Post date: May 3, 2019 1:14:33 AM
Roundtable Aug 2019 to May 2020 will meet at Lefler Middle School. Note, Jan 2020 will be the 2nd Thursday. Aug 1 2019 at Lefler is the next roundtable.
Sat, May 4. At Downtown YMCA. 8 am to 5pm. Swimming and Water Rescue. Training good for 3 years. Will be some others in the future. $35.
May 16, 6:30-9pm at Lincoln Southeast. Can register to do pre-camp swim tests. $2 per person. Open to Scouts BSA and Cub Scouts.
Big Idea resulted in 900 hours of community service and 3000 trees planted. Removed an acre of invasive honeysuckle.
If you identify computer issues with reporting service hours, let Chad Brassil know. The system should be giving you a confirmation screen—otherwise it is likely not working. Probably dependent browser and settings—Chad is trying to pinpoint the issue.
Roundtable Incentive for 2019-2020: If a unit has at least 1 person at Roundtable per month, get 1% discount per month at scout shop which can be used for one unit purchase in January. In other words, a max of 5%. There is also a potential for a 5% discount in May 2020 based on attendance in Jan-May (and this can be additively combined to a 15% discount if reached FOS goal). There will be a check-in and check-out sheet at the end of each Roundtable.
Will be trying to reduce paper at roundtable, so expect more things to distributed only electronically.
Note about the survey "Evidence in Scouting Together" that has been circulating via email.
New Trail's End App. New functionality will be launched in June 2019. Designed to help track stuff. Should increase sales. Every seller is encouraged to use the app to log every sale. http://mobileapp.trails-end.com/
Register by June 1 to get goodies from Trails End.
Matt Anderson received Scouter's Training Award and Corey Viehl earned Cubmaster's Key Award.
Year in Review Reports
Mitchell: plans on creating a more cohesive plan related to training. Will communicate that plan so you can invite adults to key roundtables as appropriate. Looking for more ideas, contact Mitchell.
Dennis: his approach is to highlight changes and share good ideas. Merit Badge changes, recruitment ideas, service project ideas, answer questions or chase down answers, places to go camping, keep scouts coming back. Will try to continue in that model.
Karen: could always use more people at the District commitees. Advancement, Training, Camping, Finance (could use help with this committee; does FOS; looking for torchbearers), Membership (recruitment), Communications, Activities. Meet on 4th Tuesday at every month, 6:30 pm at OEC.
Start. Stop. Continue.
START
-Communication with council. If a request is getting forward within the office, keep us posted so we know who to follow up with.
-Some units don't know who their commissioner is are what a commissioner does. Would like to use commissioners to head off issues before they reach the main office.
-Don't know what you don't know. Some basic information for new adults would be useful. Basic information about district/council structure. Could have "new adult orientation" for all adults that just filled out an application. Perhaps a flagged roundtable. Perhaps sometime after Day of Awesomeness, something in between that and a regular roundtable. Perhaps Oct or Nov roundtable. College of Cub Scouting might be too soon.
-Some parents are afraid to show up to unit committee meetings because of the threshold of getting the basic terminology of scouting.
-How do we get new parents trained? What about YouTube. Think multiple forms. In person; YouTube; pdf; etc.
-Have a follow-up email that goes to each new adult app. Reach out to all den leaders.
-Advertise new parent orientation via existing leaders to share with their parents.
-Break-out for new people at roundtable.
-Have a unit orientation for new parents. Include a book. Include an organizational chart that connects to district and council.
-The term roundtable is specialized language. Try to avoid specialized language.
-Have topics in advance, i.e. posted agenda. (Could post on saltvalleyroundtable.org)
STOP
-Single to noise ratio is low in information for experienced Scouters.
-Presentation when we meet as whole (don’t do Scout BSA or Cub Scout specific information when meeting as a large group)
-Put up paper notices if location changes or gets canceled
-Opening group sessions sometimes too long and too detailed. Don't need to read handouts. Leave time for questions after.
CONTINUE
-Keep at a consistent location
-Keep variety of topics that are applicable.
-Peer sharing of ideas. Allowing group sharing during the sessions.
-Break-out sessions
-Stop the Bleed. Basic skill level presentations. Especially useful for SPL.
-Aim for 1 hour to 1 hour, 15 minutes. 1.5 hours gets to be too long. Regiment time for presenters. This may be fixed by having check-out times. Have to leave time for post-meeting discussion.
-Plan is 15-20 minute joint session. Followed by 1 hour break-out meetings.
-Cub Scouts: tangible things you can use right away. For example, gathering activities. Made Pinewood Derby neckerchief slides.
-Do strong presentation at school night for scouting. Be prepared to explain Cub Scout specific terminology and the general flow of the year. Don't want to leave them scared. Have a take-home.