Road to Success Meeting Minutes April 20-22

1- Please recognize the sponsors at your bike give-away if possible
2- Included in your handouts from the meeting is the latest sponsor list with addresses and  emails.   Please send thank you cards if possible.  Our program would not be possible without their support
    a. UESP – please fax in your winners to UESP after your bike give away
    b. We want to thank Sam’s Club for donating the teacher prizes given away at our meetings.    Thanks to Sam’s Club for their generosity!

   c. Thanks to Zion's Bank for their continued support at our Forum meetings.
3- Website
    a. We are trying to get your latest totals by May 31st so we can do the district scorecards   again to your superintendants.  We would like to have a true number so that each of your   schools get credit for reading with your districts.
    b. It’s not too late to schedule with Chief and/or the Magical Assembly with Paul.  Please   email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it    your date and time after you have checked the “events” tab on   the kengarffroad.com site.
4- Teacher Surveys
    a. Please have as many teachers as possible go online and fill out the surveys.  We need all schools to participate. 
    b. Access to the link by either going to the homepage of the kengarffroad.com site and   clicking on the link or email this link to your teachers     http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M77FK7W
5- Faculty and Staff Certificates
   a. If you have staff (that works 30+ hours) that did not get a certificate please email the full name and school to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
6- Launch meetings will be held for next year
    a. Year round can come July 27th, 3pm at Ken Garff Corporate offices 405 S. Main, SLC
    b. North meeting August 17th, 3pm
    c. Central meeting August 18th, 3pm
    d. South meeting August 19th, 3pm
7- Thanks for getting all your contracts signed and in for next year! 
8- Success Stories
    a. March Madness contests
    b. Chicken dancing custodian
    c. Beat the Teach – Staff member chooses a $5 prize and writes the prize on a sign-up sheet. Students sign up to beat the teach depending on the prize and how much they read.  If student reads more that teacher they win prize.
    d. Challenge classroom to read more the 500,000 minutes in their class
    e. Benchmark activity with donuts donated by Walmart
    f. Mrs. Hook-A-Book – reviews books, makes announcements, collects minutes, etc
    g. Dr. Seuss Day
    h. Obstacle course around school that Chief and principal raced around with students     cheering them on
    i. Grade competitions, challenge other schools
    j. Weekly drawings from tickets give more rewards away
    k. We kicked off our road to success program with an assembly.  We did a one man skit based   on a book about a boy named Robert Francis Weatherbee, a boy who was afraid to go to school and didn't want to learn to read and write. Robert wanted to be a fireman, a policeman, a sailor, or the President of the United States, but he couldn't read or write.  He TRIES to write a letter to his uncle about a certain kind of horse he wants but he can't read or write. Along the way a couple of interesting things occur that we demonstrate in the assembly. Also at the assembly, we gave a few of the teachers nick-names then had them dress up as their nick names and ride the bikes on the stage as we played music.  For example: Evil Kneivel Knudson and Harley Hartley. This week we are encouraging kids to turn off their TV's and read.  If the school reads 250,000 minutes in 2 weeks, our principal will eat a real, live worm at an assembly on Tuesday, April 27.  To get the kids excited about the assembly and encourage them to read, we have posted worm jokes and worm facts throughout our school, and each student received a “bookworm" bookmark, a gummy worm, and an apple donated by Winegars supermarket.  To conclude our road to success program this year, we are planning an assembly for May.  We will wrap up the story of Robert Francis Weatherbee, who loves horses, by having a dancing horse perform at our assembly.
    l. We have done a "Reading Rocks" theme this year. So we are having a band come and giving away our bikes! That evening we are having a reward party at an outdoor pool for the children and their families.  Last year several teachers rode their bikes the five miles to the pool for the children reading far above their goal.  "Reading Rocks" theme worked like this; I took pictures of all the teachers and adults in our building reading a book.  These are mounted outside every classroom on a paper that says "Reading Rocks".  Every class has a guitar (Poster board) that they have decorated.  When they meet their classroom goal for the week they get to hang the guitar outside their classroom so  everyone can tell if their class met their goal if the guitar is hanging.  We have taught the students a chant/song that they sing.... It is to the tune of We will Rock you!  Northlake Readers Rock you! Northlake Readers Rock you! We will read night and day! We won't stop except to play! We are the Knights and we'll confess we are on the Road to Success! Northlake Readers Rock you!!!! It is so fun to have them stand up and chant and clap.  I carry a toy electric guitar into the classrooms as I drive around on my bike and collect minutes each week from each class!  It has been very fun! Thanks for such a great program!