September 7, 2012

• We have September 10th as a debrief from the RSS and September 17th as a staff meeting day.  Let's have our staff meeting on the 10th and not meet on the 17th.  We can meet at 10 am. 
• Mr. Edge at Attalla Elementary emailed over the weekend that the 12th is better for his school for the science specialists to come and not the 11th. 
• Ms. Tice at Moody elementary said the 11th is fine for the math specialists to come. 
• Since Moody E is K 3, Mr. Odell at Wellborn Elementary  has requested Sept 14 so maybe Kay can meet with Wellborn E.  

Update:

October staff meeting is for Math specilists only - and Tanya-- October 8 - 11

October staff meeting is in Birmingham at the Lincoln center.  Begins at 1 pm on 8th and ends at noon on the 11th.

November 27 - 30 is a directors meeting in Montgomery.  November 27 is directors meetings, RPT on November 28 and November 29-30 is directors meeting.

August 29, 2012

On Site Support: In reviewing principal requests:

I have contacted Attalla Elementary (science K5) and Moody Elementary (mathK4) to see if specialist can meet with the teachers to schedule coaching cycle to begin September.

I will contact for science:
Striplin ,  Wellborn E, , Alexandria, and Moody E.

for math:
Wellborn E, Alexandria E, and Attalla.   Coldwater asked for January but I'm not sure if I will contact Coldwater or not.

Until we know more about the visits the RPT is making to the systems, I'm afraid to commit to anyone else.  I think 5 schools may take us to May since we have so many meetings.

We know Calhoun County wants us at Weaver E and Ohatchee E so those will be our backups.

We can start with Moody E for math and Attalla E for Science and once you are able to meet and plan some with them we can look at when you would be able to go to another school.  



Activity Log

The last info I have on Activity Log is that the SDE is thinking about placing that on Share Point (we were suppose to work with Share Point August 29-30).    We can do one of two things: 1) you can keep up with what you are doing in your calendar OR 2) I can give you another # from our current activity log and you can just place your info on the current date.  I don't know what the new form will look like or if you can transfer from a spreadsheet to it but I don't think will have changed much.  I believe the only change will be to seperate some stuff from "site duty" to reflect support a teacher just not face to face.


FYI

TO: City and County Superintendents of Education

Later today the district-designated staff who participated in training will receive notification from GlobalScholar indicating that the Performance Series and Achievement Series sites will go live tomorrow morning, Wednesday, August 29, and that your teachers can begin utilizing Performance Series within the site immediately. The notification will also include instructions for accessing the site that will include the format for Site IDs (both District and School Buildings), Staff IDs, and Passwords. GlobalScholar conducted multiple trainings on the Performance Series over the course of the last three weeks in to ensure that a cadre of educators exists in each system to help with access or test administration questions. Hopefully, those trained staff have been utilizing the materials and toolkit provided them to prepare your teachers for the Performance Series testing. If no one from your system has been trained, or if other questions arise requiring assistance, please notify GlobalScholar at the following link alsde@globalscholar.com . Please ensure that anyone who submits an e-mail to the GlobalScholar inbox indicates his/her school, district name, and the Inservice Region. This will allow site specialists to answer questions more quickly and identify issues that may be reoccurring in each region. GlobalScholar will offer training on the Achievement Series during the week of September 24-28, and more information on those sessions will be forthcoming.

I have copied your principals and your local technology coordinator so that they will also have this information.

Sherrill W. Parris

Deputy State Superintendent

Alabama Department of Education

P.O. Box 302101

Montgomery, AL 36130-2101

PH: 334-242-8154

E-mail: sparris@alsde.edu

STatewide staff meeting from June 2012

Our time together at the statewide staff meeting was very disjointed.  If possible, could I get a brief overview or debrief of information that was shared.  

I know math and science each had training but if there was info shared from math or science specialists at the SDE, it was not shared with directors.  Example, specialists PLT dates, materials needed for PLTs, 

7 Habits: 

Tuesday at 8:30 not 8:00.  Shelly will be here at 8:00 but we will not start until 8:30.  Melanie will set up the room on Friday, August 31st.  

More than likely, I will not be here tomorrow.  Since our meeting is canceled, I hope we can leave after Tim is finished at the hospital around lunch time.  

Happy Labor day weekend.  See you all on Tuesday.  RTR to the Bama fans. 

August 24, 2012

From JSU:


The Jacksonville State University Office of the Controller is pleased to announce the ability to payemployees via direct deposit (ACH) for non-payroll items. Effective 8/13/2012, reimbursements from JSU Accounts Payable will be deposited directly into your bank account, with no waiting for a check to be mailed. Notification of payment will be sent to you via e-mail. Direct deposit will be mandatory for all employee travel or other reimbursement payments.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

· You will get an email confirming the amount of your reimbursement and the date it was transmitted to your bank.

· Confirm with your financial institution that your reimbursement has been deposited into your account before writing checks against these funds.

· In the unlikely event that your bank does not accept the direct deposit, Accounts Payable will review the problem and notify you.

Initially, payments will be deposited into the primary account on file with Payroll. However, if a change is required for the reimbursement deposit, the employee must complete the Direct Deposit Authorization For Reimbursements Via Accounts Payable.

Send completed form or fax to (256) 782-5967.

Jacksonville State University
Accounts Payable Office

309 Bibb Graves
700 Pelham Rd N
Jacksonville, AL 36265

Please note: If you change account or bank after signing up, download and fill out a new form and return it to Accounts Payable with an indication that your information has changed.

• Remember to submit an agenda with all reimbursements for travel for meetings/conferences. 
• Out of state reimbursement requires RECEIPTS! Keep all receipts when traveling out of state. 

FYI:

• Monday, August 27, 2012:

The annual meeting of faculty and staff will be Monday, August 27 at 8:00 a.m. in Leone Cole Auditorium. Coffee and pastries will be served beginning at 7:30 a.m.

I'm fairly certain that after the annual meeting, you will need to go to the COE for that meeting.  Dr. Ryan will introduce Amber and Shelley.

Previous years, people close to the site met here and took a van.  Those closer to Jacksonville met the others in Jacksonville.  The Material staff will not be in attendance, kits are being picked up.

Tanya and Kay will be in Bham working on the MSP grant and will not be in attendance.  We will have one of the vans.

• Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Tanya will be in Gardendale at the Key Leader meeting. 

• Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Specialists and Tanya will LEAVE the site at 6:00 am.   Please arrive 5 to 10 minutes early so we can load your luggage into the vans.   Our hotel: 

Fairfield Inn & Suites Montgomery Airport South7560 Mobile Highway,
Montgomery, Alabama 36105 USA Phone: 1-334-281-6882Fax: 1-334-281-6930

Confirmation numbers:  84359781, 84359765, 84359767, 84359766

The meeting begins at 9:00 am each day.  Wednesday the meeting ends at 4:00 and Thursday at 3:30.  

On Thursday, I will give a brief overview of our work.  We will have sentence strips with the names of the systems we serve on the wall.  I will ask everyone to pick a system that you have worked with and share 1 minute your work in that system.  Please everyone take a different system.  We haven't spent much time in Anniston City \, Piedmont City or Jacksonville City but we have been everywhere else, I think.   .   

Reminder: Tim will pick me up on Thursday so I will need some of my luggage from the van and I will send a bag with the van.  As well as my crate, the projector and my stuff from these two days. 

• Friday, August 31, 2012

Melanie is going to set up the room for 7 Habits which begins on Tuesday.  Monday is Labor day. 

Everyone remember to bring your 7 Habits workbook.  We will have journals for everyone. 

• I received notification today that our MSP grant is funded!  WHOOOHOOOO

We will provide OGAP training for faculties of ACHE schools over the next 3 years.   Additive, Multiplicative, Fractional and Proportional.  AND we will establish Robotic programs in the middle schools and hopefully they will compete in the robotic competition.  We will being with an OGAP training in June 2013.   We will get those dates set withing the next few weeks so we can plan for that.  The OGAP training will be at the InService Center, I think.  

I hope everyone has a GREAT weekend.  Specialists:  safe travels today!  Someone text me to let me know you are home safely! 

August 10, 2012 part B

A couple of items I forgot::

• Travel Agenda

Please remember, for any travel to any meetings, please include an agenda with your travel reimbursement.
I can't remember if I shared this or not, but the week of July 4, campus called concerning our travel from the Statewide Staff meeting.  And they needed an agenda for everyone before they would reimburse us for our travel.
I had a copy of math because Shelia always "cc" the directors when she contacts the specialists.
Lynn attached it to all of the travel and it went through.
I contacted Martha Ann and Steve for agendas as back up but they accepted it because it didn't specific math specialists.
So.. from now on, please remember to include an agenda for any meeting.  This include conferences, any meeting you are requesting reimbursement.

• Math Specialists

Leigh Twigg said that Calhoun County is having training here next week for Math in Focus and if you are here and would like to attend, you are officially invited.

Monday is K
Tuesday is 1,2
Wednesday is 3.4
Thursday is 5,6

She wants support with grades 5 and 6.  She is familiar with the other grades but will need support in 5 and 6.  That is the discussion that lead to me sharing with her that I want to develop PD for grades 6  - 8 to help with objectives that have moved / shifted to those grade levels.

• Van for all the trips on the calendar

I have reserved the vans for all of our trips which are on the calendar:  OGAP, KLN, PCN, RSS, RPT, Statewide staff meetings, TTT, ASTA, NSTA, ACTM, director's meetings,PDs next week etc.

 

August 10, 2012

AMSTI Website Changes: From Jerry Cobbs

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jerry W. Cobbs <cobbsj@uah.edu> wrote:

Good morning all,

If you haven't noticed, AMSTI has grown considerably in terms of staff.  We have well over 250 Google Apps accounts, a good indicator of full-time staff numbers.

Due to school schedules, we tend to make staff changes in bunches at certain times of the year.  In the process of back & forth emails, sometimes it gets confusing to keep up with who is working where.

To streamline the process, we now have a "Staff Info Change Form" on the website.  The page is in the drop-down menu under "Staff Pages."  

This page is not visible unless you are logged in under one of the staff accounts-- "directors," "materials," "amstiscience," "amstimath," "SDEupdate."  This is to protect from random pranksters submitting a form.

Once you go to the page, the form should be self-explanatory.  Just fill out the change info and click the "Submit" button.  An email will be sent to me, to Ben Hicks, and to Debbie Newsome at SDE.

Below the form, there is also a file uploader for photos.  You can use it to send a photo with your request.  Please note that if you are ONLY updating a photo for an existing staff member, you still need to also submit the request form.  The uploader by itself does not send out a notice, so we will not know you have a new photo unless you use the form.  There is a checkbox on the form for "New Photo Only".

Thanks, and please let me know if you have any questions!

One additional note-- in re-reading this, I don't think I pointed out that we'd like to use this for ALL contact info changes, not just new hires.  New phone numbers, emails, office addresses, and title or position changes as well.  There are fields on the form to note each of these.

Next Week's PDs  - August 13 - 16

August 13, 2012

White Plains Middle School:  Data Driven

12:00 -2:00

Tanya

August 14, 2012

Attalla  Elementary

Data Driven

8:00-10:00

Kay and Cherie

August 14, 2012

Alexandria Elementary

Data Driven

3rd grade: 8:00 - 9:30

4th grade: 9:30-11:00

5th grade: 12:30 - 2:00

Amber, Tara, and Shelley

August 15, 2012

Saks Elementary

Data Driven

2;00 - 3:30

Tanya

August 16, 2012

Questioning

10:00 - 12:00

Kay, Tara an Cherie

Science Activities

1:00 - 3:00

Polly, Cherie, Tara and Shelley

Math teachers meet with Kay

1:00 - 3:00

Hokes Bluff Middle School

Data Drive

9:00 - 10:30

Tanya

10:30 - 12:00

PLT meets with Tanya

RSS meetings Sept - May

Good news!  Wendy Warren contacted me on Wedneday to reserve rooms at the In Service Center for the meetings Sept through May.  I have rooms reserved and we are waiting on an official form from the SDE requesting to use rooms at the InService Center.  But I think that is just a formality.  So yea!

I hope we are able to leave the morning of the 29th because I have a Key Leader meeting on the 28th.  We do not have times for the 29-30th yet.  I asked Wendy and she said they are working on a place and determining times and she will notify me when everything is set. 

I believe our training on the 29th and 30th will involve the InSights Database for College and Career Ready Standards AND the Global training that was held at the InService Center on Wednesday. 

7 Habits training

The PD is listed on the JSU website.  Please register.  Other AMSTI sites will send people too.   September 4 -6  is the PD.  Tuesday after Labor day.    The specialists and I will be at a meeting in Montgomery, August 29-30, (Wednesday and Thursday before).  Tim will pick me up in Montgomery and we will go to his brother's house for Labor Day weekend.    I will not be there on Friday.  The room for 7 Habits, (2101, I think,) needs to be set up on Friday because we will begin at 8 am on Tuesday morning.   We will need tool boxes (make sure they have post it notes and highlighters), chart paper.   The room should be prepare for about 32 people, (8 tables with 4 people).  Do we want to bring simple snacks and water? It will be 8 - 430 for the three days so everyone will need to adjust their work time to 8 - 430 for those 3 days.   

Updates:

• OGAP: and ACHE

We've heard for the past year or so... What is AMSTI doing for nonAMSTI schools?  Well we are going to provide OGAP training (Additive and Multiplicative) for 2 schools in June 2013 who are not AMSTI schools.  Steve has provided the funds for us to do this (no materials for the school, we will just need training materials and to print participant guides)  and extended our contract so we can do this.  I hope to get those dates set in the next week or so.  I would love to use our math staff to present these sessions.  Let me know if you think we will be able to present these sessions at that time.   You can co present, two for additive and two for multiplicative. 

OGAP for our ACHE schools will be October 1 - 5.  Rachel Broadhead will be the presenter.   Additive will be October 1 and 2 and Multiplicative will be October 3-5.  This is limited to Phase II PLT schools for Multiplicative (grades 3 -8) and since this is our first offering of Additive, then any school (k-2 teachers ) who has participated in the past 4 years in ACHE PLTs has been invited to additive.

ACHE : science for grades 6 -8, will be October 25.  Again, we haven't offered anything for these grades so anything ACHE PLT schools with grades 6-8 can send a science teacher.  A NASA specialists will present the Basics of Rocketry. 

If my MSP grant is funded, then we will build off the ACHE training and offer to ACHE schools over the three year period of the grant, Additive reasoning, Multiplicative, Fractional and Proportion reasoning to the whole math faculty at those schools.  We will also, work with the lead team, (the ACHE PLT members who have had OGAP training) to provide them  Coaching training so they can be the expert at their school and provide support at their school. 

The list of current ACHE Schools is on a poster in my room.  The list of all who have participated in on the G drive and in a folder possibly called ACHE. 

• Calhoun County concern and I'm sure other systems  have the same concerns

I met with Leigh Twigg on Wednesday and Natasha Scott attended the Alexandria HS COS meeting.   Leigh wanted to know what our support will look like since they now have Math In Focus as their text.  I said we will continue to support their schools and when we are in a school and ask to teach a lesson, we may pull from Investigations or use OGAP strategies or other strategies.  Everyone is worried about 6-8th grades. 

I really believe we need to develop a tool box of lessons for the major changes (objectives moved to a grade level) in each grade level.  Probability and statistics are always low.  I don't know how we can roll out the tool box of lessons, but those schools that have PLT teams could focus on those during one of their meetings.  Right now, we just need to focus on finding / developing lessons.   We need to think about this and come up with a plan.  This could also develop into grade level PD that we offer in the summer for all schools.  We have the Brain Compatible books and Worksheets don't grow Dentrites books that we could pull from for activities. I'm not sure how objective specific they are.

I would love to offer Pennant Fever and Pollster Dilemma (IMP books) training for all advanced math teachers.  That would have to be AMSTI specific because we would have to provide materials.  I'm going to think about that and how to make it happen.   Textbooks do not address the standards for advanced math when it comes to probability and statistics. 

I would also like to have BLOGS or Google Groups for each grade level in math or science kit in science.  Those could be used to post links to lessons found.  Teachers can subscribe and could have access to links to lessons.  Science could use them in the same way but also as a trouble shooting source.  None of this has to be in place when school starts on August 20 but I want us to think about these things and see if we can implement some.  Principals have actually asked me if we those types of online resources.   We can expand our help though online resources.  I bet Amber or Eric can provide this PD on how to make Blogs or create Google Groups. 

 

 

July 20, 2012

Correction:   Don't know if it was me or the Anniston Star or  a combination of the two.   Mr Andy Ward is the principal at White Plains High School, (formerly principal at White Plains Elementary) and Mr. Jonathan Gilbert is the principal at White Plains Elementary (formerly assistant at the HS and at one time the MS).  Summer Davis is assistant at the Elementary and Derek Cobb is at the Middle so I'm not sure where he was an AP last year.  


We need to move our staff meeting from August 13 to August 6 when we debrief from August 3rd meeting.

Schedule of PD request:
August 7, 2012: Alexandria HS MATH COS
August 13, 2012:  White Plains Middle (data and science help)
August 14, 2012: Alexandria E (data, meet by grade level) AND Attalla E
August 15, 2012: Sardis HS and Saks E (2:00-3:30)
August 16, 2012: Handley Middle (science and questioning)  AND Hokes Bluff Middle (data)
August 17, 2012:

• To be schedule:

Wellborn E has asked for help with math.  They also want data.  Maybe the math specialists can plan to go there August 21, 27 and 28.

Pleasant Valley HS: data
Ohatchee E: Data
Oxford E: time management and classroom management
Ohatchee HS:  instructional strategies

We are in high demand this year.   I need at least one more person to be able to facilitate data driven PDs.  Maybe two more people (a helper wouldn't be a bad idea for each person facilitating the data PD's). A math/science combo would be good as well as K-5/ms combo.    Let me know if you are interested and can help.  I will run a trainer of trainer for data PD on Tuesday, July 24 for anyone interested  presenting the data PD.

I will prepare a questioning PD. If someone is willing to work on preparing a time management PD and or classroom management PD, please let me know.  I have some resources and a PD for classroom management but it needs to be tweaked and updated.  Since it is an elementary school, the time management PD probably needs to be prepared by one of the K-5 specialists.  Sorry Melanie and Shelley.

I need lots of people entering data into spreadsheets so the PD's can take place.  Let me know if you will input data.  Tara has begun working on entering data.  The graphs will need to be updated and printed and glued to contruction paper.  The graphs will need to be inserted into a Powerpoint (already made) and saved by school.  

There is a PD that has been developed for Differentiated Instruction.  It needs to be "dusted off" and shared with those who have not presented it.   We may need it for Ohatchee HS.

There is a 5 E PD that has been developed.  It needs to be "dusted off" and shared with those who have not presented it.   We may need it for Ohatchee HS.

Alexandria HS wants a Math COS PD - date: August 7 at 9:00.   Only math teachers 7 - 12.

Attalla Elementary wants help with their 2nd grade math.  Donna can you go spend  3 days with them in August?  Help with Investigation?  We can take them some manipulatives too.  Maybe the week of August 13-17?

Anything that needs to be printed we will send to the print shop.  If there is a participant packet for Differentiated Instruction or 5E's, send it to me electronically with printing instructions.  (how many, single sided or double sided, hole punch, etc)   The print shop will NOT insert into folders.

Summary:
Questioning PD: Tanya will tweak and get ready but someone will need to present on August 16 at Handley M.

Need:

• Data PD presenters/helper:  Need 2 presenter/helpers total of 4 people
• To create / tweak a Classroom Management PD
• To create Time Management PD
• Differentiated Instruction shared with other and someone ready to present
• 5 E PD shared with others and someone ready to present

August 6-10 science training:
A couple of changes:
August 6 and 7:  K, 3rd and 4th
August 8 and 9: 1st and 2nd
August 9 and 10: 5th
August 6-9: 7th and 8th at White Plains Middle

We need someone to:

• sign in sheets/book
• participate packets made and mailed
• trainer packets made and mailed
• notebooks -empty notebooks - from 3170, one per person because the print shop does not make notebooks. 
• Participant guides are at the print shop being printed:  the participate packets will be 3 hole punched.  The participants can put the copies in the notebooks but we need to make sure we have notebooks for them.  

Housekeeping

• We have received a thank you note from Sandy Ledwell.
• Invitation to Dr. Carr's retirement reception: Houston Cole Library Monday, July 23 from 3:00 - 5:00

• The critters for the science kit training for August 6 will arrive on Thursday August 2nd since we will be gone on August 3rd.   Cherie, will you please prepare the habits for their arrival?  Critters for training on the 8th will arrive on the 7th. 

Equipment 
GPS, cameras, student response systems (clickers), and video projectors in the rolling bags, etc are in the vault in 3170 and borrowed, they should be check outed.   See Jason to check out the material.  .  As soon as you are finished with the item return it and he will mark it returned.   These items will eventually be bar coded and placed into AIMS for check out. 

July 13, 2012

July 13, 2012

• Info/Reminder:  new travel reimbursement procedures.
• There is a new travel form.   Please begin using the new form.  It is on our shared drive.  "G" drive
• Any travel (other than travel to schools) requires an agenda to be submitted with the request for reimbursement. 
• For recording keeping purposes, please submit travel to schools seperate from travel to state meetings. 
• My assumption is that unless I receive an "invite" from you on Google calendar, that you are here from 8-430 or 7-330 (guys 6-230).  
• Please, please, please, please remember to "invite Kay and Tanya" to any event  that will take you out of the office/school regardless if it is NCD, annual leave, sick leave, using time spent/worked during summer training, etc.   If your event is after hours (after 3:30 or 4:30 depending on whether you arrive at 7 or 8) then we do not need to be invited. I can not stress the importance of this enough. This is very important.This has to become a habit for everyone. The invites need to be in advance and not last minute unless something comes up.  Please keep your calendar updated at least weekly.  As soon as you know you are going to need to be out of the office, please place it on the calendar.    
• I think it would be a good idea to print your calendar each month at the end of the month and keep a copy.  Google calendar does NOT keep dates forever. 
• I am open to any other way that you may think of in order for you to "request/document" time off.   We do not "sign in" or have any other record  therefore our Google Calendar is our documentation. 
• I can keep a calendar in my office and you can come write you dates down in it. 
• I can create a form that you submit to me for days you are going to be off for whatever reason.  
• Regardless of what method we decide upon for you to let me know that you are requesting to be out of work, your Google Calendar will have to be up to date as our documentation of days worked.  

• August 3, 2012 meeting - RSS:   We will need to travel on August 2nd because as I understand it, the meeting begins at 8 am and is in Montgomery. We do not have details.  As soon as I have details, I will share them with you. 
• August 6, 2012 :  Staff meeting, debrief from August 3rd and make any adjustment to plans based on what we heard on August 3rd.    9:00 am
• Be prepared/forewarned: Something was shared with me that I feel the need to pass on to you.   The SDE boss, not anyone with AMSTI, from here on out, regardless of our plans, if we are asked to attend a meeting, (SDE) then we will have to change our plans and be there.  The SDE person in charge excepts no excuses and is not polite about it. We were advised to tell everyone that they had to be there on August 3rd.  Steve is the one that is giving us permission for those on vacation not to be there.  
• August 29-30, 2012 meeting:   RSS,  We will need to travel on August 28th.
• The other RSS meetings should be in our InService Region.  We will know more after August 3, and 29-30. 
• September 10, 2012 : Staff meeting if needed to debrief from August 29-30 RSS meeting.  We will plan to debrief as needed after each of these meetings.  9:00 am
• September 4-6, 2012:  7 Habits PD for all staff.  AMSTI JSU employees who have never had the 7 habits PD will receive a workbook.  Those of us who have been through it before, bring your workbook you used previously and we will use a journal for the writing.  If you want to clip it in the workbook you can or you can just use the journal.  
• The session is open to all AMSTI sites in case in one from another site contacts you.   They need to register through the InService Center and provide their own 7 Habits Workbook. 
• I need everyone's help in putting together some data. 
•  I need everyone to look up 7 schools and enter their data on a spreadsheet (that I will provide) for any year that we do not have their ARMT scores (levels 1, 2, 3, and 4).  You can work on past years scores now and add in this years scores when they are posted. I will add the spreadsheet to a google document next week and you can work on it whenever you can.  
• More changes for Calhoun County: According to the Annsiston Star, July 11 edition:
• Crystal Sparks (formerly AP at Weaver Elementary) is the new AP at Alexandria HS.
• Jonathan Gilbert (formerly AP at White Plains E) is new Principal at White Plains HS.  Polly will remember him as one of our LAMST teachers from Anniston. (Golden Springs E, maybe)
• Mark Proper (formerly AP at Pleasant Valley HS) is the new Principal at Pleasant Valley HS.
• Lynn attended a meeting on Wednesday in regards to Audits and Equipment.  
• I have created a Google Document.  Please record the serial number and the location (building and room where you are located) of all equipment issue to you. Laptops, desktops, any printer you use.  (shared printers need to be listed only once.) If there is a JSU sticker on it, please record that number.   
• Auditors will make random walk through checks.  
• Barry, please include the "Big Joe" and any other equipment in the warehouse that is pricey
• Pictures:  So, everytime I thought we would have picture day, I forgot.  So.... if someone will get a camera from 3170 and set a day for picture day, if you want your AMSTI.org picture updated, you can get a new picture made.  Who will volunteer to be the photographer?   Just let me know and set a date for picture day.  
• Dr. Carr's retirement:  We have received an invitation to attend Dr. Carr's retirement reception on july 23, 2012 from 3:00 - 5:00 PM at the Houston Cole Library 12th floor. 
• August 6 and 7th: Science year 1 kit training:  K, 2nd, and 4th
• August 8 and 9th: Science year 1 kit training: 1st, 3rd, and 5th
•