Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC) - School District 622
Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC) - School District 622
Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC) - School District 622
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<strong>Special</strong> <strong>Education</strong> <strong>Advisory</strong> <strong>Council</strong> (<strong>SEAC</strong>)<br />
Members Present: Jill Kuehn, Marsha Stohler<br />
Barb Thibaudeau, Janet Boland, Karen Cory,<br />
Joanne Kern, Kevin Marschel, Sonya<br />
Czerepak, Jill Miklausich (new member)<br />
Members Absent: Karon Joyer, Toni Malone,<br />
Sally Butwin,<br />
Others Present: Duane Woeste (for Karon<br />
Joyer), Cherie Bender (guest speaker)<br />
ACTION MINUTES<br />
Page 1 of 2<br />
Meeting Date: October 6, 2009<br />
Recorder: Rhonda Nelson<br />
Date/Time/Place of Next Meeting:<br />
January 12, 2010<br />
6:00-7:30PM<br />
<strong>District</strong> Ed. Center – Room 202<br />
AGENDA ITEM ACTION DECISION<br />
1. Call to Order 1. Meeting called to order by Co-Chair<br />
K.Marschel, at 6:10PM.<br />
2. Approval of Agenda 2. J. Boland Moved to approve the agenda; B.<br />
Thibaudeau Made the second and the<br />
MOTION CARRIED.<br />
3.<br />
4.<br />
5.<br />
Approval of Previous Minutes<br />
Adaptive Activities After <strong>School</strong><br />
Select New Committee Co-Chair<br />
3. K. Cory Moved to approve the minutes from<br />
the March 24, 2009 meeting; S. Czerepak<br />
Made the second and the MOTION<br />
CARRIED.<br />
4. Cherie Bender, Adaptive P.E. Teacher,<br />
was the guest speaker. She presented<br />
information on various ideas for adaptive<br />
athletics for students after school and<br />
distributed a handout from Minnesota<br />
Adapted Athletics Association (MAAA). Ms.<br />
Bender suggested conducting a survey to<br />
parents of students in grades 7-12 to gauge an<br />
interest; committee agreed.<br />
ACTION: Lee Algers to assist Cherie in<br />
creating a survey for parents of students in<br />
the four secondary multiple needs groups.<br />
The multiple needs teachers will send the<br />
surveys home with the students.<br />
5. Committee discussed but no volunteers.<br />
ACTION: B. Thibaudeau agreed to continue<br />
as co-chair for another year.
6.<br />
Members on CIMP & <strong>SEAC</strong><br />
6.<br />
Committee discussed membership of parents<br />
on (Continuous Improvement Monitoring<br />
Process) CIMP Committee and <strong>Special</strong> Ed.<br />
<strong>Advisory</strong> <strong>Council</strong> (<strong>SEAC</strong>).<br />
ACTION: D. Woeste reported that Toni<br />
Malone agreed to serve on CIMP.<br />
K. Joyer and admin. team will canvas parents<br />
to find representation in the areas of EBD,<br />
SLP and minority student parents for <strong>SEAC</strong>.<br />
7. Dates for future meetings & how many 7. Committee discussed dates and number of<br />
future <strong>SEAC</strong> meetings.<br />
ACTION: Committee voted to reduce<br />
number of meetings from 4 to 3. R. Nelson<br />
to note change in <strong>SEAC</strong> Guidelines.<br />
Future meeting dates set – 1/12/10 & 3/9/10<br />
8. CIMP Report 8. <strong>Special</strong> Ed. Supervisor, Duane Woeste,<br />
distributed handout of the CIMP Self Review<br />
Report (dated 6/30/09) that was submitted<br />
from the <strong>Special</strong> Ed. Office to MDE. D.<br />
Woeste explained the report to the committee<br />
and entertained questions.<br />
ACTION: Members will review CIMP<br />
report in more detail on their own and<br />
bring comments and suggestions to the<br />
January 12 <strong>SEAC</strong> meeting.<br />
9.<br />
10.<br />
Website Updates<br />
Updating Mission Statement<br />
Adjournment<br />
9.<br />
10.<br />
Not enough time to discuss website updates.<br />
ACTION: D. Woeste to discuss website<br />
updates at the March 9 th <strong>SEAC</strong> meeting.<br />
Tabled until January 12 meeting.<br />
S. Czerepak moved to adjourn meeting<br />
at 7:34PM. Meeting adjourned.