Minutes of the 23 February, 2004
Accreditation Focus Group Meeting
Attendees: Christopher Porter (Student Representative), Diane Porter (Parent Representative), Danell Hepworth, Jack Hepworth, Cathy Moretto, Marsha Silva (Group Leader), Wayne Toller, and Seija Anderson.Meeting was from 11:15 to 12:10.
All members of the group were introduced to each other. Each was asked if they had experience with the accreditation process, with Seija being the only member who has participated previously in a school‚s accreditation.
It was resolved at this meeting that the starting time is moved to 9:30am for all subsequent meetings.
The question was raised: What are the four WASC recommendations for CWCS?
The group reviewed the agenda, Gary‚s letter about the accreditation process, ESLR‚s (Expected School wide Learning Result), Expected Outcomes of Self-Study, Focus on Learning Process, and the responsibilities of the Focus and Home Group. Also, referred participants to view SARC 2004 on web page.
Our focus group‚s responsibility is curriculum and instruction with the following assignments: Task 4 and 6 as a focus group, and Task 5 as a home group (we function both as a focus group and home group).
The question was raised: How are we gathering data for our group? It was suggested that we look at an area of improvement in the „vendors links‰ of the CWCS Web site. The need to update these was identified. The assignment was given to the group at this point to check the vendor links on the school web site to see if they are still working, to get updates of the ones that need to be updated, and to identify vendors who do not have a web link listed and ascertain if they have one now. Assignments are as follows:
A-D Diane Porter and Christopher
E-G Cathy Moretto
H-L Seija Anderson
M-O Danell Hepworth
P-R Jack Hepworth (This will be reassigned since Jack is secretary for our Focus Group.)
S-Z Tammy Tagge
We are to determine if the link works properly. If it does not we are to email Marsha with that information. We are, if possible, to try to determine what the vendor provides if it is not listed on the vendor page.
Dates for completing this assignment:
March 15- On or before this date, email Marsha with non-working links.
May 1- Vendor descriptions.
Have a great day!
Jack Hepworth
Education Specialist, Focus Group Secretary
Connecting Waters Charter School