REGION V PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL NOVEMBER 2003 MEETING

 

Attendees:  Carrie Mickey, Debra Allen, Pam Shrestha, Cynthia Boggs (Proxy for Darlene Kostrub), Peter Lido, Barbara Alfonso, Bobby Gornto, Douglas Smith, Roger Pelser, Carol Renick (absence, but by proxy), John Miracola (by proxy), Marta Bret (guest), Renee Klosz (guest), Sandra Smith (guest), Sharon Kantor (guest), Robert Kelso(guest), Stephen Moir (guest), Darlene Frederick.

 

Welcome and introductions of Council members and guests were conducted by Ms. Carrie Mickey. A special thank you was extended by Ms. Mickey to Dr. Debra Allen for the space for the meeting as well as the space for the Broward Best Practices Training in December.

 

Minutes were then reviewed, revised and approved. Pelser moved and seconded by Allen that the corrected minutes be accepted. The Council membership was reviewed and an update of new members was addressed by Ms. Mickey. Distribution of Councils members was discussed with nine (9) members on the vocational council and 15 on the adult education council list.  Ms. Mickey agreed to revisit the list to fill vacancies and make new assignments in sub-committees.

 

Ms. Pam Shrestha provided a DOE Update regarding the DOE High Performance Team and the Florida DOE.  High Performance Team role is to work with people and programs, in general, and not with grants specifically. Some of the work of the K-12 programs is under the Community Colleges.  Workforce Education is now under the newly formed agency that focuses on K-20 education. New name bring proposed is Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.  Ms. Shrestha noted that the Carl Perkins Act had been reauthorized.  She provided website for a variety of technical assistance reports: http://www.firn.edu/doe/workforce/adult_ed.htm  .  See list:

Through a PowerPoint, Ms. Shrestha shared information regarding the Florida’s Best Practices Program, Online Sunshine, TechNet Training, Choices 2004, Career Cruiser and the All American Success Stories.

 

An overview of the adult education grant was provided by Dr. Bryan.  Specific accomplishments addressed were:

  • The updating of the Region V Calendar located at http://ical.fau.edu/regionv .  The current calendar includes information of events affecting south Florida and registration materials and flyers for upcoming training events sponsored by Region V PDC.
  • The updating of the Accomplishment page of the Region V Website to include this year’s activities.  See URL:  http://www.adulteducation.fau.edu/regionv/accomplishments.htm
  • The plans for the upcoming “best practices training” at Broward and Palm Beach. Actual planning of events occurred later in meeting under New Business.

     

Dr. Doug Smith and Mr. Bobby Gornto addressed the accomplishments of the vocational grant. Report was given regarding National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation NATEF training offered in Hialeah by Bobby Gornto. Twenty-seven people attended.  The program addressed accreditation and certificate requirements for automotive program.                                                                    

 

 

New Business

 

The entire afternoon of the meeting was reserved to discuss the December 9th Best Practice Training for BCC/FAU with specific topics designated.  Extensive conversation addressed time of day of the event, Broward County’s role in providing the training or opportunity for teachers to attend the training, how the event would be scheduled, and the space and equipment requirements for the event.  

 

Some conversation also addressed the language of the grant that limited participant costs.  It was decided that an amendment in the grant language was needed.

 

A tentative outline for the Palm Beach January 10 meeting was also discussed and potential speakers that needed to be invited to the Palm Beach training.  Roger Pelser agreed to work with Dr. Bryan in the planning of that event.

 

Next meeting will need to address other training topics that need to be presented in 2004:

  • Transition Strategies: Recruitment, retention and financial aid (April at Miami Dade Community College)
  • GED at the Pines Center at FIU (May)
  • Workforce Readiness (Dade)
  • Quality Assurance (DJJ facility)
  • Integration of Technology
  • Multiple Intelligences (Carol Renick)

 

Meeting was adjourned.