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Career & Technical Education Meeting on 10/04/2012

Participants: Farlow, Latham, Wright, Joyner, Howard

Quarter SMART Goal: Varies for each course

Minutes: Budget/Materials & Equipment needed for curriculum-Looked at information and discussed each of the following:
• Color Printer Options
• Flip Cameras
• Time to Teach Series

Awards for team awards for 1st Quarter-create certificates and give to team if you want to recognize any students

Curriculum Updates

Reminders:
• Literacy Strategies
• Common Core Literacy training Oct. 19

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Career & Technical Education Meeting on 09/27/2012

Participants: Latham, Howard, Wright, Joyner

Quarter SMART Goal: Varies based on curriculum/course

Minutes: Leadership Team Meeting
Tracey shared info. from 9/24 meeting:
• SIP and Leadership-same or separate? LT feels it should be different groups but will be sending out information for staff to vote
• Benchmarks-will probably shut down for 2Q testing in Dec.
• New seating/staff supervision during assemblies-email sent this morning for Pep Rally next week

Budget
• Tracey shared DRMS budget allotments for year
• Work on p.o.’s for CTE county budget

Curriculum Discussions-Discussed pros and cons of each of theses and how we will use them in each course.
• Ignition-will use HW/SW section in CSA I and the rest in CSA II. Marilyn has tried parts of it-she likes and students did too
• Vault-will use in EBME
• EduTyping-will begin using 2nd semester. Tracey is checking on license.
• Blackboard issues and tests-need to put together list of objectives with wrong test questions, etc. and send in to Tonya. Still not sure we have some of the correct info. Maybe we should ask Tonya to come meet with us.

Reminders:
• Spirit Week next week
• Literacy Strategies
• Meeting tomorrow with Sue, individual workday for remainder of day

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Career & Technical Education Meeting on 09/20/2012

Participants: Farlow, Binkley, Latham, Wright, Joyner, Howard

Quarter SMART Goal: Varies for each curriculum

Minutes: Rodney & Jodi worked on their individual curriculum.

Tracey, Marilyn, Michele, and Carolyn met for CSA I, CSA II, and EBME-
• Tracey showed how to get in to Ignition and Vault (ignition.everfi.net or vault.everfi.net)-must have school code
• Everyone got accounts set up
• Tracey showed features, teacher tools, etc.
• Viewed and discussed how we could use in each of our courses
• Vault is for EBME-Financial Literacy
• Ignition is for CSA-could divide sections for each level of course

Tracey also shared info. about EduTyping
• County has purchased license but did not give us enough-Tracey is checking in to
• Once Tracey has all info. she will show how to get set up under school license
• Can go ahead and preview and set up 30 trial if you would like to start learning and comparing to MTP
• We will plan to implement with CSA I classes during 2nd semester
• Will still have MicroType

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Career & Technical Education Meeting on 09/06/2012

Participants: Farlow, Joyner, Wright, Binkley, Howard, Latham (tracked out)

Quarter SMART Goal: Varies based on different curriculum

Minutes: Curriculum
• Rodney and Jodi worked on individual curriculums/planning since they are “singletons”.
• Bus. Ed. teachers worked together on CSA II-Obj. 4 and 5 until Carolyn and Michele had to leave early for lunch duty.

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Career & Technical Education Meeting on 09/13/2012

Participants: Farlow, Latham, M. Joyner, C. Wright, J. Binkley, M. Howard

Quarter SMART Goal: Varies for each curriculum

Minutes: Curriculum/Pacing Guides
• Assessed where we were each at in curriculum
• Discussed use of Blackboard-tests

Planning for PLT/Dept. Meetings
• Sept. 18-Dept. Meeting to plan Budget, please have requests ready for us to divide up $$, also need to have any requests for DRMS budget, Birthday celebration for Rodney & Jodi
• Need to plan time to work on EduTyping and Ignition for Bus. Ed.
• Tracey will schedule training for Common Core/Literacy Tools

Reminders:
• County Business Ed. Meeting-Sept. 13 3:30-5:00 @ Carroll MS
• Be thinking about peer visits
• PDP’s Due
• 1st Quarter Awards:
6/4-Sept. 28
6/3-Oct. 17
6/2 & 7/2-Oct. 5

Other:
• Lunch Duty conflicting with PLT- Tracey asked Drew about this but hasn’t heard anything-Jodi & Marilyn had to leave early for lunch duty
• Teacher Info. for CTE-have all except need contact number for each-Tracey will send in
• Gift cards for Glenn and Maria
• Minutes from last week

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