Connected Academy

LSAC Meeting Minutes

January 16, 2008

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Attending: David Myers, Daniel Glenn, O’Neal Montgomery, and Susan Caster

Congratulations to Ana Hale’s Construction Challenge Group of Michah, Austin, Trevor, Amanda, Morgan, Stewart, and Victoria for finishing 1^st in the third Challenge Saturday. This is our first trophy!

The new semester started well. We have about 90 students. We are making preparations for the GHSGT subject area tests by having all juniors take practice tests and if necessary attend review sessions during enrichment. AP tutorials are also being held during enrichment.

Field trips can be an effective way to make the curriculum relevant. Some of the issues/challenges we have faced in trying to do field trips include:

Transportation – we have a teacher currently in bus driver training to help solve this problem.

Cost – 17% of our students may need scholarships to travel. Out of state travel is expensive for all students. We discussed solutions such as:

	Exchange programs with other schools
	Grants from local organizations or businesses/visitor bureaus in the area we are traveling
	Planning ahead, fundraising

The 2008-2009 Student Application has been revised. New questions focus on students desire and ability to engage in learning, how students take responsibility for their learning, and students ability to apply their interests to learning Georgia standards.

As a measure of No Child Left Behind, Connected Academy must have no more than 15% of the student body absent 15 days or more. For this reason it was suggested that attendance be added to the contract signed by students and parents when they enroll.

LSAC members were nominated for positions as follows:

Chairperson           Gregory Waymire

Vice Chairperson    David Myers

Secretary              Kacey Ciprari-Murphy

Elections will be held at the next meeting.

The next meeting is on Tuesday February 12, 2008 at 7:30 am.