Transition Team Agenda
October 22th, 2014
4:00pm – 5:00pm
EGC – 11th Floor
Invitees: Henry Roman, Mark Ajluni, Rob Gould, Cal Hosman, Don Gilmore, Bart Muller, Dori Claunch, Adam
Barnett, Sarah Marks, Dennis Wolfard, Ellen Rehmar, Nicole Covington, Melissa Capozza, Eric Johnson
Attended: Henry, Rob, Bart, Dori, Adam, Sarah, Ellen, Nicole, Melissa, Eric
Scribe: Adam
Guests: Dennis Wolfard, Steve Ruetz
Absent: Mark, Cal, Don,
Tentative:
Topic
I.
Review Agenda
II.
Informational Items
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III.
Lead
Time
Roman
5 mins
Dennis Wolfard
Exceeds Expectations Report: 564 teachers were originally
identified. 50 non ProComp achieved. 502 were paid for 13-14.
Revgen is redoing quiry on additions that may be added to Exceeds Steve Ruetz
Expectation. Still getting feedback from Principals and teachers that
intervention, math fellows, and math lab teachers should be
recognized for what they do.
Top Performing/High Growth Report: Top performing is up from
previous years with 124 additional payments. We pay green or Blue
for TP and HG. We had as many high growth schools dropped as
added. Adam will send SPF results and Steve’s summary to the
team. 95% of TP schools are on the HG school list. For next year,
we will have PARK. We want to invite Grant Guyer to the meeting.
Advanced licenses: we are starting to enforce that if the license
expires, we are reducing salary. That was never enforced before.
Over the few months, we’ve sent letters to about 80 people. We
are now down to about 25 people that have an expired license. We
are giving 60 days to respond. We have AA’s that have a social
worker licnese. We propose
Action Items
15 mins
20 mins
Henry
5 mins
Henry
5 mins
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Approve 8/27 meeting minutes: agenda amended with
advanced degrees.
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Schedule next Transition Team Meeting: November 19
Transition Team Meeting Minutes 8/27/2014
Henry recommended clarification and review of who should and will continue on the transition team
team for 2014-2015 and if principal representation is necessary.
Minutes were approved from the last meeting.
Discussed that there is a team working on finalizing the SLO rubric that would then need to go to
DCTA for approval and then to the transition team after DCTA has approved.
The SLO rubric will replace the current SGO ProComp incentive.
Voted to have the next meeting on 9/17/14.
Based on a survey there was a recommendation to look at increasing the stipend paid to the PDU
coordinators. Shirley Scott presented the proposal on a recommended increase in the PDU stipend
paid to the PDU coordinators.
The proposal indicated that the PDU coordinator spends and average of 80-100 hours per year. This
role is responsible for the PDU registration system. The goal is to engage PDU’s in all schools and
increase participation. The PDU committee stated that the current PDU stipend impacts the ability to
retain PDU leaders to facilitate the process. Dori suggested that a review be conducted to find out if
there is a way to make the process less time consuming for the coordinators. PDU’s are normally
scheduled once a month after school. The goal of the PDU’s is to develop teacher leaders. The
current proposal rewards the coordinator on accuracy of the documentation. Sarah Marks
recommending reviewing if DPS is getting the expected results in the PDU program. Shirley Scott
shared that data is being collected. Sarah suggested that this data be presented to the appropriate
committee for future review and to identify if the PDU program is aligned with other initiatives such as
LEAP and common core. Alyssa Whitehead-Bust needs to be informed.
The committee excused the guests and took a vote on the PDU stipend increase proposal. The new
proposal would cost an additional $70,000 to fund.
The committee approved and accepted option number 2 of the proposal to increase the stipend from
$500 to $1000 for each coordinator.
Meeting Adjourned.