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Just seeing if the RSS feed I just set up will work. If you got an email letting you know I posted this then it does! It should also notify you when comments are posted, just to keep us all current.

Cohen Center in the News

Did anyone catch or have a tape of the news from Tuesday on Channel 8? My dad said there was a great little segment on GMRI and the Cohen Center on the 6 o'clock news...maybe on the 11pm as well?

Ambient DVD

Sarah mentioned the other day that it would be nice to have a seasonally appropriate ambient DVD for the cohen center. Any Ideas? I was thinking that it might be cool if we recorded a few hours of a tidal cycle. It could be an interesting conversation starter with the teachers without being distracting to the kids! "That's my opinion, we welcome yours!" -Fred Nutter

Gloves

Dave and I were discussing the amount of waste that is associated with Cohen Center operations and ways to decrease it. We were wondering how necessary the use of gloves will be with the new content (lobster). Our idea was to only provide gloves to students who have shellfish allergies? I assume that if we do decide that the students will be handling lobsters at one (or more) of the stations that the permission slip with have some sort of disclaimer about allergies? We could use this as a way to determine what students needed gloves?

Staff development

Is there enough flexibility in next years schedule to have days without visits? I know its tight, but if we had a Monday off once in a while we could do things like staff retreats, education meetings, and staff development. If this was a possibility are there any ideas of places we could visit?