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REGION 2

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Chairman Lyndarae Martin called the meting to order at 10:15 a.m.

COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:

• Glenna Kyker, PEG - Union Correctional Institute
• Tim Mahler, Florida Department of Corrections
• Lyndarae Martin, St. Johns River Community College
• Jane Murray, Learn to Read of St. Johns County
• Pat Smittle, Santa Fe Community College
• Richard Allen for Diane Westcott, Suwanee-Hamilton Area Vocational Technical and Adult Center

COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT:

• Lou Bethea, Clay District Schools
• Ray Fleck, Business Representative
• Samuel Lauff, Marion County Schools
• Marilynn Stevenson, Florida Community College at Jacksonville

GUESTS PRESENT:

• Barbara Elzie, Career Development, DOE

FSU TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT:

• Eqbal Darandari, Research Assistant
• Peter Easton, Principle Investigator
• Cynthia Godbey, Project Director

DOE TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT:

• Teresa Bestor, Regional Consultant - Region 2
• John Denmark, Regional Director - Region 2

Announcements

Cyndi Godbey passed out the handouts from the Florida Literacy Conference.

Council members agreed to revise their completed Constituency diagrams and forward them to the Project Team to compile for discussion at the next meeting.

2. Old Business

Review/Adoption of Minutes

The minutes were adopted with requested changes.

Regional Support Consortium

Dr. Martin discussed a proposal for a regional support consortium but there was no action taken on this.

Curriculum Presentations

Barbara Elzie was introduced to present materials on career development. She described the CHOICES Program, which is a state of the art comprehensive career information system that takes full advantage of expanding computer technology and the dynamic search engines of the Internet. CHOICES employs a flexible, client-centered approach that combines multimedia, graphics, seamless interface, and search strategies that empowers users to fully explore career and education options. CHOICES is a dynamic system that is annually updated with the latest information from the Department of Labor, Peterson's College and University database, Florida's educational institution governing boards, America's Job Bank, O-NET, and websites. Students can apply to colleges on-line, request financial information and use the CHOICES tools to create customized correspondence and resumes. The system includes Interest and Skills Checklists and a database of occupations and their outlook in Florida. It also allows clients who have been in the workforce to identify transferable work content skills from former positions to assist in the exploration of new work options.

Regionally Based Training

Dr. Martin suggested a round table format with six tables set up to cover various content/curricula related to workforce development/job readiness and career choices/ preparation/selection. People need to know that this area is now a part of adult education; it's not just vocational. This curricula will cover all areas. Dr. Martin added that one table might even include Department of Labor Job Market data. Ms. Bestor agreed to follow up on this.

The group agreed on the need for a person who could free up 10-20 hours per work to work on this project to help get the training done. This person would review/select workforce readiness content/curricula for the training with the assistance of Ms. Bestor.

The schedule will tentatively be as follows:

• July 8, 1999 in Gainesville
• July 13 or 20, 1999 in Madison OR Suwannee
• July 29, 1999 in Fernandina Beach

It was pointed out that teachers will be paid if they attend the training on their own time. In consideration of the need to complete a more comprehensive needs assessment the group agreed that this model would provide the curricula that have been gathered and the needs assessment could be done with the training participants and they could be told that the information would be compiled and fed back to them for use in grant applications next year.

Training Evaluation

Dr. Easton pointed out that a transfer assessment needs to be built into the training, so we need to know what it is that we want to achieve or transfer. What are the objectives? The group brain stormed on the following:

• Teachers will place more emphasis on teaching about career choices.
• Teachers will more effectively manage the behavior of students.
• Teachers will engage in more goal setting with their students.
• Teachers will place greater emphasis on workforce readiness skills.
• Teachers will incorporate a more effective focus on on-the-job behavior.
• There will be more infusion of workforce readiness materials into the ABE/Adult Ed. Curriculum
• The Region will establish a more productive professional development network.

3. New Business

There was no new business raised.

4. Close Meeting

Set Next Meeting

The next meeting was set for June 21, 1999 at Memorial United Methodist Church in Fernandina Beach. (This was subsequently changed to June 28.)

Homework Assignments

1. Council members will complete constituency diagrams and return to the Project Team for compilation prior to the next meeting.

2. The Project Team will prepare a solicitation for a part-time staff and information about the proposed training to Council members for their feedback (this assignment was modified following the immediate identification of a support staff person who could work closely with Dr. Martin at her site).

Adjourn

The meeting adjourned at 2:55 p.m.