Service, Support and Advocacy for Maryland Principals



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Service, Support and Advocacy for Maryland Principals

Executive Board Meeting

September 16, 2017

8:30 Call to Order and Introductions – Beth Allshouse, President

• Introductions were made with a total of 23 MAESP members present. New to the meetings were David Dove –PGCPS, Trevor Liburd – PGCPS, Charles Treft – Calvert, and Lori Phelps, Baltimore. Co. & Legislative Committee Chair

Welcoming Comments – Dr. Boyd J. Michael III, Superintendent, Washington County Public Schools

• Dr. Michael addressed the group. Dr. Michael is in his 1st year as Superintendent and has 39th years in education. He shared the message that he shares with his leadership teams. There are 4 non-negotiables:

o 1. Acting with urgency—critical for using time wisely, focusing on the high buy-in to the future/unknown workforce demands---teaching to think not just memorize facts/information---(automated driving versus physical truck drivers)

o 2. Put an excellent teacher in every classroom. Still #1 factor in education---What are we doing to keep and grow our staff? Our challenge is help them grow and avoid putting students with back-to-back poor teachers since students never get over that.

o 3. Having an excellent leadership team in every school---#2 most influential factor in every school is the principal. All decisions that the principal makes are crucial to the success of the school. Principals should take their time and hire the right people. Emphasis must be placed on spending time as a leader in your building to see what teachers and students are doing.

o 4. An excellent curriculum is necessary for every child along with fidelity to the curriculum that is designed. PD with teachers is essential.

• Some other things going on in Washington Co. - starting full day Pre-K

• Referred to meeting with all MD Superintendents yesterday with Lt. Gov. about the Opioid Crisis in MD----and in that discussion going back to children being born in the grips of addiction---Putting another strain on educators.

• Dr. Michael concluded his remarks and thanked everyone for their work throughout the state.

9:00 President’s Report – Beth Allshouse:

• Beth presented a recap of everything that has been going on since our last Exec Board meeting on March 4, 2017. Beth discussed the annual conference/meeting survey and reviewed the survey results with the Executive Board. In further discussion about the Annual Conference, Dave Dove from PGCPS, addressed the need for a speaker for Next Generation Science Standards. Trevor Liburd said he would forward the name of the PGCPS Science specialist who presented a very good session on the Next Gen. Science Standards.

• Over the summer, Beth met with Kelly Pollit from NAESP to speak about the Title II funding cuts proposed by POTUS. Beth noted this was an eye-opener as to how representatives vote on education items without any knowledge. Nancy brought up about how the secondary organization sends out weekly updates on what legislative education voting items are coming up that week. Dana McCauley informed the board that this service is also available from NAESP. The conversation continued and Judy Walker stated MAESP should be more involved at the state level to make sure the loudest people with the wrong message are not the voice for everyone.

• The National Conference in Philly was well attended and our Zone 3 was very well represented.

• August Executive Board Retreat: The biggest issue was Stephen Hagenbuch ’s retirement and how we would fill this vacancy. Dana McCauley explained the process of how we would look to fill the Administrative Assistant vacancy with someone in that position who would become the next Executive Director. Terry Ball applied for this position. She was interviewed by Steering Committee members. Dana moved that Terry Ball become the Administrative Assistant and the next Executive Director. “As of October 1st, we hire Terry Ball as the Administrative Assistant and to become the Executive Director at Steve’s official retirement July 1, 2018.” There was a 2nd by Dave DuLac. The motion was approved unanimously by the board.

• Teacher of the Year: Beth was involved as a judge and scored the semi-finalists. She will meet with them next Saturday to conduct interviews. The winner will be announced at the TOY Gala on Oct. 27th.

• Upcoming PD in Columbia MD---‘Teaching the Whole Child’: Beth asked that Board members encourage others to come to this PD opportunity. Judy Walker stated that there is a report coming out about Social/Emotional Functioning. Judy will forward this report. Steve noted that the area of social/emotional learning is an area where a high priority was placed by our members. October 4th is the scheduled PD offering but there are only 7 people registered and we need 25 to make this economically feasible. Please push the attendance as it reflects poorly on us advertising and then cancelling.

• Upcoming Annual Conference - ‘Teaching in Transformational Times”: The Conference will be held again in Cambridge, MD. Last year we shared a keynote speaker with MASSP and we will do that again this coming year. Additionally, we will have a joint exhibit hall and some joint sessions as well as an evening get together with vendors. Our shared keynote speaker will be Rick Wormeli. His expertise is with transformational teaching, which is in alignment with our theme. Saturday will be breakfast followed by a keynote and conference conclusion so people can get on the road.

Approval of Minutes – 3/4/17

• Dave DuLac moved to approve the minutes. There was a 2nd from Terry Ball. The minutes were unanimously approved.

9:30 Executive Director’s Report – Stephen Hagenbuch

• Thanked everyone who attended dinner last night at BJ’s. He also thanked Tess Blumenthal for making the dinner arrangements.

• Encouraged the new people to get involved further and let others from their county know how to get involved. Steve discussed the current Board Committee openings: Awards (include a NDP on the committee), By-laws, Private School Representative, & CEASOM board representative.

• Legislative Chair---sub-committee—Lori Phelps is the new Federal Relations chair also.

• Steve has been working with Cecil County to get a large number of principals to join. His next meeting will take place a week from Thursday. Similar steps are being implemented with St. Mary’s County.

• Mark Terry, Deputy Exec. Director in TX, and Steve have been discussing how MAESP can help flooded Texas schools. The names of two school principals in TX were given to MAESP. Any help would be welcomed. The same is true for Florida but there was no contact with anyone in Florida yet.

• Distributed two copies of membership lists: If you see something that needs to be changed please make those corrections and give them to Steve ASAP. We need to verify lists so that we are not paying national organization fees for people who are no longer members.

• Golden Rod copy of future dates for upcoming events had been placed on tables. Steve touched on the February 3rd snow day meeting as a necessity if the January meeting is snowed out. In compliance with our own bylaws, we need this meeting for required election timelines to be met. Make sure to mark your calendars so that we have a quorum.

Seats are available at the MAESP table for the 2017 TOY Gala on October 27th. Seats will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. Let Steve know ASAP if you’re able to join the group.

9:45 Editor’s Report and Website Committee – Terry Ball

• Updated lists of all principals/VPs send to Terry so we can send postcards to people

• Send out something great to Terry Ball to put in the Executive Desk publication

9:55 Treasurer’s Report - Archie Van Norden

• Archie began his time talking about the benefits of MAESP

• Reviewed the Treasurer’s report:

o First part of the document was the 2017 year in review. It was noted that last year there were two budgets. That will no longer be the case since FAME is in the process of being closed.

o Overall, we were in the black last year + $9,452.30

o The second part of the document was the reflection of our current accounts

• The report will be filed for auditing.

10:05 National Representative’s Report – Susan Myers

• Dana spoke in Sue’s absence. Membership is the life-blood of our organization. The best way to increase membership is with face to face contact or a personal invitation. October is Principal month. The Board was asked to consider giving a discount for joining.

• There was discussion about this being a payroll deduction issue with different counties. A suggestion was made to offer a discount for the annual conference. MAESP will provide new members with a voucher for annual conference or a discounted membership. Steve Hagenbuch noted that at the secondary level both the state & national organizations offer discounts. He has been in talks with NAESP but with no follow up yet from them. As a state, we can offer the discount at our expense to increase membership.

• Matt Wagner moved to offer a $45.00 discount to either membership or $45.00 off the annual conference fee to be in effect during Principal’s Month in October (for new members only). There was a 2nd by Tess Blumenthal. The motion passed unanimously.

• Trevor Liburd asked Terry Ball and Steve Hagenbuch to create a blurb about the MAESP Principal Month discount to keep messaging consistent.

10:15 Break

10:30 Strategic Planning Committee and Committee Work Session – Kim Pratesi

• Beth Allshouse & Dana McCauley spoke in Kim’s absence. It has been a few years since the survey was sent out to membership so a new one is coming, pertaining to committee involvement. We need to create a new Resolutions Committee. There might be others as well. We are going to send out a Google Doc on committees so people can be aware of what is open & sign up.

11:15 Standing Committee Reports:

Ken Mann Scholarship – Beth Allshouse, Chair –

• The Ken Mann Scholarship is awarded to a MD HS senior going to a MD school. In October, the application for the thousand-dollar scholarship is being distributed to guidance offices across the state. The target audience for the scholarship is prospective elementary educators heading to a two or four-year college.

• Beth noted the biggest constraint in getting this information out to all counties with the changing roles of contacts.

Legislative Committee – Lori Phelps, Chair

• Lori spoke passionately about how recent legislation creating a K-2 no suspension law was passed without a single public-school principal having any input.

• Encouraged all members to have a local legislative committee to have input/knowledge about impending legislation.

• Judy Walker offered her expertise to Lori Phelps from the MSDE prospective since MSDE employees cannot address legislators directly.

Awards – Judy Walker, Chair

• No report given.

Archives – Bob Mitchell, Chair

• No report given.

Professional Development – Blaine Hawley

• No report given.

Other Committee Reports…

• Tess Blumenthal spoke about retention/hiring of expert teachers to MD and stated that a first committee report is coming out November 1st.

• Carol spoke about the $500.00 family grants for schools for increasing parental involvement at our schools. With the conference scheduled for earlier in the year, the due dates for the grants will be adjusted.

Unfinished Business

• No unfinished business

New Business

• Judy distributed two handouts pertaining to the KRA. All principals should have a KRA account to review the data. If you do not, speak to your school system data manager to get access.

• Over the summer there were data meetings at the state level and the session notes and information are on the state Blackboard site. There is information about best practices in classrooms. However, the site is down this weekend for updating.

• There is going to be a correlation study completed this year involving students who were involved in the first administration of the KRA. They are now in 3rd grade. This study will be conducted to verify KRA findings and to see if we intervened effectively from K-3.

12:00 – Adjournment

• Presenter request will go out soon for the Annual Conference. If someone in your system has a presentation, please send them the presenter request information.

• Carol Hahn moved to adjourn the meeting. There was a second by Tess Blumenthal. The motion passed unanimously.

Next Meeting: November 10/11, 2017 Doubletree, Columbia, MD

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