October 8, 2014 at 4:30 PM - Professional Development Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 4:34. Staff: Deb Hericks

Discussion:  ESUCC Mission was created in statute. Need to promote on regular basis with other Boards.

Discussion:  Because of suggested revisions from September PDO, committee will work to update and take back to PDO in January. When do we teach our staff developers to be better teachers of teachers? Teachers have to be better because of evaluation tools but how to we train our people to be better at their jobs. Needs to be focused on current initiatives but we do need to offer good staff development. We need to have more "dynamic" in our staff development. How do we do this in a fiscally responsible way? Possible to have another committee to gather data to establish needs of professional developments.

Discussion:  Reviewed the actions plans that include each affiliates action plan focus.

Discussion:  Need to move up the timeline. Need to change wording on a few areas (indemnification, hold harmless, etc.) of agreement.

Discussion:  Discussion was held around the amount of hours required for grant (84) and what outside consultant reports. Executive Director to follow-up with consultant regarding hours.