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PDC Minutes
February 6, 2024

3:30 @ Tom Butterfield Central Office

Please bring an electronic device

Call to Order: 3:33 PM
  Members in Attendance: Lindsey Blaylock, Kelly Jo Dobbins, Angela Gochnour, Laura Jacobi, Gage Lemmon, Audrey Ming, Carrie Pomerenke, Jeana Wise, Daniel Wright, and Heather Sappington

Approval of Minutes from December/January:

Motion by Gochenour. Seconded by Ming. 

Reports of Officers

President:  

  • No Report


Admin Representative: 

  • Back to school PD Survey

  • Review of list of PD needs

    • Results from survey, math departments at all levels need some PD

  • Do we need to add anything?

    • PowerSchool - Daniel


Old Business:

  • Building Level PD

  • Google Certification 

    • Daniel is still working on this

  • New PDC Shirts

    • Table this, since we don’t know who will be on the committee next year

  • NEE–Professional Development Log Update

    • Jeana’s questions: Does it sort by year? Do we have to put things in there every single time? 

    • Jeana, Daniel, and Laura will look at this more this spring

    • Daniel: Is there a way for admin to enter universal things? 

  • January 3 PD 

    • Feedback from Dyslexia & Overall

      • We need to make sure that it goes out to all buildings. 

      • Lindsey: Training for paras

      • Laura will send us a list of the emails from Dyslexia training. Please let Laura know by the end of the month if anyone is not listed. They can make that up in March.

    • Catering $1950

      • Expensive to have catering outside of Opaa

  • February Snack Tub

  • Community Project Update

    • Lindsay Parton and Jeana are continuing to discuss this

    • Audrey Ming idea: help with stuff the bus

  • Email Vote due to Snow Days:

    • SPS: J. Wise, C. Gieselman, R. Petet, K. Taulbee, M. Hisle, A. Bichsel

    • BMS:  J. Gass, J. Billingsley, S. Hisle

  • Email Vote due to payment timing:

    • TBECC:  C. Pomerenke, S. Miles, R. Mayden


New Business:

  • Book Studies

    • Will not happen again this year due to BIST

    • Individual buildings can look into this if they’d like too 

    • Bring back Owl Chats - Laura will add this to PD needs

  • Air BnB Requests (added 1/4/24), p. 15 of ByLaws

    • Make sure that you send the information in with all of your paperwork when you book it so there isn’t any confusion for Jennifer

    • If you reserve your own hotel room, let Jennifer know so that we don’t double book; leave a comment that says rooms reserved 

    • Attendee needs to use school credit card to pay for it and then let Jennifer know

  • PDC Chair 

    • Jeana Wise was voted chair. 

    • Daniel Wright respectfully declined his nomination. 

    • Discussion of changing dates for nominating and voting in members. 

  • RPDC Requests require paperwork

  • PLTW Training

    • Second grade would like to add two new teachers next year to aid with content teaching, so that they have two rotations instead of four. 

    • Table this for next month.  


Process Requests: Budget

TBECC- $0

SPS- $24

Benton - $0

Eastwood- $595 +793.27
Northwest- $0
BMS- $720.62
MHS- $907.62

SCCC- $0
Instructional Coaches- $567


Sappington motioned to approve the requests pending Heuman’s approval. Blaylock seconded. 


Next Meeting: March 5, 2024 (Wise will be gone. Reyes will fill in.)

Paperwork due on or before: January 26, 2024


Meeting adjourned at 4:38 PM.