GLS Faculty Advisory Committee Meeting

Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Notes taken by Linda Azeez

Members present: Dr. David Hough, Linda Azeez, Jennifer Cvitak, Vicki Dunlop,

Mark Fisher, Trish Goddard, Doris Grevillius, Janice Reynolds, D’Arcy Simmons

Members absent: Chuck Facer

Linda Azeez asked Dr. Hough to address the plan to have the ELE 302 students do practicums at Greenwood. Dr. Hough reported that the ELE 302 students would be placed at Greenwood as part of the plan to provide help for the Greenwood K-12 teachers, as well as to provide experiences for the ELE 302 students. Dr. David Brown and a graduate assistant will oversee this project. Dr. Brown will develop an orientation for the ELE 302 students after he visits with the Greenwood teachers to see what the Greenwood teachers need and how to best provide a variety of experiences for the ELE 302 students.

We discussed the upcoming K-6 Teacher Academy that will be housed at Greenwood this spring. A suggestion was made to include the special area classes as well as the elementary classes.

Dr. Hough asked for follow-up information about a summer school program here at Greenwood. We discussed the possibility of starting with a small summer school program and expanding it in the future if it was successful. Several types of summer school were suggested; a remedial program for older students, an enrichment program for younger students, a collaboration between middle school and elementary programs, a math attack camp, etc. Linda volunteered to call DESE to find out if smaller schools could use their summer school monies to send their students to Greenwood for a summer school program. Dr. Hough asked what kind of support we needed to get a summer school program going, and if we would need a summer school coordinator. Dr. Hough reported he would be willing to provide release time and a salary for a teacher who would be agreeable to take the coordinator’s position and get a summer school started. Dr. Hough also reported that he transferred $18,000.00 back to Greenwood’s operating budget and suggested part of that money might be used for starting the summer school program.

Vicki Dunlop asked Dr. Hough to clarify what would be expected of this committee and if those expectations were different from the expectations for the Greenwood Director’s Advisory Committee. Dr. Hough said that he would talk with Dr. Moseman about what his committee was doing.

The committee addressed increasing student enrollment at Greenwood. A year-round primary center with students rotating in and out was discussed. Janice Reynolds remarked that the primary center had a lot of parental support when we had it here at Greenwood. She also pointed out the primary center might be a way to provide Greenwood with diversity and a great mix of kids. Dr. Hough suggested we investigate a year-round school in San Diego if we were interested in learning how the concept works.

The Department of Ed. Admin. internship was also discussed. One intern has been placed here at Greenwood at the present time and Dr. Hough wanted to know how it is working. He also informed the committee that the purpose of having an intern here was to try the internship in a place where it would be successful before the Department of Ed. Admin. faculty fully implemented it elsewhere, allowing them to find out what works and what doesn’t. We discussed how interns would need to be mentored and trained as they take on more responsibility for the job. Dr. Hough pointed out Springfield was writing a grant to establish an internship like the one we are trying here at Greenwood.