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a.Evaluation
Evaluation is focusing on links between school districts and post secondary institutions and identifying elements necessary for articulation agreements. Data collection is also a priority; they want to insure there is no duplication of efforts (among NCA, Education YES, and No Child Left Behind) and will be meeting with MDCD to compare what data is being collected. EDPs will be integrated into the self-evaluation processes, and IISD will make available a crosswalk they developed between Education YES and the career prep benchmarks.
After a request from Chris Laverty, Kathy Tomlanovich reported on the newly formed Center for Career Preparation and Assessment and Ingham ISD and invited the board to hold a meeting at the Career Center with a tour of IISD to see how they are integrating pathways.
b.Career/Technical Education
Owen Johnston and Chris Laverty reported CTE have met. Their discussion has focused on STRA and how to work smarter. They are concerned about cutbacks in educational efforts and what can businesses do. STRA will be sponsoring a breakout session on April 30th prior to the dinner. Their meetings are now being held the first Monday of the month, 8:15, at CAMW!
c.Marketing
Report given by Patricia Cook
When I Grow Up.
Pathways displays seemed to be appropriate for the age level. Will be looking at how we can be more involved next year and should have a plan designed by the end of the year.
Newsletter
The second newsletter was recently published. We have cut back to five editions to allow us more budget for the spring awards celebration.
Spring event.
- Date: April 30 - Schedule:
- 3:30 Breakout sessions
- Dropout (Environmental Scan Report will be Released)
- STRA (Getting businesses involved)
- RIG (parent leaders)
- 5:30 Social hour
- 6:30 Dinner and awards
It will be important to know who will be attending the dinner from the breakout sessions and the focus of the breakout session program.
Annual report.
Students will be featured in the annual report and Pat asked for help getting pictures of students.
d.Regional Implementation Group
Martha Finn reported a draft of the regional goals will be shared with all RIG members at the next meeting. These will be shared with the Career Connections board at the February meeting. Workshop attendance has been down due to the need for more support for substitute teachers.
e.English as a Second Language
Cindy Bowen reported ESL has held their final meeting. The directories are printed and out and will be kept current on the CAMW! web site (www.camw.org/documents.) The committee’s work is completed and Edith thanked and congratulated them on their accomplishments and completing their mission.
f.Chairperson’s Report
Letters were mailed to elected officials expressing concern about the future of the Carl Perkins funding. Edith received responses from Mike Rogers and Nick Smith. Board members were encouraged to keep elected officials informed of work being done in the region.
Clinton, Eaton and Williamston were nominated for Excellence in Practice awards for the work being done in their schools.
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