News and Notes:  Agenda
May 30, 2007

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

Reminder:  The News Releases always start with one of our 7 values – people can use these when they are talking about KLFA.

Sue Kidd and/or George Abel will take minutes for the day and collect lunch and celebration money Considerations for the Agenda:$10.

9:00-9:15   Announcements and Introductions – Sandee

9:15-9:25   Nancy Kraft to keep us informed about the funding of PIRCs and what we can do

9:25-10:00 Report from KSDE  on the 10 BOE Region Professional Learning Communities Initiative/Model.  Pat Hill  

10:00-10:10  Website update – Blake West  

10:10-10:20  Brief update on the Foundation – Tom Krebs

10:20-10:30  Consideration of Retreat - Blake West

10:30-1:00    Work groups and lunch – each group needs to have an electronic report to give to George  or Sue   Work groups will assess progress they have made on their goals and report out to full group.

1:00-2:00   Report outs from work groups and Celebration of our 8 years – recommendation from Steering Committee for Chair-elect.

KLFA Meetings: 2006-07     Wednesday 5/30   

Approved Meeting Dates for 2007-08: 8/24 (F), 10/4 (R), 1/15 (T), 3/13 (R), 5/28 (W)

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.

 

 
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Next KLFA Meeting: 

August 27, 2010 at 9 AM - view the agenda online and watch for email details for a pre-meeting webinar!

See a calendar of future meetings here.

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See the KLFA Tools for Quality Practice - a resource guide for improved student learning and systemic change.

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