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“Finding Solutions to Closing the Achievement Gap”
 District Advisory Committee (DAC) Meeting 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Serna Center Community Room January 13, 2009 DAC Agenda
Attached is the DAC agenda for next week.
The meeting will be held Tuesday,
January 13, 2009 at 6:30 at the Serna Center. Among the highlights of the
meeting will be a presentation by guest speaker, Sharon Chandler, (author of the
book, "Say Yes to College") on what School Site Councils can do to provide
parents with proven methods to raise college-bound kids. Some of the points
Mrs. Chandler will share with participants include the importance of insisting
on excellence, raising a lifelong learner, and knowing how to partner with
schools. Remember dinner and day care is provided. I have attached her flyer and
the back of her book for detailed info.
ConApp Training
There is another opportunity to learn about the Consolidation Application also
known as the ConApp. This application process distributes the Title I funding
for each school. The State and Federal Programs coordinators will provide
training on how the formula is applied, how the funds are allocated to each
school, and what the district keep as overhead. The workshop is scheduled for Monday, January 12,
2009 from 5:30 to 6:30 in the Kentucky Room. The room capacity is for about 20
people.
School Consolidation Survey
The District Advisory Committee (DAC) is offering to everyone an opportunity to
participate in a School Consolidation Survey to gather everyone's opinion about
possible school closure. The DAC Executive Board will share the data collected
to the SCUSD Governing Board of Education. Please voice your opinion and
responses to this survey: http://sacdac.org/default.aspx.
DAC Sac Website
DAC is recruiting anyone who is interested in sharing news about your SSC for
the DAC Sac website? Currently our past Vice President, Mike Simpson, has been
has been supplying most of the content but we would love to hear from you and
your learning community. Send your comments, questions, suggestions and/or news
of your school and learning community to me at Wanda.Yanez@EDD.ca.gov. If you
are interested in becoming one of the "sacdac.org geek squad" and help develop the website as the
"Voice of DAC", contact Mike at Ru4people@comcast.net or contact him at home
(916) 368-8719.
Forward to School Site Council
Please forward this email to your local school site council.
Best Regards,
Wanda Yañez
DAC Chair
(916) 654-7729 Return to Top of Page
November 18, 2008 AGENDA
District Advisory Committee “Finding Solutions to Closing the Achievement Gap”
AGENDA Tuesday, November 18, 2008
6:30 pm Call to Order
· Welcome Darlene Anderson, DAC Chair · Pledge of Allegiance All Members · Roll Call Wanda Yanez, DAC Secretary · Minutes Joe Sison, DAC Acting Parliamentarian · Agenda Review Mike Simpson, DAC Vice Chair
6:35 pm Committee Reports
· Rules & Bylaws Subcommittee Karen Swett, Sub-Committee Chair
6:45 pm Old Business:
· Vote on Music & Art Funding for the District Darlene Anderson, DAC Chair · Feedback to Strategic Plan Focus areas Philip Moore, Associated Superintendant LSU-D
7:00 pm New Business
· DAC Board Elections Mike Simpson, DAC Vice Chair · Space Walk Program Overview William Alston, John Morse Waldrof Method School · Introduction of New DAC Board Manuel Guillot, Parent Support Services’
7:50 pm Public Comments
7:55 pm Announcements
· Recruitment for Social Subcommittee Manuel Guillot, Parent Support Services · Recruitment for Legislative Subcommittee Manuel Guillot, Parent Support Services
8:00 pm Adjournment Darlene Anderson, DAC Chair
Next Meeting Tuesday, December 16, 2008 from 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm at the Serna Center.
Dinner and childcare will be provided. Download an Agenda for the November 18, 2008 Meeting in PDF format
 April 8, 2008 AGENDA Download an Agenda for the April 8, 2008 Meeting in PDF format
March 11, 2008 Minutes Download Minutes for the March 11, 2008 Meeting in PDF format 
March 11, 2008 AGENDA
MINUTES
February 12, 2007
January 22, 2008
District Advisory Committee (DAC) Meeting 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Serna Center Community Room AGENDA
6:30 p.m. Call to Order
• Welcome Darlene Anderson
• Roll Call Wanda Yanez
• Minutes Kamilah Jones
• Agenda Review Michael Simpson
New Business:
6:40 p.m. Draft CONAPP II Presentation- Wanda Chang Shironaka, Coordinator III,
State and Federal Programs
6:55 p.m. Using Data as a Strategy to Narrow the Achievement Gap - Dr. Geni Boyer,
Director, California Parent Information Center
7:50 p.m. Public Comments:
7: 52 p.m. Old Business:
7:53 p.m. Announcements:
The Next DAC Meeting will be held on February 12, 2008
8:00 p.m. Adjourn
Our next meeting will be April 8, 2008
. See you there!
District Advisory Committee
(DAC) Meeting
6:30 pm – 8:00 p.m.
Serna Center Community Room
MINUTES
December 12, 2007
Call to Order
Darlene Anderson, DAC Chairperson, called the meeting to order at 6:30 pm. She welcomed and thanked School Site Council (SSC) representatives for coming.
Roll Call
Wanda Yanez, Executive Secretary, called roll. The following schools/departments were represented: A.M. Winn (Cynthia Schafer), Caroline Wenzel (Dale Fong), Clayton B. Wire (Cristina Gutierrez & Elaine Lee-Mah), Collis P. Huntington (Jacquie Bonini), Golden Empire (Mike Simpson, DAC Vice Chairperson), Engineering and Sciences (Jennifer Mojonnier), Ethel Phillips (Gricelda Jaime), Fern Bacon (Bacilia Ortega), Fruit Ridge (Rebecca Statton), Hiram Johnson (LaTisha Lawson), Luther Burbank (Yesenia Ortega), Marian Anderson (Linda Lindauer), Mark Twain and Success Academy (Darlene Anderson, DAC Chairperson), Nicholas (April Kennedy), Pacific (Annette Thompson), Peter Burnett (Virginia Rios Nunez), Rosa Parks (Ramon Torres), Sutterville (David Ross), Tahoe (María Rubio), Theodore Judah (Wanda Yanez, DAC Executive Secretary), Woodbine (Ely Lopez), State and Federal Programs (Lisa Pilaski and Wanda Shironaka, Coordinators), Parent Support Services (Manuel Guillot, Director).
Minutes
Annette Thompson (Pacific) motioned the approval of the minutes dated 10/9/07 and Ramon Torres (Rosa Parks) seconded the motion. The minutes were approved by majority vote.
Old Business
There was no old business.
Agenda Review
Mike Simpson, Vice Chairperson, reviewed the agenda. Linda Lindauer from Marian Anderson moved to approve the agenda. April Kennedy from Nicolas seconded the motion. Motion carried by majority vote.
New Business
Clarification of DAC Mission and New Direction:
Darlene Anderson, DAC Chairperson, thanked Lisa Pilaski and Wanda Shironaka coordinators of State and Federal Programs for their assistance to DAC for the past year. DAC has transferred under Office of Parent Support. This change will merge the parent engagement component of DAC with the department that is responsible for this mission.
The DAC mission is to help close the achievement gap, advise the District on the effective use of Title I funding, and research and review data. The DAC goals are to determine the following:
1. What areas are the children failing,
2. How Title I expenditures are use to improve performance,
3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the program and
4. What can be done to improve strategies?
DAC will dialogue and work with administrators to review the data.
The next DAC meeting, Geni Brewer, Director of California Parent Resource Center (PRC) will demonstrate how to analyze and interpret student assessment data and the STAR. DAC will dedicate thirty percent (30%) of future monthly meetings to data analysis, solutions, and strategies to improve the academic performance.
The District Parent Engagement Policy when before the Board of Education on 12/6/07 and will be voted on 12/20/07 Board’s meeting. All are encouraged to the meeting to show support. After the Parent Engagement Policy passage, DAC will proceed with meeting the parent engagement goals and objectives.
It Takes A Parent: Appleseed’s Executive Summary Report on No Child Left Behind:
The Office of Parent Support, Director Manuel Guillot shared the Appleseed’s Executive Summary of No Child Left Behind. Appleseed makes the following recommendations:
• Quality of Information: States, district and school must provide meaningful, understandable and timely information to parents regarding key school and student performance data.
• Proactive, Targeted Engagement Strategies: States, districts and schools must pursue multiple, proactive strategies for communication with and engaging parents—particularly parents who are low-income or whose first language is not English.
• Community Support: District and schools should leverage their own limited resources by engaging community organizations.
• Professional Development: Federal, state, and district officials need to prioritize and fund more comprehensive professional development for teachers and administrators, with special emphasis on challenges of culture and language.
• Better Implementation and Stronger Accountability: Federal, state and local policy makers and educators should recognize parental involvement as central to school improvement and place parental involvement strategies on par with other steps taken to improve student achievement.
Members expressed concern that the children are unaware of the importance of the information or flyers distributed by their teacher. It is not passed on timely to the parents if not at all.
Establishment of New DAC Sub-Committees:
Mike Simpson, DAC Vice President, brings to vote the proposed set of sub-committees to conduct out work. These committees will each develop a work plan for DAC members to review and vote on this coming year. DAC board will review the bylaws and address if non-SSC members can participate in the subcommittee.
The following committees to establish are as follows:
• New membership and Social Committee
• Legislative Update Committee
• Bylaw Committee
• Data & Fiscal Analysis Committee
Wanda Yanez, Executive Secretary, motion to approve the creation of the committees and Ramon Torres from Rosa Parks seconded the motion. Motion carried and passed by majority vote.
Public Comment
There was no public comment.
Announcements
April Kennedy from Nicolas announce that they her school is publishing a cook book that will be professionally printed. This is for fundraising purpose. She requested that anyone can submit recipes to her by email. Type “Recipe” under subject heading. Her email is:
Adjournment
Wanda Yanez made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried by majority vote and meeting adjourned at 7:50 p.m.
Next Meeting
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. at the Serna Center. See you there!
District Advisory Committee (DAC)  Meeting 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Serna Center Community Room
AGENDA
October 9, 2007 6:30 Call to Order • Welcome Darlene Anderson
• Roll Call Kamilah Jones
• Minutes
• Agenda Review Mike Simpson
Old Business There is no old business.
6:35 New Business
• What is DAC? DAC Executive Board
• Appointment of Board Secretary Darlene Anderson
• Uniform Complaint Procedures Lisa Pilaski
7:15 Site Representatives Activity
• Getting to Know DAC DAC Representatives
• Future Topics for Discussion
7:40 Public Comment
7:55-8:00 Announcements
• California Association of Compensatory Education (CACE) Kamilah Jones
• Supplemental Educational Services (SES) Wanda Shironaka
• California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) Lisa Pilaski
• Schoolsite Council (SSC) Training Lisa Pilaski
8:00 Adjournment Darlene Anderson
Our next meeting will be April 8, 2008
. See you there!
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