Spring Board Meeting 2010 Reports

Posted Thu, 03/04/2010 - 14:36 by admin

District Directors and Committee Chairs 

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by dmcculley - 04/11/2010 - 12:13

1. Continued to send out monthly eblasts

2. Composed and sent out the April eblast (I switched with Toni, as she thought she might be a bit busy!)

3.  Ran a middle school regional Science Olympiad competition in Madison in March. 

4.  Will be at the WSST spring conference

Respectfully submitted,

Denise McCulley

 

by kjniemi - 04/06/2010 - 16:01

No new business for the SP committee. The final five year plan after review by the document review committee was passed at the December 2009 board meeting. The accepted revisions were corrected in the document and the working version of the WSST strategic plan was submitted to Julie for posting on the WSST website. 

Respectfully submitted,

Kevin Niemi, Strategic Planning Chair

by karyl rosenberg - 04/06/2010 - 13:48

1.  I continue to communicate and share information with my district members. I will be forwarding the April e-blast from Denise shortly.

2.  I gave 2 free memberships out at the Winter Milwaukee Area Physics Sharing meeting.  I have been encouraging people to attend this group through my messages.

3. I plan to discuss some future get togethers for District 7 members at the town hall meeting during the conference.

4. I served as a judge at the Badger State Science and Engineering Fair in Milwaukee on March 27.

5. I helped Ray Scolavino with his Practice Interview program fro pre service teachers in the UWM MACSTEP program.

6. I still have DIstrict 6 Cards!  Help me out Ed !

See you all in LaCrosse-

Karyl

 

by tgerend - 04/03/2010 - 16:48

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District 3- Tammy Gerend

1.  I continue to forward information to District 3 members including the monthly e-mail.  I still get many e-mail messages that bounce back.

3. I have not given out any more free memberships since fall/winter meeting.

4.   I had to cancel the snowshoe and natural history hike at Maywood due to lack of interest.  I was the only WSST member that was going to go.  I did have a high school junior that was interested in going.  I work with in the Workbound program.

5.  I created and sent out the March e-blast.   I am a little behind since I have been sick with bronchitis for the past seven weeks and I am finally starting to get back to normal

Expenses: none

Respectfully submitted,

Tammy Gerend

by tcox@berlin.k12... - 04/01/2010 - 12:32

There are currently no document reviews in progress.  All official documents of WSST were reviewed and revisions submitted at the Winter Board meeting for action.

by Ed Mueller - 03/28/2010 - 11:14

This page, on the WSST website, will be a great way to get our reports to each other and to the Board Meetings.  What I like best, is the formats will be similar and therefore less time need to massage the messages.  Hopefully, we can get use to posting here quickly so the LaCrosse Board can read the info ahead of time.

Thanks Julie for setting this up for us.

ed

by admin - 03/28/2010 - 06:11

Web Report Spring 2010

Submitted by Julie Fitzpatrick

Foundation requested a space on the home page for their front and center grant.

Members will be able to apply on-line at the convention for a $150 grant.

A Lab out loud link has been added to the home page, thank you Dale and Brian for making this possible.

Updated the committee members on the web, and posted revised WSST documents.

Added awards link for awards and recommendation. A list of Nationally Board Certified teachers is posted to our web site.

Current news continues to be posted to the center column of the web page.

Using the WSST web site as a porthole to conference links has worked well. 

Justin & Toni did an outstanding job with the conference web links. Justin had a nice system for using the web to keep our members current on the up coming convention.

The web is being used, the conference home page has over 9000 hits, the link page has over 4000. Last year blogs received 700-1000 hits. The News Letter link has been viewed over 4000 times.

A members only block for posting reports has been added to the home page of WSST.  Directors and Committee chairs will be asked to post their reports under comments. Users will only be able to access the board meeting block if they are logged in. The reports will have to be approve before they can be viewed by the directors.  This method is a trial run and will be evaluated as to the efficiency of the method.  If it works reports will be archived.   

The minutes from 2002-2009 are in the process of  being posted under the board meeting block.  The newsletter format is being used. A link to WSST documents has also been placed under the board  meeting block.

Dale has been very helpful with any questions that I have.  I would not want go solo with the website. Dale is really a web guru.

Note:  All committees need to add to their list to make sure to update Julie with current e-mail contact for their group.  We need to figure out a way to facilitate this.

by admin - 03/20/2010 - 19:17

Public Relations Report Meeting March 13th 9:00 – 12:00

Spring Board Meeting

Goal:  Make this group functional with a procedural operating manual. Strategic plan action step I B3.

Present: Julie Fitzpatrick, Kelley Hoffman, Deb Wearne-Neurohr, Kara Pezzi, Susan Harrington, Becky Peppler

A brief history of the PR Committee and introduction where made.

Reviewed with the new to WSST members the structure of WSST.

It really helped having Kara, Sue and Deb present. All three have been very involved in WSST.

The WSST veterans Kara, & Sue felt it was important to have a committee person present at the board meeting.Committee members could be future officers. There needs to be better communication between the directors and the committees.

Divided into two groups: booth design and review of strategic plan. 

New pictures are in the process of being made for the booth. The task of gathering photos will be a joint venture.

Entire group discussed, what we need to do as group as outlined in the strategic plan and what we would like to do as a group.

A list of teacher education institutions is to be maintained: Action step 1-A.6a.  Sue had the old list in hard copy.  Kelley will be putting this list back into a digital form. PR will keep this list updated.

Request:  We are asking District Reps to gather names and contact information of all colleges in their district.  List is started.

The Public Relations committee needs of a new committee chair. Kelley Hoffman expressed interest. Will be getting back to us on her decision.

The group selected new clothes for the booth.

Started a rough outline of a procedural manual

New ideas to be finalized at the summer meeting:

Recruit WSST members to present at WEAC.The presentation will be a dynamic science lesson with an invitation to the WSST convention.  Will check with WEAC about stipend and request funding from WSST.

Help the president review forms from the convention registration looking for people who checked that they want to be involved. Three of the group had in the past checked want to serve on a committee in the conference registration but was never contacted.

Future ideas to be discussed at the June meeting:

Try using Haiku as a communication tool for PR group.

Explore the possibilities of using face book as a social network for WSST.

Explore the possibility of using CESA as a contact for WSST.

Connect with NSTA to find new members maybe even advertise in their publications.

First time at the convention, stop by the booth for a free gift.