Curriculum Council Minutes: December 8, 2004

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In attendance: Doug, tim, Grant, Lance, Jenny, Audrey, Mike, Tom, Kate,
Katy, Jennifer, Betsy, Cindy, Julie

Scheduling Timelines:

• Doug passed out and explained: includes various activities to be completed
  throughout the course of the year; good information to have (see
  handout for explanation of dates and times).

Gates Grant: Dennis (application deadline Feb. 21st)

• Dennis and Helen attended a Gates Grant conference and are thinking about applying for Gates Grant.
• Dennis wants staff input. Question posed: should we go ahead and apply for the grant? How flexible is the grant?
• What direction do we want to head as a school and does this grant fit into our future direction? When should we discuss this as a staff.

Curriculum Council vote

• Discuss this with departments at 7:45 onWednesday.

High School Graduation Requirements

• Dennis.
• Discussion regarding what we should be doing legally to document
  completion of graduation requirements.
• What we would like to see in terms of what skills students leave
  high school with and how do we document this.

Ideas:

• Electronic Profile
• Paper model: including a list of what needs to be accomplished
  Current Plan and Profile: Betsy (see Betsy's handouts and packets).
• Churchill currently has most comprehensive profile in district
  (kuddos)

Includes:

• Freshman/Sophomore community service contract (this is signed by
  parents and lives in career center).
• Career Exploration Planning Guide for Sophomores (green packet):
  Skills assessment and initial career exploration. Later includes in
  depth exploration of three careers.
• Career and College Center Planning Guide for Juniors (red packet):
  Begin to seriously plan for the future; college or otherwise. Includes
  resume preparation, self assessment for career planning,
  extracurricular activities, etc.
• Career Center Planning guide for Seniors (blue packet): Helps
  students lay out what steps they will take to complete their career or
  college goals. Seniors often visit career center 20 or more times
  during the course of their senior year while working to complete the
  checklists in the packet.
• Questions:
• Lance (good question): What do we need to do that goes above and beyond
  what Betsy has already in place?
• Answer: compare what we are doing to what the law states we should be
  doing. This is the discussion that we need to begin to have.
• Is it fair for Betsy to be documenting all of the graduation
  requirement information. Thoughts:
• Can teachers be more responsible for following up with what Betsy
  is already doing?
• Color coding is good!! Each year a student is here, they have a
  specific color. This makes it very easy to quickly look a t what has
  been completed and when.
• Concerns expressed about how to catch students who slip through the
  cracks.
• How are we going to make sure that ALL students have the experience
  that Betsy offers in the career center.
• Are we adhering to what the state has set forth as the legal
  requirements for graduation...is what we have enough?

CIM: Doug

• Science has started testing (Chemistry) and all students thus far have
  passed

Jenifer Pleus Funding request:

• Decision: Make this a priority to discuss this next meeting. Doug must
  do his homework.

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World
War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. "
Albert Einstein

Thomas S. Horn, MS.Ed
Resource Teacher
Churchill High School
1850 Bailey Hill Road
Eugene OR 97405
541-687-3704