The first North Central Region PANC was held on May 15, 2008, 10 AM to 12 PM, at Durham Public Schools Staff Development Center with 22 attending. Eleven of the fourteen LEAs in the North Central Region were represented.

Future meetings will be on the second Thursday of the months selected to meet. The locations of the meetings wil be rotated among the LEAs of the region. Meeting times will be 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM. The following meeting dates and locations were determined:

September 11, 2008--Johnston County

December 11, 2008--Franklin County

January 8, 2009--Wake County

March TBD

May TBD

Donna Jenny (donna.jenny@dpsnc.net,) Durham Public Schools, agreed to be the leader of the North Central PANC and the representative for the PANC Steering Committee until the September meeting when the governing body will be officially established.

Everyone received a copy of the PANC by-laws. The four standing committees (conference planning, professional development, legislative, and membership) were discussed. The group was asked to consider serving or nominating someone to serve on these committees. Send names to Carolyn Sneeden, csneeden@dpi.state.nc.us and the group will decide at the September meeting who will serve. Other suggested topics to possibly discuss at the September meeting were legislative update, School Executive Evaluation Instrument, Background Checks and a best practices/sharing/question and answer time. The group was encouraged to frequently visit the NC PANC website, www.pancweb.org for information.

The draft of the pilot School Executive Evaluation Tool has been posted to the Professional Development website at http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/ (click on Draft of Pilot Executive Evaluation Too). Those with questions should contact Stephen Greene at sgreene@dpi.state.nc.us or (919) 807-3278. For information about registering for the training, go to http://www.ncpublicschools.org/profdev/conferences/executivetraining/. For the dates/locations you will need to scroll past the map and click "choice" below the region.

Joyce Wade and Robin LIttle shared information about Johnston County's Volunteer Policy and use of the Fulcrum Software. They have been working with Mark Nippert, markn@fulcrumcorp.com to develop the volunteer update process. He wrote a program that matches the volunteer list with the nightly AOC download. The result is if they have an approved volunteer that is charged with a criminal offense, they they find out about it. He also put the volunteer list on a protected server to make processing and communication with principals easier.

Dan Holloman gave a reminder that the Title II application is due June 16-20. He also encouraged LEAs to invite the 2008 Teacher of the Year, Cindi Rigsbee and the 2008 Principal of the Year, Debra Morris, to speak.

David Howell would like to share the following note of interest with the group. DPI has now created the new codes for Elementary Education. More information will be coming soon. Elementary Reading: 25190; Elementary ESL 25110; Elementary Special Education 25880.