News and Notes:  Agenda
October 13, 2006

Location:  KASB Building, 1420 SW Arrowhead Road

Time:     9:00-2:00

(Workgroup Team Leaders meet beginning at 8:45 to plan workgroup time)             Officers/work group chairs for 2006-07– Professional Development: Sue Kidd and Sheryl Mathis ,  Public Engagement: Kathy Jones and Nancy Kraft, Student Achievement: Margie Hill and Deb Larson

Sue will take minutes for the day and collect lunch money $8 (lunch from Puffy’s)

9:00-9:20   Introductions and Announcements: Nancy Kraft, Foundation information and call for  volunteers for mini-clinics at KASB Convention Tom Krebs 

9:20-9:25    Association that wishes to become part of KLFA – KS Assn Teachers of Science

9:25-9:50    Early Childhood Education – Gayle Stuber

9:50- 10:50  System Organization Study – NCA – Nancy Bolz

11:00-1:00  Work groups and lunch – each group needs to have an electronic report to give to Sue Kidd

1:00- 2:00   Insights and data from our association conversations and report outs from work groups

 KLFA Meetings: 2006-07    Friday 1/10 and Wednesdays 3/14 and 5/30

LFA Summit  - March 9-11 Washington, D.C.

Proposed Meeting Dates for 2006-07: 8/24 (F), 10/12 (F), 1/15 (T), 3/12 (W) , 5/28 (W)

Systems Approach – Using the Teacher Working Conditions Survey Data tied with Student Assessment Data - topic for January 10^th meeting

In order to meet our mission of “Making Kansas first in the nation in teaching and learning” the KLFA general KLFA goals for 2006-07 are: 

1. KLFA will broadly disseminate our work to influence practitioners.
2. KLFA will increase visibility with policy makers.
3. KLFA will strengthen and increase its organizational capacity.