Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC) - School District 622

Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC)
Members Present: Jill Kuehn, Marsha Stohler
Barb Thibaudeau, Janet Boland, Karen Cory,
Joanne Kern, Kevin Marschel, Sonya
Czerepak, Jill Miklausich (new member)
Members Absent: Karon Joyer, Toni Malone,
Sally Butwin,
Others Present: Duane Woeste (for Karon
Joyer), Cherie Bender (guest speaker)
ACTION MINUTES
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Meeting Date: October 6, 2009
Recorder: Rhonda Nelson
Date/Time/Place of Next Meeting:
January 12, 2010
6:00-7:30PM
District Ed. Center – Room 202
AGENDA ITEM ACTION DECISION
1. Call to Order 1. Meeting called to order by Co-Chair
K.Marschel, at 6:10PM.
2. Approval of Agenda 2. J. Boland Moved to approve the agenda; B.
Thibaudeau Made the second and the
MOTION CARRIED.
3.
4.
5.
Approval of Previous Minutes
Adaptive Activities After School
Select New Committee Co-Chair
3. K. Cory Moved to approve the minutes from
the March 24, 2009 meeting; S. Czerepak
Made the second and the MOTION
CARRIED.
4. Cherie Bender, Adaptive P.E. Teacher,
was the guest speaker. She presented
information on various ideas for adaptive
athletics for students after school and
distributed a handout from Minnesota
Adapted Athletics Association (MAAA). Ms.
Bender suggested conducting a survey to
parents of students in grades 7-12 to gauge an
interest; committee agreed.
ACTION: Lee Algers to assist Cherie in
creating a survey for parents of students in
the four secondary multiple needs groups.
The multiple needs teachers will send the
surveys home with the students.
5. Committee discussed but no volunteers.
ACTION: B. Thibaudeau agreed to continue
as co-chair for another year.

6.
Members on CIMP & SEAC
6.
Committee discussed membership of parents
on (Continuous Improvement Monitoring
Process) CIMP Committee and Special Ed.
Advisory Council (SEAC).
ACTION: D. Woeste reported that Toni
Malone agreed to serve on CIMP.
K. Joyer and admin. team will canvas parents
to find representation in the areas of EBD,
SLP and minority student parents for SEAC.
7. Dates for future meetings & how many 7. Committee discussed dates and number of
future SEAC meetings.
ACTION: Committee voted to reduce
number of meetings from 4 to 3. R. Nelson
to note change in SEAC Guidelines.
Future meeting dates set – 1/12/10 & 3/9/10
8. CIMP Report 8. Special Ed. Supervisor, Duane Woeste,
distributed handout of the CIMP Self Review
Report (dated 6/30/09) that was submitted
from the Special Ed. Office to MDE. D.
Woeste explained the report to the committee
and entertained questions.
ACTION: Members will review CIMP
report in more detail on their own and
bring comments and suggestions to the
January 12 SEAC meeting.
9.
10.
Website Updates
Updating Mission Statement
Adjournment
9.
10.
Not enough time to discuss website updates.
ACTION: D. Woeste to discuss website
updates at the March 9 th SEAC meeting.
Tabled until January 12 meeting.
S. Czerepak moved to adjourn meeting
at 7:34PM. Meeting adjourned.