September 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM - Professional Development Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Call to Order 4:25 PM. Staff: Deb Hericks, Scott Isaacson Visitors: Jody Phillips (ESU 2 Rep)

Discussion:  Kraig Lofquist reviewed the September PDO meeting agenda. Teacher/Principal Evaluation - could we possibly rename to be Teacher/Principal Development to rid the notion of outcome of tool to be used to evaluate.

Discussion:  Reviewed the PDO Planning Committee Members.

Discussion:  We reviewed the PDO calendar for the year and promote the attendance of all Administrators.

Discussion:  We need to move up the timeline for approving budget items for affiliates. Suggesting to have affiliate budgets turned into PDO Committee in January.

Discussion:  Helen Banzhaf from Seward, NE is the new project coordinator for the Math Grant. The second year of the Math Grant will officially kick off in October. The deadline for registrations was September 1 but have extended another week. We have started review of the actual grant that was submitted for proposal, we plan to submit a change in objectives due to the fact when the budget was cut to $400,000 we were unable to carry out some of the parts of the grant such as TLM (Teacher leaders).

Discussion:  One of the parts of the grant is that we need to create a list of Math Champions across the state of NE. This would be one Math person per building across the state. We will be asking the Math Cadre (each ESU has someone on the Cadre) for their assistance in gathering this information. Discussed the need to start at a district level and then grow the list from there.