Troop 12 - planning page - these plans are not yet set in stone

Long term plans:

1. I want to assign an older scout to each younger scout to act as a big brother. this scout will need to help the younger scout meet all of the early rank requirements and teach him scout skills. We may get 5 new scouts in November - we need to get this going to handle the influx.
2. I want to hold troop elections
3. I want to start having PLC meetings again (we have done these on the first Monday of the month in the past, but we are flexible)
4. I want to go through the Junior troop leader training - I have the book for this - they say to a lot 3 meetings for this. I would want to have a dedicated adult leader meeting and then an adult PLC meeting before we did this.
5. I would like Leland to meet with Jeff Jackson (?Glen and perhaps the rest of us adults) to try to think of how to teach merit badges in the troop: at meetings, as a Sunday or Saturday event, how? As part of this perhaps John can help plan to complete the aviation merit badge that we started in the Spring.
6. I would like to develop an advancement committee or section. It would need to review: incomplete merit badges and then meet with those planning MB instruction (see 5 above) to effect completion of the same. A separate eagle sub section would focus on the life scouts - seeing who needs MB to be completed and referring them to the incomplete or missing MB section, ensuring that the boys are seeking and or working on their eagle scout
7. I would like to have 2 people (adults) for every job. That way if only one shows up, the job still gets done. It will prevent burn out. Perhaps we can explain this to the boys and get SPL/ASPL and PL/APL teams operating. Perhaps we can apply this logic to the big brother thing (see 1. above).
8. We might want to think about having big boy as well as whole troop events. The plan would be to try to do a few "high adventure" trips or events (backpacking?) with just the bigger kids.

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