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ABE/HSS Notes

2/17/11

· Open House – March 14th – same week as Adult Ed Week

Get Student Leadership involved

Hold classes people come on tours

TO DO: Make everything look good

· Budget – It could be worse. Won’t replace custodian or babysitter ($89,000 savings)

· ABE Ceremony – turn benchmarks in to Larry

· Distance Learning – office staff at ACT refer citizenship students to AE Center for Distance Learning

· PowerPoint – use screens PLC need longer blocks of time to work together

· Suggested: CASAS score chart Reading Assessment now can move on

· Suggested: conference with students to discuss scores, pamphlets needed

· Redesigning registration form

· Suggested: stepping forward verbal assessment

· Must alternate CASAS tests odd/even

· If not showing up something else even

· Follow form telling you what test to take (most necessary if student moves to new class)

· Students do not need to be tested in classroom choice:

· Your choice: do either test entire class beginning/end testing center for stragglers, convenient to send to center

ESL issue:

1. Certificates on advancement/level

2. Request them from Sylvia (hrs. put on certificate from attendance office)

3. Consistent criteria work with teachers

4. Everyone teaching wrong levels (move with your class) change titles of class decide in March

5. Promotional testing uniform at both sites, use materials supplied

Competencies by class: share materials on smart board

Summer School

1. H.S. courses for high school students

2. Ask Chris Dennis what do you need

3. 6-8 graders

4. Ask businesses what do you need

5. Asian community

6. Need personal relationship with K-12

Other

Next meeting combined - Monday: end of March

Thanks to Debra Jensen for the note taking. Please feel free to post additional comments.

This is what we came up with:

"The mission of the ABE/HSS department is to produce students that are able to move forward with their academic and vocational goals".

Unless I'm reading board wrong - see below:

Larry, Debbie and Susan met Tuesday afternoon to revise the Testing Center flowchart. Please take a look at the flowchart and let us know what you think. There is also listed a suggested timetable for CASAS testing and some additional notes on testing procedure.

From Mark Steimle -

Debbie and Susan are working on the flow chart. The are allowed 10 arrows: no more.
Yourself and Veronica are going to take care of the staffing issues for the testing centers with particular attention to the AE, Concurrrent students will not be charged for reenrollment because we want to treat them (and expect them to behave) like adults. The new world history course outlines were passed out.

Thanks to Larry for sharing his meeting notes:

The following flowcharts are under consideration for the Testing Center