Ovid-Elsie Instructional Council

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Board of Education presentation

Information needs to be compiled  

Bonnie

May 21 B of E meeting

done

End of year vocational order for materials

Bonnie needs chairs

Mike is researching prices on the Nook for classroom use

Mike, Bonnie

By end of school year

undetermined

Vocational testing by CCRESA

CCRESA came in and tested Bonnie’s students, students tested at 67%, the national average is 48%, very proud of our OE Business Dept. students

Margo Hazelman from CCRESA

May 10

done

Determine dept. chair for 2012/2013

Send, call or e-mail vote to Mike Shimek

All dept members

by Wed. 5/23/12

Bonnie wins vote, accepts position

See you in the fall!

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Discussed possible schedule change concerns. What is the specific procedure for pulling students from elective courses for intervention time for cores.

Discuss with Kirk

Bonnie will talk to Kirk

ASAP

Kirk indicated to me that this would be done primarily if a student was failing only, not if they were just missing work, getting a C, etc....make up work will need to be completed on their own time.

Our dept. would like to know if/which classes will be year long if going to a 3x5.

Discuss with Kirk

Bonnie will talk to Kirk

ASAP

Kirk indicated to me that only a section of the math and english courses that need to be an extended time for students would be offered as year long, similar to the plan when we were on the 3x5 before.  This was to help students go at a slower pace.

Discussed NCA visit coming up in May

Bonnie will create a weebly website for pre and post data

Bonnie

ASAP

Done

Discussed School Improvement Day coming up in May

Dept members shared input to revisit goals and data used

All

We feel prepared for the event

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Curriculum guide needs to be updated by all dept. members for all courses they teach

Update as needed, forward copy to Bonnie and copy to Monica

All who teach in the High School

ASAP, for scheduling for 2013 school year

Mike and Bonnie are done

Discussion of policies for Grading, Homework and Retention

Forward any comments to Kris

All in dept.

Immediately

undetermined

9^th Grade Academy proposal

We discussed the proposal and felt the benefits far outweigh any logistical issues of implementation

Bonnie Ott

Comments will be shared at Instructional Council meeting

undetermined

National Entrepreneur Week

Each day during the week of Feb. 21-24, the Purple Melon will be having promotional sales and activities

Students in Corporate Services class designed Marketing Plan

Feb. 21-24

Students and staff may make purchases from 7:30-9 a.m or 2—3:10 p.m.

Baker College Competitive Olympics

Need to get students signed up to participate

Bonnie Ott, Craig Bowen

Event is March 23, Bonnie would like all commitments by March 9.

Working toward getting a full team of 40 students

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Upper classmen would benefit from advanced Microsoft Excel class

Mike is recommending this class be started again, it was taught in the past and was in curriculum guide, already articulated credit at Baker College

Mike Shimek

ASAP, 2013 school year

Will talk to Counseling Dept. to have it added to curriculum guide

A suggestion from the dept. would be to create a section of Computer Concepts for S. N. students

Talk to Student Services as it is more of a scheduling issue, would increase student achievement

Mike Shimek, Monica Spicer

2012-2013 school year

undetermined

Coat drive gathered 68 coats

Some coats have been re-distributed to those in need, the remainder will be given to Duplain Church sharing corner to be used at their discretion

Bonnie’s Corporate Services Class

December-January

Coats to be dropped off this week

Re-launching of the School Store, the Purple Melon

Items have been purchased for sale, clothing items will be on consignment from Kimberly’s Creations

Bonnie Ott, Corporate Services Class

Opens Jan. 16, 2012 at 7:30 a.m.

Students and staff may make purchases from 7:30-9 a.m or 2—3:10 p.m.

Photo shop class

On the calendar

Keith Kingsbury

Jan. 18

Ipad user group very successful meeting

Another to follow

Keith Kingsbury

Undetermined

continuing

Dept. members are looking forward to new OE website to link to the many exciting activities we do in the Business Dept. to increase student achievement

Waiting for launch date

Bonnie, Mike, Keith, Jeremy

Jan. 20, 2012

We are ready to link!

Couple of very cool website we recommend

Codeacademy.com for java script, and splashtop.com for ipad use to wirelessly link to student screens, etc. and CloudOn to be used for MS products on the ipad

Bonnie, Mike, Keith, Jeremy, and Jamie

Already using

continuing

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

 Opportunity for additional certification

CMU online learning certificate, one credit course

All desiring this certification

Jan, April, and June

pending

 Service Learning Project

Bonnie’s Corporate Services class is doing a coat drive, ends 12/16, coats to remain in O-E community

Students in Corporate Services class

Dec. 2011

Will distribute coats to those in need at all O-E buildings, then to outside agencies 

 Baker Dual Credit

Student registration

Mike Shimek

Fall

Winter

100 students, all Juniors and Seniors

Sign up Dec. 22

 Research vocational programs in other countries

Mike will visit a German vocational school in the spring

Mike Shimek 

April, 2012

Will report back to group 

 Business Dept. students accepted to Universities and earn scholarships for college  

 Assisted students in application process           

Bonnie Ott   

Fall, 2011

Ashley B., Hailey E., Derek S., Nicole A. were each awarded scholarships from $7,000-$10,000 per year, renewable for 4 years!

 ACT online prep

 Student were given logins in Junior Seminar class

Bonnie Ott 

29 students (one section of the class in fall, 2011)

Students logged 68 hours with an average composite score of 19.09 

 Continuing plans to increase student achievement

Online stock market competition

Bonnie Ott

Fall, 2011 class participated (Personal Finance, Business Math and Corporate Services)

One team was a top 10 finish out of 2242 teams! Team members were Stenor Ott, Grant Maynard and Mike Lukas

Global Awareness Pilot Project,

Combines online learning and student oral presentation/speech format

Mike Shimek

Fall, 2011 General Business class

All G.B. students

We received a new shipment of equipment from CCRESA for the Digital Media Arts program.

We now have new portable audio recorders, Flip cameras, and a few flash-based video cameras. The most significant part of the order is the new high definition switcher that we will be installing in the broadcast studio.

Jeremy Whiting

Dec. 2011

This will allow us to record and stream shows live in high definition

Teacher tutorial for Google Docs

We are using Jing to create some video tutorials about Google Docs for teachers to use once we roll out Google Apps next year.

Jeremy Whiting

Ongoing

2012

All of the computers in the IC Mac lab have been re-imaged with the standard software used in the classroom, including Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, etc. A few also have the latest Adobe software that will be used in the yearbook and journalism courses. Two have Adobe Photoshop, six have Adobe InDesign and eight have Adobe Lightroom.

Update

Jeremy Whiting

Dec. 2011

Done

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Mike and Bonnie attended a two day Mich. Marketing Educators conference

Bonnie won $1260 worth of software for MS Office 2010 applications, would like to order additional units to use in all Business Dept. courses, request for General Business textbooks was not approved last year

Bonnie, waiting for administrative approval on the order, vocational funds could be used to fund the purchase,

On order

Waiting to receive it J

Bonnie, Mike, Jamie and Keith have volunteered to sit on scheduling committee with Kris Kirby

Have already e-mailed Kris expressing interest

Bonnie, Mike, Jamie and Keith

Waiting to get started

ASAP

Questions came up regarding continuing to have a required Public Speaking class as it is not part of the Mich. Merit Curriculum.

Consensus of our dept. is that O-EHS no longer needs that course required as many teachers (all in our dept) have a huge presentation/public speaking component in our curriculum. Mike and Bonnie have researched 11 area schools and none have it required but 4 offer it as an elective

All in dept. will share our consensus as needed in staff meetings and at Instructional Council

Eliminate requirement for 2012-2013 school year

Keith has a weebly account, and students are creating web pages

Set up of account is completed, students are working on web pages that are History related

Keith

Ongoing student learning activity

Will continue to use account

Prezzi and Jing are free downloadables that would be great technological assets to any educator,

Keith is using them, will help anyone who would like to learn more

Keith

2011-2012

ongoing

Mike is working on designing an interactive simulation for General Business class

This is another step working to digitize our Business

Mike

Jamie tried to participate via Skype this morning, but it was blocked, however, she did share:

Jamie is continuing the 21 things 4 students program this year with my 8th grade students. They are using prezi.com to create digital portfolios with reflections for each "thing" we complete. The website for the program is 21things4students.net for anyone who is interested. (The current freshman who were in my class participated in the pilot program last year, and it went very well)

She is also continuing to use Moodle with both my 7th and 8th grade classes. The current sophomores/freshman are familiar with Moodle enough that if someone was interested in using it in their classroom there would not be a big learning curve to get started. If anyone is interested in setting up an online classroom through Moodle they can contact her, and she would be happy to help them get started.

We will ask James Fisher to unblock the site and will try again.

student portfolios

online learning experience

James Fisher

Jamie

Jamie

ASAP

currently using

currently using

James came in to S-18 and unblocked the site by 8:10 a.m. Thank you, Mr. Fisher!

ongoing

ongoing

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

 Remote desktop set up, wiki server for students and staff to access

 Ready for launch

Jeremy, Keith

End of October

Students and staff will be able to access  

 Keith is using Prezzi and PowerPoint together to create wikis, Jing to post to websites (free, downloadable)

Student webpage creation

Keith

ongoing

Student websites 

 Need online resources and no time to find them?

Bonnie (1^st hour) and Keith (3^rd hour) have compiled resources or will help you find what you need, feel free to ask

Bonnie, Keith

ongoing 

Staff being able to use online resources to enhance their curriculum

 Standards based assessments, concerns in the dept. regarding the Dansville model and the fact that they have a built in section of time for test re-takes, etc.. and we do not at this time

Discussion ensued, assessments in our dept. are primarily project based

All 

Ongoing

Continue our current practice for summative assessments 

 Open office is still on the desktops in some of the labs

Ask Tech. Dept to remove the shortcut

Bonnie, Mike

Oct 21

 MI Marketing Educators Conference

To take place Oct. 27 and 28

Bonnie, Mike

Oct. 27,28

Mike has concerns of students not passing Computer Concepts, mostly special education students who cannot keep up with the medium slow speed that I go. Problems with students failing and having to repeat leads to too large of classes for lab size.

 He would like to have a class of just special education students with a team teacher next year and that would be better for both groups of students in the log run- regular ed and special ed.

Mike, Kirk, Monica 

Before second trimester 

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Resolution

Status of co-op students in the event of lockdown

Establish procedure, get all co-op students phone numbers in One Call Now system?

B. Ott, J. Ford, Mr. Baese,

Mr. Kramer

9/2011-10/2011

ASAP

ACT prep has begun in Business Dept. courses to meet increase in cut scores on MME

Mike is using practice questions for ACT prep, Bonnie is using online ACT prep

B. Ott, M. Shimek

2011-2012

March, 2012

Test date

Everett is considering becoming vocationally certified, Bonnie is helping facilitate this

Recommending university requires 9 credit hours of course work

E. Smith,

2011-2012 school year

undecided

Changes in yearbook advisor

- getting the yearbook staff up and running in the IC computer lab, yearbook is deciding on the book's theme

J. Whiting

9/2011

Currently/

ongoing

Shared responsibilities in doing building announcements

- CCRESA classes are starting with audio production, intro to video production is working on broadcast news,

J. Whiting

Currently/

ongoing

Currently/

ongoing

Radio station issues

- helped with the radio station installation of new equipment from Axia and WideOrbit

J. Whiting

9/2011

Currently/

ongoing

Organization of materials/supplies

- began a full inventory of all equipment, including associated accessories.

J. Whiting

Currently/

ongoing

Currently/

ongoing

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Discussed how dept. has evolved and plans for the future

Report visions for dept. at fall dept. meeting

All in dept.

Fall, 2011

Discussed role of Instructional Council

Web site creation

Bonnie

done

Discussed more transparency in meeting minutes

Create template for all dept. to use for more uniform meeting minutes

Bonnie

done

Generate ideas for better communication

Report ideas for use of ideas such as: instant messaging, wave files, e-mail notification, etc… to avoid phone interruptions

James, Mike, Keith, Chaz

June, 2011

Better use of time

Possibility/feasibility of opening G space from home

Keith, Mike

Fall, 2011

Are students prepared for HS level technology when they leave MS?

Generate student survey

Jamie

After graduation, June, 2011

Next year dept. chair

Vote, Bonnie won

All in dept.

May 13, 2011

Create online courses for Business/Vocational dept.

Report ideas to Bonnie

All in dept.

June, 2011

Staff training sessions, community education courses

Contact Community Education dept.

Keith

Fall, 2011

Issues

Action Step

Person(s) Responsible

Time Frame

Baker College dual credit

Mike and Bonnie and planning a Baker College Dual Credit informational night for parents and students on Wednesday during Parent-Teacher conferences.  We would like to show students and parents how to determine if the classes their son/daughter are considering taking will fit into their college curriculum.

Mike Shimek, Bonnie Ott

Possibly at each parent-teacher conference

Lansing Community College articulation agreement

We are also planning to attend a May 3 workshop at Lansing Community College to start a  new articulation agreement with them for several of our O-EHS Business Department classes.

Mike Shimek, Bonnie Ott

2011-2012 school year

Get additional funding

State of MI  has approved the additional  Career and Technical Ed funded vocational program for the Business Department, it is Business Administration Management and Operations.  We currently have three state funded programs in the Business Dept.

Bonnie Ott

2011-2012 school year

College visitation for 11^th and 12^th grade students, competition

Baker College Competitive Olympics were attended by 40 students from O-E.  We had 8 award winners out of the group and more rewarding than that, was that it served as a great opportunity to get kids on a college campus in an enjoyable, stress-free way.

Craig Bowen, Bonnie Ott

annually

Student competition

The stock market game that Personal Finance students were competing in ended March 25, and we took great honors with a 1^st place team and a 3^rd place team nationally.  This is something to be proud of since no team from Michigan has ever taken a 1^st place finish!

Bonnie Ott

annually

Teacher Recognition

Mike and Bonnie were honored on Saturday, March 25 by Northwood University.  Each were invited to a luncheon and presented with the coveted Distinguished Teacher Award from Northwood University.

Mike Shimek, Bonnie Ott

March, 2011

Community outreach

Keith is planning the third free community education class for digital camera use and photoshop.

Jamie Kirby, Keith Kingsbury

Spring, 2011