Hi all,
Below are the notes I took at last Monday's meeting. Please feel free to respond with any additions or corrections.
Thanks,
Steve


Attendees:
Kathy Thompson, Dan Lemcke, Sid Steele, Mike Moline, Carol Mayo, Pam Fox, Steve Diller
Statewide public school STAR chart results summary for '06'-07 were distributed by Carol.
School visit plan:
- Ursuline - Kathy and Steve. Kathy to set up with Ursuline for week of 1/28.
- St. Monica - Kathy and Hank.
- Jesuit - Dan and Steve. Steve to set up time for week of 1/28.
- JP II - Dan and Jean Powers (? - SAC member)
- UTD - Decision was made not to visit.
- Irving schools - Steve and Carol
- All visits to be done by 2/19.
IT support personnel
- Will need to have a support person on staff. This is part of the objective/plan.
- St. Rita, St. Monica, St. Mark, St. Thomas Aquinas, PoP all have full time support personnel.
- St. Pius X - teacher is assigned to support.
Inventory list
- All purchased systems are accounted for.
- Current infrastructure:
- CAT5/6 wiring, no fiber
- 24-port, 10/100 Mbps stackable switches
- 124 of 144 ports are in use (10 unused ports in each room)
- IBM server with SonicWALL (standalone)
- Dan, Sid, Mike can generate an immediate "to buy" list for February grant money
Teacher Assessment
- Scheduled for Feb. 12
- 1 week to compile results
- Review results at Feb. 25 meeting
Schedule for Plan completion
- Need to have completed by June
- First goals are computer lab and getting teachers up and running on the currently owned technology tools
- Mike advised the following:
- Region 10 looks for the plan to call for ~10% of budget to go to teacher professional development
- Plan should also include a plan for proper evaluation of progress toward goals
- Self-evaluation is okay for year 1, but year 2 and beyond should include administrative level evaluation of teacher skills
- Plan should include documentation of tech integration
- Teacher instruction/training:
- Free instruction is available (from Region 10, diocese, other)
- Training cost is mainly associated with substitute teachers needed to free up training time
- Incentives or perks are a good idea to encourage teacher training/skill advancement (laptop, digital camera, etc.)