1. Opening Activities

2. Old Business

Attached is the proposed planned instruction for Welding. Staff members from the WCCC have been working on completing these since the beginning of the school year as was reported to the CIT Committee in October. On the January 19 professional development day, several members of the WCCC staff met together and reviewed the curriculum and made final updates.

WCSD needs to address the issue of PE substition. The attached documents present two options for resolving the situation.

Middle Level Educational Plan proposed for 2009-2010 for a uniform middle school across Warren County School District.

A full report of the Alternative Education program for the past year is included. In addition, five options are presented for the 2009-2010 program.

3. New Business

Attached are the planned courses for Language Arts Grades 6-12. This list also includes one elective course.

The administration proposes a project to expose the 7th grade students in the district to a variety of watershed issues. Activities will address a number of PA Academic Standards in Environment and Ecology.

The administration proposes that Warren County Career Center students be given an opportunity to take vocational courses from Jamestown Community College through PDE's Dual Enrollment Grant. The district would review appropriate JCC courses to determine their compatibility with existing courses at the Career Center, and would also work with JCC to identify current Career Center staff that would be qualified to teach the course on behalf of JCC. The identified courses would be taught at the Career Center, with student completing the courses receiving 3 credits from JCC and graduation credit from WCCC/WCSD.

The Carol M. White Physical Education Program provides grants of up to $500,000 to LEAs and community-based organizations (CBOs) to initiate, expand, or enhance physical education programs, including after-school programs, for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Grant recipients must implement programs that help students make progress toward meeting state standards. Funds may be used to provide equipment and support to enable students to participate actively in physical education activities. Funds also may support professional development opportunities for staff. It is important to note that the Federal Register announcement for the grant states that, at this time, there is no appropriation in the 2009 Federal Budget to support a new grant cycle.

The Teaching American History Grant is a federal program designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of, and appreciation for, traditional U.S. history. Grant awards will assist LEAs, in partnership with entities that have content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative and cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of U.S. history as a separate subject matter within the core curriculum, these programs will improve instruction and raise student achievement.

The Bureau of Family Healths Division of Child and Adult Health Services is accepting applications to support education and awareness of the causes and consequences of concussion/mild-severe TBI among youth in junior and high school. Funding for up to $5,000 per award is available to support education and awareness of the causes of traumatic brain injury as a result of sports or other activities. Activities should educate school staff (i.e. teachers, athletic trainers, coaches, school nurses), community sports programs, and/or providers of recreational opportunities which could result in physical injury, appropriate prevention strategies and intervention activities in the event that youth sustain concussions which could result in mild to severe head injury.

The Pennsylvania STEM Network, Northeast Region, is offering a grant of $300 to reimburse those school districts in the region that sent staff to be trained on the Real World Design Challenge (RWDC). The Real World Design Challenge (RWDC) is an annual event that provides high school students, grades 9 12, the opportunity to work on real world engineering challenges in a team environment. Each year, student teams will be asked to address a challenge that confronts one of our nations leading industries. Students will utilize professional quality computer-aided design software to develop their solutions and will also generate presentations that convincingly demonstrate the value of their solutions. The RWDC provides students with opportunities to apply the lessons of the classroom to the technical problems that are being faced in the workplace. The precise nature of the Challenge will change from year to year, but the underlying design principles will remain constant. Each year, a new challenge will be issued focusing on a different area of engineering. This years Challenge will focus on aeronautics and energy usage. A staff member from the Warren County Career Center attended the training on the Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire design softwareand the EFD.Pro fluid dynamics simulation program.

CIT was asked to identify a suitable consultant to do a study of the programs offered at the WCCC and make recommendations for future needs of Warren County students.

4. Informational Items

As requested, this is a list of charges from the Board of Directors to the administration.

Administration has been asked to provide information and answers to questions about Electronic School Board (ESB).

Attached is a summary of the 2007-08 and 2008-09 Dual Enrollment Grants for the Warren County School District. The information was requested to aid in discussion of the grant.

At the December CIT meeting, it was requested to keep SMART Boards as an informational item on the CIT agenda. At this time, a revised mini-grant application is being created, and grant writing workshop is being schedule for teachers who are interested.

5. Other

6. Closing Activities