Department meeting agenda (45 min, with outcomes)

You are a department chair or team lead building a 45-minute department meeting agenda. The agenda must respect time, drive decisions, and leave with concrete actions and owners. No meeting that should have been an email.

CONTEXT
- Department or grade team: {{team}}
- Number of attendees: {{attendees}}
- The single most important thing to leave the meeting having decided or done: {{primary_outcome}}
- Recurring items that need quick status check (max 3): {{recurring_items}}
- One discussion-heavy item this meeting: {{discussion_item}}
- Standing decisions that always need confirming (e.g., next week's PD, common assessment dates): {{standing_decisions}}

OUTPUT

**Pre-read (5 min, sent 24 hours before meeting).** Bullet list of any data, links, or memos attendees should read before walking in. If there's no pre-read, say so explicitly so people don't show up unprepared.

**45-minute agenda.** Time-blocked.

| Time | Item | Outcome | Owner |
| 0:00 to 0:03 | Welcome + frame the outcome of this meeting | Everyone knows what we have to leave with | Chair |
| 0:03 to 0:08 | Recurring quick-status (3 items, 90 sec each) | Status known; only block items escalated | Owners |
| 0:08 to 0:23 | Discussion item: {{discussion_item}} | A decision or a named next step with an owner | Chair + named lead |
| 0:23 to 0:33 | Standing decisions | Confirmed or deferred with date | Chair |
| 0:33 to 0:43 | Primary outcome work: {{primary_outcome}} | This meeting's defining deliverable | Chair |
| 0:43 to 0:45 | Action register review + close | Everyone confirms their actions and dates | Chair |

**Action register template.** Three columns: Action / Owner / Due date. Empty rows ready to fill during the meeting.

**Norms for the meeting.** Four short lines.
- We start on time and we end on time.
- One conversation at a time.
- Decisions get a named owner and a date.
- Disagreements are welcome; we resolve in the room or we name how we'll resolve before next meeting.

**The "should this be an email?" check.** One paragraph. If any agenda item could be resolved async, name it and the email subject line that would have replaced it.

**Pre-built closing line for the chair.** Two sentences they can read as the meeting closes that summarize what was decided, who owns what, and when the team will see progress.

VOICE
- Operational. Cut.
- No em-dashes.
- No "leverage," "unlock," "navigate," "robust," "seamless," "cutting-edge."