Hi Leaders:
I'm putting up a place where Joyce and I and anyone else who is helping with the Mid Winter Conference can post messages, information, notes, reminders and ideas.
When: Feb 3, 2006, 9-1
Where: Hereford University Center, Rio Grande Ballroom at UTA
Concurrent Sessions in "Smart Rooms" in Trimble Hall
Brandon Gunnip has been contacted to help with presenters with technology. He's our tech specialist at UTA COED.
We would love it if our Scott Floyd could come also! (and bring your wife!!!!)
Flyer attached
Joyce has passed out handouts to Literacy Coaches
Jeannine has sent handouts to Coppell and Grapevine Colleyville and will be giving some to Carrolton/Farmer's Branch.
I am going to mail flyers and follow up with a phone call and or visit if I can get appts with some of the smaller districts around us. I'm thinking of south of us, so that we don't intrude on North Star's space. I'd like to look at working with the small rural districts. Suggestions for districts? Anyone have contacts at these districts? A personal contact always helps gets a foot in the door.
I guess maybe I should mail out flyers to all our TCs to pass out at their schools. What do you think?
I have contacted Scholastic for a book fair as has Joyce. I'm just going to be a terrier and stay after them until they call us back! We have to go through their Waco store rather than the Arlington store for book fairs.
We need to hit the ground running in January and I'll be packaging up materials: pamphlet, conference flyer, applications for SI. We need to wrap up the SI aps seriously by the weekend after the conference.
I'm thinking we might have an interview committee at the conference and if someone indicates an interest, we could just have Bluebonnets take them aside and do a 15 minute interview.
I'm thinking that the "memo of understanding" which says if you accept you will give us six weeks notice if you have to drop in order that your place may be given to someone else, should be put on that triplicate paper!
So my big focus, is going to be RECRUITING for the conference and the SI!
We need committees and ideas!
Maybe you can forward those to Joyce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just putting up things she and I have already discussed so we have a point of reference over the next two months!!!
Merry Christmas (yes, I say Merry Christmas)!
