6 June 2007: .5 hours

Wrote up an announcement about CATA's production of "Spoon River Anthology," edited it, and sent it out.

1 May 2007: 2 hours

Watched the presentation of a proclamation from the president be presented to CATA students, interviewed the two DOE representatives who presented it, asked the students a few questions to get their thoughts, and wrote up an article based on my notes. Then, I had some help editing it before sending it out.

30 April 2007: 1.5 hours

Making up signs and posters to advertise the spaghetti dinner and then went around town putting the signs up.

29 April 2007: 2.5 hours

Read the PR/Marketing section of the book, The Campaign Manager, and took notes, especially on how to make one main point and reinforce it in the most powerful manner.

21 April 2007: 1 hour

Wrote up the article about the poetry slam, edited, sent it out.

20 April 2007: 2 hours

Attended the poetry slam CATA had at Barnes and Noble and took notes for an article about it.

17 April 2007: 9 hours

Spent the day in Concord, making presentations about CATA, meeting legislators and reporters, saying a lot of positive things about CATA, made a point to advertise the school all day, watched other presenters, went to the capitol building for the charter school hearing session, and spoke for CATA and spread as much positive PR as possible all day long.

15 April 2007: 4 hours

Conversed with other students going to Concord about our presentation through CATA's proboards.com forum, wrote up a lot of ideas, organized a potential format for how it could happen. After getting next to no responses, I created a timed presentation for our 25 minutes slot in Concord.

10 April 2007: 3 hours

Talked to Lynne about press release formatting, when it is appropriate to use personal style, and made observations about the style and format most newspaper journalists use, noting differences in announcements, front-page events, and the local sections of the newspaper.

4 April 2007: 7 hours

Having just gotten the news of CATA's potential closing, I did a LOT of research. I researched the technicalities of how charter schools and educational legislature work in the state of New Hampshire. I learned a lot, and brainstormed an abundance of ideas on how we could take what we know and love about our school and find a legislator to market to and get a bill to pass, or get a bill in progress amended to provide much more substantial aid for our schools. There was a lot of note-taking, brainstorming, and emailing about how to successfully market our school.

21 March 2007: 1.5 hours

Talked to Zach about his coffee house to gather enough information to do a write-up about it and then put together an announcement for the paper, had him edit it, and re-edit it until all of the names and information were spelled right and satisfactory.

26 February 2007: .5 hours

Wrote up an announcement of the CATA art show at the Barrington Public Library and sent it the papers.

28 February 2007: 1.5 hours

Participated in CATA's Poetry Out Loud, interviewed a couple of the students who participated and watched, picked out quotes, and wrote up an article. I then edited it and sent it out.

18 February 2007: 4 hours

Brainstormed and proposed to Lynne, Jeanne, Deb Byrne, and Sue Hollins putting together an event for all of the charter schools in New Hampshire to get together, perhaps present to and converse with one another, introduce the active members of the communities to each other, and get it publicized! We shared some ideas and came up with a pretty good plan which then got taken over by people who are higher up for down the road.