September
19, 2000
Announcements:
1.
Email
Leslie Brinson with workload tabulations.
2.
The
structure for national certification is changing to a more streamlined format.
3.
Faculty
is welcome to attend Board of Trustee (BOT) meetings located in the ETC
Woolworth Room, Friday 9/29/00; Dot will inform them of our mission and tasks
from last year.
4.
Kenny
Gibbs (SGA President) solicited the faculty for input regarding their opinion as
to whether or not students should be limited in the number of leadership
positions the are allowed to hold. Currently,
students are not allowed to be MPCs, PCCs, or RLAs in addition to being an
elected SGA officer or representative. After
discussion, the faculty advised (by a show of hands) that it favored modifying
the practice of exclusivity – which SGA officers could not hold both elected
and appointed positions. Representatives,
however, could be both elected and hold “leadership” work service
assignments.
Discussion
Items:
1.
Testing.
Faculty members were reminded that the sign-up procedure for giving tests
and major assignments needs to be followed.
Page 18 of the Student Handbook stipulates that teachers need to register
tests and quizzes greater than 15 minutes in length.
Also, if a teacher is the third instructor to sign up on a given day,
that teacher must make accommodations for rescheduling per student request.
2.
Psychological
Emergencies. Gail Hudson outlined
the scope and sequence for students who miss school because of psychological
emergencies. Gail is the counselor
on call 24/7 to handle all cases that might warrant a five day home stay and
counseling. The responsibility of
the faculty is to assist the student in their efforts to stay current and catch
up. Since “we” send them home,
it is our duty to help them. We are
also required to honor confidentiality; faculty members are informed on a
need-to-know basis. Gail thanked
the faculty for their efforts thus far.
3.
School
Improvement Group (formerly the Curriculum Council plus additions).
John Bennett outlined the process facing NCSSM for accreditation under
the School Improvement Group’s purview. He
has created a timeline for the tasks; we are in year one of an ongoing five-year
cycle of review and improvement. In
November, John will present the faculty with a list of goals for our discussion
and vote. The group’s meeting minutes are posted on the school’s
website.
4.
The
Calendar. Julie Graves and Mary
Roberts gave a brief update regarding the 2001-2002 calendar. If you have any questions/comments, please email them to
Julie or Mary. Discussion focused
briefly on next year’s start date.
5.
Minutes
approved with an amendment to previous (9/5) minutes that faculty had not
(rather than had 9/5) reached consensus about appropriate homework load.