Committee Meeting - September 24, 2015

1. Welcome and Introductions: Please share one activity or thought you have regarding our NASC initiative.
Wrenshall welcomed us and gave us some background on their school. They are expanding some grades and hiring more teachers due to increased enrollment. They have made a lot of improvements in their technology with updates. They are a Q-Comp school, and they are focused on Math this year. 
Each NASC member introduced themselves and gave an update on where there school is in regards to NASC. 
Schools present: Wrenshall, Cromwell, Cloquet, Willow River, Carlton, Barnum, Esko, McGregor
Highlights: Curriculum collaboration. LMS and device rollouts. 
2. Superintendent’s NASC Update: 
Superintendents met over the summer to discuss NASC. There was talk about a grant writing team, but that was not pursued. They are very focused on the digital curriculum. Feedback on existing digital curriculum is needed, but we need to focus on what it is a bad and what could be changed to make it better. 
3. Focus for this year: We will break into small groups and discuss what our focus should be. 
Topics that were brought up:

• NASC P.R. - Educate our staff on what NASC is about.
  • Reinforce that we are resource that can be used as needed
  • Finding local resources that are willing to help
  • How do we measure our success?
• Specialized training modules developed locally (share what you excel at)
• Common inservice time (indentified by NASC) - allows schools to collaborate
• Mini-TIES conference - local inservice focused on our needs
• Creating digital curriculum 

4. Updates and/or webpage
The webpage was presented and the following suggestions were made: 

• Create a Videos page where we can post teacher created content
• List key contacts in each building for various programs (i.e. LMS, RTI, etc)

5. Other?
None

Next Meeting @ Willow River on October 22, 2015 at 12:30 pm. Details to come.
Preliminary Agenda:
1. Welcome and Introductions:
2. Breakout sessions on this year’s Focus Areas.

• Feasibility
• Timeline
• Action Plan

3. Updates
4. Other

Resources Mentioned: 
https://www.graphite.org/