Minutes from October 31, 2002

School Advisory Council Meeting

 

Members
* Edna Apostol             Gulf Coast South              Dorothy Kosovac       League of Women Voters  

  Rick Baron                 Sarasota Co. Government *Janet Minton               ACEC Classified

* Lori DeVilbiss                ACEC Facilitator                * Dale Ott                         President of DOS

* Stephania Feltz              ACEC SAC Chair                                *Judy Rinks                       ACEC Principal

  Bob Goble                 Student Rep.                   *Beverly Stockton        Suncoast Workforce  

*Jerrie Graham ACEC Classified               Caroline Zucker          Jewish Family & Children’s                                                                                                                                                             Service of Sarasota – Manatee

* Members Present

 

Guests Present

Ted Bricker                  ACEC Facilitator                                               

            Sue Gissal                    ACEC Classified                        

Barbara Witte               ACEC Asst. Principal                                                        

 

 

v     Stephania Feltz started the meeting welcoming members and guests.
 
v     Stephania Feltz presented the minutes from the September 26, 2002 SAC meeting.  It was suggested to include names of all members of the School Advisory Council on the heading of the minutes and asterick only those members who are present for each SAC meeting.  It was also suggested to send the minutes to all members prior to the next meeting to review.  Jerrie Graham motioned to accept the minutes and Edna Apostol seconded the motion.  The motion was approved unanimously to accept the minutes with the changes suggested.
 

v     Barbara Witte presented a draft of the SAC Operational Guidelines for the Adult and Community Education Center - Item # 2 on the agenda.  Barbara Witte explained that  guidelines for SAC came to The Adult and Community Education Center via Camille Ashcraft, Director of Instructional Support Services for Sarasota County School Board.  These guidelines are put together by Ms. Ashcraft to fit the needs of our district.  Barbara reviewed the guidelines and revised them to meet the needs of the Adult and Community Education Center. 

Barbara explained that these guidelines indicate how a School Advisory Council should operate.  All members reviewed the draft and changes/corrections were suggested. 

Beverly Stockton motioned to accept the SAC Operational Guidelines with suggested changes.  Jerrie Graham seconded the motion.  The motion was approved to accept the Operational Guidelines with suggested changes.

 

v     Members suggested that they would like a copy of the following to review prior to the next meeting:

Ø      The agenda for the next meeting.

Ø      Minutes from this meeting.

 

v     Barbara Witte distributed to all members and guests a copy of the School Improvement Plan for 2002-2003.  It was noted that when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) review team visited they wanted to know why “Mathematics” was not one of our points of focus (goals) on our School Improvement Plan.  The question arose whether or not ACEC should be addressing this goal.  There is a low percentage of our students that this goal would effect.  Judy Rinks commented that the SACS team would also like for ACEC to have more emphasis on Family Involvement.  It was noted that the SAC members will study the commendations and recommendations from the SACS review and include the recommendations in our School Improvement Plan.  We will take the 2002-2003 School Improvement Plan and build on it with these recommendations.  An ACEC Management Team meeting will be scheduled in the future to take the recommendations and come up with activities to meet our goals for incorporation into our School Improvement Plan.  Otherwise, we are in great shape with our three goals of focus (Literacy, Technology, and Career Preparation).

Edna Apostol, in regard to community involvement, stated that student imput is very valuable and recommended that a student council be formed with representation from each of our program areas.  This idea will be explored and taken into consideration to be discussed at a future SAC meeting.  Edna Apostol motioned to accept the 2002-2003 School Improvement Plan as written with the condition that the plan will be revisited to incorporate the SACS recommendations.  Barbara Witte amended the motion to include the language: “after a review of the SACS exit report by the ACEC Management Team”.  Beverly Stockton seconded the motion with the amendment.  The motioned was approved unanimously to accept the School Improvement plan with conditions noted.

 

v     Discussion moved to item number seven on the agenda regarding the School Improvement Process Peer Review Report - SACS.  Judy Rinks distributed a copy of the SACS review final report to all SAC members and guests.  Judy suggested that the SAC committee members review the document on their own and pay special attention to the recommendations made by the team.   Once reviewed, SAC members could submit their ideas on how to incorporate any of the recommendations into the School Improvement Plan to Stephania Feltz by December.  Stephania Feltz would then share these ideas with the ACEC Management Team.

 

v     Discussion moved to item number 5 on the agenda regarding the Florida Board of Education.  Stephania Feltz shared the reorganization of the State Department of Education.

 

v     Discussion moved to item number 6 on the agenda regarding Technical School Visits.  During the September SAC meeting, Dr. Delp explained that a program review team would be visiting various Technical High Schools and that a ACEC representative would be welcome to join the team for these visits.  Stephania Feltz shared with SAC members that several schools have been visited recently.  Edna Apostol gave an overview of her visit to William McFadden Technical High School in Broward County.  Stephania Feltz gave an overview of her visit to the Sussex Technical High School in Georgetown, Delaware. 

 

 

 

 

Pros and cons were discussed in regards to both schools, as well as, how they relate to The Adult and Community Education Center.  The focus seems to be on how to provide a Technical High School.  How does ACEC fit into this concept?  Edna stated that the schools visited seemed to have an emphasis on high school students.  McFadden integrates adults with high school students, whereas the Sussex Technical High School strongly suggests keeping the programs separate.  The program review team that visited the Sussex Technical High School was very impressed with the school and hoped that the future director of SCTI would share the same philosophy of the integration of academics programs and the vocational programs.

Judy Rinks asked that as the School Advisory Council, if we want to have the right to know what the recommendations will be prior to January.

 

v     The next meeting will take place on November 21, 2002 at 9:00 a.m. in the East Conference Room of the Adult and Community Education Center. 

 

v     Stephania Feltz adjourned the meeting.