4th 2025, special programs, and centers committee to order. My name is Dr. Rashid, I'm the chair of this committee. We appreciate your presence. the purpose of today's meeting is to approve the minutes um and we have an action item which is the um The Academy of global and linguistic studies proposal. And then we have a couple of information items, which is the 5-year plan of CTE and the charter school, calendar for 25 and 26. Before we proceed, we do value public input. If there's anyone from the public that would like to, uh,
address the committee fill out a speaker card at the registration table, which I just reviewed with, in, which nobody signed up for public comment, which is Totally fine. Um, please know that your comments are, always, welcome to the committee. So we need to approve the minutes from our last meeting. Has everyone had a chance to review those minutes and are there any corrections or additions? Is there a motion to approve the minutes? Move to approve the meeting minutes. Thank you, Mr. Stephy, do I hear a second? Second second. Thank you. Miss label, okay.
The minutes have been approved. Um all those in favor of the all those in favor of the minutes. Say I I I I uh, any opposed say nay and the proof and the minutes have been approved. Okay. So let's begin by reviewing the agenda. Uh, I briefly stated that we are going to have an action item for the Academy of global and linguistic studies proposal. Um, we do have information items like I mentioned before, which is the development of CTE, the 5-year plan, and the charter school, calendar, for 25 and 26.
Um, are there any adjustments or additions to the agenda? If so, raise your hand and state your proposed change? Okay. All right let's go ahead and move on to our first agenda item which is an action item which is the Academy of global and linguistic studies proposal. I'll turn it over to Mr. 7 if you he would like to add in a comment or any think you'd like any details you'd like to add Mr. 7. Thank you, Dr. Rashid as you stated, this item is coming back to the committee as an action item. Um, our team has presented the proposal for
the, um, Academy of global linguistic studies as an information item, um, 2 times to get feedback from the committee and so, we're ready to proceed with action. Um, so what you're approving today is for forwarding this to the full board for consideration. Um, as you may recall, a, um, initial planning year was approved in the FY, 26 budget, we anticipate a coordinator being hired with the July 1st start. This proposal, um, is aligned to our special programs policy for an internal group to develop a
plan, um, review by senior staff, and then bring to the full board for um, approval for going forward. Um, there will be opportunities in the future for the board to have influence on the launch of the academy through the FY, 27, budget process. And so we'll continue to have conversations about what this Academy will become in the future. We'll be bringing To the committee. Um the site selection process, for so we all this proposal will be approved. They'll be ongoing work around the development business. Particular
Academy 1 update that we made based on feedback, generally is around the accessibility of the program. A board member brought that up during our budget process. So on page 15, we did include language related to English learner and special education Staffing. We do Envision. Um, special education students in in English, learner students having the option to attend this program and as such we know that Staffing will need to be generated by their attendance. So as is happening, um, currently with hamsai, um, you know,
we consider the needs of the students that are in the program. And we work with the office of special education, and office of school leadership, to make sure those students are being supported. Um, besides that, there's no changes to the proposal that have been shared in the past, so we're happy to answer any questions. We have Mr. Graham here. And Miss Clark. Um, So we're open for feedback or questions. Thank you, Mr. Slovan, I'd like to open the floor for any discussion or questions for my fellow board members. Do you have any questions or comments? Yes, Mr. Bill I'm really excited to see this program, moving forward and
moving forward. So quickly. I think it's going to be a really good option for students uh in our area that want to work in the international Arena especially with uh so many businesses and government offices being located close by. I think this will be a great Move. Thank you, Mr. Bell yes Mr. No. Other questions for me. I appreciate the back and forth during the budget process and answering my questions that I had around the program and I'm also excited about all the potential Um, uh Partnerships that might come uh, for the school
division around this program as well. So thank you. Mr. Strefy and I echo my, uh, the sentiments of my colleagues here. Um, any other questions comments? We're good. All right. If there are no further questions, I'll entertain a motion to approve. This action item 4.01 to go to the over. Yes. Miss Um, do I have a motion? I move that we forward this to the full board uh for Action. Okay? Information for them. Thank you, Miss lebell motion has been brought forth. Do I
hear a second? Thank you, Mr. Jeffrey, who's a motion was approved and seconded any final thoughts or comments on this agenda item before we go to the full board? Okay, all right. Thank you. Just confirming. Did you have a vote or did you just do the motion? I can't hear what. So, I think you have the motion. I think you still need to vote. Okay. Um, yes. Let's go ahead and and vote. Um, all those in favor of this, um, this action item to move forward to the full
board. Say, I I I all those in favor, say Nae. Okay. Great, wonderful. So we look forward to this action item moving forward. Yes, Mr. 7. So just 1 point of clarity as this is coming out of the special programs committee generally. It's presented by um, the chair of the committee but staff will be available to provide the overview that we provided to the to the committee to the full board. And so you and I can talk about that as that would likely be helpful to your colleagues. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Mr. S Let's move on to our next agenda item which is 5.01. It's
an information item development of Career and Technical education, the 5-year plan. Um I I will now turn it over to Mr, or Dr. Grubs uh, if you would like to add anything to this or present, Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Rasheed uh, good afternoon, Mr. Stephy good afternoon, Miss Leal. Um, thank you for having us here today. I'm joined by my colleague, uh, Jen helpers the supervisor of Career and Technical education. We're here to present to you the development of a Career and Technical education, 5-year plan. Uh, we are going to give some
updates on the progress next steps and, um, just some pragmatic things that have happened since our lcps Workforce Summit, So before we begin, uh what's really driving this 5 year plan are to initiatives that have a current over the course of the school year. Um, obviously the introduction of the 3E Readiness framework, uh, primarily the employment component of the 3E Readiness framework, which uh is prioritizing CT completers, and students uh, getting an industry recognized credential and a high demand, High wage
field. Um, that part is really driving uh expansion of CT programs in the county more opportunities for students, so that we have students graduating with an industry recognized credential. Uh, also this presentation is the result of our uh, Workforce Summit that we had in the Fall 2 main findings, came from that Summit. It was really around program expansion in the school system and employability skills. So we're going to unpack some of those topics on the slides that are coming up. So we are really here today, we're centered around our top 2
priorities which is program expansion. A 5-year plan, uh, and our Workforce outcomes. We know that the goal to expand strategically over the next 5 years is top priority here, and that's why we're here to share a little bit more about that. Um, it is through intentional planning and collaboration with industry partners and stakeholders that are ctae initiatives will help Drive students access. So you may have seen this chart, we shared this at the lcps, workforce Summit. This is 1 of the first initiatives,
we started this school year. Um where we are now is, we're looking at current program offerings. We took all of our 17 career clusters which ends up being about 83 Pathways. Um, and we've been expanding by the 6 plant zones, uh, examining by the 6 plant zones, where our programs are and where they are not, I'm not going to go through every single Gap, um, but here's some example gaps, like no agriculture education. That is in Loudoun County Public Schools um across any of our 6 planning zones and any of our high schools. Uh, we currently have no energy programs
in Loudoun County Public Schools, uh, the finance cluster uh, is not in all planning zones. So we do have that program but it's not accessible to all students in the county and then more at the school level. We do not have business management and administration in every single high school as the figure shows we do. Not currently have it in the Eastern Loudoun planning zone. So students do not have access to those programs and also Heritage High School in central. L does not have that program. This slide continues to highlight some example gaps. Uh
health and medical Sciences is only available uh in 2 of our 6 planning zones, Human Service cluster is in all but 2 2 high schools and as you can see uh, that nice white row there there's no Law Public Safety. Um, Programs in any of our schools. And if I could add, this is outside of programming that exists at the Academy of Loudoun. So we are really focusing on our comprehensive high schools. In this current program
offerings map, so as the previous 2 slides Illustrated, we've been working as a team looking at enrollment figures working with teachers, working with schools on where programs currently are. Um the last 3 months we've been engaging our department chairs, our advisory council members even individuals at the lcps workforce Summit and I'm really trying to spark wonderings. Um what sticks out, what surprised you, what concerns do you have? Uh what program offerings and program types? Do we need to expand? So we've been really spending the last 3 months just collecting
feedback, uh, from our various stakeholder groups. and so from those stakeholder groups and in those conversations, um, we know that we need to expand CTE and so our focus is not on what to expand but how to expand. Um, and what we should be asking in this example, or we should be asking, do we add option A or option b? And how are we going to do that? So by shifting our Focus from what to how we can create a strategic balanced and effective,
5-year expansion plan, that will benefit all of our students, And says the previous slide illustrator it's not exam. It's not a matter of. Um do we add agriculture, education here? here? Do we add a dental program of Dr? Rasheed asked that to be the next program. Um, it's a matter of how we expanding, what are the sustainable long-term effects of program expansion around the county and so, um, for the past 2 months, we have had a Google form. We've been asking our advisory Council our department chairs, a lot of them are employers to start to weigh in on their highest medium
and lowest priority in terms of programming expansion. Um we are going to share this uh feedback form with you all. So you can also if you wanted to partake in the form. Um, but some of the examples we have are, is it more important that we ensure all 17? Career clusters are offered somewhere in lcps? Or is it more important that we offer? For example, new programs, like, aviation maintenance, or is it more important that every high school has the exact same programs from school to school from there? There we as a team can start to pick and work with schools on what programs we're going to expand but it's really
important. We start with that strategy for how we're going to expand first. so, a quick Quick, snapshot of some of the data that we are starting to see as Dr. Grubs alluded to, we're really starting to see, um, group priorities come into play, what's being ranked as the, the highest or the the mid-level priorities in our community? Um, and this continues to change, we just pushed this out to another group, um, just last week and as of Friday, you know, answers and and priorities, were shifting still. So it's kind of exciting to see that.
So obviously that's not in no expectation to read all those figures, we have it summarized for you on this slide um out um, out of those 10 different options for expanding We're starting to see a few that are really bubbling up from our stakeholders. Um, so we have about 70 individuals that have completed that, uh, Google form, um, out of those 10 different options. For how do we expand programs? Is that previous slide simply Illustrated our top 3 priorities right now are from our feedback groups, our expanding programs that are aligned to high demand career fields, which is very different than aligning to high wage Fields.
Uh, bullet point 2 that we're seeing is a priority for us is expanding programs that are fast-tracked to Industry. So programs that are more for entering the workforce immediately, maybe you are not requiring, a 4 year degree and then the third priority that is bubbling up is ensuring that all 6 loud and planning zones. Have an equal number of CT programs distributed, uh, within their schools. So really making sure that for example, Western Loudoun. Uh, in Ashburn, have a comparable number of CT programs. Um, so we're still collecting that data. But it's helping us really start to think about how we
expand programs moving forward. And then with this data, uh, in an effort to ensure strategic and data-driven decisions we are using a design Matrix and this will help guide our approach to the 5-year plan and really, uh, pushing out what that looks like right in draft form right now. So this allows us to, uh, to evaluate options objectively this ensures that our choices align with our priorities and long-term goals. And really helps us assess multiple factors such as feasibility impact
cost, um, and our alignment to our superintendent's post entry plan, And a structured way to determine the best path forward. And this is a process that I've used in the past. It really helps us win a a score or a principal or a board member or a Community. Member says, hey, we really want this program and set of us focusing just on that program and when school we can really put it back into this decision Matrix and say well hey this is how its weighted against our 3 priorities for how we expand and so we can quantify a little bit um around how we're expanding our programs versus focusing on
a specific cluster or a specific School. Next slide. So we did want to bring some examples that we do feel very strongly. As we're formulating, our 5-year plan that are probably going to happen. Um, an example is Jen alluded to is Healthcare. Uh, we're really, really proud of our hamsai program. Um, it's off to a good start. We had over 700 kids, apply for, uh, essentially 150 seats. So we would really growing interest in the health care profession. Um, but it's only offered at tuscora High School in briarwoods. So if you look at the map on current,
it's only in um 2 of our planning zones. So our hope is we would start to work towards a phase uh 1 where we would add it to 2 additional planning zones and then maybe long-term Phase 2 would that we would be offered in every single planning. Zone Loudoun County Public Schools so maybe not necessarily every single high school would have health medical Sciences or maybe even a a ham size special program, but have some health and medical science programming um available within their region. another example, um, sort of the Agricultural education,
That's that is bubbling to the top, uh, in what our community and stakeholders are sharing, um, as a priority. So currently we have no agricultural education, programs in Loudoun County Public Schools and so a possible Phase 1 would be to start in Western Loudoun and then potentially move, um, possibly into Dallas North. But to ensure that both eastern and western, uh, Loudoun County has has a programs in place. I think this 1's really important, we're having a really, um, strong Focus Community engagement around a in Latin
County. And I think the first natural inclination is Western Loudoun. But we want to also, make sure that we have a plan to bring those types of opportunities, to our Eastern Loudoun community members. And so, I think with this type of phase in approach, uh, we think more sustainability across our County and school system versus 1, geographic region. Um, so the last 1, those are 2, realistic ones that we're getting. Another 1 is um we're getting requests for Dental Programs data center programs, Aviation, uh, maintenance programs. And so, a lot of those programs we don't offer anywhere. And so, um, how do we be be into expand? Aviation
maintenance, is 1 that we are looking at potentially in Dallas, South close, proximity to Dallas, um, the airport. Um, but then also some expansion into Central Loudoun for the Leesburg airport. So that's a program that we're starting to look about uh with some long-term expansion efforts moving forward. So what does that look like uh, in Timeline Forum? Uh, and we are as we highlighted on a previous slide still in draft form. We are this. There are a lot of moving Parts here that we are putting into into place. Um but you can see
that we began July 1 as a new division with a brand new team. Um, we've, we've come a long way since since July 1. Uh, so this outline, some key milestones in our planning, each phase is designed to ensure thoughtful decision-making. Um, Stakeholder engagement and successful implementation. So you can see where we are here in Spring 2025. We have a more clear understanding of our landscape, we are gathering feedback and we are drafting our 5-year plan. Um, as we are
looking ahead to the fall, um, we will have drafted our 5-year plan, we will be in the planning process, uh, and really looking at preparing for phased implementation, So we want to open it up for board member input. Um, we've heard from some of you throughout the year, I just want to give appreciation for those that attended, the lcps, workforce Summit, um, participated in those breakout sessions. Um, I think we've gotten really good gauge on some programs from board members in terms of their interests. Uh, but we want to open up the floor to programs
that you are personally interested in um, expansion priorities as a board member, or Community member, and then what would be helpful for you as a board member and to, in terms of, uh, information or tours or resources, to help, uh, influence future program expansion So on that note, we will open it up for questions, or feedback or comments. Thank you, Miss alpers and Dr. Grubs thank you for that presentation. It's really exciting this stuff a lot of stuff that's coming into play. Uh members of the committee. Um do you have any questions or comments?
Yes, Mr. Bell Well. I'm glad to see. Lden, I get a lot of questions about that I can give you some outside references of of people, um, businesses, uh, organizations. That would be happy to work with us and I will mention that Dr. Ship at Woodrow told me he had plenty of land and plenty of room if we wanted to start an agriculture there. Um, I will also mention that um, the teacher that we had
here last week or no at the sbad meeting if you were there. I'm sorry. Um, Mrs. Bingaman she is uh, teaching also Aviation and has been for several years over out in Woodrow and she might be a good TouchDown for you as you're working through things. So, Yeah, we appreciate that. I was with Dr. Ship last week and he brought up a and we were at the new a school last week as well talking about a potential partnership with um fabbioli Cellars as well. So we're been having some of
those conversations but I would welcome more that you have. the other group, uh, Oh, Lord. Just deserted me. It was a farm organization. It was in Future Farmers of America but um, I will get that information back to you. Thank you. Thank you. Miss label. Any other questions or comments? Yes, Mr. Sty. Chair. I, I just wanted to make a few comments. First of all, I appreciate the the entire approach, um, to the
5-year plan, I, um, and I love the idea that, as a division, we're engaging stakeholders and making our decisions based on what we think are going to be the assumptions for what the community wants and what we need in these programs. So for example, having minimum of 3 programs at every High School, I think is uh is amazing, right? And just being able to and see the data based on the planning zones. And um, seeing where our gaps are, um, um, has you know? I I I'm guilty of the same thing, right? I, I, I, I come
the tech education space and so I get excited about those about those programs. But, um, having been presented this information and, uh, seeing all the work that's been done so far, I can now take a step back. Um, and, uh, You know, uh, slow my role a little bit and and uh, uh, join you all and just be deliberate about this planning process. So, um, the, the 1 thing I did want to mention is maybe if there's a focus on how we can streamline or improve our existing programming. Um, there's a lot of things things that I think about when, when I look at improving our
programming, um, what we have currently across the division, um, what's, what is our approach to work-based learning and how do we integrate? Um, our partnership? Um, Outside of just the academy or, um, the centers that we have right now? How do we integrate our partners into those existing programs or the whatever new programs that we decide on? Um, and how do we make, um, Workforce Readiness? And you talked about, and you mentioned this in the, uh, chamber event. There was 1, example, that you gave was really
profound, is that there was a student, I think who had doubled down on becoming a doctor. And, you know, they were they they went to a job was a job shot away, um, event. And then they saw blood and that was like, if they they fainted passed out 5 minutes in. Yeah, um, they had invested so much time and effort into that um, into becoming, you know, going down that pathway. Um, but um, I think 1 thing that you said which was again profound for me, was that no what um option that they look at whatever, whatever CTE
programming that we have that that it'll serve them regardless of what they end up choosing after they, they Graduate. And I think that that is something that I hung on to, from what you said. Um, and I think that when you look at employers um, Regardless of um the space if they're looking at Community College graduates or 4 year degree graduates or people come come just entering the workforce. It's a lot of the basic life skills or employability skills that they feel are missing. Um, uh, regardless of, you know, how much
education or, um, you know, training that that person has. So I think that that, you know, I would be curious as to how we're Um, implementing that across the division. Even if it's not in CTE is how how do we um, uh, think about life skills and employability skills in general. Um, because we know it's going to serve them regardless of the pathway. So, um, I have a lot of other comments, but I think this is a really good starting point and, um, a lot for me to learn, um, as, as we go on in the process. So, um, thank you, appreciate it.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Trey, um, I had more of a comment. Not so much of a question. Depending on how you take it with all the programs, my only concern. Like for example, with you said hamsai we intend to go into phase 2 phase 3 are, we considering the transportation though, because I know as we expand we have to have enough transportation. And I understand we have a little bit of a shortage. So it's just are there any are there? Any plans about that? Um, I understand that it's a
step-by-step thing, but what are your thoughts on that? Yeah, it's a great question. It's 1 that um, Katie Clark and I have been having with um, transportation off and on throughout the year and I know that they've been giving updates around the challenges for transportation. Um you know obviously this is a plan and it's organic and it's just kind of throwing our wishes against the wall. Uh what I like about mapping it against the 6 plastic. I think it at least gets the right information to the right people moving forward. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Bell. I had another thought um that is more in line with Mr.
Strefezza questions. Um, yesterday. Um, I was sitting with the committee that is working on our new transition Center for our special ed students. And 1 of the big things that we started, teaching at that time were work Readiness skills, um, alternate career paths, uh, things like that. Are we planning for any career assessment? Um, for students, I know it should be available. Through. Um, Squat squatyard.
Um, yeah, how how much are we doing? Are the students actually looking at that and will that be used in helping them to determine a pathway? Yeah, I think it's a great question. Um we're using School links now which is map back back to the Holland's code and the rasac model. I presented a little bit that of the chamber event on Friday. Uh, we have some preliminary data so we're able to look at where our students interests are across the school system. Um as a division we're also bringing in uh April 7th. Some some Consultants to train our teachers in the rasac model and
just last night, we took all of our courses every single 1, every single CT course, in the school system, we mapped it back to the rasac model so that we can start working with students on, um, what your skills, your values, and your interests, and then what courses aligned to that model. So I just shared that last night with Jen coincidentally to help with those conversations. You know, what do you um, are you more? Statistic. Are you more conventional or are you more Hands-On? And then how does that map back to our existing coursework? And I think there's room to grow, but I think we're laying a really good foundation. Um, we're trying to
partner with School counseling more on some of that work also Some of the other things that we had discussed uh, in our meeting yesterday, was the importance of teaching? Um, How to behave in business, how to do interviews how to do resumes? Do we have a place for that in our programs? Um, I feel like this was like our chamber presentation on Friday. This is perfect. Sorry, it wasn't here. No, no, it was good. Um, we just released a, uh, work force
development, um, handbook for employers and businesses. Uh, in that handbook. We have a new Continuum that we're hoping for, for students by grade level, uh, to get more involved in things like mock interviews, resume building. Um, we're also flipping some things on its head. So we do job for a day as a junior and a senior, um, to Mr. Strefezza point. If you are for the first time walking into a hospital, as a senior, you've already applied to a university and you're seeing blood for the first time and you're passing out, like the experience is a little bit too late, right? So we're trying to map all the experiences that we think by
grade level students should have by the time they graduate uh Loudoun County Public Schools. So, the model that we're moving more towards next year, is more centralized mock interview days, more centralized resume building days. And so um, I think that you have also seen our new uh, Um, reorg, and we're devoting some new FTE to work based learning around the county. So we're going to have 5 um individuals. Next school year. Uh, 1 for special programs, 4, that are Regional, that are going to be doing work-based learning. And their job is, they'll be um, they'll be
assigned to 3 to 4 high schools. And the hope is that they're doing more Regional support around mock interviewing, skill development, uh, resume building, those types of things, Career Fairs and opportunities. Like that. I think we're heading in a really good direction. We'll share that handbook with you and you can start to see the direction that we're going in Mr. Sty. so that's amazing and I think it I I assume that career advisement is also. Like just advising people about the different Pathways 1 of the things that I think about I don't know if it's helpful for this conversation but I'll offer it is in it. For example, you you you know the field
has broadened so much in the last 10 or 15 years and so typically you would you would have needed that 4 year, degree background. Um and the fun, you know, having that foundation and systems um to then do coding or whatever you would do in the field. And now, uh, you have the inverted T, which is you focus immediately on a very direct pathway pathway or a job. Um and then you build up that Foundation over time or through additional education. So um, there are are so many more opportunities in it that the field has has
brought in, um, so I do have questions around. Like, I love the idea that we're aligning. Towards credentials industry certifications and credentials. Um, but I wonder about this early on in a student's. Um, uh, You know, this early on, in their life. Doubling down on the diagnose you know, diagnostic technician field or a very specific field for example in it or in another field. Uh and wonder
You know how do we balance the 2? Because you have some of those students who would go into that career and then you have some of those students who would um, pursue something else in healthcare potentially. And so, um, that's a little bit of a curiosity on my part, um, maybe for a future discussion, Yeah, I I mean I would love to have a future discussion. I don't think it's that bad if you'd like um, Yeah, well it's I think it's a lot of the presentation on Friday. It's alright. It's meeting kids where they are. I think I gave an example of a student that I taught years ago, that was a successful engineering student and he said
I'm not going to be an engineer and everyone in the room kind of jaw dropped and he said I'm going to be a lawyer and and they didn't see the connection. And so I I think it's the whole point of that message was meeting kids where they are and I think we just need to meet kids where they are. Have those conversations instead of tracking them. The student that wants that very discreet skill set. Let's get them that skill set. The student that's exploring, let's just get them ready for their first job, not their career, right? So I think we just need to have more conversations with kids and meet them where they are and, uh, expand upon
their skills values and their interests. So, I love that. Thank you. Yeah. Yes, Mr. Bill I just wanted to share with, with especially, Mr. Sheffy about with everybody. If you haven't been to hamsai to see it, it's a wonderful program. And when we were in there the other day, Dr. Bergen and I took a learning walk through Tuscarora and went to hamsai particularly and she had on the board. Uh, it's not just Medical Science, she had. And if you want, take a quick,
Look at that. She listed all the other things you could do through medical training, she has athletic trainer, uh, blood spatter, analysis fingerprint, examiner coroner, that's the first 1 I want. Oh my goodness. Um, geneticist nurse practitioner flebotomista. illustrator, uh, just a whole host of things 2, full bulletin, boards of all the things you could do starting through hamsai and that was really enlightening to me that
we could take a basic program and expand it out and say. Well, these are all the things and you can take your own little track. Once you get the basics in, uh, she was telling me about 1 of the projects. They had. They did like a CSI exam and in the back of the room, she had a whole Seen um from something that had happened and the students had to go back there and examine it and figure out where were the clues where they could use it. What it could tell them how it would help them solve the mystery and then
solve the mystery as to what the person died of, she even had a dummy for a body there. Uh, so it's, it's very, very unique and she hits a lot of different things and I hope maybe we'll be able to see some of that through other careers. Yes, Mr. I was last comments. So the the 1 thing that I wanted to and I know you know this um and and that everyone in the on the team knows this but I think, um, I think as we go in this direction, more and more with our,
um, Business partners. Um, and uh, SeaTac and um, expanding our um, CTE programming. Um, it will really Force the division in a good way to start. Looking more at um what the jobs are in the area and to really just get into the work of Workforce Development together with our uh higher education Partners. I know we've been doing that, um, and we we continue to do that, but I think that it'll probably push us in that direction, even more, um, I give the example of, uh, cyber security.
Um, we, we hear reports all, you know, White House reports and, um, talking about the talent or or the skills Gap yet. what people don't really understand is that there aren't that many entry-level jobs available for people in cyber security, just because of the way, um, folks are typically hired in those positions. And so, um, really understanding from industry, how we can break that cycle and allow more people to access those jobs. Early career is a problem statement that, um,
Uh, we need to be involved in those conversations, um, so just something, you know, additional to the conversation. So I just want to brag on on Dr. Grubs and his team. Um, in that I think there's already recognition about um, the potential of where we're headed with CTE. We we've had um, long-standing relationships with the Latin chamber, Latin Economic Development, um, but they've been really front and center of our efforts. So like having Dr. Grub's invited to address the chamber last week, as you referenced loud on
economic development being such a key player. And that work force, uh, Summit this past fall and that going into the future. Um, aligning our thinking around the Our partners are seeing as evidence, like we're moving in a Direction that's aligned with with their needs. And I think that's just going to bear um tremendous fruit for our students and families in lcps. So and I I just want to give a big credit to this team here. Um, that is are helping us with that. Thank you so much and you guys have shared a wealth of information and I could see the excitement, especially from
Dr. Grubs like you just can't contain himself. Yeah, I appreciate Flippin Pizza last week. Yes, we were flipping pizza last week, right, right. It was that was fun. That was fun. Um all right so uh any other questions or comments? Before we move on to the next agenda. All right. Yes, Mr. Slovan so we CTE will be a regular uh, Topic at this meeting. So we'll be coming back in April with a survey. We had talked about and we're going to include some items around CTE, this presentation. And as we further develop, the 5-year plan will be an item at a future board
meeting. So we can have this conversation fully with the full board. Um as this 5-year plan will have an impact on our strategic decisions, going forward as a division. So we really appreciate your support and advocacy and engagement with this topic. We I'm I'm sure Jen and Mike are just as excited as me to see your excitement. So thank you. Likewise, thank you so much. All right, we'll move on to our next agenda item, which is 5.02. It is the charter schools school year, 2526 calendars, which I will turn it over to Miss Elaine Layman
to present. Thank you. Hi, thank you so much. Nice to see everybody um attached to the SPC agenda or the school calendars for next year, for both middleberg Community Charter School in Hillsboro Charter Academy. Um, we do have representatives from both if anyone has questions about how their calendars differ from the lcps student calendar. But both meet all the requirements in terms of student hours, uh, of attendance and things like that, but vary in a couple of different ways. So I can just generally, tell you middleberg always starts prior to lcps. They start earlier
and end earlier, and they have different breaks throughout the year, Hillsboro follows our calendar, but goes, um, longer on each day than we do. So, they have some different breaks during the year, but they, they can answer any more specific questions that you might have. Thank you, Miss Layman. Uh thank you for that and I will ask for any questions or comments from board members about this calendar. Okay. Likewise okay. Thank you Miss Layman, thanks. Um, all right. Um so we'll move on to our next agenda item. Um but before we do, I think that this item will then come to SPC
for as an action item. For calendar here at SPC. Okay, great. Okay. Any questions about that? All right, so we'll move on to our next agenda item. Which is new business. Um, Any new business, uh, for board members? Okay, great. All right, so then uh we'll I'll turn it over to our future meeting with. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 1st at 3:30. Go ahead and mark your calendars. It's a lifetime event and if there's no Friday, that's why I would now
like, wow. It's like, but uh, if there's no further business, I entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. Um, any motion. So moved. Okay. Okay. Moved by Mr. Sty, do I hear a second? Second, seconded, by Mr. Bell. All those in favor of adjourning. Say I I I the meeting is adjourned.