Meeting Structure
Here are some typical components you might want to have in a meeting:

• START ON TIME! If you don’t, you’ll find yourself starting a little bit later every time because people will assume they can come late since it’ll start late.
• Start with brief introductions. Many people have trouble remembering names, and it will build your group’s sense of community for people to regularly introduce themselves and share something significant that happened to them since you last met. Essential if you have any new members.
• Pass around a sign-in sheet. Essential if you have any new members.
• Set ground rules for the meeting and follow them for the rest of the school year.
• Bring in presentations on issues or skills. Experienced group members or guests could give presentations. This helps educate and empower the group internally. Remember that there are a lot of people coming to your meetings to learn! Educate and include them.
• Present appeals from SEAC and other groups for help, direct action and involvement. This usually goes hand in hand with presenting any mail, phone calls, or emails the group has received.
• Announce new projects and enlist interested parties for them.
• Update group members on the progress that has been made on old projects since your last meeting.
• Give quick updates on old projects where not much has happened.
• Each week some campaign coordinator could present an urgent issue to the group to write letters about. It is usually most effective to have several different letters already written that group members can read and sign, or just one letter for everyone to sign.
• Discuss recent current events (that are applicable) and give inspiration.
• Split up into small groups to work on each project. This depends on the size of the group. You might be able to do everything in the main meeting, or you might need separate meetings.