Business & Industry Academy Council

Meeting Notes

10/25/07

Agenda:
Introductions

Norms

State of the Academy

Attendance:
Julie Busic
Scott Thomas
Jordan Ware
Jordan Rohrs
Scott Carrougher
Terry Farris
Vince Blauser
Tiffany Oxner
Wendy Geltz

Working norms that we have adopted:

R- rely – when you respect someone you rely on their understanding – respect the process – relaxed – relevance – keeping ourselves focused

E - example – set a good example for others – equality – respect other people - evaluate – both sides

S – support, sincere, sharing, sense of humor

P – professionalism, punctual, personalize – taking responsibility with I statement - polite

E – enthusiasm – excellences – put our best step forward and do a good job, educate – strength and background

C - commitment, confidential – what is said here stays here, cooperate, control-control – self monitoring and control how much you do – comedy – communicate

T- trust, teamwork, tolerance, takes risks

Say” ouch”, say “oops”

State of the Academy: use a critical eye – think about and identify issues of the academy
What we are doing what are we currently doing in the academy
How we are doing?
How does the change benefit the student/teachers?
What are our strengths and weaknesses in specific AYP areas?
What are our challenges?

Successful Pre-Competency and Post- Competency students

9 th grade collaborative team – common planning – meet once or twice a week –
10 th grade team
11 th and 12 th grade team
Career Team
Tilt team – leadership team one hour a week
Instructional/Teacher Coach – Facilitator of the Tilt team

Every Wednesday we offer training after school – staff are required to meet 2 times a month. What are the needs of the teachers and how can that be transferred over to what the students need?

Principal

Tiffany on both teams and it is a really good time together with teachers and discuss issues about the kids or any issues that they would like to take to the whole staff. Everybody is a part of the team (100% of the certificated staff) Advisor are not part of this, because of the they continue on through 12 th grade. The teams loop so the kids know the expectations and can hit the floor running.

What are we doing

Extensive CTE Program
College credits issues – over 550 in 07\
Mouse Certrificcation – 25 per year average
5 CTE Staff
10 Pre-AP courses (3 per-calc/trig sections)
5  - year long AP courses - lot more emphasis on quality

Distance Learning Program – working closely with Ron Mayberry in IA academy credit recovery program

Journalism program

Child Development program- outreach program in the elementary schools

Leadership programs

Co- op work experience – credit retrieval through work credits.

Special Education Transition Program – sped kids who are having trouble dealing with school are able to get out in the communities and work with community

Attendance Secretary

Closing the gap

Developing a framework around instruction
Developing a framework for intervention
Developing a framework for relationship

A lot of intervention is happening at the team level. Pack attack mentality. Bring credibility to the issue. Not just one teacher picking on the student.
Establishing relationships – being a service oriented academy – we are here for the kids – they have to know that you care before they know what you care. What does relationship play in the student's lives?

How are we doing?

WASL scores down a little in a few areas. Able to chart strength and weaknesses to see what they need to focus on for testing. The staff is taking the data and they are seeing every single one of their student's records.

Challenges

Closing the Gap

WASL
Graduation rate – 18 students didn't walk last year – unacceptable – currently 36 kids who are not at credit status
DCA's/Meeting Standards
Attendance - attendance can no longer affect the credit – miss so many classes then your professionalism. How do we reach out to families? – How do we draw the parents in?

Grade – Level Team Development
Increase AP offerings to more students
Provide Opportunities for Unique Experiences for Students.
Expand Elective Course
Enhancing Small Schools Concept
Creating a Place Where All Kids feel loved and supported

Essential Questions for this Team
What do we need to do differently to improve the performance of all students?
What data do we need to consider?
What can we learn from our successes?
How do we involve student and parent voices in improving the academy?

Forward. Thinking. We mean business

Homework –

Learning plan – the guiding format of what we need to do
Essential questions

Scheduling times:

Times: 3 – 4:30
Every 6 weeks - December 4 th next meeting

What worked well – having students here was a good thing - Having an agenda and following it. Someone who facilitated the meeting – liked the way the meeting moved along.