Slide 1:
To provide continuous professional development opportunities to promote awareness, knowledge, and application for improvement.

Slide 2:
Goal 2 has 3 Components

• Professional Development
• Wellness Committee
• North Central Association

Slides 3-4:
Professional Development

• Staff Development Committee:
  - 20 Staff members representing all departments
  - Meetings held five times per year
  - Plan and develop activities for in-services, course for credit, Project Trade, and other staff development activities
• Discipline with Dignity Class:
  - Classes held after school January 18-March 16, 2002
  - Presenters: Mike Buchanan (Environmental Science Instructor_ and Tony Thomas (South Building Principal/Supervisor)
• 11 MVCTC teachers participated
• Ashland University offered graduate credit for 6 students interested
  

Slides 5-6:
Professional Development/Technology Training

• Teaching and Learning with Microsoft Office
  - After school classes were held March 20-May 6
  - Met twice each week
  - Presenters: Randy Schmidt, MVCTC Technology Coordinator and Technology Department Staff
  - Objective: Incorporate technology in classroom with project based lessons that are compiled into portfolio
  
• Microsoft Word Secretarial Training:
  - After school classes were held March 18-May 1
  - Met twice each week
  - Presenters: Kelly Haws (Legal Secretary Instructor and Kim Marburger (Director of Instructional Development Secretary)
  - 16 secretaries particpated in this training

Slides 7:
Professional Development/Praxis Workshop:

• Workshop held April 11, 2002
• Presenter: Dr. Lowell Hedges
• Preparing for the Praxis II Principles of Teaching and Learning test for teachers in their second year holding a 2 year Provisional Vocational License
• Eleven participants including nine from outside school districts and two from MVCTC

Slides 8:
Professional Development/S.E.N.G. (Secretarial Enrichment Network Group):

• Secretaries meet monthly
• Started in November, 2001
• Meetings held after school from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Slides 9-10:
Professional Development/Project Trade

• 6 Staff members particpated in Project Trade to update their technical skills
• They worked at a business or institution for 5 days during summer break
• Participants received a stipend for the five days paid through Title VI Grant money
• Participants were:
  - Greg Gilbert (Plumbing Instructor - Montgomery County Inspection Services
  - Christy Gouge (Animal Care Instructor) - Dayton South Veterinary Clinic
  - Kelly Kramer (Carpentry Instructor) - Larry Fourman Construction Excavating
  - Donita Massing (Printing Instructor) - C & O Printing
  - Arlene Studebaker (Multimedia Technician) - Heart to Honduras
  - Lou Warren (Adult HVAC Instructor) - Perfection
  

Slides 11:
Professional Development/Substitute Teacher Workshop

• Held August 6
• 27 substitute teachers attended
• Topics address:
  - Postive classroom management
  - Handling emergency issues
  - Safety Procedures
  - MVCTC program offerings
  - Technology Updates

Slides 12-13:
Professional Development/Ohio FIRST Training

• Ohio FIRST is the state developed program established for mentors and first year teachers
• Program consists of 4 days of training for mentors.
• Trainer for CTC: Rhonda Phillips, Professional Development Coordinator
• 11 people participated (6 from MVCTC and 5 from other school districts)
• MVCTC mentors in attendance were: Monica Bir, Julie Bains, Sharon McKenny, Debbie Stricker, Ron Watts and Andrew White

Slides 14:
Professional Development/First Year Teacher & Mentor Workshops

• 3 days in August were dedicated to helping prepare first year teachers
• 5 mentors met August 15 to collaborate & prepare
• Mentors spent 2 days working with new teachers, topics covered:
  - Preparing for the First Day
  - Classroom Management
  - Share Fair (experienced teachers shared programs/activities used in class)
  - Understanding School Environment (Ohio FIRST Event One)
  

Slides 15:
Professional Development/New Employee Orientation:

• One day new employee orientation held August 20
• 17 Staff members participated in all day orientation
• Activities included for the day included; staff member introduction, MVCTC program information, facility tour, school procedure and use of AESOP system

Slides 16:
Professional Development/August In-Service: August 21-23

• August 21 - Presentations by Dr. Boggess and other staff members
• August 22 - Keynote Speaker, Wayne Ates - "The F.O.R.C.E."
• August 23 - Staff work day

Slides 17:
Wellness Commitee/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention

• Dr. Clare Osborne presented a session on Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention
• Derma Scan machine was on campus
  - 50 staff members participated in training session
  - 90 staff members used Derma Scan machine

Slides 18:
Wellness Committee/Fitness Sessions

• 20 satff members attended Fitness Sessions
• Weight Watchers participants lost 276 pounds
• "Top Health" wellness newsletters continue to be included in paycheck envelopes
• Wellness Committee members participated in Wellness Conference
• Wellness Goal for 2002-03: Focus on nutrition and physical activity to impact a broad variety of health issues including diabetes, cancer and general well-being for all staff

Slides 19-23:
Wellness Committee/Planned Activities

• The Wellness Program will encourage all staff to walk for the MVCTC levy and to track the miles walked
• A contest will be held to see who can guess how many miles we collectively walk for the levy
• Staff are encouraged to use their pedometers to calculate miles walked
• A new resource, "Wellness Parlay" has been established for staff and is available to staff on GroupWise emai
• Community collaboration with Northmont Optimists
• Hipple Cancer Research Center is sponsoring a Cancer Prevention program: "Living Healthy: You Can Do It" on September 25, 2002 (MVCTC adult and secondary medical students will also participate in this event that is open to the public.)
• Fitness/Cross Training for stall will be offered in October
• A podiatrist will speak to staff about foot health in November
• In December, the committee will focus on healthy food choices and possibly create a staff cookbook
• In January, health screening will available on the in-service day

Slides 24-28:
North Central Association (NCA)

• This cycle for NCA school improvement process ends in 2003-2004. We are in the second year of the implementation phase of the process.
• Goals for 2002-2003:
  - Continue to collect and analyze data to track progress and guide improvement efforts
  - Data from previous years will be shared with staff
  - Continue Mentor/Mentee program
  - Survey results from last year's participants indicate the program needs fine tuning before implementing school wide. Student input was used at these revisions:
  ... 1)a narrower focus on increasing retention
  ... 2)limiting length of program to one semester junior year
• Develop and implement process for encouraging use of the IDEA rubric for classroom instruction
• Staff participation in this area is needed. More on this topic will be addressed at staff meetings
• Pilot web-based year end employer survey to reduce paperwork
  -Survey will remain the same; however employers will be able to take the survey over the Internet