Corporation Discussion Notes
Monday, February 4, 2008

Members Present: Karen Bontrager, Martessa Conover, Lossie Crane, Marcie Durbin, Karen Podell, Wayne Shipe, and Steve Sims.

Item One: Calendar

At this time the 2008-2009 calendar will remain as adopted except for one change: the January 30^th Full day, Staff Development date will now be held on February 2. After review of the WCTA concern about the Nov 3^rd   staff development date, our administration believes that changing the Nov 3 staff development date to Nov 4 to accommodate voting locations in our schools is unnecessary.

Item Two: INFORM (Student Achievement Data Management System) 

Administration is previewing a new system that will compile student data. They will be  sharing more information with us as this develops.

Item Three: Continuous Quality Growth (CQG)

Administration is focusing work on the Continuous Quality Growth model toward further development on the PDSA plans at each building.

Item Four: Personnel

    a) A full time Music teacher will be hired for the 08-09 school year to help strengthen the music/band program in our WMS, WHS schools. Discussion will proceed with the teachers’ exploratory committee on the exact placement for this new position.

    b) A new position is also being developed that will eventually be a Communication (Radio/TV) position at     WHS. This position will begin the 08-09 school year as an integrated technology/ instruction position which will be posted as a TSG Professional Development Coordinator.

    c)  WIS will add 1 teaching position for Exploration.

    d) WMS will add one teacher, placement pending scheduling determination.

    e)  WHS will add 2 teachers, one full time position, with placement pending scheduling determination, one part time position in Social Studies, creating a full time position from the current 2/3 time.

Other:

In preparation of WCTA lobbying efforts, we briefly discussed the position of our WHS administration concerning the property tax legislation that is now in session. Dr. Keen shared their position as opposed to the proposed referendum process, and they believe the 1%, 2%, and 3% proposed caps should be higher.

WCTA was approved to begin the proposed plan of attending building staff meetings for new master contract distribution.