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CATE BOARD MINUTES The meeting was called to order at 8:32 A.M. by President Michelle Berry. She welcomed to the convention Board meeting the Resolutions Committee members.
Absent: CTA Liaison Debra Martinez and CYRM Representative Pat Lindsey. Clarke moved and Johnson seconded to approve the minutes of December
9-10, 2006 Board meeting. MOTION CARRIED. PRESIDENT: Report is ONLINE She received an email from Steve O’Donoghue, Director of California Scholastic Journalism Initiative, suggesting that we support the addition of journalism courses as a requirement for a credential to become an English teacher. She reported sending letters to the award winners, CDE, legislators; writing the President’s message in the conference program and California English. Berry received an invitation and attended a meeting in Sacramento to be a part of the Joint Committee on Instructional Materials which discusses legislative issues adoption, funding, etc. It meets three times a year. She asked for a volunteer to attend the next meeting. Delfino offered to attend the meeting in Sacramento, June 8th. Commendations were given to Larry Jordan and Carol Jago for their NCTE Awards, the Convention Committee, the Convention Coordinator, and Convention Consultant for all their dedicated work. Reminders for convention included a flyer for the convention schedule. It is expected that Board members will sit with constituents during meal events except for the Saturday banquet. A clarification was made that reserved tables are for award winners and their council representatives. Hospitality suite is room #801 – All Board members are invited to welcome and greet speakers and award winners one-half hour prior to each meal function. The By-laws need many corrections. Berry asked for a subcommittee to meet with P. Fristrom who will chair the subcommittee on the Friday night before the May board meeting. The corrections will be approved at the September meeting and printed in the California English. They will be brought to the February convention for approval. Volunteers to serve on the subcommittee include P. Fristrom, Rippee, Delfino, Chapman and Williams. VICE-PRESIDENT – Report
is ONLINE. PAST PRESIDENT – Report is ONLINE. As of December 10, 2006, the candidates running for election are: Additional nominations can be made by the CATE Board or by petition up until two minutes before the beginning of the Annual Business Meeting on February 11, 2007. This year, CATE members will be able to choose one of three different ways to vote. On a trial basis, voting can be completed at the end of the Annual Business Meeting on Sunday, February 11, 2007 in Fresno. Our online voting system is set up to meet?the criteria set by the CATE Board at the December, 2005 meeting (see December 2005 minutes). Voters who wish to vote online will be referred to CATEweb to link to the online ballot, which will also have the candidates’ statements as well as a ballot to mark ?and submit. Their votes will be received from their e-mail addresses and will contain their CATE identification numbers. Finally, the announcement of the election will be in California English where there will be candidates’ statements and photos, and a mail-in ballot. A local committee will be formed to count the votes. 2007 CATE Awards to Be Presented at CATE 2007 in Fresno CATE Distinguished Service Award - Cheryl Joseph Award
for Classroom Excellence Award of Merit - Chris Hubbard (FACET): McDougall-Littell, Clovis?Gregorio Luke (SCTE): useum of Latin American Art, Long Beach;?La Jolla Playhouse (GSDCTE): La Jolla
NCTE Liaison Report The
NCTE Annual Convention, “Mapping Diverse Literacies For the
Twenty-First Century: Opportunities, Challenges, Promising New Directions,” will
be held on November 15-18, 2007, in New York City. CATE NCTE delegates
will be chosen at the May board meeting. The Affiliate Leadership Meeting
for regions 1, 3, 7 and 8 will be held on June 22-24, 2007 at the Hilton
Garden Inn (Chicago O’Hare Airport). Registration forms
must be submitted by May 4, 2007. Resolutions
from the 2005 NCTE Annual Business Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee SECRETARY – Report
is ONLINE TREASURER
Fristrom also reported that many purchase orders are still out for the convention registrations, therefore reporting the income for this convention will not be given at this time. In the report of the budget at the bottom of the left-hand column included $649 in interest on the Certificates of Deposits. Interest on Certificates of Deposit has increased. In the expenses column, the item of credit cards expenses comes from the costs of the use of credit cards for membership, registration for this conference, Promises Practices, etc. Therefore, income is reported as being better, the money is the same except how it is reported. We are $1,000 over as registrations are continually coming in. The Board was reminded that reimbursement for mileage is 40 cents a mile, ½ of the room is covered and dinner is reimbursed at $10. MEMBERSHIP – Report
is ONLINE Hockensmith was commended for the Powerpoint presentation which will be placed for viewing in the membership booth. He again reminded councils to send pictures from events at councils to be included in the Powerpoint presentation. Cirimele
was commended for packaging the bulbs to be distributed at the membership
booth. CONVENTION COORDINATOR Rooming
assignments for this convention were difficult. Commended Burke who
posted the deadline for hotel reservations on CATENet. The hotel
extended the deadline and 200 rooms were picked up. Difficulty with
the server occurred and Hase handled hundreds of emails. There are about 80 booths in the exhibit hall and in addition colored ads were placed in the program. Board members are encouraged to thank exhibitors especially when delivering the invitations to the exhibitors’ reception. Berry thanked Chapman for the certificates he created to give to the sponsors. Registration
at the time of the meeting was 741 with strong meal counts. The trend
for this convention appears to be the packages.
492 tickets have been
purchased for the banquet. Online registration closed February 6th and
registrations have continued to come in. The
last purchase order for previous conventions was finally paid. CONVENTION
CHAIR - Report is ONLINE. Stuffing the bags was completed Tuesday night. There will be many bags left over. They will be available for the New Teacher reception. Twenty or more student teachers will be assisting in various areas. Twelve retired teachers will be managing the registration desk. A request was made to provide coffee for them tomorrow morning. The request was referred to the Convention Committee. There is an autograph schedule in each bag. The green sheet is the errata sheet. Hospitality times and board schedule are on the red card. Discussion regarding screens and projectors helped finalize plans. Sahakian thanked Hase, P. Fristrom and A. Fristrom for their help and cooperation. PRESIDENT
OF PRESIDENTS’ - Report is ONLINE. REPORT OF LIAISONS CDE - Goodwin reported that her printed report is on the table for
the board to pick up. Leadership
conferences on the Early Assessment Program: Expository Reading and
Writing Course are scheduled for June 20 and 22. Policy Analyst - Diaz reported on highlights of the education budget as proposed by the governor. He is maintaining the baseline budget for K-12. Aren’t many new programs proposed but it maintains existing programs It
includes additional allocations to the CTA lawsuit settlement, additional
bonds for schools and higher education, facility repairs for schools
and child care. One program he is trying to address is the teacher shortage. Professional retirees are to be considered. He is proposing an INCORE PROGRAM to attract retired engineers, etc. with a 1.5 million partnerships with school district and CSU. Diaz included an attachment which lists when appropriated monies will be sent out by the Department of Education. There are three areas of contention: declining enrollment – there is nothing in the budget to deal with it; finding money to cover the mandates – there is no discussion beyond 2007-8 and the issue of funding for special education. There is not a full COLA for special education. Diaz mentioned select committees and standing committees are different. She is sure legislation for school dropouts will be addressed. State Superintendent of Education’s address included staying on course, to not change what they are doing now, there are many successes that the public knows about, and more students passing CAHSEE. He acknowledged that there is an academic achievement gap and plans to convene an education summit in November. He asked the governor to include in the budget the student data system and teacher data system. School
finance would also be looked at. CYRM – Report is ONLINE. California Writing Project – Marlink reported CWP pre-convention is going well. A present was distributed to the board: Parent booklet, Because Writing Matters, translated in Minh Pham. The Russian translation is next. Then the translation in Hmong or Chinese will follow. Attendees seemed pleased. There is a satellite strategy to connect teachers to writing projects particularly because new writing projects will not be funded but working with NWP they can connect current projects with un-served areas by satellite. CLRP – Jago reported that the directors were encouraged to attend CATE because their meeting had been rescheduled. California English - Bill Younglove shared artwork by Raphael Lemkin who became orphaned in the World War II atrocities. He is to be featured in April CE featuring a call for literature of atrocities. Jago reported the March issue has been completed. CATEweb – Report is ONLINE CATENet - Burke indicated CATENet is a fluid entity. Enrollment continues to grow, about 5,000 at this time. But there are additional readers because members forward items. Issues lately include responses to an article by Nancy Atwell. It has been pleasantly non-contentious. The listserv has over 5,000 email addresses. Because anyone can sign up to the listserv, spam issues have arisen. It generates addresses to go out and find addresses. He finds that in editing the listserv, it has become a large time element. CCCC - Younglove reported that at the February 23 and 24 meeting, a member of the school board association will speak in Sacramento. CTA - No report Standing Committee Meetings were convened: Policy/Censorship, Convention Coordination and Leadership Resolutions Committee Report (First Reading)
CATE COUNCIL REPORTS CAPITOL - No report CENTRAL - McAnich reported that Central is sponsoring a workshop at the Steinbeck Center at the King Library on March 24th, lunch and breakfast are included. FACET - Report is ONLINE GREATER SAN DIEGO – Danielsen reported Promising Practices will be held April 28. In May the Lake Arrowhead retreat will be held. KERN – Report is ONLINE. REDWOOD – Report is ONLINE. SOUTHLAND - Hernandez reported that the winter issue of Sunspots features teacher retention. A workshop will be held at the Museum of Tolerance on April 22. Their Fall Conference includes the two speakers: Reyna Grande and Sonia Nazario. Their books will be given to each registered attendee. TUCATE – Report is ONLINE. UPPER – Report is ONLINE. Second Standing Committee Meetings were convened: Executive/Finance, Publications and Membership. STANDING COMMITTEE REPORTS Policy/Censorship: DUNSTAN, Chapman, Hernandez, Smith, Younglove, Danielson, Jago, Sahlberg, Griggs, Goodwin, Delfino, Zaragoza-Diaz, Burke Diaz drew attention to three upcoming bills in particular: Board resolutions were discussed for consideration in May related to professional development and retention of teachers. The
committee assisted the chair in completing the NCTE/SLATE survey. This committee will bring to the budget meeting in May, a proposal to support the attendance of the Policy/Censorship Chair at NCTE as the SLATE representative. Tabled until May was the discussion of a new draft document concerning profession ethics but committee members will attend a related workshop at the convention. Younglove will serve as a liaison from CATE to Steve O’Donoghue, Director of the California Scholastic Journalism Initiative, based in Sacramento. O’Donoghue plans to approach the Credential Commission to urge adding training in journalism, speech, debate, and drama to the English curriculum and instruction courses as a part of the English credential preparation. B. Convention Coordinating: Hase, P. Fristrom, A. Fristrom, Himel, McAninch, Tracey, Sahakian, Hockensmith, Dillon, Berry, Jordan, Marlink Sahakian moved and McAninch seconded that coffee be provided at the
registration desk for the registration desk workers. MOTION CARRIED. Dillon moved and Rippee seconded that Defino and McAninch be appointed as co-chairs for 2009 Convention in Santa Clara. MOTION CARRIED. Leadership: KARPOWICZ, Williams, Clarke, Martinez, Surabian, Rippee, Cirimele, Johnson, Allen, Medford Presidents of Councils should encourage those around them to come
to the caucus breakfast on Saturday morning and be visible at the membership
table as well as at the luncheons. NCTE awards are available.
Publications: CHAPMAN, Himel, McAninch, Younglove, Clarke, Martinez, Jago, Sahlberg, Goodwin, Burke, Jordan CATE 2007 Creative Writing Contest winners have been selected. Many thanks go to Sahlberg for coordinating the judging of entries. She has kindly agreed to continue in this role. Grades 3&4 – Central -- “Safe in my Dad’s Arms” by Natalie Jacobson, Brandeis Hillel Day School, San Francisco, Teacher: Ms. Sarah Kotleba Grades 5&6 – SCTE -- “Mother Querencia” by Zoya Mirza, Columbus Tustin Middle School, Tustin Unified School District, Teacher: Mr. Ronald Siem Grades 7&8 – SCTE -- “A Place to Imagine” by Nicole Larsen-Carson, Odyssey Charter School, Altadena, Teacher: Gurupreet Khalsa Grades 9&10 – GSDCTE -- “The ‘Alice Blue’ Bat Cave” by Christine Wang, The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, Teacher: Laury Isenberg Grades 11&12 – FACET -- “Untitled – Querencia” by Celeste Pilegard, Bullard High School, Fresno, Teacher: Cathy Cirimele Next year’s prompt will reflect the “One Council, One Book” program focusing on Persepolis. Nancy Himel will circulate a draft to the Publications Committee for approval. Deadlines for the contest: Prompt written and approved by May board meeting; Dec. 1 to local councils, Dec. 31 to CATE (Sahlberg) CATE 2007 Professional Writing Contest Prompt As increasing numbers of teachers become persuaded that nonfiction deserves a more prominent place in the curriculum, it seems a good time to reflect upon the nonfiction books that have shaped our own thinking, learning, and teaching. Write an essay describing a nonfiction book that had a powerful effect upon you. It could be a book you read as a child or one you read last week. It could be a historical account, a memoir, a professional book, a self-help book or any other work of nonfiction. Reflect upon how this text has influenced your thinking and your teaching. Membership: WILLIAMS, Tracey, Hernandez, Karpowicz, Surabian, Danielson, Griggs, Dillon, Cirimele, Johnson, Marlink, Hockensmith Invitations will be distributed to presidents of councils to invite
membership chairs to the meeting on Friday who are attending the convention
in Suite 801 at 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. Assisting at the membership booth will be based on the schedule of when workshops are presented. Please sign up. We need people who are not attending meal events to cover during meals. Williams reviewed what will be in the membership booth to jazz it up. Flowers, Luncinda pins, the Powerpoint presentation, etc. Discussion
regarding retaining members followed. Perhaps comparing last February
list with current list. Those members who have not renewed could
be contacted
personally by councils. Suggestions were made to design a form letter
to send to them as a starting point. Danielson offered to share one
she has
written
and sent to members whose membership had expired. Questions were asked regarding adding membership to workshop registrations. Williams presented a form that was used previously. A small conference book was designed and it has not been found. CATE
reminder cards: When you renew, a letter from Williams should come
too. When your membership is almost up, a reminder card from Precision
is sent.
If you don’t renew, a second reminder card is sent, when membership is
about to expire. A suggestion was made to add the California English logo on
the renewal postcard. Remove some of the verbiage and encourage renewal online. “Teachers
supporting teachers” statement could be added as well. Williams will
contact NCTE membership chair for a copy of her letter. Executive/Finance: DELFINO, A. Fristrom, P. Fristrom, Smith, Hase, Rippee, Sahakian, Dunstan, Allen, Medford, Zaragoza-Diaz, Berry No motions were put forward by the committee. The committee discussed the following issues to be addressed at the May meeting when the budget for 2007-2008 will be formulated.
Resolutions Committee: Second Reading of proposed resolutions. Committee will prepare dissemination of resolutions for council breakfasts and Sunday Board meeting Old Business New Business Hernandez asked if there was money in the budget to bring two members
to the May meeting. A. Fristrom agreed there was money in the budget
line.
Respectfully submitted, TO
DO LIST: P. Fristrom has placed on the website Board report, a draft of a document which addresses orienting the new members to the board. Please check and edit it. A
Teacher Leadership Award is given to a teacher with 5-7 years of
experience. Council presidents are asked to submit names at
the May Board meeting. MAY Volunteers to serve on the by-laws subcommittee on Friday evening in May include Fristrom, Rippee, Delfino, Chapman and Williams The Leadership Committee discussed reviewing the budget line in May determine if it might be appropriate to give the teacher nominated for the Leadership award a stipend/voucher of $1,000 to be used to attend the NCTE Conference in November in New York. A commitment was made by the Policy/Censorship Committee to complete the application for Dave Eggers for the NCTE Intellectual Freedom Award by bringing to the budget meeting in May a proposal to support the attendance of the Policy/Censorship Chair at NCTE as the SLATE representative. Tabled until May by the Policy/Censorship was the discussion of a new draft document concerning professional ethics by committee members who will attend a related workshop at the convention. Deadlines
for next year’s creative writing contest: Prompt written
and approved by May board meeting; Dec. 1 to local councils, Dec. 31
to CATE (Sahlberg) Multicultural Teacher of the Dream: A $750 stipend for this award is available and it requires a great deal of documentation. This award will also be discussed in May (for CATE and/or NCTE affiliates) Esecutive/Finance Committee
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