KBCHS Education Task Force Meeting
Thursday April 23, 2009 7:00 PM
Key Biscayne Village Hall. Room 120

1.     Review & Approval of Minutes

 2.     Change to Professional Forum Date & Dry Run

 3.     ESOL Issues

 4.     Teacher Planning Time

 5.     Finalize School Mission & Vision. See draft.

6.     Proposed KBHS Program Scope and Sequence Chart

 7.     Draft KBHS Graduation Requirements. See draft.

 8.     Draft KBHS Resource Chart. See draft.

 9.     Other Issues

Minutes of 04/16/09 Meeting:

Attendance: Members - CV, DD, GC, CB, JK, JKP, MF      

 1.     Minutes of 04/02/2009 - Deferred

2.     Invitations for professional forum – Each member should target at least two professionals (educators, administrators, psychologists, curriculum coordinators & specialists) by verbal communication or individual email and send email addresses to CV. MM and CV to coordinate formal email invitation to be sent prior to next task force meeting.  Draft agenda discussed – Background, Mission & Vision, Survey Results, IB Overview and Model Options.  Expected outcome/feedback from professionals discussed - school start time, differentiated instruction for varied groups of students in on classroom, pushing advanced level challenging and rigorous courses to most of the student body, homogeneous vs. heterogeneous grouping of students, our enrichment elective methodology, the teacher hours for teaching and planning, a ½ hour lunch vs. 1 hour lunch, a 9^th grade start-up vs. a 9^th & 10^th grade start-up and virtual school integration.

3.     Finalize School Model Proposal(s) to be presented – Email from Senior Head of School Services of IB Americas shared with group. Clarification on start-up timeline and library requirements for a new school discussed. Based upon new information, group consensus to fully pursue IB program model options for the school curriculum.  AP only model was dropped by consensus of the group. Three different IB models discussed with two models to be further pursued for discussion at the next meeting. General view of the group that the model should have three levels of student instruction – standard, honors and advanced. Separate gifted classes discussed by the group and appear to be unlikely in our model. Group consensus that enrichment elective methodology would be presented to professionals.

4.     Finalize School Mission, Vision and Beliefs – Beliefs statements sent by JM agreed to by the group by consensus without modifications. Group requests that JM review the last draft of mission and vision with any comments submitted by members and re-draft the mission and vision statements for final review and approval at the next meeting.

5.     Other Issues – JK to review ESOL issues relating to class instruction requirements.