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2007-08 SAC Meetings

SAC meetings for the year have been scheduled. See SAC meeting calendar for details. A special meeting for new superintendents in our area is scheduled the afternoon of our September 13 SAC meeting. WASA President Larry Keller is also working on details of a meeting with our legislators. Stay tuned for more details! For a list of SAC and WASA representatives for 2007-08, see SAC Officers.

SAC Spring Events

March 7             Dr. Bob Eaker, Wenatchee Convention Center
March 12           SAC Meeting (videoconference)
March 12           Grant County Excellence Banquet, Big Bend Community College
March 13           Okanogan County Excellence Banquet, Sun Valley Restaurant
March 19           Douglas County Excellence Banquet, Mansfield S.D.
April 8               Chelan County Excellence Banquet, Leavenworth
May 8                SAC Meeting
May 21              Friend of Children/Board of the Year Dinner, Chelan
June 5               SAC Award Program, Highlander Golf Course

District Calendars

School District calendars are being gathered as an information resource. If you would like to include yours, please e-mail to eldenew@ncesd.org. Listed below are available calendars:

Entiat S.D. Calendar
Okanogan S.D. Calendar
Tonasket S.D. Calendar

Superintendents and North Central ESD Launch Regional Math Leadership Alliance

North Central ESD's Superintendents' Advisory Committee has formed a Professional Learning Community to find solutions for student learning. Their latest proposal comes in the form of the Math Leadership Alliance.

Superintendents reviewed a draft proposal at the February 1 Superintendents' Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting for establishing a Math Leadership Alliance (MLA) for districts in the North Central ESD region. The new alliance utilizes a governance structure and highly-focused approach to mathematics that has worked so successfully with the region's LASER science program.

Following the exceptional success and start-up of the region’s LASER science program last spring, the new alliance utilizes a similar governance structure and highly-focused approach to Mathematics that has worked so successfully to-date with the LASER program.

Brent Morrison, Math and Science Coordinator, and Cindy Duncan, Executive Director for North Central ESD, presented the draft proposal to the Superintendents noting: “We were charged by the superintendents in January to develop and submit a proposal that builds long-term Mathematics capacity in the region, is affordable for all of our districts, and is self sustaining, regardless of the availability of State or grant funding.”

Douglas Poole, Executive Director for Fiscal Services added, “This proposal, combined with an innovative and more equitable financing approach provides districts with affordable fees and ushers in a new era of highly-focused support for districts. At the end of the day, it’s effective for kids, it’s sustainable, it’s affordable...it’s a winning proposal all-the-way around for our owner districts.”

More information on the MLA can be obtained by calling or emailing Cindy Duncan, Executive Director, at 509.665.2651 cindyd@ncesd.org. More detailed fiscal questions or district fees can be directed to Douglas Poole at 509.665.2641 dougp@ncesd.org. Executive Director Cindy Duncan's SAC meeting presentation can be seen at MLA PowerPoint.

Public Relations Flyers

Communications with school and district patrons is a vital link to the success of such important events as bond and levy issues. At the request of area superintendents, we are putting together a library of flyers and brochures used by districts for their campaigns in hopes that they will be useful to others. Please see the Public Relations>> for district examples. Please see NCESD flyer>> for a list of services.

September SAC Meeting Highlights

Dr.Paul with Dr.Rich and Dr.Steve

The North Central ESD Superintendents’ Advisory Committee met September 7 at the new ESD building at 430 Olds Station Road in Wenatchee.

Dr. Paul Rosier, the new Executive Director of WASA, was the featured speaker. Superintendent Steve Chestnut from Moses Lake was honored as the recently-elected state president of WASA. Dr. Rosier (left) and Dr. Chestnut (right) are shown with Dr. Rich McBride, North Central ESD Superintendent.

Superintendent Glenn Johnson from Cashmere led the regular meeting, which featured highlights and accomplishments of the 2005-2006 year. The SAC group focused on four guiding questions during the past year:

o What do we expect students to learn?
o How will we know when students have learned?
o How will we respond when students don’t learn?
o How will we respond when students do learn or already know the information?

A small group discussion was held at the end of the meeting to gather input about the direction SAC members would like to take for the coming year.

Pandemic Flu Information: Click the following links to access useful handouts from the 2005 meeting:

Estimated Impact of Influenza Pandemic from the Chelan/Douglas Health District
Information about Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Virus from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Additional Links:
Affected countries with confirmed human cases of H5N1 avian influenza since 2003