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Minutes from
KATESOL/BE Board Meeting, held in
Members
present: Robb Scott, Kristin Grayson, Stephanie McGinley, Janet Booth,
Christopher E. Renner, Debra Stevens.
Financial report
Debra put 5,000 into
a Certificate of Deposit that matures in December. Checking:
$5,415.37. Savings: $1,044.11 Total 11,459.48
Membership
196 members; Debra said it was helpful to contact via email a month before
membership expires and has had a good result in getting members to renew; has
had several Gary Co. school staff join.
Janet Booth is
member at large from the eastern part of the state; she reported
NABE News
No one attended at the affiliate council meeting, which was held in
August. I am including the message about the resignation from the NABE
Board of Silvana
Carlos here. The message is from Zaida A. Cintron,
Ph.D., NABE Board President:
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Dear Affiliate members: I hope this is a great,
productive academic year for all of you. Please let us know if we can
help in any way to make this a successful year.
As you know, we have a vacancy on the NABE Board. We would like to have a
full board for our next meeting in October, since we have a full agenda and
will be very busy in the upcoming months with preparations for our Conference
in January. To that effect the Board will hold an executive session by
conference call early next week.
We would like to obtain input from our Affiliates for this process. While
the bylaws establish that the decision be made by the Board, we believe that
this is a good opportunity to continue the communication we've tried to
establish with our Affiliates and to have your participation.
If you would like to have the Board consider a nominee, I would request that
you submit ONE name to me by e-mail by Friday
All submissions will be discussed at the conference call meeting. Thanks
for your prompt attention to this matter.
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TESOL News -
Statement on B1 visa which helps IEP programs. TESOL is preparing a statement about Title 1 changes.
Nominations of New Officers
December newsletter will carry the ballot. Need a new vice president;
Janet Booth's position is up for election; need a new editor with a commitment
for 2 - 3 years. Should also be willing to attend
the editors meeting at TESOL.
Would be great to know who will be the new vice-president before hand so that
we can have some idea about where the annual conference will be.
KATESOL/BE Honor Roll -
Robb talked about the idea to have 10 teachers - one from each State School
Board member district- and 5 from Higher Ed IPE, Adult Ed, teacher
educators...maybe it would be a good idea to have the IHEs
nominate some of their students from their endorsement programs...
Guidelines for nominations will be circulated; Robb will send a draft of
outline and board will provide feedback; then will post guidelines and will
inform interested parties; suggest that Melanie Stuart be provided with
nominations form that she could send out to district ESOL
Directors/Coordinators.
Board will come up with a rubric to determine who gets the award.
Conference Budget
Kristin presented a
budget which covered the cost of the conference from three scenarios...
Budget 1, reflects
Variable is on the lunch,,, we need to get a tax
exempt certificate so that we don't have to pay sales tax. Go for state
sales tax exempt status.
Facilities fee $3,00 per person for Friday and $6.00
per person, for Saturday.
Have reserved 6 rooms which are "smart" rooms for
the technology strand. One room will be dedicated for vendors to
show their products with a change of $50.00 per session.
Budget 2 - Jones institute does in-house conferencing for ESU.
Kristin has visited
with Jones institute and has come up with a proposal which cuts the cost of the
use of ESU, but we will have to give the Jones Institute some of our
take. The cost for the Jones Institute is $3,000.
Budget 3 - reflects the possibility of ESU lowering the cost of step up and
other charges.
Kim Kreicker needs to keep in close contact with
Debra, our Treasure, because that is our tradition person in change of the
vendors.
Kristin wants to
have ESL students produce the center piece for tables and encourage displays of ESOL student work including art, writing,
presentations from content classes etc.
Robb moved that we approve budget two and approves spending $3,000 for the
Jones Institute. Stefanie second. Motion
carried unanimously.
KATESOL Conference
Registration fees are: $40.00 early bird and $75.00 on-sight. Regular is
$50.00. Robb discussed two mechanisms which need to be in place: 1) Some
people are going to send their registration to Debra and she will need to have
a way to get that information to the Jones institute; and, 2) Kim will need to
have the same mechanism for vendors.
Christopher and
Kristin will be in charge of judicating the
proposals.
No refund policy in case of snow. This needs to be indicated on the
registration form.