2/26

Attendance:  Ruffin, Comstock, Grincius, Lyons (sub), Roy, Winter

Setting up Advisory Meeting with Business guest (realtor).  Need a parent representative.   Find a date that doesn't conflict with senior defenses and other field trips.

Several companies reached out to set up apprentice management tracks (Taco Bell, McDonalds, Kroger) to hire our students.  This will correlate with our leadership class (Marketing and Business Principals - Ethical Leadership).  This will ensure the students are career ready if they work throughout the year and are training for management.   Transitioning them into management is good for the company, the student and the school.

This is very exciting information!!!  It also gives students more options for co-op.

Companies will need to be helped with the paperwork and they will need to choose 4 courses to support their apprenticeship track.

Courses need to be performance based in order to make the courses 1 credit per semester.  This would expedite their course completions. Each company needs to determine their 4 courses.  See Danny Clemens for helping with this paperwork for making the courses 1 credit per semester.

Students could be in the admin pathway and still be eligible for a track program.

We still have the Jefferson County apprenticeship.

See Marla for more information about track courses.

Students can also take the Dual Credit through JCTC for Financial Literacy,  Marketing and Business Essentials.  Paid for by Fee Waiver as needed.

End of programs assessment is happening TODAY!  Last year 9 students took this assessment.  This year 61 students are testing.  Fantastic news.

Instruction:
Comstock discussed two column notes/ Close reading with Winter.

PLC 2/25/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Mrs. G.

Agenda:

Issues with Dual credit courses solved

•  JCTC offers an entrance exam
• Con: Students still struggle passing this test
• Still discussing moving Digital Literacy

Our first draft of suggested course

Freshman: Career exploration & Business Communication 

Sophomore: Ethical Leadership & Digital Literacy (DC)

Junior: Business and Marketing Essentials (DC) & MOS

Senior: Personal Finance (DC) & Co-op

This means adding an additional class called ethical leadership. Questions about this course: 

How can we make it a performance-based course? (1 credit per semester)

Ruffin will follow up on this

KOSSA Prep course

Ruffin created a KOSSA prep course in Google classroom where all teachers will add KOSSA prep materials for all students taking the KOSSA (EOP) to access and study at their leisure.

2/19/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Mrs. G.

Agenda:

EOP (KOSSA) presentation in the auditorium
Called all students taking the KOSSA down to the auditorium and explained to the benefits of  KOSSA

PLC 2-11-19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Mrs. G

Agenda

Weekly vocabulary is being incorporated in all classes
KOSSA Practice is in full force
KOSSA meeting with students scheduled for 2-19-19 during 3rd period

Developing a new course sequence for the Administrative Pathway
Suggested sequence from Freer (CTE)

Freshman: Career Exploration & Business Communication
Sophomore: MOS & Digital Literacy (Spring)
Junior: Business and Marketing Essentials & Personal Finance
Senior: Co-op

We ran out of time after discussing the best possible sequence for our students. This conversation will continue in our next PLC.
Issues that need further discussion:
Dual credit classes (Personal Finance, Digital Literacy, & Business & Marketing Essentials)
Issue:

• How will students be admitted in JCTC without ACT scores? 
• Will there be an entrance exam? 
•  Should we move digital literacy to 10th grade? 
•  How would moving digital literacy affect students? 
•  Is it worth moving digital literacy? 
•  Digital literacy can't come after MOS (MOS is an advanced computer course)

PLC 2/4/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Bingham, Slinde

Agenda
Developed a list of Business Vocabulary for the 1st 6 WKS

1. ACCOUNTABILITY: The condition of having to answer for or be liable for your actions; accepting responsibility for your decisions 
2. ACQUIRE: To buy or obtain
3. ADAPTABILITY: Flexibility; the ability to adjust to changing conditions
4. BANK CREDIT CARD: A type of credit issued by banks that enables the cardholder to make purchases nationwide (examples = VISA and MasterCard
5.  BANKRUPTCY: A state of debt that cannot be resolved 
6.  BUDGET: An estimate of income and expense for a specific period of time 
7.  CENSORSHIP: Suppression of ideas
8.  CREDENTIALS: Information about a person’s or business’s skills, abilities, and qualifications
9.  CREDIT: The arrangement by which businesses or individuals can purchase now and pay later
10.  COLLATERAL: Anything of value belonging to the borrower that is pledged to the lender to guarantee that the loan will be repaid 
11.  DEBT: Amount of money businesses or individuals owe to others 
12.  DECISION-MAKING MODEL: An organized way of making a decision
13. DEPENDENT: Needing or relying on someone or something 
14.  ENCOURAGEMENT: The act of giving someone support, confidence, or hope 
15.  ENTREPRENEUR: An individual who invents, develops, and distributes a good or provides a service; assumes the risks of starting and building a business; and receives personal and financial rewards for her/his efforts 

Reviewed KOSSA Practice Test data

•  Noticed areas students did fairly well in
•  Students struggled with Math questions 
• Issues with practice test 
•  Not enough time in a class period to finish
•  Need to try again on a block day
• Several questions had errors
•  Copy the test and fix issues with questions 

Discussed Email from Nichelle Freer about a Marketing competition for students 

• Deadline Feb. 20 
•  Waiting to get some ideas from Mrs. G to see if it would be possible to incorporate into the Marketing classes 
•  Since we are preparing for KOSSA we may not be able to work on this.