Riverview High School

School Advisory Council

March 11, 2004

 

Present:    Pat Bliss                      Abby Gerrity                Bob Marvin                  Janice Piedra

                  Ali Dvoskin                  Lisa Hlohinec              Jason Mocherman      Charmain Pontlitz

                  Jorge Echeverri           Sue Hlohinec               Kate Mocherman        Sam Sharff

                  Chuck Evans              Judy Lyon                    Linda Nook                  Dusty Twining

 

Excused:   Judi Ex                        Bonnie Kuhla               Becky Moyer               Katrina Ward

                                                                                                                              Russell White

 

Absent:      Tracy Brady                Mary Byrd                    Jim Popielinski            Mark Seul

                                                                                                                              David Turner

 

Guests:     Effa Beauette              Bill Massolio                Bonnie Sullivan

 

 

Meeting Called To Order

Chuck Evans called the meeting at 2:05 P.M.

 

Review of February 12 Meeting Minutes

The minutes of the February 12, 2004 were approved as written.

 

Internship Program

Effa Beauette distributed information and pamphlets for the internship program beginning with the 2004-05 school year.  Bill Massolio explained that an internship program is not a paid program, but a career exploring experience for our students who are seeking what it’s like to walk in the shoes of a particular career type person.  Riverview will be contacting sponsors who may be interested in this program for our students and asking them to commit an hour to an hour and a half a day over a period of several weeks to that student can visit their location and actually shadow that experience.  It is beneficial for the student because it is a visual as opposed being learned from a book.  For the corporate sponsor, it is very positive because they get to work with our students and to see a real positive side of our students not only with what they have learned, but what their career choices are going to be.

 

The program can either be a semester or a full year and will involve either the first two or last two periods of the day and students must provide their own transportation.  This is a learning process therefore students will receive academic credit but no financial remuneration.  The councilors are anticipating not more than 40 applicants at one time which will mean keeping track of all 40 making sure they have learned so there will be more to it than just showing up at the internship.

 

Student Scheduling

Bill Massolio also addressed student scheduling.  Arena scheduling created the master schedule and incorporated all the best River High School has to offer.  The students meet with their guidance counselor and can look at what they have taken and what is needed to meet graduation requirements.  The schedule is very sensitive to student demand and there are a lot more choices.  All data goes to the data entry clerk and the schedule is then printed.  The schedules may be changed as many times as the student wishes prior to the end of the school year, but will not be changed after school begins in August.  The goal is for every student to have their schedule before the end of the school year and on the first day of school, first period all students are in class doing what they are suppose to be doing, not waiting in line for schedule changes.  IB student’s scheduling will be handled separately but similar.

 

March 11, 2004

Riverview High School

Advisory Council – Meeting Minutes

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Credit Retrieval

This program is sponsored by Ed Options, and offers 20 high school courses on line.  They generously offered their program to Riverview for $1500 for the second semester, which is considerably lower than the normal cost which is $20,000 per year.  At this time the program was offered mainly to seniors who were in j jeopardy of graduating.  Students may take the courses on line, but must take their tests in the presence of a teacher.  This program will be discussed at the budget meetings.

 

Relay For Life

Linda Nook explained this event is sponsored by the American Cancer Society and would like Riverview to participate.  It’s a community event to be held 4/30/04 and is an all night walk.  Teams should seek sponsors to help with fund.

 

Career Resource Update

There hasn’t been a committee appointed at this time, so this will have to be put on h old until after spring break.

 

First Among Equals to President’s Award for Educational Excellence/Achievement

Linda Nook explained instead of presenting the First Among Equals awards this year, Riverview will be presenting the President’s Educational Excellence/Achievement awards.

 

Ø      The purpose of the Educational Excellence Award is to recognize academic success in the classroom.

 

Ø      The Educational Achievement Award is to recognize those students who show outstanding educational growth, improvement, commitment or intellectual development in their academic subjects but do not meet the criteria for the President’s award for Educational Excellence.

 

Dress Code Revision for Handbook

Linda Nook went over changes that will be made to our dress code for next school year.  Input was requested from students on SAC, and the biggest issue seemed to be inconsistency with staff issuing dress code violations.  Some staff members are diligent and others look the other way.  The rules next year will be written in a more precise manner to be more readily understood by students, parents and staff.

 

Budget Meetings

March 25th and April 6th will be strictly budget meetings.  The meetings will be held in the Omni Science room from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.  The budget deadline is April 8th and if not resolved on the 6th, we may have to have an additional meeting April 8th.

 

The meeting adjourned at 3:30 PM.

 

Respectfully submitted by:  Bonnie Sullivan