Northeast Area School Consortium

January 10th, 2019

1/10/2019

Welcome & Introductions
Superintendent Gwen Carmen welcomed us to Carlton High School for today’s meeting.

Review Mission, Vision, Governing (http://nasc-mn.weebly.com/organization.html)
Approve Following Changes (Original)
Vision:
United transformational change toward innovative instructional practices focused on student learning for members of NASC.
Mission:
Together NASC will:
identify and encourage innovative teaching
enhance professional development
improve educational networking, communications, and the sharing of resources
Governing:
NASC Superintendent Board will:
Discuss NASC at their regular meetings.
Provide updates to individual School Boards regarding NASC.
Jointly support the paid Collaborator’s position.
Meet with the NASC Leadership at least annually. (Possibly bi-annual)
Maintain the commitment for and authority of the NASC organization.

NASC Districts Collaborate Course Offerings Information

In November, the Superintendents began discussing high school courses.
List of courses was created and shared, eventually brought to the principals.
Looking at low-incident courses, possibly sharing with other districts.
Start with seniors, possibly juniors that can handle independent work.
Looking at online, hybrid, flipping and other formats.
Principals are going back to teachers to find one or two courses that could be shared.
NASC would provide the professional support and training.

Help Chat

Elementary specialist schedules (please send to Randi, rlembke@isd91.org)

Action Committees
Review where we are at (see November minutes below):
Action Committees work time

Collaboration:
- Collaboration Survey Results (2017-2018)
- The sharing of courses will be a boost to this area of collaboration, and the administration will help encourage it.
- NASC will be looking at creating a training program in collaboration with the principals.
Innovation:
- PD Flyer (PD on the Go) (T)issue #3 now available- Please share in your district!
  - (T)issue #3 (Slide 3 of the document/presentation)
  - Clarification on responsibility to distribute PD flyers is needed
    - How do we gauge effectiveness of these flyers? Are teachers reading them and using the information?
- There is a need for NASC to coordinate a way to have people help other districts with tech needs.
  - What are the exact needs each district has
  - Who can present
  - Should we send out a survey that identifies specific technologies that people need help with? (Schoology, Google Suite, etc.)
  - How do we identify credible presenters?
  - How would requests be handled?
  - Possibly have each school generate a list with one or two people who are qualified to talk on a specific tech that would be willing to speak to other schools
Staff Development:
- Everything looks ready for GGM 2019

Things to do:

Bring a couple of topics/people from your building that are willing to present to other schools. The focus is on EdTech topics.

Other

Set next meeting
Feb. 7th @ Cloquet (Building TBD)

Members Present:
Barnum: Brian Kazmierczak, Evan Lembke
Carlton: Gwen Carmen, Mimi Effinger, Barry Fisher, Ben Midge, Billie Waugh
Cloquet: Bekki Morrison
Cromwell-Wright: Terry Sawdey
Esko: Jennifer Hoffmann, Tammy Thornton
Hermantown:
McGregor:
Moose Lake: Pam Erickson, Carrie Sanda
Willow River: Tana Mack, Nikki Molis
Wrenshall: Chris Gustafson

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