Kentucky Department of Education

 

P-16 COUNCIL TO MEET

Last Updated on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 at 5:03 AM

News Advisory 06-050 -- September 19, 2006

          (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – The P-16 Council will meet Wednesday, September 20, in the State Board Room of the Capital Plaza Tower in Frankfort.

            The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. and end at 2 p.m. Agenda items include teacher quality issues and data systems.

            The P-16 Council is made up of representatives from the Kentucky Board of Education and the Commissioner of Education, the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education and the council president, the Education Professional Standards Board and other state agencies. Created in 1999, the P-16 Council advises the Kentucky Board of Education and the Council on Postsecondary Education on the education of teachers, the alignment of competency standards and the elimination of barriers impeding student transition from preschool through the baccalaureate.

            A meeting agenda follows.

       

                                                                             AGENDA

State P-16 Council
September 20, 2006
9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (ET)
State Board Room, Capital Plaza Tower
Frankfort, Kentucky

I. Roll Call

II. Welcome and Introduction of New Members - Chair

III. Approval of Minutes (March 29, 2006)

IV. Report of the Secretary of the Education Cabinet

V. Update from Local P-16 Councils

VI. Teaching and Learning

A. Report from NASH

B. Teacher Quality and College Readiness – Research Issues – Dr. Jennifer Presley, Executive Director, Illinois Education Research Council

C. Creating a Culture of Faculty Engagement – Dr. Gary Brockway, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Dr. Don Robertson, Vice President for Student Affairs; and Dr. Bonnie Higginson, Professor of Education, College Head of White Residential College and Chair of the Council of College Heads, Murray State University

D. Dual Credit Task Force Update

                                                                              LUNCH

            E. Discussion on "Keeping Our Edge: Americans Speak on Education and Competitiveness"
            F. Discussion on Representation on the CPE Presidential Search Committee
VII. P-16 Integrated Data and Data Systems
            A. Update on Data Issues
            B. P-16 Data and Student Preparedness
VIII. Educator Quality and Supply
IX. Other Business
X. Adjournment

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For more information contact:

Lisa Gross
500 Mero Street, 6th Floor CPT
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: (502) 564-2000
Lisa.Gross@education.ky.gov