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** February 2, 2010 ** ** Sullivan County BOCES Conference Room 1 ** High Tech Academy February 2, 2010 Page 2 **Career/Tech Concerns**: High Tech Academy February 2, 2010 Page 3 · Need high tech offering in Sullivan County – we need to bring businesses for work and raise in economics · Create high school process in high school – scope needs to be wider than Career/Tech · HVAC – equipment/teachers already exist · Monticello district wants full day programs not half days · Decide – European models are full days – projects music etc. expand/combine between districts · Projection – student population flat over next 5 years. · “About our kids, not our territory” · Would eventually work with partnership groups of businesses · Need to look at what is credit bearing/not credit bearing · Green environment – need group to work on what we could offer · Sullivan County Community College building a high tech science building · Hands-on for ALL students · Are we going to be encroaching on other programs – enhancing other programs · Students missing from meetings – what do they want · What are we enhancing – regional programs – high level skills in curriculum · Learning group – on-line learning opportunity <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Assumption is hands-on for lower level students – should be all students – higher level <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 6th 7th and 8th grade levels are good candidates now <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Summer Camp – (space schedules – insure enrollment early on) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Two week program – could be in Monticello (Project Lead the Way) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Math, Math, Math <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Look at Middle School – what are they offering – pick up a notch for all students <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· County – lower grade issue <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Little pockets working now – lego, Eldred program – bring real problems into the classrooms. High Tech Academy February 2, 2010 Page 4 <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Some students going to class on internet right now – one example: MCS has 10 students doing this. Students who are sick, hurt, out of school (superintendents hearing) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· No hiring tutors – students log in while class is going on – they can hear/talk – wants to expand this program <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Dialup connections do work with speakerphones <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Adobe Connect – cheaper perspective/office hours – different times <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Eyeball camera/headsets <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Desktop/websites shared – share documents – students can use marking pens or type responses and share their documents with teachers <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Teachers now recording lessons which can be shown on a smartboard. When teachers are out assistants can show the lessons (so that the actual teacher is teaching) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Teachers can connect with students during the day <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Sub Teachers not hired, an aide or assistant can show the lesson on the smartboard recorded by the teacher – cuts budget down <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Teachers now working with incarcerated students can stay connected to class/ college level class – tutors do not give the same level to the student as their teacher <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Record sessions in class – save to moodle – students can go back to review it. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Get outside the box – students do not have to be in school all the time <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· In MCS student with bad attendance doing hands-on web page work for them now attendance is better <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Apply technology to instructional delivery in this academy – Adobe Connect (other) Moodle etc. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Committees – sign up on programs <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Who, What, Where, When Why – Timeline/Plan – What would work for students. High Tech Academy February 2, 2010 Page 5 <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Commitment for partnerships should be in place <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· 9th grade start – 12th grade decides where to go <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">·  Hands-on <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Understand requirements for regents diploma – start 9th grade <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· What are we teaching – requirements for partnerships <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· I don’t know what different districts are doing. How in this area – of high tech – so what do we build on <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Great concept! Careful planning from here is **essential** to success <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Need to have regular scheduled planning each with (1) focus i.e.: 1st Vision/Missions <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Need to develop a timeline – need to develop a mission and vision before other committees can begin the work <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· What do we hope to be as end result – career readiness or career exploration <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· The “Program” from beginning to end <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Opening on-line coursework beyond Sullivan County <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· This was my first meeting – it would have been good to have a sense of what has already been done <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Still not sure the direction we are taking. What is the definition of “High Tech”? <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Career explorations <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Its as great idea not to be overwhelmed by the resistance – think SLC and contrive to move ahead <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· When will we meet again as group? As subcommittees <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· Excellent facilitation – great ideas and information sharing – I think we should develop an online student survey and gather data on student interests as well. I think you will have more student participation in the electronic survey then you had from the districts High Tech Academy February 2, 2010 Page 6 Gary Furman Katie Kelly Linda Argentati Mary Truesdell Carol Diehl Arleene Siegel Carol Napolitano Shelley Rossito Matt Evans David Marr Denise Sullivan Barbara Hackett Blakey Lisa Pacht Elizabeth Huggler Steve Mitchell John Evans Ken Newman Shelley Rossito Tom Palmer Vincent Boyd Matthew Evans Terry Wilbert John Evans Pat Michel Susan Schmidt Tom Palmer Ivan Katz Mike Williams Pam Rourke Jack Strassman Judy Brink Jane Tingley Carol Napolitano Elizabeth Huggler Linda Argentati
 * HIGH TECH ACADEMY MEETING **
 * Creating a high tech academy is a good idea because…………… **
 * We need to export engineers not import them
 * More exposure needed in high school, first year of college not good enough
 * Need more opportunities to prepare students for 21st century
 * An option for all students..Technology emphasized with higher educational link **
 * Are we preparing students post-secondary or post high school workforce.
 * Well rounded/balanced. Open to all students
 * Pre-engineering vs. Career/Tech. Location has an impact.
 * Full or half day. Half day students maintain identity with high school
 * Math/Tech integrate with English
 * Go beyond Sullivan County
 * Need integrated skills
 * Continuum of educational levels and should by any students interested in technology from hands-on to college level **
 * Agreement on statement 2 – Student ability and interest
 * Continuum level for all students in Technology
 * Statement for hands-on for lower level students, need hands-on for high level thinking skills for all students (common sense)
 * Types of technology
 * Full day program that will encompass college bearing credit classes, lab and internships in the work place **
 * Likes hands-on and foundation skills focus.
 * What is the definition of technology (IT and more), short/long term plans
 * Adaptability/foundation skills – technology student (needs to learn motherboard/build motherboard/change with computer changes, install/maintenance of any technology)
 * Must start in Middle school – High School to late – Hook before grade 11)
 * Design programs to meet state requirements
 * Some districts already offer college credit classes – go beyond this, competencies Project Based Learning, meeting range of learners.
 * Half day program that consists of classroom )science, math) and technical/hands-on lab/field work **
 * Half day programs are difficult
 * Difficulty with scheduling and transition
 * Half day academy plus field work = full day
 * Hands-on program inter-county, internships
 * Change name – build capacity in students
 * Concerns/questions – single building – Project Based Learning (PBL)
 * Full day setting with comprehensive curricular offerings **
 * Comprehensive Curriculum – What is it? Resource requirements of our schools
 * High tech – Tech or Engineering – or both strands
 * Big vs Small schools – what they offer
 * Students leaving home district – give up after school activities – what do students want
 * Location – students loose identity with home school
 * Foundation – basic skills to go to higher level thinking skills
 * Who do we target – Pre Engineering student or Tech students
 * How Career and Tech accommodates students now: **
 * Second year students choose their own path
 * First year students – introduction
 * New vision – dual enrollment
 * Partnerships with college – new college options higher level
 * Career/Tech called academy in some places
 * Industry partnerships – education in the field (OCCC/with Verizon – train students in colleges, Westchester Engineering – electrical trade HVAC for a year – second year internships/field work
 * Full days – would have academic teachers available
 * Before 11th grade – Pre-Tech 9th & 10th started this year
 * Career exploration
 * Working with partners in home school
 * 5 year High School – Special Education goes through high school, graduates and continues in Career/Tech
 * After school clubs/athletics – do they go back to home school for these? – Schedules would have to be moved around/flexible
 * Combine day programs – after school music etc. programs
 * Extended days
 * Ideas/Thoughts/Questions/Concerns: **
 * Ideas/Ways to Begin **
 * Summer Camp – to introduce math application to careers
 * Professional Development – Elementary/Middle School to enhance Math instruction
 * On-line shared opportunities across the county
 * Reverse integration of applied content (careers) into core content
 * On-Line Environment **
 * Learning Advisory Group
 * MCS/ECS – Region Physics class sharing video/conference
 * Moodle
 * All districts – share services
 * One teach in small class – another school cannot afford teacher – share services
 * Global Village Platform – MCS - Physics – put material in environment on-line Eldred can also see print out that students cannot see.
 * BOCES – Moodle site – teachers are already sharing
 * Grade Levels – Mission/Vision **
 * Beginning of 9th – 12th
 * Need to do real work before – plans on Hi-tech 6th 7th and 8th
 * Start with 12th Grade – phase in the 11th the following year – then accordingly 9th – 10th
 * Three year continuum to build up capacity to Hi-Tech
 * Start 9-12 Mid range – down to elementary school – (inspire hope)
 * Separate vision/mission before we make planning session
 * 9-12 build on continuum – range of technologies
 * Maturity of students needed to participate
 * Continuing education/course work
 * Criteria to prepare students (pre-requisites)
 * Opportunities for earning college course credits
 * Phase In Possible Options **
 * 4 years – start with 12 and work backward or grade 9 and add a grade
 * 3 years – start with grade 10
 * Pilot for grade levels
 * Startup **
 * Programs **
 * No experimental pilot – partnership needed
 * We need to start something
 * A good start – Grade 9 accrues credits
 * Why look at levels/grades – students are ready on different levels
 * Good grade for transition – 9th Grade
 * What preparation in home schools – need to know what level students are coming in at
 * How do we connect our students with opportunities to connect to college
 * Needs: **
 * Infrastructure
 * Resources
 * Partnerships
 * Foundations
 * Online/beyond Sullivan County for internship and for instruction
 * Consider Pre-Tech as base for planning 9-12 vocation/regents
 * Final Comments/Questions **
 * COMMITTEES **
 * ACADEMIC INTEGRATION **
 * VISION & MISSION **
 * CAREER (EXPLORATION of PATHWAYS and Opportunities for students) **
 * BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP **
 * TECHNOLOGY **
 * EARLY OPPORTUNITIES **