Perkins Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes

Sheldon Community School District

March 25, 2015
Present:
Chris Stotz, Jack Schreurs, Steve Waldstein, Marlene Haupert, Gene Bomgaars, Julie
Roos, Amanda De Groot, Jim Buenger, Cindy Meyer, Jeana Wollmuth, Amy Laboranti,
Matt Meendering, From HMS: Russ Spier, Michelle Wagner, Kylee Cooper, Jodi Purcell

Met together as a group to start the morning. Went over the purpose of the
meeting and what to do when breaking out to meet in individual groups.
Reminded the group about:
o Make sure all equipment is tagged.
o Time and effort

Broke into groups to meet (summaries below)

Met back together and discussed:
What can the school do to better prepare students to be good employees
o Communication skills both conversational and written (cover letters and
resumes)
o Computer skills
o People skills
o Mat how it relates to the tech classes theyre in, reinforce what the math
department is teaching
What is the biggest challenge in keeping employees?
o May dont know what theyre getting into when they take a position
because they dont always know what type of job they really want.
o Communication: good work ethic, communication skills, customer service
skills
o Resumes: seeing only facts, should see more What I learned and what
I did be specific not general.
Summaries from each group:
Gene Bomgaars - Agriculture
We talked about curriculum and alignment with critical skills from Iowa Standards
and Benchmarks.
We discussed both Sheldon and HMS curriculum and how we could align them
better with Iowa Standards and Benchmarks.
Shared ideas on things that were working successfully.
Julie Roos from Farm Credit shared a few things we could use from them that
would be an asset to our programs. She will be sending us some financial
software that we maybe can use in our classes.
We learned about a new chart that we need to utilize to align our curriculum with
for our POSs. Amy L. shared those with us.
Chris Stotz - Industrial Technology
Male / Female Numbers How to raise Female numbers in shop courses

o Change Names of courses

o Change curriculum to have more real world applications (Ex: Wiring,
Plumbing, etc.)
Junior High Exploratory
o Need to have these transition into Industrial Tech. course in High School
o Students need to see what the High School Students are working on
o Needs to be some way to have students meet teachers to build
relationship
STEM / Traditional Shop Classes
o We are forgetting about our students who will not be going into
engineering
o Need to still focus on laborer skills
Construction
o Need to be transitioning to NCCER standards to get state approval of
program
o Are all the skill in NCCER necessary or desired in the High School
Technology
o Need to be on the focused on keeping up with changes in technology but
remember the basics and manual ways of production
o Apps
Inventor App
Force Effect App
My Script App
Better Smart Boards
Project
o Sheldon will work with RMT to come up with an actual problem solving
activity for students to work with in Industrial Engineering Courses
Safety
o For Site Visit and OSHA standards facility conditions should be addressed
Dust Collection
Chemical Storage
Guard Systems
Perkins Tags (Site Visit)
Safety Zones
Organization
State website has a safety checklist
What businesses want from graduates
o Communication Skills
o People Skills
o Math Skills
o Work Ethic
o Self-Reliant
o Better Resumes and Applications (Detailing Skills)

Marlene Haupert - Family and Consumer Sciences

The Family and Consumer Sciences group met in small group session in which
discussion was held on the programs being offered in the HMS and SHS school system.
Discussion was held on how Perkins has benefited our programs this year. HMS

purchased some written materials on the ProStart program in which Kylee is integrating
into her classes this year. She is just using some of the material. The SHS program
purchased an induction stove so now all students will be exposed and trained on
induction, electric and gas stoves.
Discussion was held on what we are teaching in our individual classrooms. HMS has
both a middle and high school program while Sheldon just has a high school program.
Critical competencies for both programs have remained the same as last year.
Discussion was held on assessments.
Amy worked with us and informed us what needed to be upgraded in our binders. New
tabs will be sent and the binder just needs to be rearranged. She reminded us to be
sure to include the FCS standards and benchmarks matrix in the binder. The critical
competencies are listed on a separate document. She also told us to be sure to have 3
assessments for each critical competency. Neither of our binders had much to be
updated.
Amanda De Groot - Business
The business teachers from Sheldon and Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn showed the advisory
committee their Program of Study binders. The college would like us to include more
student projects and work the students are completing along the way to show they are
not just mastering the content by the end of the course. The college also recommended
that we complete the template to show how we are teaching more standards in our
courses than what our paperwork currently shows. The committee was happy with what
we currently have.
Then the teachers shared the classes each teach. The committee members continued
to stress the importance of communication skills. We also discussed workplace attire
and how that appears to be changing even though the standard of traditional business
attire is expected. The business teachers brought up the fact that in Accounting we are
doing a lot more through paper and pencil to help the students reinforce the basic skills
that are necessary. Neither teacher is doing a lot on the computer and the committee
seems ok with that. Finally, a committee member mentioned that a bank would like to
be able to set up a job shadow experience for high school students. This is a project
that the Human Resource Manager is dreaming of. It has yet to be fully developed but
this is something we can see as a possibility down the road. This would be helpful to
make the connection as the students get ready to enter the world of work.
Matt Meendering (for Monica Dykstra) Medical Technology
Discussed the curriculum content and what the POS binder included. We went through
page by page the content of the binder. Questions were raised how and where the
standards came from and those questions were answered. Both individuals gave their
input on what they saw from our students during their clinicals in the CNA classes and
those doing job shadows in our Career Pathways course. Maturity is always an issue,
so we need to make sure the youngest we could go in the program is a junior to be on
the floor. We also discussed the need to get more of our Hispanic students into the
program. This year we have two Hispanic students enrolled in the CNA course and they
are the only two in the strand currently. This will be a focus for us when we counsel
students in the future to help them understand that this is a very viable option for
growth.

Sheldon Advisory Member E-mail Addresses:

Amanda De Groot adegroot@sheldon.k12.ia.us
Travis Klein travis@csbsheldon.com
Sheila Drenkowsdrenkow@nwicc.edu
Darrell Burns darrell.burns@edwardjones.com
Jim Buenger jimb@peoples@peoplesebank.com
Chris Stotz cstotz@sheldon.k12.ia.us
Greg Weppler wepp@nethtc.net
Darin Rosenboom drosenboom@rosenboom.com
Kevin Ten Haken kevin.tenhaken@demco-products.com
Brad De Boer bdeboer@maintainer.com
Mark Evenson mark@rome-ltd.com
Steve Waldstein swalstein@nwicc.edu
Ryan Cannoy rcannoy@nwicc.edu
Jack Schreurs jschreurs@rosenboom.com
Gene Bomgaars gbomgaars@sheldon.k12.ia.us
John Van Gorp jvgorp@mtcnet.net
Ryan Wolf RRWolf@landolakes.com
Ben Van Beek bvbeek@farmerscoopsociety.com
Julie Roos julie.roos@fcsamerica.com
Marlene Haupert mhaupert@sheldon.k12.ia.us
Mark Poyzer mpoyzer@nethtc.net
Jeanetta Van Gent jmvangent@nethtc.net
Carolyn Marshal lcarmar@nethtc.net
Lori Warnke warnke@nethtc.net
Matt Meendering mmeendering@sheldon.k12.ia.us
Monica Dykstra mdykstra@sheldon.k12.ia.us
Cindy Myers Lucinda.myers@sanfordhealth.org
Jeana Wollmuth jeana.wollmuth@sanfordhealth.org
Marilyn Stille mrstille@nwicc.edu
Ruth Hobsen rhobson@nwicc.edu
HMS Advisory Member E-mail Addresses:
Rick Shockley rshockley@hmshawks.org
Russ Spier rspier@hmshawks.org
Michelle Wagner mwagner@hmshawks.org
Kylee Cooper kcooper@hmshawks.org
Jodi Purcell jpurcell@hmshawks.org