McFatter Technical College and Technical High School School Advisory Council September 8, 2016 Meeting Attended by: Ellen Albano, Roger Barnhart, Billini Benoit, Stuart Bowers, Kimberly Brousseau, Gwen Burkholder, Thomas Collins, Cara Daniel, Patrick Eloi, Daphne Emmanuel, Kwolanne Felix, Anthony Fitchett, Lynn Goldman, Mauricio Gomez, Lillie Henry, Rachel Howlett, Mary Francis Jeannot, Jeanette Johnson, Christi Laguna, Bryan Marin, Sheldon McCartney, Danielle McColgin, Gordon Merle, Jonathan Padilla, Cara Pasquale, Jill Rafilovich, Alvin Ranzy, Jennifer Rush, Alexa Sauvagere, Ivan Serrano, Franzie Williams and Ashley Woods. Excused: Giselle Bayona, Brian Cunningham, Joan Kovac, Francois Leconte, Carols Molinet and Mitchell Nowak The meeting was called to order by Chairman Patrick Eloi at 11:45am. Patrick remarked that he hoped everyone enjoyed their summer and thanked those in attendance for coming. Self- introductions were made. Motion was made, seconded and approved to accept the minutes to the May 12, 2016 meeting. (Eloi/Merle). Old Business: Campus/staff updates: Jeanette Johnson reported that McFatter was officially deemed an “A” school. Jeanette mentioned the staff additions on campus. Mr. Ross Tipping is the new Math teacher; Carol Lee is the new Medical Assisting instructor; VJ Sundar is the new Computer Programming instructor; Vincent McLaughlin is the new part-time Business Education instructor; Sharon Carroll is the new Medical department secretary; Daphne Emmanuel got promoted to Internal Bookkeeper and a few part-time facilities employees. Ms. Johnson’s boss has also been promoted, so she has a new boss, Estella Eckhart. SMART Initiative dollars for MTC: Jeanette Johnson reported that the Forklift and Mannequin purchases for the Fire Academy have been approved. The $100,000 ballot that was created at the May 2015 meeting will be going out to parents for voting within the next few weeks. Facilities and renovation updates have officially been approved by the board at their August meeting. The board has approved the authorization to hire Professional Design Services for our construction project. These updates include, ADA renovations to some of our restrooms, Safety and Security upgrades, Fire sprinkler and Fire Alarm, Media Center improvements, HVAC replacement in our buildings and electrical improvements.
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McFatter Technical College and Technical High SchoolSchool Advisory Council
September 8, 2016 Meeting
Attended by: Ellen Albano, Roger Barnhart, Billini Benoit, Stuart Bowers, Kimberly Brousseau, Gwen Burkholder, Thomas Collins, Cara Daniel, Patrick Eloi, Daphne Emmanuel, Kwolanne Felix, Anthony Fitchett, Lynn Goldman, Mauricio Gomez, Lillie Henry, Rachel Howlett, Mary Francis Jeannot, Jeanette Johnson, Christi Laguna, Bryan Marin, Sheldon McCartney, Danielle McColgin, Gordon Merle, Jonathan Padilla, Cara Pasquale, Jill Rafilovich, Alvin Ranzy, Jennifer Rush, Alexa Sauvagere, Ivan Serrano, Franzie Williams and Ashley Woods. Excused: Giselle Bayona, Brian Cunningham, Joan Kovac, Francois Leconte, Carols Molinet and Mitchell Nowak
The meeting was called to order by Chairman Patrick Eloi at 11:45am. Patrick remarked that he hoped everyone enjoyed their summer and thanked those in attendance for coming.
Self- introductions were made.
Motion was made, seconded and approved to accept the minutes to the May 12, 2016 meeting. (Eloi/Merle).
Old Business:Campus/staff updates: Jeanette Johnson reported that McFatter was officially deemed an “A” school. Jeanette mentioned the staff additions on campus. Mr. Ross Tipping is the new Math teacher; Carol Lee is the new Medical Assisting instructor; VJ Sundar is the new Computer Programming instructor; Vincent McLaughlin is the new part-time Business Education instructor; Sharon Carroll is the new Medical department secretary; Daphne Emmanuel got promoted to Internal Bookkeeper and a few part-time facilities employees. Ms. Johnson’s boss has also been promoted, so she has a new boss, Estella Eckhart.
SMART Initiative dollars for MTC: Jeanette Johnson reported that the Forklift and Mannequin purchases for the Fire Academy have been approved. The $100,000 ballot that was created at the May 2015 meeting will be going out to parents for voting within the next few weeks. Facilities and renovation updates have officially been approved by the board at their August meeting. The board has approved the authorization to hire Professional Design Services for our construction project. These updates include, ADA renovations to some of our restrooms, Safety and Security upgrades, Fire sprinkler and Fire Alarm, Media Center improvements, HVAC replacement in our buildings and electrical improvements.
COE Update: Ellen Albano handed out a copy of the program matrix for the three Broward Technical Colleges and all of the campuses (see attachment #1). This year faculty and staff have been collecting documents for standards criteria in the event that COE comes for an unannounced visit. Next year we will begin our self-study. COE is due for their formal visit October 2018.
Strategic Plan: Ellen Albano reported the progress on 3 out of the 5 goals that were discussed at the May 2015 meeting.
1. Goal 2: Succession – How are we preparing our institution for future needs in terms of staffing?a. Cara Daniel (Chair) and her committee will be meeting this fall to review all of the job
descriptions for the variety of positions here at MTCb. Provide a survey to staff for them to indicate any interest they may have in job
shadowing or learning more about other positions available in order to build capacity among our interested staff.
2. Goal 3: Effective Curriculum Development – Identified and recruited expert employers and teachers to revise/develop curriculum and determine what students actually need to know to achieve excellence in the workplace (see attached handout #2).
3. Goal 4: Academic Readiness for Students – Insure that 100% of our students are successful a. Alvin Ranzy (Chair) has been researching all the programs and going into classes.
Interviews with students, teachers/instructors, counselors and administration are being conducted. The focus is to help each program be successful. Although still in the research phase, as needs are being seen on campus, they’re being addressed.
i. Set-up interventions as strategy for each individual program. ii. Trying to coordinate a PLC (Professional Learning Community) in order to
address this goal. This would give every staff member on campus an opportunity to discuss these concerns and come up with strategies.
iii. This will not only help them with their classroom skills, but this will assist them with their employability skills that they will need once they leave here.
Scholarship Foundation Award from June: Lynn Goldman gave a brief history about the Foundation and reported that there were 29 scholarships were rewarded in May 2016. The breakdown was: 3 students received $1,500 each and 26 students received $500 each. Lynn thanked Joan Kovac and Gordon Merle for their time and support. Our next Foundation event will be held on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at the Signature Grand and the theme this year is “Blue Jeans & Bling”.
New Business:School Improvement Plan: Cara Daniel reported the following SIP/PGP Goal of Completion 2016-2017 increase the Program Completion Rate, Licensure Rate, and Placement Rate by 3% or more by May 2017.
SIP/PGP Goal 2016-2017 increase student performance on FSA Assessment, EOC Exams Assessment Math and Biology, Advanced Placement Performance, SAT, ACT, PERT Performance, Course Passing Percentage, and Industry Certification Passage Rate by 3% or more by May 2017.
Performance Data:
District Accreditation: Cara Daniel stated that a stakeholder survey was sent out to all the parents (see attached handout #3). Once we got them back, they were boxed up and sent to AdvancED. AdvancED is the accrediting body that will be visiting several high schools and MTC is one of them (see attached handout #4). They will be conducting their visit between October 24th - October 26th. Cara thanked everyone in the room that took the time to complete this survey.
Along with the survey they gave the parents some open response questions in three different areas Cara explained that we meet as a teams to problem solve where we can based on the results of these questions.
1. What do you like best about our school?a. Small sizeb. Sense of communityc. Teachersd. Technical Programs
2. What do you like least about our school?a. School starts and ends too lateb. No free breakfastc. No official sportsd. Transportation
3. What is one suggestion you would like to offer to improve our school?a. Increase communication between school and parentsb. Offer additional classes such as another foreign language and EMTc. More field tripsd. Put more money into the technical courses.
HS Scholarship Totals: Cara reported that the class of 2016 first year total for scholarships was $686,909 and a four year total of $2.1 million.
Enrollment Report: Jeanette Johnson reported that PS enrollment, as of last week, is down 33 enrollments compared to this time last year. We have a total of 1,739 PS students. We are up in our career education enrollments by 40 students. Business Education, Industrial Education and Education & Training programs have seen an increase. Adult General Education (AGE/GED), not including ESOL, programs have seen a decrease. Lillie Henry reported that we have a total of 578 HS students, as of this meeting. There’s 149 9 th graders, 145 10th graders, 147 11th graders and 137 12th graders. There are still 8 seats open that need to be accepted by tomorrow.
Program Updates: Jeanette Johnson reported that there’s been changes to some of our existing programs. The curriculum and program length for welding has been updated from 1170 hours to 1050 hours. The hours for Nursing Assistant were increased from 120 hours to 165 hours. The hours for EMT have been increased, as well, from 250 hours to 300 hours. The state has split out the way that Fire Fighter is taught, but no change has been made to the program.
Discovery Fest: Ellen Albano reported that because of the huge success of the Discovery Fest last year, McFatter will again host the fun and informative community event. On Saturday, November 5 th from 9-12 the community is invited to stop by, have fun, learn about the program offerings at McFatter, eat and enjoy family style activities. Participants were encouraged to tell all of their friends and family. Jeanette Johnson added that he first two years all three Technical Colleges had this event, but McFatter is the only one to continue to do it because the staff took a survey which indicated they wanted to have the event. Lillie Henry added that any HS students that want to volunteer should speak to their club sponsor or technical instructor. All other students can sign-up on a list that will located in HS Guidance within the next two weeks.
Approval of the By-laws, Vision and Mission Statements: Rachel Howlett had previously emailed the by-laws, vision and mission statements to the SAC membership. Lynn Goldman stated that things have not changed.
Mission: To promote excellence in academic, career, and technical studies in order to prepare students to enter and remain competitive in a global workforce
Vision: To change the lives of people from all backgrounds through innovative education.
Motion was made, seconded and approved (Merle/Rush)
Lynn Goldman reported that the only change that’s been made to the By-Laws is that they increased the number of meetings by one, possibly two.
Motion was made, seconded and approved (Pasquale/Rush)
Reports: School Advisory Forum: Ivan Serrano reported that he continues to attend the South Area Advisory meetings. The first meeting for the school year has already taken place and it was an introduction of parents. Ivan stated that there are two proposed calendar actions for the 17-18 school year.
PTSA: Mary Francis Jeannot encouraged all parents to go to their website to join and pay (www.mcfattertech.my-ptsa.org). Their first meeting of the year will be on September 12 th at 6:30pm in the Bistro. At that meeting they will finalize their 2016-2017 school year elections and board positions, approve the budget for the school year, get committed volunteers and document fundraising ideas for the next meeting. They will announce the winner of the school supplies crate at the next PTSA meeting and there will still be an opportunity to donate and be included in the raffle.
1. McFatter PTSA 2016-2017 Ballot: PTSA President – Denise Reid – [email protected] PTSA Secretary – Wendy Aguiar – [email protected] PTSA Treasurer – Shirley Dickensen – [email protected] PTSA VP – Mary Francis Jeannot – [email protected] PTSA VP – Heidi Hodes – [email protected] PTSA Student Rep – Marc Jeannot PTSA Student Rep – Ava Henry
2. Volunteer needed in following areas: PTSA Grant Administrator – revise, communicate and administer PTSA grant process to
qualified teachers and clubs. PTSA Student Club Liason – attend and engage with student clubs and how they can
work with and benefit from the PTSA PTSA Fundraising coordinators (2 or more) – actively research, communicate and
Student Government Association: Kwolanne Felix reported that SGA put a video together for the student orientation that happened on August 12th. They had a fiesta booth for the first day of school. A technical program tree was put up on September 1st, which will show which juniors picked which technical program. This will is showcase that they’re proud of the juniors for picking their classes and to get underclassmen interested in the different programs. The freshman mixer was a great success. The homecoming venue this year will be Eden’s Ballroom on October 28th. Homecoming committees will be established this coming Monday and they will be voting on the theme September 14th – 15th. This year the homecoming committee will be made up of all student bodies, not just SGA. Freshman and Junior secretary elections will be held September 12th – 30th. Club day will be on September 16th. Food fundraisers are in the works to help raise money for homecoming. BCASC charity fundraisers this year will include; Honor Flight, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, Food Drive and Humane Society. The first student appreciation day will be September 21 st, which is also the International Day of Peace, all clubs are encouraged to participate. This year SGA will be more of a unified front then in past years.
Class of 2017: Bryan Marin, Class President, reported that a new secretary and treasurer have been added. Billini Benoit has taken the place of Mr. Laverde as class sponsor. The Class is working on the following projects: Candy Sale fundraiser, which is already taking place, and they are waiting to get a car wash approved. Class Shirts: Looking for a new design that students will be submitting and voting on. These fundraisers will help raise money for prom. The prom location this year is the Bahia Mar and it will be held on May 20th. The prom committee this year consists of 15 members and all they all attend each meeting. Grad Bash will be on April 21st and it will be $125 per person. A slight increase from last year due to getting a better bus.
Class of 2018: Alexa Sauvagere, Class President, gave the following report: Government: Secretary Elections and they added a new VP. Their first general meeting was on August 31st. Goals: To reach $6,000 to add into their account. Fundraiser: Donut sale planned for September 12th – 23rd, Candy Sale September 12 – October 7th, Halloween Candy sale that can have a message added to it. Those three fundraisers are still waiting to be approved so the dates are tentative. A Chipotle night is scheduled for November 2nd from 5:00pm – 9:00pm. Chiptole will be giving them 50% of the profit. A flyer will be handed out closer to the event, which will need to be presented at the restaurant in order for them to receive the profit. A cookie dough sale will take place sometime around October and November.
Class of 2019: Mauricio Gomez, Class President, reported that they don’t have any money, as of now. They are trying to do a t-shirt sale. They will be having a contest for the design and the reward will be a visa gift card and a free shirt.
Class of 2020: They haven’t held the class election yet.
Post-secondary student reports: No students were present.
Security: Officer Christi Laguna had nothing to report. Member comments: Billini Benoit reported that Grad Bash will be on April 21st and it will be $125 per person. A slight increase from last year due to getting a better bus. Billini also reported that we will be having the following sports this year: Flag Football, Soccer, Volleyball and Basketball. These sports are always against Sheridan and Atlantic. Jill Rafilovich stated that she took the Plant-based Vegetarian class and it was fabulous. Gwen Burkholder made a comment that being a mother to a son that is interested in athletics; she thinks it nice to have the competition amongst the schools and thanked Mr. Benoit for his time. Ellen Albano added that we are looking for and EKG and Phlebotomy instructors, so if anyone knows anyone interested to send them our way. Kwolanne Felix added that she likes that the flag football game is coordinated with homecoming this year
(the day before). Jeanette Johnson stated that the BTC Alumni Association will be holding a series of events throughout the year with the first one being at Bokampers tomorrow. All BTC alumni, technical HS students that have graduated and staff are able to attend. The next one after that will be the Higher Education Block party in Las Olas, which will feature all three technical colleges’ culinary departments providing the food that will be for sale. Nova Southeastern, Broward College and FSU will be participating as well. This event is open to the public and will be on October 18th from 5:00pm – 8:00pm (see attached flyer #5). Lillie Henry added that if any parents have kids who are moving up in levels from elementary, middle to high school, all magnet programs are required to be there. Cara Daniel presented the final exam schedule and September events calendar (see attached handout #6 & #7).
Motion was made, seconded and passed to adjourn at 1:05 (Goldman/Howlett)
