Education Planning Team

September 27th - Minutes

Date & location of meeting: 9/27/06 Mohawk Trail Regional School Room 171

Committee members in attendance: Jon Wyman, Diane Bigelow, Ann Browning, David Greenberg, Joan Hellmund, Budge Litchfield, David Parsons and Jackie Walsh.

Meeting called to order

  1. For the record; Julie Godfrey and Pam Porter were attending the Interim Planning meeting as representatives of the Interim Education Planning Committee which was scheduled at the same time.
  2. Discussed options such as libraries, town halls, K-1 in combination with existing school buildings.
  3. Discussed the Interim Planning meeting which most committee members attended for the first 45 minutes and the use of the SWOT analysis, preparation of our report to the Interim Committee and the new interim schedule.
  4. The committee had a conversation on the budget and various enhancement options. Discussed a K-8 model as a magnet school which would possibly attract home schooled and school choice students. Also discussed multi-age and concept (environmental, technology, music and art) school possibilities.
  5. A Moodle web link (www.mohawkschools.org/mohawk/moodle) will be setup by David Greenberg as a tool to share research. A bibliography and a brief synopsis of research will be prepared for the final report. To be continued.
  6. A motion was made and passed by consensus to move the Regional Elementary K-6 model to the bottom of the list for educational reasons, for not being an interim solution and because no building can handle the capacity. Discussion followed on the possibilities of a grade 2-5 or 2-6 regional elementary with K-1 students remaining within the home towns.
  7. The committee spent time talking about moving forward. We feel we need to rewrite the Key Questions, formalize our research and focus on enhancement and the remaining models

Possible Agenda Items for Next Meeting

  1. 1. Committee chairs will report on the Interim Planning meeting.
  2. 2. Continued discussions on research done by the committee.
  3. 3. Review revised Key Questions as they relate to each model.
  4. 4. Schedule October 11 meeting.

Announcement of next meeting if different than posting: Next meeting as posted (Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 at 6:30pm). Meeting adjourned at: 8:50 pm

 
 
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