Minutes

=** MARCH 25, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke Absent: Don Callaway, Scott Palser, Matt Mozouch

Beth and Cleta worked on the outline for the Intro to Human Services class that both the middle school and high school FACS departments will teach. Hollie and Nicole worked on Computer Applications course information.

Don and Matt were in Louisville, KY. Scott was out sick.

=** MARCH 11, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch, Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke

__Group__: 1. We discussed the use of the scanner in the business department, on who should be able to use it (staff/students, etc.). 2. The board meeting on Monday is where they discussed the options for calendars for next year - no change in vocational funding - also, the culinary arts building floor plan is 99% set in place. To make any changes, it's going to be extremely difficult. We talked about the changes that Beth and Cleta would like to make. 3. We also discussed the amount of vocational money we have, and how we need to communicate on how much money we will get for next year. 4. We talked about the articulation agreements that we have with Butler County College. Beth went there last Friday, and got the details about our agreements, and started initializing other articulations we might create with them. 5. The counselors and a few of our teachers were in a meeting where the counselors were introduced to the Kansas Career Pipeline.

__Break-out__: Cleta and Beth - Matt and Don - Scott, Nicole, and Hollie -

=** MARCH 4, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch, Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke

__Group__: 1. Beth wanted us to discuss ways we might be able to cut the budget for next year.
 * Part time employee cut.
 * Volunteer to be custodian for our areas or our halls for extra duty pay.
 * Move the specialists into vacant teaching positions.
 * Shorter work week (4 day week).
 * Cut unneeded transportation. (Example - some special ed transportation)

2. We need to be sure to turn in pink sheets for the time we spend on filling out our profiles. We can have up to 16 hours reimbursed. 3. Scheduling for next year - Don and Matt: If you had to split which would you want to split? Don would like to take the advanced construction classes. Matt could take the architectural drafting class that Don currently teaches. We could always drop some drafting courses. Office Tech could be eliminated. Will know more after the keyboarding quiz out in April. Foods III could be offered every other year. 4. Start looking at pathways for next year NOW - so we don't have to wait until Aug/Sept. when we will be running.

__Breakout__: Don - Working on negotiating items for CTE Matt - Working on Technical Drafting curriculum Scott - Looking at VB.net proposal that was submitted. Need to talk with Dr. Herrington on what was presented to curriculum council. Hollie - Looking at desk copies of Web Page Design HTML books Beth - Looking at career clusters compared to current curriculum. Working on 8th grade outline for Intro to Human Services.

=** FEBRUARY 18, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch, Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke

__Group__: 1. Don is going into negotiations this week, and asked for our priorities on the money issues. The priority list needs to be to him by tomorrow, with estimates if possible. 2. Also, Don suggested that we look at career pathways to increase our income to include other classes. We also need to be sure to buy supplies early if we can, in case money does not come through the next fall. If we can't use VE-2 funds for this, we need to consider our student fees accounts. 3. He also talked to us about the "train the trainer" idea for career pathways and clusters. This will especially be helpful if the training budget for the general fund gets reduced. 4. 8th grade recruiting - perhaps next time we could make a video that could explain our classes to the 8th graders, instead of 5 minutes during a meeting where they are overwhelmed with information. It may take a year to make the video, but it could be possible if we decide to do it.

Hollie will show everyone the google doc that Tamara sent last week, and make sure everyone can log in during the March 4 PLC.

__Breakout:__ Don - Needed to work with a student Scott - Looking at funding for DECA state competition and finalizing registration. Hollie and Nicole - Trying to get prioritized list for Don on what we would spend the rest of our VE-2 funding. Beth and Cleta - Working on prioritized list for Don. Matt - Look at Google doc rubric from Tamara, work on prioritized list for Don.

=** FEBRUARY 11, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch, Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke, Tamara Konrade, Mr. Gregoire (to talk about school announcement)

Tamara spoke about the following:
 * Information she brought to us on career clusters
 * The need to prepare our kids for the workforce
 * We reviewed the Kansas Personal Plan of Study (PPS) Rubic and talked about where we are on the rubric.
 * Discussion was made on using the Kansas Career Pipeline
 * Training needs to be given for now to use/implementation of the pipeline (perhaps on April 10?)
 * We need parent involvement (7th and 8th grade)
 * Perhaps do this in conjunction with enrollment
 * We need to meet with the middle school and high school counselors and academic areas on PPS
 * We also looked at the Guidance Checklist (more as a formatting example than the content itself)

Step 1: Tamara will present PPS rubric to administration. Step 2: We need to create a PPS Rubric for Valley Center district (by using Google Docs) within the next month or so. We would need feedback from: 1. Counselors 2. CTE 3. Administrators and 4. Academic areas in order to deveop the rubric, both from middle school and high school. Step 2a: Develop cluster pathways Step 3: Meet with Department Heads to geth support (March 3rd and 4th) Setp 4: Give Tamara feedback on where we are in the rubric

Beth also shared with us the Essdack database that holds the lesson plans that integrates English and Math. You can find this at [|www.essdack.org/pbl].

=** FEBRUARY 4, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch, Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke, Shane Stover

__Group__: 1. Beth announced that Tamara will attend our meeting next week. Tamara attended a meeting and got new information from the state, which she will copy for us regarding Career Clusters and Personal Plans of Study

2. Don gave an update on negotiations.

3. Beth will ask about a deadline on gathering consolidated finals information and data

__Separate__:
 * Beth - STAR Events Competition all day
 * Business - Work on keyboarding quiz out requirements
 * Cleta - Collect finals information and talk to Mr. Stover about students, since he was in attendance
 * Matt and Don - Go through Technical Plans and gather finals data

=** JANUARY 28, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Cleta Sandlin, Matt Mozouch Absent: Scott Palser, Hollie Ricke (at Regional DECA competition)

1. Final Exam Data: We need to compile and compare final exam data for shared classes.
 * Don will work on compliling his in a spreadsheet this summer.
 * Matt is going to compare mulitple classes
 * Hollie and Nicole need to compile Computer Applications data
 * Cleta is going to compare multiple classes
 * Beth will continue her multiple class collection with data from Apparel I and Personal Financial Management. She will also start Parenting.

2. PLC Proposals: The suggestion that was liked most was having a faculty meeting for the first 30 minutes and also to use the time to work with students. In general, the group did not like the idea of taking away PLC time, because we feel like we do use the time.

3. Teaching Preferences: Everyone wanted to stay the same, except Nicole, who would like to teach an Advanced Computer Class.

4. We also discussed the pros and cons of a four day work week.

=** JANUARY 21, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

__Group:__ 1. Don is going before the negoitiating team (IBB Training Session) on January 26 to show them what each area will do with an extended contract. He needs feedback from us on this input: - include training info to each area - State/National training - include all things you would do for VE-2 that you do now, or don't have time to do now that you should be doing - He needs this information by January 23. 2. We talked about the strengths each of us had on the Strength Finder analysis. The top ones from each person in the group were: Beth - Relater Matt - Communication Cleta - Harmony Nicole - Empathy Hollie - Includer Don - Relater Scott - didn't have results due to technical difficulties

__Separate:__ Don and Matt- Work with Brian Gregorie on the budget for doing summer paperwork. Cleta and Beth - Paperwork for Perkins and Conference Registration paperwork Business - Gathering materials for "Recruitment Day" on Friday, January 23rd to try to recruit kids to stay in business classes.

=** JANUARY 14, 2009 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

__Group:__ 1. We need to fill out the NEA Survey on contract issues. Be sue to put in all we do for our programs: Grants, VE-2 Paperwork, etc. 2. The idea of splitting the department head duties and pay among the three lead instructors from each area was brought up. Discussions were held. 3. We would like to have full accountability on our VE-2 funding - a paper trail would be nice to see for ALL funds. Don is going to try to look into this.

__Separate:__ Don - Meet with vendors and Matt Joy on Snap on Tool Training Matt - Finish researching PO Cleta and Beth - Need to spend Perkins monies - research on educational training programs Business - Meeting with Dr. Herrington and Derrick to discuss the Keyboarding Quiz Out at the 8th grade level.

=** JANUARY 7, 2009 **=

Attendees: Dr. Herrington, Mr. Gregorie, Lois Pierson, Alyssa Rogers, Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

Dr. Herrington discussed budget holds and potential cuts we might be having in the near future, due to the financial position of the State Department. She stated that there is a strong possiblity we won't get all of the money we were promised at the beginning of the year. However, we don't know how much will be cut. She also stated:


 * Auto has gotten the big item eReq's approved
 * Foods will continue buying food.
 * No headsets will be bought, but the business dept. has extra that can be used throughout the vocational area.
 * We need to prioritize what is left on our lists by area.
 * Keep in mind that fee money is already in the bank, so we can spend the "Fund 55" money on consumable supplies. If possible, save fee monies to spend on supplies for next fall.
 * We need to be proactive in saving in case of future cuts (especially next year).
 * Perkins money we will get, so most of those purchases are OK.
 * Organizations money will not be cut.
 * Be sure to get prior approval before buying anything.


 * Dr. Herrington is going to send us a copy of what our funds are.**

Some concerns stated by Don were: 1. We want to be sure that our money isn't lost, because we don't spend it in time. We need to be sure we have a strategy to spend it in time. 2. We need to be sure that vocational funds are not used to balance the district overall budget. 3. What % of salary is taken from the vocational funds? **Dr. Herrington will check on this and get back to the group.**

OTHER ITEMS:
 * Dr. Herrington also wants us to be sure to **send any cirriculum changes to her before the January cirriculum council meeting**. **She will send us the date for that meeting.**
 * PALS program is going to try to go to the FACS area.
 * Need to know about Keyboarding going to the 8th grade (Quiz out training)
 * For those who want to **change fees for classes, we need to send those changes in writing to Dr. Herrington**.
 * Enrollment is set to be the last week in January
 * Start promoting your classes to your current students.

=** DECEMBER 17, 2008 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

__TOGETHER:__ Discussion on two questions: Many ideas were talked about, and many of us needed to think more on it. A few things said were:
 * 1) What are we doing to help those students who are struggling in our classes?
 * 2) What are we doing to help those students who are excelling in our classes?
 * It is different, based on the classes you teach.
 * Some excelling students are allowed to do more than what is expected on assignments/projects when it comes to letting them explore the new software they are using.
 * It was mentioned to try to get those students who are struggling to come in - you need to know their currency and what will get them to come in and make up work - if a higher grade incentive is not enough.
 * Some said they really don't have many kids who are excelling above and beyond in their classes
 * Having other excelling students help out with others in the class was also suggested, but sometimes the excelling students are not very accepting to this idea.

__SEPARATE:__ Don and Matt: work on architectual specifications for new HS Beth: Worked on pathways Hollie, Nicole, and Scott: Brainstormed new classes and possible pathways, and questions to pose to Deb Hinrichs before getting too far on pathways.

=** DECEMBER 10, 2008 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

__TOGETHER:__ __SEPARATE:__ Don and Matt: work on architectual specifications for new HS Beth: Worked on pathways Hollie, Nicole, and Scott: Worked on pathways
 * Discussion on the happenings with the Keyboarding class to update everyone on the progress there.
 * Mrs. Decker came to talk to the business teachers about Computer Apps. She offers a condensed version of the class with World History. **Scott is going to send her the course outline and competency**, so that she can be sure to cover the same curriculum offered in the regular classroom. We also discussed the possiblity of getting funding for those students in that class (there will be about 16 next year). **Hollie will email Deb Hinrichs at the state about this question**. The possibility of team teaching such a class was also discussed.

=** DECEMBER 3, 2008 **=

Attendees: Beth Luman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch - Cleta had to leave early for a Dr's appointment

__TOGETHER:__ Beth showed every the website that Bonnie and her have been working on at their ESSDAC meetings. She will find out at the next meeting in January how to get them logged in so they can look and use the lessons.

__SEPARATE:__ Don and Matt: architectural specs, tool placement and curriculum Beth: Collaborated with Bonnie on lessons and curriculum for the Teaching and Training pathway Hollie, Nicole, and Scott: meeting with Tamara and Brian on moving Keyboarding to the middle school. Hollie also met with Derrick Unruh about Atomic Learning as well as the new CS4 for Dreamweaver and getting Outlook available for the Advanced Applicaitons students

=**NOVEMBER 19, 2008**=

Attendees: Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

Beth, Cleta, Matt, and Don met and discussed GSI. The general thoughts were to think on it and research it more in the future. After this initial meeting, they split and did the following: Don: Worked on ereqs for equipment, and March conference Matt: Worked on equipment problems, curriculum for advanced CAD Cleta: Researched curriculum and videos to purchase Beth: CTE and Math Integration with Bonnie Johnson Business had a meeting with Dr. Herrington, Tamara Konrade, and Tim Hayden to talk about moving the Keyboarding class to the Middle School.

=**NOVEMBER 5, 2008**=

Attendees: Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Matt Mozouch

__Old Business:__ 1. The business department found out that to have keyboarding at the middle school, a certified business teacher does not have to teach the class there. 2. Curriculum council approved all the FACS classes and Art classes in the meeting on Nov. 4 3. Palser found the cash register information, so now he can spend his Perkins money. 4. Beth, Scott, and Hollie are going to conferences in the next month: DECA leadership conference, FCCLA (Dallas)

__New Business:__ 1. We need to arrange a time each month to meet with our middle school counterparts. Don has arranged to have Mickey come and stay up to speed on the program changes. All 3 of the technology teachers will be paid 1 hour for this to happen. eReq and principal approval is in the process of being done. 2. Cleta, Beth, Matt, and Hollie are all going to GEI training next week. They won't be at PLC. 3. Don has presented information to the Learning Center to look at expanding the curriculum there, and into the trades area. Nov. 13 he will meet again and he will have key people from across the state to get course outlines ready for perhaps next year's curriculum.

Breakouts at 8:00:
 * Business:** FBLA paperwork for curriculum council, get Beth outlines and competencies, start looking at Keyboarding Software and Web Page Books to spend our .5 funding.
 * FACS:** Filling out add/delete forms to send into the state - look at how to spend Perkins money and .5 funding money.
 * Technology:** Purchases for .5 money.

=**OCTOBER 29, 2008**=

Attendees: Dr. Herrington, Derrick Unruh, Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Alyssa Rogers, Matt Mozouch, Lois Pierson

Tamara Konrade told the business department that the change to the HTML books and Keyboarding Software does not have to be approved by Curriculum Council.

Discussion with Derrick:

1. We have the CS4 Adobe upgrade, but won't be applied until Hollie is ready to implement that version in her class. New books for Dreamweaver would be needed for this upgrade to take place. 2. Don spoke to Derrick about the timing of upgrades (during the summer) as well as about Adobe upgrades here and in the middle school. 3. Derrick talked to us about School View, the new lab monitoring software. All teachers with labs agreed that it would be great to get licenses to that software when we get it. Technology Requests:

Communication: 1. New high definition cameras. Cannon has shown Lois some of the new cameras she would like to purchase. HD30 cameras, approximately $1000/piece. 2. Virtual Studio for video production. 3. 2 External HD's - Size: 1 Terabyte

Technology: 1. Upgrades in Don's lab - all 18 should have been upgraded. Matt will email Derrick on whether all 18 computers have been upgraded. 2. Blueprint Printer - roll-sheet feeder for blueprint, one minimum, perhaps two. Cost is approximately $2500 per printer.

Digital Photography: Printer - Color photo printer 4 External HD's - Lois might be able to give Alyssa her old external hard drives for her to use.

Business Department: Keyboarding Software: Derrick will email the business department the ideas for Keyboarding software that he gathered previously when upgrading the elementry keyboarding software. Dr. Herrington will look as well as Derrick to find out whether the entry level class for a pathway needs to be taught by a certified business teacher.

Airliners - Wait until January 2009 for an order on these. Beth has had a good experience with them.

FACS: Elmo - Cleta wants one of these - maybe not high end, but something that would work for the foods classes. Derrick will look into these and get back to Cleta on this. High Speed Scanner with a sheet feeder

Perkins requests: All needs to be incumbered by December 1. Dry Mount Press - $1300 for Alyssa for Digital Photography - Point of Sale system for the business department - $2500 for Scott - Derrick will get old information to Scott on this purchase.

Action items for Derrick: 4 External HD Printer - photo Blue Print Printer Elmo Network Scanner Point of Sale System Keyboarding Software options

=**OCTOBER 22, 2008**=

Attendees: Dr. Herrington, Mr. Gregorie, Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Alyssa Rogers, Matt Mozouch, Lois Pierson

Dr. Herrington gave us the overview of our VE-II .5 funding. We have $217,455 for our CTE department. She gave us a breakdown of what each individual program has to spend this year. We also added items to our lists where needed.

Derrick is going to replace the tech computers at the Middle School - 13K, Upgrade all Microsoft in our building - 10K, Business network scanner - ?K In total, Derrick is setting aside 40K for expenditures for this year. He will be at the next meeting, Oct. 29. We need to be sure he knows EXACTLY what we want for technology needs. Derrick will give his input on all technology items listed on our funding requests.

On ereq's for our items, be sure to put "Vocational Funding - Line 34" in the box at the bottom. If something is a single source item, be sure to note "Single Source" on the ereq. Otherwise, you have to have 3 quoted prices, including shipping and handling that you list on the ereq at the bottom.

To find out issues on curriculum (new books, new software), Hollie will email Tamara Komrade on whether it needs to be approved. We also need to know if they can be paid for with VE-II .5 funds, curriculum council money, instructional supply money, or where it would be taken from. Quotes on those items are always helpful to speed up the process. Copy Dr. Herrington when email is sent.

Work with Beth on all Perkins money. She has the requests, and remember that all equipment needs to be incumbered by December 1.

Business needs to ask Derrick whether Adobe has been upgraded (and funded). Only a portion of the upgrade would have been funded with .5 funding.

Beth wants to buy a baby that is a shaken baby simulator for demonstrating the effects of shaken baby syndrome.

Don talked to Dr. Herrington about the scrap metal account. Don is going to try to find the account for that and email Dr. Herrington.

Tracy is the person we need to talk to about our students user fees and what we can spend the fees on.

Next week, Dr. Herrington and Derrick will be here at 7:30 to finish our conversation on vocational funding. Business: Work on information for curriculum council on FBLA, quotes for HTML books and Keyboarding Software. Technology: Curriculum and how to spend our .5 money. FACS: Curriculum and how to spend our .5 money.
 * 8:00 Breakouts:**

=**OCTOBER 15, 2008**=

Attendees: Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke, Alyssa Rogers, Matt Mozouch

Announcements: We aren't going to Erie on October 17th, and the plan is not to see any schools right now, since the clusters haven't been implemented yet.

Meeting notes:
 * At least once per month, we would like to have the middle school meet with us to talk about our agenda as a department.
 * We need to be looking at our cross curriculum before the November 15 deadline for Add/Delete, starting at this Friday's PLC time.
 * The idea was put on the table of having a "lead instructor" for each of our areas. We basically have these designated already for each area. They are:
 * Technology: Don
 * Art: Alyssa
 * Business: Scott
 * FACS: Beth
 * Alyssa is looking to change two of her classes and we had discussion on what her steps would be to do these changes.
 * The business department is going to gather information for curriculum council to try to switch from having a DECA chapter to an FBLA chapter for the CTSO.
 * Discussion was had on the structure of our PLC time. It was stated that we need to try to have some sort of list of items to cover or agenda before the meeting so that we know what we do or don't have time to do each week. Also, we decided to set aside 30 minutes of each PLC time for each area to work on their notebook and materials for VE-II funding, since that is very particular to each area. So, at 8:00 each Wednesday, we will adjourn from group work and move to individual areas.
 * We also talked about the duties we are all responsible for to make our VE-II funded programs work. We are developing a list of these activities. Discussion was also had on how to find time to get all of these activities done. We are trying to learn from each other on how we can set aside time to get the required paperwork and duties completed for the state.

Action Items: 1. Don is going to try to upload his calendar of deadlines for VE-II funding to the Wiki. 2. Hollie volunteered to have an agenda for the meetings to keep us on track and everyone knows what we are going to try to accomplish during each PLC

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** SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 (Administrative Meeting) **
Attendees: Beth Luhman, Brian Gregoire, Jamie Lewis, Louis Herrington, Tamara Konrade

A synthesis of the meeting:
 * 1) Tamara will call Erie High School and set up a time to **//visit on October 17//**. The CTE teachers and Brian will be visiting. If this is a “go” I will write up the description on My Learning Plan for teachers.
 * 2) It was suggested that the team **//visit a minimum of 3 schools//** (we didn’t decide on a time frame I don’t think) and we will discuss possible schools to visit and why on the **“discussion page” of the wikispace**.
 * 3) **//Find CTE learning opportunities//** so that we become knowledgeable about how it can and will impact learning for students at the Middle School and High School levels. After we gain more knowledge, start the conversations with the whole staff.
 * 4) As we plan**//, highlight the pathway areas that we would like to place more focus on//** and make sure they align with the state implementation guidelines instead of tackling all of them at once.
 * 5) Louise typed (or will) the list of the people on the **//CTE leadership team//** on the front page of the wiki below the list of the team members.

=**SEPTEMBER 24, 2008**=

Attendees: Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Matt Mozouch, Nicole Menefee, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin, Hollie Ricke.
 * We talked about visiting Erie High School. Discussion was to try to go on October 17th, or October 9th. One person from each area could go to look at their school and how it is designed differently.
 * Beth needs to email Tamara with our ideas on days.
 * Beth is going to check whether we still have input on the architectural design. If we don't, there isn't much need to go to Erie, since we won't be able to make changes to the plan anyway. __//10/1 we can changes things within the walls of the classroom. Luhman//__
 * Don opened discussion about why the core subjects would want to work with us on the Career Pathways. How will they use us to their advantage? Cleta suggested we go to them, asking about their methods to teach certain parts of the core subject area. Don suggested that the career pathways will be creating more work for ourselves, and yet, we will not get any pay for it. He is already feeling this frustration.
 * Beth will ask Dr. Herrington on how many hours we can get compensated for when developing curriculum (like career pathways). It used to be 16 hours, and we need to make sure that is still the maximum. __//10/1 did not get answer. I will email her. Luhman//__
 * We are frustrated that the state that they are trying to tell us what we need to do, but yet they really don't know what we need to do, either.
 * Don said we need to create our vision for CTE and our pathways. We talked about the terms, like "cluster", "pathways", and what exactly those mean.
 * Cleta and Beth stated that they were at a meeting that said we should try to get an intro class that could be for ALL CTE courses.
 * Perhaps this could be at the 8th grade level? __//10/1 This has to be at the high school. Luhman//__
 * This would cover the middle area of the Career Cluster model, including things for employability.
 * Cleta and Beth suggested we call it "Career and Life Planning"
 * We need to be sure that our pathways are made up of 3 credits.

=**SEPTEMBER 17, 2008**=

Attendees: Tamara Konrade, Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Matt Mozouch, Nicole Menefee, Hollie Ricke, Scott Palser, Cleta Sandlin.
 * Tamara showed us the new Valley Center CTE Wikispace she created. Everyone got logins and were able to view the page. She trained us on how the page was structured and encouraged us to start uploading our course outlines, syllabi, etc. to the wiki as soon as we have time.
 * We also need to start a discussion on the wiki about when we might be able to travel to Erie High School to have a visit. October 17 was suggested, but the business department has KBEA on that day. Thus, discussion needs to be had about the dates that will work best.
 * Beth had us watch the video that was sent out by Dr. Springston. We discussed our impressions of the video and how it might relate to us.

=**SEPTEMBER 10, 2008**=

Attendees: Steve Wyckoff, Tamara Konrade, Beth Luhman, Don Callaway, Matt Mozouch, Nicole Menefee, Hollie Ricke, Scott Palser, Alyssa Rogers, Lois Person, Jan Hoop, Cleta Sandlin.

Some points from the meeting:
 * There isn’t a clear vision of where the state is going.
 * This isn’t just Vo-Tech…it is for all kids.
 * This is EVERY single kid
 * Biggest area: CORE curricular areas and administration.
 * Continuity K-12.
 * We can’t run schools like 15 years ago.
 * We must start educating community, parents, etc. that ALL kids must get post-secondary training for careers, not just college. Post-secondary training can mean a 4-year college degree, 2-year degree, or certification.
 * 2 5% of our students will need a 4-year degree.
 * Our current high school system is designed to have kids go to get a 4-year degree (Liberal Arts Colleges).
 * PostWelders make-53,000/year and don't need a 4-year degree.
 * 12% of our jobs are unskilled (immigrants and dropouts)
 * Kansas schools are good…no pressure from outside to change.
 * Population in Kansas is growing 3 percent. It cost a state 300,000 once a kid graduates hear and leaves the state.
 * Bigger change than that.
 * It is an economic imperative. We must prepare our kids to be successful in the 21st century.
 * Health care problems—can’t fill the jobs.
 * 8700 open jobs in Wchita, Kansas City has 14,000 jobs that can't be filled, and we will graduate 30,000 kids.
 * Steve mentioned that there is a list of "Unspoken Beliefs" when we walk the halls of our schools: all kids larn the same way, kids learn best when they are bored, kids learn best by listening (not doing). What are we seeing? Are students engaged?
 * Research shows students will lose 90% of what you knew on a test within 30 days.

Board of Regents is looking at doing away with Qualified Admissions. This WILL happen, it is just a matter of WHEN it will happen.

Schools that would be good to visit:
 * Eerie High School is a great place to visit.
 * Hutchinson has 11 people trained to be Career Development Facilitators (CDF).
 * Junction City?