And the Winner Is....
Broward County Public Schools!
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The Broward County School District as a whole and several
of its schools were recently honored by the Sunshine State
School Public Relations Association (SUNSPRA) as 2002 Sunshine
Medallion Winners.
Each year, SUNSPRA honors those schools and districts that
show innovation, creativity and effectiveness when communicating
both internally and externally. This year, Broward earned
16 awards - the most of any district in Florida. In fact,
Broward swept the Internal Newsletter and Parent/Community
Involvement categories, taking all three places!
Winning schools include:
• Central Park Elementary (Third Place - Special
Event: The Wall of Kindness)
• Challenger Elementary (First Place - Poster/Calendar
Contest: School Calendar and Handbook )
• Cooper City High (Third Place - Promotional Video
or Radio PSA: Cooper City: Someplace Special)
• Cypress Elementary Media Center (First Place - Parent/Community
Involvement: Everybody Read)
• Hollywood Central Elementary (Third Place - Business
Partnership: People Embracing Animals Can Excel (P.E.A.C.E.)
• Oakland Park Elementary (Second Place - Parent/Community
Involvement: Oakland Park Parent Training Nights)
• Pembroke Pines Charter High (Third Place - Parent/Community
Involvement: Let’s Teach our Children Well!)
• Rock Island Elementary (First Place - Cultural Diversity:
AT&T Broadband Freedom Flag)
• Seminole Middle (First Place -Themed Promotion:
Seminole’s n’ Sync)
Winning departments include:
• Community Relations Department (First Place
- Internal Newsletter: The 411- News You Can Use About Broward
Public Schools)
• Community Relations Department (First Place - Public
Relations & PR Tools: Media Relations Made Easy)
• Community Relations Department (Second Place - Web
site: www.browardschools.com)
• Human Resources Department (Second Place - Internal
Newsletter: Focus on Human Resources)
• Human Resource Development (Second Place - Teacher/Staff
Recruitment: A Day in the Life of a Substitute)
• Education Technology Services Department (Third
Place - Internal Newsletter: E-news from the Help Desk)
• Student Assessment Department (Second Place - Brochure/Flyer:
Data Resources Quick Guide Brochure)
What
Is DAC?
Even though the District
Advisory Council (DAC) has been around for many
years (more than 25, in fact!), a lot of people
don’t know what it is or what it does.
The DAC is not the SAC (School Advisory Council),
even though at one time it was called SAC, and DAC
was not responsible for the SIP (School Improvement
Plan), which was done by the SIT (School Improvement
Team). So SIT is now SAC, and what was SAC is now
SAF (School Advisory Forum), the SAC now does the
SIP, and that is that. Do you all have it straight
now? Probably not!
Let’s break it down a little for you. DAC
is the umbrella for all the SAFs (School Advisory
Forum) and it is on the School Board’s organizational
chart. DAC is a volunteer group structured as follows:
• Each school has an SAF chairperson elected
by the school community. This is a non-employee
who runs meetings to give and get information from
the school community and be another voice for that
school community.
• The SAF chairperson takes concerns to the
Area Advisory Council meetings. At these area meetings,
once again, information is given and received. Motions
are made and those motions are brought to the DAC.
• At those DAC meetings, once again, there
is an information flow. The motions from the Area
Advisory Councils, ESE Advisory Council, ESOL Leadership
Council or other groups that are represented on
DAC, are brought forward. If the motion passes at
DAC, it is brought to the Superintendent and the
School Board.
DAC members also sit on many committees, councils
and task forces. DAC is another means of keeping
community involvement at a high and vital level.
This is a very brief overview, but hopefully you
will now have a better understanding the next time
you hear the acronyms DAC or SAF.
For further information about DAC, please contact
Henry A. Rose, Chairperson of the District Advisory
Council, at dacchair@hotmail.com
or visit www.browarddac.com.
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Can you name the six Broward schools that have the
word “Silver” in their names? (Check
out the bottom of this article to see how you did!)
That’s not the only similarity in school names
in the District. We have twelve schools that have
“Lake” as part their name and 16 that
share the word “Park.” And there’s
more.
We have ten sets of schools that have the same name;
they are:
• Driftwood Elementary and Driftwood Middle
School
• Margate Elementary School and Margate Middle
School
• Dillard Elementary School and Dillard High
School
• Ramblewood Elementary School and Ramblewood
Middle School
• Hallandale Elementary School and Hallandale
High School
• Lauderhill Elementary School and Lauderhill
Middle School
• Hollywood Hills Elementary School and Hollywood
Hills High School
• Miramar Elementary School and Miramar High
School
• Coconut Creek Elementary School and Coconut
Creek High School
• Cooper City Elementary School and Cooper
City High School
We also have four trios of schools that have the
same name; they are:
• Pompano Beach Elementary, Middle and High
schools
• Plantation Elementary, Middle and High schools
• Deerfield Beach Elementary, Middle and High
schools
• Coral Springs Elementary, Middle and High
schools
And, last but not least, there are four schools
that all share a common name:
• Nova Elementary (2), Middle and High schools
ANSWERS: On page 11
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