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:
Google Certification
Daniel is still working on this
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.