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New Jersey Council for Administrators in Health and Physical Education

MINUTES FOR THE NOVEMBER 09, 2011 MEETING

9:00a-12:00p

AIG, Berkeley Heights, NJ

Members in attendance: Todd Slawsky (Answer), Jackie Malaska (NJAHPERD), Judy LoBianco (Secretary), Andy Krupa,(President) Kathy Tetley, Rich Burton, Deb Serafin (Treasurer), Dan Brundage (Webmaster), Joe Pristulla, Elizabeth HS, Kathryn Pagano (Sportime), Pam Powers (NASPE TOY, 2004), Maggie McFadan, Westfield, Ken, Peggy (NJ Physicians Group), Bernadette(NJ Physicians Group),, Ken Mason, Morris, Dave, Randolph, Brendan O’Reilly (NJDOE), John, Pat Shea

Andy called the meeting to order at 9:18am and introduced himself and the other officers:

President: Andy Krupa

Secretary: Judy LoBianco, South Orange-Maplewood

Webmaster: Dan Brundage, Millburn

Treasurer: Deb Serafin, North Brunswick

Andy introduced absent officers: Vice Chair/Legislative Rep: Bruce Peragallo, Edison, Linda Guerrini, Northern County Representative, Glen Sliker, Mid-County Representative, We are looking for a Southern Rep.

Treasurer, Deb Serafin is collecting annual dues, $15.00.

Andy read the mission of the Council for our new members and guests.

Jackie Malaska, Executive Director of NJAHPERD

NJAHPERD is very involved in legislation. They are working with Teen Driver’s coalition, Tobacco Coalition. NJAHPERD represented H/PE at the State Dept. of Education meeting over the summer regarding NJQSAC.

Coordinated School Health Project-DOE, Dept. of Ag., Dept. of Health. Fitnessgram training will be happening at the convention. Over 400 teachers in New Jersey have been trained. NJAHPERD is working with the Office of Fitness and Nutrition. Let’s Move in School-There are many resources available.

Shaping NJ- Still a strong partnership. Our focus is nutrition in the schools.

Future Professionals workshop: 100 students. All these seniors are looking for jobs. Jackie has the best resumes of college seniors.

Yesterday was an election day conference. 5 teachers of the year attended. NJAHPERD partnered with the Lenape School District.

If you are interested in hosting professional development, call Jackie. NJAHPERD sponsoring many programs at tomorrow’s NJEA Convention.

Hands on Health, December 5th: 14 breakout sessions. NJDOE Representative, Brendan O’Reilly, doing the keynote.

Annual Convention, March 4-6, 2012. There are mini-grants available for teachers for professional development as well as program grants.

Answer-Todd Slawsky

Todd gave out the training catalog. Spoke about the listserv. There is a new LGBTQ online session (6 hours). Todd handed out a copy of the Sex. Etcetera magazine. This is a teen written, expert reviewed magazine.

NJ Physicians Advisory Group-The group is focused on Teens, Health and Smart Choices-especially avoidance of early sexual activity. They’ve been a non-profit since 2004. Focus on prevention. The group does presentations and has curriculum resources. Advocates for a balanced approach to issues involved in early sexual activity. Oct. 2011, 57% of teens ages 15-19 reported between 2006-2010 that they have not experienced sexual intercourse.(National Survey of Family Growth) Spoke about risk-reduction vs. risk-avoidance, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, Healthy People 2010, Smartool (method for assessing risk avoidance published by the CDC) This is a tool focused on Risk Avoidance to help assess, select and implement programs and curricula. SMARTool will help address risk—avoidance/teen sexual activity. Bernadette gave a comprehensive overview of the SMARTool and its 9 targets.

March 30th conference at Seton Hall University for Health and Physical Education.

BRENDAN O’REILLY-NJDOE Representative

Office of Professional Standards- The state government will legislate for next September in the area of Teacher Effectiveness Evaluation. 50% evidence of student learning and 50% of observations and walkthroughs. The untested subject areas are being worked through. They are looking at putting it into the pilot districts hands. We need evidence of student learning in the untested subjects. For example: portfolios, online journal and blogs, video-taped assessments, Fitnessgram, written rubrics. There will be opportunities to bring district professionals together soon.

Every school will be doing these tenure reforms soon and it will take place through legislative action. We need to be relevant and this can be a positive thing if we go about this correctly.

Read article in the NJEA Reporter.

EEFORNJ is the link for the grant application. It gives out the districts that were accepted (11 districts). On the application is the graph of the 50/50 breakdown. Districts were given parameters and given examples, (Charlotte Danielson). Grants include administrator and teacher training.

New Assistant Commissioner, Chief Academic Officer: Penny McCormack. She has outlined plans for the future. In the next 6-8 months, they department is developing a model curriculum. Objectives and assessments will be included. In the next month, we will involve stakeholders in the process. This curriculum will be aligned with the 2009. By 2012, your district must align with the 2009 CCS. The purpose of the curriculum will be to target districts that need more help with curriculum.

Over the summer, a committee met to analyze NJQSAC. They broke apart QSAC into core subjects, then a second teir that included h/pe and the arts. The only thing that districts would need to do in relation to the arts and physical education would be to check off a box that said the district is in compliance. Over 1,000 emails came into the state board of education office in relation to the two tiered system on behalf of the arts, health and physical education. We came out victorious.

Codes and regulations: Task Force in place: 46 recommendations. The 44th recommendation was about swim coach certification and we were happy with the recommendation in relation to the level of certification. The 150 minute mandate was not discussed or addressed.

Dating Violence Policy came out in September, reach out to Brendan O’Reilly. The policy was sent to the county superintendent. A synopsis: it’s been in the core curriculum. The legislation asks to adopt a separate curriculum in dating violence. Liz Claiborne’s program is free and is recommended. Love is not abuse is the name of the curriculum. You can download the program as well. Go to Brendan’s webpage. There are two documents there. There is the policy itself, then the list of educational resources.

Brendan has a listserv. Go on the health and pe homepage to sign up.

Sportime Representative, Kathy Pagano and NASPE TOY 2004: Pam Powers

Presentation on Technology in Physical Education

Respectfully submitted,

Judy LoBianco

Secretary, NJCAHPE