September 16,2011

Please remember to complete your site report on Monday if you haven't completed it for September.


Dr. Hammett may be at our staff meeting on Monday.  When I sent him our list of meetings, he indicated he would be in attendance at the Sept. meeting. 


Please drive a van to any State Dept Meetings, or any meetings or PD that occur out of our InService Area (ASTA, ACTM).  If there is a reason you can't drive a van to an out of town PD/meeting, please, in advance, talk to Kay or Tanya concerning this matter.

Please submit a list by email to Kay and Tanya concerning any PD or meetings or training (you are attending or leading) that will take you out of the  schools. This includes any specialists PLTs that have formed around the state.   The list of dates below was shared on June 3rd and this is what we have scheduled our school plans around these dates. Please, always share in advance, any dates you receive that Tanya and Kay do not have.  We need to have discussion before agreeing to any dates not on the list.  Some specialists have been asked to attend monthly meetings around the state and honestly, that is too much. I'm in discussion with the SDE concerning that now and will bring it up at the next Director's meeting.

PCN meetings:  I think  CE Hanna, Moody M and Springville Middle are participating so this is a great opportunity to interact with those schools.  They will all be at the elementary meeting not the secondary meeting.  If you sit at their tables be sure to count those as contact hours.


New Dates: 
Director's meetings:
September 27-28, 2011
November 29-30, 2011
February 7th-8th and maybe 9th with Joanne
May 8th and 9th and maybe 10th with Joanne

Statewide Staff meetings
October 10th-13th  everyone
April 16th - 19th everyone
June 25th - 29th everyone

Possible TTT
February 21-23:  Math
February 27- March 2: Science
February 28- March 1: Math
March 5-8: Math

Science will hold one training for the whole state and math will hold one in the North, one in Central and one in the South.  Which date if for North, Central or South has not been decided.

Materials Manager meetings
September 13-14
April 3-4

Wording:

Just a side note!
In one of the books I'm reading for Key Leader, it says,  "monkeys receive training and people receive professional development".   Let's do our best not to refer to sessions we offer as training but as professional development.  I'm also trying to stop referring to them as workshops because people tend to think of a workshop as a one shot deal which we know research says is ineffective.  I am usually successful when I type it but it is taking a lot for me to stop saying training.   And the extended onsite support is really embedded professional development too.  


Brief Meeting
Monday around 1:30, we need to have a brief meeting to discuss the "staff" procedure notebook I'm getting together.  It will  take around 30 minutes.