Another wonderful and long-awaited service we have on this site is the Community Bulletin Board.  This is also protected, but in a different way.  In order to participate in the Bulletin Board, go to the homepage.  Roll to “Community” and click on “Bulletin Board” in the drop-down menu.  You will be greeted with a box that headlines, “Howdy, HM community!”.  below which, you will click on the invitation to “apply for membership.” A sign- in box will appear next.  To create your account, click on “Create One” at the bottom of that box..  A new box will appear that will ask you for your e-mail information and request your proper name.  It is critical that you give your name. Once you have entered all your information, submit the form.

We will check the applications daily and your approval will trigger an e-mail notification.  For the record:  The Community Bulletin Board is for information exchange and inter-parental support only.  This is not for personal blogging/kvetching or commercial advertisements other than parent businesses.  We will be monitoring the site and purging posts that have been up for more than a month.

As always, we would love to hear your feedback on the site.  Contact Michelle or Leah and let us know your thoughts.

It’s great to reflect on where you were and where you’re going. I suppose because I was involved in writing the text for the website, I found the process of creating the website has really been a reflective process as well.

I’m thankful for the efforts of Doug Motel (High Meadow School parent and founder of Site Optimized) who worked hard to keep the site reflective of who and what High Meadow School is without making it a slick and glossy looking site. Still, he was able to use those slick and glossy site tools and invest the time needed to hone the site so it works for the High Meadow School community. The text has also gone through quite a few eyeballs at this point. High Meadow parent Terry Baron among others reviewed every word. Many teachers, parents, and students were enlisted to read and respond to the site as it developed, and their wisdom led to important changes. We want to thank Eli McClatchy for the drawing, which elicits such warm feelings about the school. And much thanks to Pat Thompson for your keen eye, and excellent homepage text.

It was 3 years ago when Bud Clarke (then a High Meadow School parent, Chair of High Meadow School’s Board of Trustees and co-owner of Clarke-Thompson Designs, the ad agency that represents the school) got a bee in his bonnet to create a user friendly school website site that captures as best it could the effable qualities of High Meadow School as a whole while also providing more substantive information, allowing for the practical concerns of registration and enabling the community to connect with each other. He always wanted the school’s website to be a meeting place and I think we’re pretty close to his vision.

Michelle