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. 

PLC 1/28/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Mrs. G

Agenda
Preparing for Derby Museum Field Trip
New count: about 30 students attending
Departing at 8:00 am Returning at 2:00

Teachers going: Ruffin & Mrs. G.
Other chaperones: Mrs. Carter

HSB Eastern Visit Recap 
Ruffin & Bingham discussed what they thought about the HSB program at Eastern.
Bingham- Wants the business department to interact more with freshman. Suggested more field trips and events tailored to Freshman
Ruffin shared her concerns about implementing the HSB program; suggested  another Entrepreneurial pathway
Comstock explained strategies that we could use to ease some of the concerns.
Mrs. G. is all about HSB and ready to go!

KOSSA/EOP practice testing
Ruffin & Mrs. G are giving students the 94 question practice test
Working on Vocabulary for KOSSA practice and Bell ringer activities

PLC 1/22/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock


Field Trip
Conference Call with Nichelle & Marla
Marla is working on paperwork for HSB to pay MBA research and get the program approved


ESS Contracts

• Students agreed to complete course work by a particular date 
• So far 3 students have signed a contract

Viking Time KOSSA prep comments

•  One student has tested out of KOSSA vike time
•  Break out EDU
• Go over KOSSA practice questions 

Getting ready for field-trip tomorrow logistics

• Memo for students-Bingham
• Leave at 8:00 am- Return around 1:00 pm
• Ruffin will check on buses

KOSSA Prep student feedback

• Student feedback 
• Didn't understand the content
• Continue working with students to get them prepared
•  Practice test
•  Incorporate questions into bell ringers and closings

PLC 1/14/19

Attendance: Ruffin, Bingham, Mrs. G, & Comstock 

Armstrong resignation- Discuss workload for students for the next two weeks. 

Field Trips Changes

• Eastern High School will only take 12 Freshman (only two teachers needed) Bingham and another teacher will attend. 
• Other Field Trips 
• State Farm- Financial literacy classes 1st Then all business
• Churchill Downs Field Trip**All classes will be doing a Derby Project
• Potential dates January 29
• JA BIZ Town- no callback
• KOSSA Vike Time  roster set

1/7/19

Happy New Year
Attendance: Ruffin, Comstock, Grincuis

Agenda

• Selected students for the KOSSA Viking Time intervention
• Pulled students information from previous KOSSA scores & Career Readiness spreadsheet. 
•  Mrs. Comstock will turn in the list of names to Mrs. Brannock. 
•  ASK interventions will be done during classes 
•  Ruffin will also help students after school

KOSSA VIKING TIME STUDENTS

1. Darrel Barker
2. Broklyen Black 
3. Dala Brittle 
4. Charles Coleman
5. Taniya Dixon
6. Ronnie Dufour
7. Crystal Harvey 
8. Daniel Hibbs
9. Jon Paul Hogan 
10. Terrik Ingram 
11. Angel Jones 
12. DaQuanta Lipscomb
13. Jennifer Nava Martinez
14. Michael Milburn 
15. Chasity Newton 
16. Jon Ochsenbein
17. Tyler Perkins
18. Antasia Phillips
19. Nick Ratterman
20. Darian Scott
21. Johnna Warr
22. Nathan White