March 26, 2010

• Alphabet Soup -- has been offered to Gadsden City, Pell City City, and St. Clair County as an In-Service for 2010-2011. I'll keep you posted on any acceptance from those systems.
• I have asked Etowah County for the dates you have chosen.  I asked Oxford City if we can invite Handley Middle and Wedowee Middle.  I asked Etowah County if we can invite Piedmont City and Cherokee County.    I will need to fit Attalla in maybe with Etowah County.  When I hear from Etowah County, I'll ask about including Attalla City.
• We need one more Alphabet Soup for Jacksonville City (Piedmont City will be invited) 
• Oxford City has agreed to the date for Alphabet Soup.
• I think that takes care of all of the systems except Anniston and quite honestly, they do not have enough AMSTI teachers to attend.   We have the "go ahead" with Calhoun County.
• School Calendars are posted on websites.  I've saved Calhoun County and Pell City City to the G drive in a folder called School Calendars.  Who would like to volunteer to make our combined spreadsheet of calendars?
• Duran Jr. North is requestion PD's - I'll get with Ms. Davis and hopefully it will be an inservice in August - Science NB, Math journaling, math content, math and science implementation (check data and provide activities based on the lowest data) and time management which can be included in all of those.  - be thinking and planning........I'll invite them to participate in this years PLT/ACHE training to begin to implement PLTs where they can also work on these topics
• As AMSTI embarks upon our 11^th year, we have scheduled a “ Celebration and Vision Casting” for April 5 from 4:30 until….  We hope you and your specialists will begin arriving around 4:30 with the meal underway by 5. This will allow time for celebrating our successes and casting a vision following the meal.   The event will be held at the Oxford City Civic Center.  Dinner will be provided. 
• We hope the evening is a festive occasion, celebrating the excellent work that everyone  has accomplished.  More to come as we get closer to the date. Steve Ricks
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  Directors,
  
  
  
  In an attempt to operate more in the advance planning, QII mode, we have set the following dates for statewide staff meetings.
  
  
  
  August 17-19, 2010
  

  October 5-7, 2010
  

  January 11-13, 2011
  

  March 29-31, 2011