Hotel Registration for National/Upcoming Renewal Grant for 07-08
Leaders:
You will have to go onto the NCTE home page and go to the conference. From there you can book a room. Just checking you have read my e-mails that you will have to pay for your own hotel and that includes booking it. I can pay for flights and registration, which will come out close to 600 per person. We are taking six people and that utilizes the budget we allocated for this trip.
We pulled money for your trip to Washington, and we have to pay flights for two leadership trips. We will utilize monies from other accounting lines to get all this required travel in. That's why it is SO important that we all come back and share what we've learned with other Bluebonnets and in our workplaces.
We also will have to seriously develop a stronger recruiting plan and staff development plan.
In October we will all be tasked with writing a report of what we've done this year. This will be for our renewal grant. For whoever decides to stay in their leadership position for the 07-08 year, each person will have to write a plan for what they will do in their area of leaderhsip in October as well. We have to have those drafts done by 10/31. I'll e-mail copies of the grant on Saturday, if each of you can remind me, please. Also, I'm asking each leader to estimate their budget expenses for their area of leadership with a short justification. This will go into that grant.
I can try to call NCTE on Sat. I've obtained permission to register (from Department Chair) and/but the site doesn't seem to want to take everyone's information so I'm going to call in the information. My guess is they are not working on Saturday.
Also, I have NO administrative help whatsoever. We are not allowed to work through the department secretary any longer due to her intense workload and we don't have a research assistant so everything that gets done I have to do. And that gets fit into a heavy duty teaching, research,writing, and committee work schedule. Unless we get help, I may have to ask people to so "service" hours if they choose just to help out the project. Keeping up with this kind of clerical work, inventorying books, contacting people, recruiting, making staff development connections--I think if this project is going to run, it has to be a shared effort. That's why when we make the budget this year, you will need to decide what stipend you can work for, what you can contribute, how you can bring in money etc.
Janelle and Heather made break even money on their camps--due to the screw up with Continuing Ed and just a general downturn in camp attendance across the board.
I contributed all of my earnings in two different staff developments to our activity fund.
Jill contributed a required 10% from two-three staff developments and that's ALL we made.
Our accountant (Mike Mathis from NWP) says mature sites can make six times the federal government contribution.
They do this by running open enrollment writing institutes which are not for university credit and the participants pay.
They run advanced institutes.
They do extensive staff development. We haven't really gotten off the ground here. We were making headway with Fort Worth and then that just sort of disappeared. I think that perhaps North Star is getting a lot of their writing business--they stared using us more for literature staff development--or at least me.
We just need to put on our creative thinking caps--think outside the box and see what we can come up with for staff development, mentoring, recruiting, and continuity. I think we have unmined gold in our e-village. We could run a lot through their if we're willing to do it. Help me conceptualize y'all!!!!!!
We pulled money for your trip to Washington, and we have to pay flights for two leadership trips. We will utilize monies from other accounting lines to get all this required travel in. That's why it is SO important that we all come back and share what we've learned with other Bluebonnets and in our workplaces.
We also will have to seriously develop a stronger recruiting plan and staff development plan.
In October we will all be tasked with writing a report of what we've done this year. This will be for our renewal grant. For whoever decides to stay in their leadership position for the 07-08 year, each person will have to write a plan for what they will do in their area of leaderhsip in October as well. We have to have those drafts done by 10/31. I'll e-mail copies of the grant on Saturday, if each of you can remind me, please. Also, I'm asking each leader to estimate their budget expenses for their area of leadership with a short justification. This will go into that grant.
I can try to call NCTE on Sat. I've obtained permission to register (from Department Chair) and/but the site doesn't seem to want to take everyone's information so I'm going to call in the information. My guess is they are not working on Saturday.
Also, I have NO administrative help whatsoever. We are not allowed to work through the department secretary any longer due to her intense workload and we don't have a research assistant so everything that gets done I have to do. And that gets fit into a heavy duty teaching, research,writing, and committee work schedule. Unless we get help, I may have to ask people to so "service" hours if they choose just to help out the project. Keeping up with this kind of clerical work, inventorying books, contacting people, recruiting, making staff development connections--I think if this project is going to run, it has to be a shared effort. That's why when we make the budget this year, you will need to decide what stipend you can work for, what you can contribute, how you can bring in money etc.
Janelle and Heather made break even money on their camps--due to the screw up with Continuing Ed and just a general downturn in camp attendance across the board.
I contributed all of my earnings in two different staff developments to our activity fund.
Jill contributed a required 10% from two-three staff developments and that's ALL we made.
Our accountant (Mike Mathis from NWP) says mature sites can make six times the federal government contribution.
They do this by running open enrollment writing institutes which are not for university credit and the participants pay.
They run advanced institutes.
They do extensive staff development. We haven't really gotten off the ground here. We were making headway with Fort Worth and then that just sort of disappeared. I think that perhaps North Star is getting a lot of their writing business--they stared using us more for literature staff development--or at least me.
We just need to put on our creative thinking caps--think outside the box and see what we can come up with for staff development, mentoring, recruiting, and continuity. I think we have unmined gold in our e-village. We could run a lot through their if we're willing to do it. Help me conceptualize y'all!!!!!!
posted by Scott S. Floyd @ 9:51 PM
1 Comments:
At 9/09/2006 1:14 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
I guess some of you might have found out already, but there are no rooms left at the Radisson on site and the Gaylord Opry is $167 a night. There are other options from the site, though.
Amerisuites is a 1/2 mile away and provides free shuttle (airport and Opry), free wireless WWW, and breakfast at $109 a night, but it is out of double/double rooms. It does have rooms with a king bed and a sofa that folds out.
The Guesthouse Intl. Inn & Suites is about a 1/4 mile away with free shuttle for airport and Opry, free WWW, with free breakfast for $90 a night and currently has all room styles available. It was remodeled in 2005. At 1/4 mile away it is walkable if the shuttle is busy.
Any idea what everyone wants to do? I figured we wanted to end up at the same hotel so we could shuttle together, so we need to make our reservations about the same time. I'm flexible. If that is still too high there are cheaper per night options, but they do not provide shuttles. We would have to rent a van at about $80 a day (or pay a lot of taxis).
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