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inutes for Thursday, May 15, 2003

 

 

1.      Attending:  Pete Lido(John Miracola), Carol Renick, Bobby Gornto, John Andola, Roger Pelser, Debra Allen, Barbara Alfonso, Nora Hernandez-Hendrix (indicated could not attend), Cathy D’Heron, Darlene Kostrub, Carrie Mickey, Delia Garcia, Douglas Smith, Valerie Bryan, Elsie Rogers; John Goonen; Myung Hyung: Darlene Frederick  [Mickey]

 

2.      Welcome and introduction of members by Mickey.

 

3.      Review of minutes was called for by Mickey.  Corrections were noted in names: Delia not Delhia, Harris not Harrod, Alfonso not Alphonso, D’Heron not DeHeron, Andola on first page.  New members were noted:  Jennifer Schuster, Barbara Alfonso, Delia Garcia, Roger Pelser, Debra Allen.  Mickey called for motion to approve minutes. Andola moved; Gornto seconded;  Minutes approved.

4.      Correction of the list of members and committee assignments was addressed by Smith.  New spreadsheet will be created to reflect additions and changes.

5.      Committee Reports:

  • Recommendations from DOE:  More emphasis needs to be placed on marketing (extension of Smith grant and website of Bryan); greater effort to share ideas with other regions; and possibly shared meetings between Regions.
  • Vocational grants (Bobby Gornto):  Recommendations for new grant include:

ü      Customer relations training for support personnel

ü      Teacher travel to attend workshops

ü      Training for recruitment to interested parties(recruiting potential students)

ü      Training for advisement personnel(labor market and program analysis in order to properly counsel)

ü      Training for optimizing financial aid services for administrators

ü      Training for effective management practices

ü      Data collection or checklist on frameworks training for teachers-poor data being realized

ü      Financial aid services for technical centers

ü      Coordination of the speaker:  Spot for half training-day time, evening, moving location, moving dates; Saturday full days training)

 

 

·        Adult education (John Goonen):

ü      Training for part-time teachers involved in high school completion programs

ü      How to properly select best practices throughout the region

ü      Training for teaching methods to support adult education’s high school mathematics, science, language arts, and ESE

ü      Leadership techniques in a changing environment

ü      Non-instructional staff in adult center (registrars, schedulers, public relations, mission and goals, does the message from the district office get to the custodial staff not how to clean the floor but why it needs to get cleaned)

 

6.                  Bylaws (John Andola)

    • Section VI is totally new
    • Executive Committee was removed in previous version.  Correction was noted with new version.
    • Question:  What is new?  The vocational language was improved, ambiguities were improved, Technical Support Institutions(FAU and FIU) had not been mentioned.  Standing committees of bylaws and nominations were listed.
    • New bylaws take effective as of July 1.
    • Alter 7.1 “meet a minimum of four times a years at designated sites or through other electronic means or in any other forum as agreed upon by Council”.
    • Motion made ( Kostrub ) and seconded (Allen ) and approved. 
    • Bryan to make changes to Bylaws on web.

 

  1. Nominating Committee Report(Sandra Hannah, John Andola, Roger Pelser)
    • Reminders need to be sent of non-attendance-nominating committee and chair or co-chair.  Chair will contact missing individuals.
  2. FAU Report
    • Meetings held as stated in grant.
    • Training-PDA and others conducted (2)
    • Blackboard site and chat room up and ready for use.  All Council members have account.
    • Revised bylaws available.
    • Focus groups held and questionnaire pilot tested. Results will be in final report and on web.
    • Priority of training identified in online questionnaire and focus groups.
    • FETPIP statistics correlated to recipients of All American Success stories. Final matrix will be included in final report.
    • Success Stories recipients will be included on “best practices” CD-ROM (joint work with FIU).
  3. FIU Rep
    • FAU will do the TARS for Fl Literacy Coalition, GED Canaveral and Sanibel Symposium.
    • Awarding of computers:  Smith shared the computer pictures and the successes.
    • Best Practices:  Best practices (16) identified and a sustainable process for selecting exemplary projects for the Region was created.  (Smith, Mickey, Bryan)
    • Marketing Practices work in progress.  A CD is being created and final results will be placed on the web.
    • Excellent registration for May 16, 2003, was noted.  Cooperation between Region V Adult Literacy Center, Region V Professional Development Councils, and co-TSIs made staff development opportunity a success.
  4. Next meeting-conference call may be delayed due to lateness of RFP for RVPDC.
  5. Announcement of Palm Pilot Training after Council meeting and All-Day training for Region V for following day.
  6. Meeting adjourned.