MINUTES OF THE MCCPTA DELEGATE ASSEMBLY
Tuesday, April 25,
2006 at the Carver Educational
(This summary includes motions and resolutions passed at the April meeting.)
Approval of Minutes:
The minutes from the
Treasurer’s
Report:
The treasurer’s report was filed.
New Business Items:
Annual Election
Victor
Salazar made a motion that if a name was misspelled that it would not
invalidate the ballot. The motion was seconded and passed by a voice vote.
Officers: (All officers were nominated by the nominating committee, and all votes were uncontested.)
President Jane de Winter
Vice President: Educational
Vice President: Administration Cassandra Abdelmeguid
Vice President: Programs April Keys
Vice President: Legislation Victor Salazar
Recording Secretary Liz Wheeler
Recording Secretary Kay Romero
Treasurer: Juan Johnson
Area Vice Presidents: (Asterisk [*] indicates AVP nominated from the floor instead of from the nominating committee. Pound [#] sign indicates a contested position elected by ballot.)
Sherwood Deborah Stevens-Panzer
Northeast Consortium Phil Kaufman
(Blake, Paint Branch, Springbrook)
Churchill, Richard Montgomery, Kate Savage
Blair, Einstein, Kennedy Sally Taber
Northwood
B-CC, Walter Johnson, Liz Brennan
Whitman,
Magruder, Watkins Mill (defeated Ted Willard*; 25 ballots total -18 Morrison and 7 Willard)
Northwest, Poolesville, Jim Keenan
Quince Orchard,
Cluster
Coordinators: (Asterisk [*] indicates cluster coordinator nominated
from the floor instead of from the nominating committee. Pound [#] sign
indicates a contested position elected by ballot.)
Sherwood Deborah Stevens-Panzer*
Paint Branch
Blake Maura McMullen* and Dawn Dolan*
Springbrook Melissa Rosenberg* and Mary Thorngren*
Northwest Lauren Haven and Bob Weishaar, Jr.
Poolesville
Quince Orchard Jud Ashman, Paul Morrison* and Gerry Jackson*
Churchill Liza Durant*#, Jinhee Wilde*# and Livleen Gill*#
(defeated Dianne Fine* and Brenda Willett*; Suzanne Weiss* withdrew; 28
ballots cast – Durant 26; Wilde 24; Gill 20; Fine 9 and Willett 3)
Richard Montgomery John Hall*, Liz Wheeler and Elizabeth Enders*
(Nominees Wendy Williams and Lori Merrill withdrew and nominated John Hall and Elizabeth Enders.)
Wootton Rich Edelman and Andrea Bernardo*
Magruder Linda Kuserk*, Dawn Trahern* and Ted Willard*
Watkins Mill Susan Young*, Lon Hamann* and Brenda Szceszny*
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Terri Salus, Deborah Missal and Jack Hayes
Walter Johnson Ellen Paul and Pam Moomau
Whitman Deborah DeMille-Wagman, Carly Lee and
Paula Robinson
Blair Pete
Lafen
Einstein Kay
Romero*
Kennedy Ricky Ford and Susan Thomas
Northwood Pam Megna, Patrick Herendeen and Jaime Todaro*
Juan Johnson made a motion to destroy the ballots. It
was seconded and passed by a voice vote.
Business Items:
A
delegate made a motion to allow five minutes for discussion of the resolution
presented by
by the Gifted Child
Committee. It was seconded and passed by a voice vote.
Resolution proposed by the MCCPTA Gifted Child Committee
Recommending Development of a Gifted and Talented Curriculum:
WHEREAS, a Montgomery County Public Schools (“MCPS”)
Middle School Reform Steering
Committee (the “Steering Committee”) has been
charged to formulate a comprehensive plan (the “Plan”) that will produce a
rigorous and challenging middle school education program that improves teaching
and learning, promotes continuous improvement in all middle schools, and
ensures that all students are prepared for rigorous high school standards; and
WHEREAS, Policy IOA, recognizing that gifted and
talented students require instructional and curricular adjustments that can
create a better match between their identified needs and the educational
services they typically receive, provides that MCPS will prepare a scope and
sequence of objectives and activities as well as materials that accelerate and
enrich the regular curriculum in Pre-kindergarten-8, in mathematics,
reading/language arts, science, and social studies; and
WHEREAS, the National Association for Gifted
Children’s Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Program Standards (with which the components
of the MCPS gifted and talented program are to be aligned) require as a minimum
standard that instruction objectives and strategies provided to gifted learners
must be systematically differentiated from those in the regular classroom; and
WHEREAS, Policy IFA requires that curricula promote
continuity and cumulative acquisition and application of skills and knowledge
and allow teachers and students to understand what is expected and required of
them; and
WHEREAS, this Committee finds that the middle school
MCPS Curriculum Guides provide extensions and enhancements for optional and
periodic use in enriching gifted and talented education, but that such
extensions and enhancements neither sequentially and systematically ground the
acceleration of gifted and talented education, nor allow teachers and students
to understand what is expected and required of them; and
WHEREAS, as a part of a multiyear plan for
development of strong local gifted and talented programs, MCPS has determined
to strengthen differentiation in the instructional guides;
BE IT RESOLVED, that this Committee recommends to
the Steering Committee that there be included in the Plan the recommendation
that MCPS add as soon as possible to the middle school Curriculum Guides
sequenced and systematic higher level gifted and talented curricula, in
mathematics, reading/language arts, science and social studies.
The
delegate from Piney Branch Elementary School made an amendment to the
resolution to replace all references to “gifted and talented” with the word
“advanced”; to eliminate the third whereas; to eliminate “the acceleration of
gifted and talented” in the fifth whereas and replace it with “advanced levels
of” and in the be it resolved to eliminate “gifted and talented” and replace it
with “curriculum activities that foster and expand advanced levels of
proficiency.” It was seconded. The amendment failed by a counted standing vote.
The
original resolution as originally presented by the Gifted Child Committee
passed by a standing vote.
Resolution Concerning MCPS Media Regulation:
A
delegate made a motion that we allow a five minute time limit of discussion for
this resolution. It was seconded and passed by a show of hands.
Resolution Concerning MCPS Media Regulation: As adopted by the Richard Montgomery HS PTSA March 13, 2006
WHEREAS, MCPS recently revised Regulation IIB-RA to
ban the showing of R-rated movies as
well as excerpts from these
movies in high school classrooms throughout the county, and
WHEREAS, this regulation has the effect of blanket
censorship which undermines many high
school subjects, including
but not limited to history, English, foreign language and film classes,
without regard to the
educational assessment of the usefulness of the motion pictures relative to
the classroom objectives,
and
WHEREAS, Regulation IIB-RA adversely impacts the
quality of student instruction, therefore,
RESOLVED, that MCCPTA requests that the Board of Education
immediately rescind Regulation
IIB-RA, section four, and
RESOLVED, that the replacement regulation incorporate
a system for exceptions, whereby
teachers apply or request to
have certain films exempted from the policy for educational purposes,
and
RESOLVED, that teachers who request materials that
are R-rated or un-rated for classroom use
should provide information
to parents to form their own assessment, and that a system of signed
permissions from parents
should constitute sufficient authorization to permit the use of R-rated or
un-rated motion pictures,
either as excerpt or in their entirety, in high school classrooms.
Rich
Edelman made an amendment to the resolution (continuing resolves) that:
1.
no films be shown
in the classroom for or during class time for entertainment, babysitting or any
other non-educational purposes
2.
to the extent
that a school may show films during non-class time, the school will notify
parents of the films that may be shown
3.
entire films
shall not be shown except in film class
The motion to amend was seconded. It failed by a standing vote.
Ted
Willard made a motion to extend the time of discussion by two minutes. It was
seconded and passed by a voice vote.
Rich Edelman made an
amendment to the resolution (continuing resolves) that:
4.
no films be shown
in the classroom for or during class time for entertainment, babysitting or any
other non-educational purposes
5.
to the extent
that a school may show films during non-class time, the school will notify
parents of the films that may be shown
6.
entire films
shall not be shown except in film class
The motion to amend was seconded. It failed by a standing vote.
Ted
Willard made a motion to extend the time of discussion by two minutes. It was
seconded and passed by a voice vote.
The
original resolution as presented by the Richard Montgomery PTSA passed by a
counted standing vote.
Resolution on the Use of Films
in Schools:
Ted
Willard made a motion to accept the resolution drafted by members of the
Curriculum Committee to provide more specific guidance on how and when films
should be used in schools.
It was seconded.