Minutes

August 3rd 2010

Members present: Members present: Gaby, Sabrina, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda
Discussion Topic was discussed. Idea chosen was creating an autism academy within a public school.
collaborative model
reverse mainstreaming
bathrooms in each classroom
k-6 class
integrated kindergarten
To be discussed next meeting: Major components of EPG


August 3rd 2010
Members present: Gaby, Sabrina, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda

 

August 5, 2010

Members present: Members present: Gaby, Sabrina, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda
Discussion Section 1: The major components of the EPG Final Proposal / Plan are:
A) Mission Statement - Katherine
B) Philosophy of Education - Gaby
C) Number of Students - Jennifer
D) Curriculum - Sabrina
E) Staff / Board / Organizational Chart  - Amanda - include people involved - SE teachers, SLP, OT, APE, gen. ed teachers
F) Budget  work on it together.(you must first research the per pupil amount provided by the state for each targeted public school system to accomplish this.)
G) Location and Plan for the Building - Audrey (you must locate an actual property that is available where you may build your proposed school, and you must also create a physical representation of what your school will look like)
H) Business Plan (how to pay for and maintain your school) - work on it together
Brainstorm ideas
Ratios:
24 Evidence based practices
To be discussed next meeting:

 

August 10, 2010

Members present: Members present: Gaby, Sabrina, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda
Discussion: Team looked at sample pieces collected. Each member gave an overview of their part of the EPG.
Discussed what made our program different:
  • program based on collaboration
  • service providers on site and specific to autism classrooms
  • integrating the autism classrooms with the general education population and school activities
    Mission
  • Katherine proposed a mission statement - addition of evidence based practices, collaboration with other service providers, partnerships and trainings for families.

Philosophy

                                                       August 10 Discussion

         Discussededucating the whole school about autism and working as a team 

 Gaby will work on details Organization: Will have mild and moderate/severe Kinder - just one class combined with both mod and mild. 2-1 ratio grades 1 -2, 3-4, 5-6 Moderate classes will have 2:1 ratio 4:1 for mild/moderate  

Business Plan Sabrina talked about the samples budget - get research needs for programs, statistics

Playground school will share a playground that has equipment for children with special needs.

Suggested a photo galleryAssignments/To be discussed next meeting:

Katherine - will collect statistics about prevalence of autism (CDC, )

Gaby - philosophy and prepare layout of business plan

Jennifer- number of students - pie chart -demographics

Sabrina- discussed a variety of extra support curriculum

Amanda - staff organizational chart - per pupil amount provided by state

Audrey - pictures of classrooms, Budget to be discussed at a later time  

August 12, 2010

Members present: Members present: Gaby, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda, (Sabrina excused for back to school night - her research and work was provided in previous meeting.)
Discussion:
  • Team discussed the business plan (where money is coming in, grants, ADA, etc) and budget (expenditures, money going out).
  • Team reviewed and approved philosophy.
  • Team looked at staff organization chart - service providers will be added
  • Team reviewed demographics (pie charts and tables).
  • Team also discussed purpose of program (cdc stats)
To be discussed next meeting: Team will finish up individual parts and publish them.

 

August 17, 2010

Members present: Members present: Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda, Sabrina (Gaby was sick) - research and work will be provided at next meeting.
Discussion:
  • Team discussed end of project time line
  • Researched parts of project
  • Downloaded pictures
To be discussed next meeting: Team will work on funding next meeting

 

August 24, 2010

Members present: Members present: Gaby, Jennifer, Audrey, Katherine, & Amanda, Sabrina
Discussion:
  • Team worked together on research for business plan and budget
  • Reviewed and discussed curriculum
  • Updated website
  • Discussed problems with website
To be discussed next meeting: Team will finish up individual parts and publish them.

                                                                                August 26

All members present.  We discussed and finalized Budget and Business Plan.  We developed a PowerPoint to include a photo gallery of Gates Autism Academy.   We re-submitted information, pictures and graphs that tend to vanish on our web-page.  We made a back-up CD for our web-page in case of another glitch.