paper work on me, did my ID stuff, ect. I talked to Loren about our program and what I am doing. He took a copy of our syllabus and contract and said that he would work with Skip Gillus to get this set up right away. He said he would call me on my cell phone by the end of the week. | 14.5 |
| 2/11/06 | 5.5 | Worked in Long house garden (4hrs work, 1.5hrs commute time). | 20 |
| 2/13/06 | 4 | Curriculum group research. The Schools Our Children Deserve. | 24 |
| 2/14/06 | 4 | Curriculum group research. The School Our Children Deserve. | 28 |
| 2/16/06 | .5 | Talked to Loren about observation placement. He will follow up with Skip and get back to me. | 28.5 |
| 2/16/06 | .5 | Met with Loren in his office. He will call principle at Gray personally in the morning and call me back. | 29 |
| 2/21/06 | 4 | Curriculum group research. The Schools Our Children Deserve and The Multiple Intelligences Hand Book. | 33 |
| 2/22/06 | 4 | Curriculum group research. The Multiple Intelligences Hand Book. | 37 |
| 2/22/06 | .75 | Went to talk to Loren in his office. He still had heard no word from the Tacoma School District. I told Loren that at this point I will need to seek other options. I told him that I was very thankful for all of his help, but I also expressed my overall disappointment and frustration at the situation and that I hoped that in the future these programs could be better coordinated so as to avoid these problems for future students. | 37.75 |
| 2/25/06 | 7 | Went to Peterson's and attended long house induction and memorial ceremony. | 44.75 |
| 2/26/06 | 4 | Worked in Long house garden. Took HEAT kids through garden to look for water bugs. | 48.75 |
| 2/26/06 | 2 | Met with curriculum group to discuss preparations for final presentation. | 50.75 |
| 2/28/06 | 2 | Curriculum group research. Eight Ways of Knowing and Using Both Sides of Your Brain. | 52.75 |
| 3/6/06 | 4 | Curriculum group research. Eight Ways of Knowing and Multiple Intelligences: Teaching for Success and Using Both Sides of Your Brain. Began prep. for final presentation. | 56.75 |
| 3/8/06 | 6 | Curriculum group research. Eight Ways of Knowing and Multiple Intelligences: Teaching for Success and Using Both Sides of Your Brain. Worked on final presentation outline. | 62.75 |
| 3/11/06 | 7 | Went to Peterson's and worked in garden. We cleaned up dead fall, transplanted ferns and dahlias and worked on the brick walkway. | 69.75 |
| 3/14/06 | 3 | Final prep for presentation. | 72.75 |
| 3/15/06 | 1 | Met with Curriculum group before class to do final organization and touch up on presentation. | 73.75 |
| 3/17/06 | Too dang many! I should have been keeping up. | Web site Maintenance (well, really I am copying all of this information which I have been keeping in written form in my notebook. If you've visited this page before you will know that today I am really building the site more than maintaining it). |
