CSC 9/4/12 4-5pm
· Last CSC Meeting was two years ago.
o Took last year off to reorganize and adjust.
· Why did you join?
o Karen Davis- wants to be home school extension of daughter’s education. She wants to get involved and just saw the sign passing by. She wants to provide direction for home-schoolers and other opportunities.
· What are we about?
o Nominate Parent & Student President
§ Karen and Deirdre will consider nominations
o Still looking for a business participant for CSC
§ KJ’s Coffee Bar or Frank’s Kitchen?
· Karen will reach out to these businesses
· Purpose of CSC
o Read Composition, Purpose, and Priorities of CSC
§ See handout
o CSC provides strategic direction in support of UIP
§ DOHS has been dropped to red
§ Put on red two years in a row
§ After three years they can close school and turn in to something else
· District is trying to make data equitable to higher and larger performing schools
o Is there a measurement to compare online schools?
o DOHS is trying to connect more with the district and tell them what is working and what is not.
· DOHS will start recruiting for a Counselor Recommendation Committee
· UIP-School Staff-SLT-CSC
o CSC looks at the bigger picture. Picks strategies and share with other committees.
o Up performance and redefine definitions
§ Dropout- drop out if doesn’t report to another school
· Should graduate with cohort group
o DOHS is not an alternative school because we don’t serve lunch. Because we don’t serve lunch kids don’t qualify as free & reduced.
o Instructional Superintendant Randy Johnson is looking in on how to incorporate supplemental students to count towards DOHS. Could be good or bad.
· MAPS test 3 times a year
o Fall – Winter – Spring
§ 9th and 10th Grade TCAP and MAPS
§ 11th Grade PLAN and ACT
· DOHS is here to provide flexibility
o Can we say that students must be here the entire year?
o New interview/application process getting more students here for the long term
o But DOHS still can provide for short term
· Home school laws are more liberal
o Allows parents to be responsible
o Liberal in evaluation
o Students enrolled as primary student in DOHS and secondary enrollment as home school.
· Student
o Typical to spend 4-5 hours a day with online assignments
o Writing Club that Deirdre is organizing and getting other students involved
· 9/29/12 District event for CSC Committees 8am-12pm at West HS
· 10/2/12 2:00-3:00pm next CSC meeting