Iowa Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Minutes of Executive Board Meeting

February 23, 2007

The February 23rd Executive Board meeting was called to order by President Cheryl Ross at 3:40 p.m. in the Media Room of Stilwell Junior High, West Des Moines.

 

Members present were: Ed Rathmell, Cathy Miller, Ruth Avazian, Lori Mueller, Diane Royer, Annette Louk, Nancy File, Rose Jennings, David Burrow, Michael Link, Deb Tvrdik, Daryl Kohlhaas, Connie Nolan, Judith Spitzli, Lisa Roose, Jyll Johnson-Miner, Brooke Fischels, Marlene Meyer, Travis Nuss, Dave Blum, Laura Brincks, Cheryl Ross and Maureen Busta.

 

Guests:  Jane Haugen, Albert Hayton, Judy Slezak

 

Cheri thanked everyone for their work on the newsletter, grants, journal, and conference.

 

Cheri recognized the following members leaving the board and thanked everyone for their service.   

a.      Deb Tvrdik –  Past-President

b.      Daryl Kohlhaas -  Vice-President Secondary

c.      Cherie Schafer –  Vice-President Elementary

d.      Sarah Harvey -  AEA 9 Regional Director

e.      Lisa Roose –  Student Director

f.        Michael Link –  NCTM Representative

g.      Jyll Johnson-Miner –  Conference Co-Chair

h.      Connie Nolan –  Program Co-Chair

i.        David Steuben – Conference Exhibits

 

Cheri introduced the following newly elected members of the Executive Board

a.      Judy Slezak –  President-elect

b.      Rachel Kruse –  Vice-President Secondary

c.      Jane Haugen – Vice-President Elementary

d.      Ed Berry –  AEA 1 Regional Director (re-elected)

e.      Connie Nolan –  AEA 4/12 Regional Director (re-elected)

f.        Albert Hayton –  AEA 9 Regional Director

g.      Nancy File –  AEA 13 Regional Director  (re-elected)

h.      Ruth Avazian –  AEA 14 Regional Director  (re-elected)

            22 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

 

The following appointments were made (some are continuations):

a.      Joyce Becker, NCTM Representative  (starting July, 2007)

b.      Laura Brincks - Treasurer

c.      Edward Rathmell – Governmental Liaison

d.      David Burrow – Newsletter Editor/Webmaster

e.      Judith Spitzli – Department of Education

f.        Lori Mueller & Diane Royer – Journal Co-Editors

g.      David Blum  –  Conference Chair

h.      Travis Nuss – Conference Exhibits Chair

i.         Ruth Avazian &  TBA        – Conference Program Co-chair Cheri asked for folks to think about it

j.             TBA             – Student Director

 

 

 

Dates for the retreat and other meetings were announced.

a.      NCTM Annual Meeting – March 21-24, Atlanta

Attended by Michael Link - NCTM Rep and Cheri Ross - ICTM President

b.      ICTM Board retreat – June 22 & 23 – Mason City Hanford Inn

Starting time Friday at noon (lunch) & ending on Saturday by 3:00 p.m.

c.  Affiliate Leaders Conference – Salt Lake City (July 7 – 8)

     or Chicago (August 10 – 12) people are to think about and let Cheri know

d.  ICTM Annual Conference – February 22, 2008 Valley Southwoods

     West Des Moines

 

II.                   Reports

A.     Secretary – Maureen Busta: Minutes (emailed)

Cheri reminded board members to forward any changes in contact information to Maureen.

·        (Burrow, File) made a motion to approve the minutes. 

                  22 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

 

B.     Treasurer – Laura Brincks: 

a.  Reimbursement

Laura asked all to complete the voucher so that she can reimburse members. 

 

b.  Budget Information

Laura Brincks provided the board members a copy of the treasurer’s report.  She     reported that she had invested over 15,000 in CD’s based on a recommendation            from the previous treasurer, Kevin Astor.

 

(Burrow, Rathmell) made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report.

                  22 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

 

C.    Membership Report – Maureen Busta:

         Membership lists by AEA’s were given to all of the directors.  The vice-presidents, past-president and president received full membership lists. Maureen reported that she had not done the review of lapsed members as she would like or that the board had requested.  She promised this would be done by the June Board meeting.  If anyone knows lapsed members that they know are not going to renew if they would let Maureen know so that she does not have to contact them it would be helpful.

    Total number of current members in each category:

Regular -- 309

Student -- 51

Retired -- 21

Institutional -- 53

Free New Members – 12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regular

Student

Instit.

Retired

Ret. Free

Free Promo

Reg- $38

Reg- $50

Total per month

# of renewals

Mar-06

8

0

1

0

 

0

 

0

195

9

Apr-06

16

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

330

18

May-06

7

 

 

2

 

 

 

 

150

9

Jun-06

8

 

 

 

 

1

 

 

160

9

Jul-06

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

250

11

Aug-06

22

2

0

8

 

1

2

7

916

42

Sept. 2006

33

3

1

4

1

6

2

12

1406

62

Oct. 2006

30

8

19

 

 

3

2

9

1831

71

Nov. 2006

35

1

4

4

 

 

3

7

1329

54

Dec. 2006

25

4

7

1

 

 

4

12

1522

53

Jan. 2007

41

33

21

 

 

 

2

11

2346

108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

235

51

53

21

1

11

15

59

10435

446

 

0.53

0.11

0.12

0.05

0.00

0.02

0.03

0.13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

               Updated Constitutions were provided to all board members. This constitution reflects the change in voting members of the board (Voting members now includes appointed members to the board.) that was approved by the membership in December.

 

      D.  NCTM – Nancy Berkas (Affiliate Services Committee Central 2 Region Liaison)

Cheri thanked Nancy Berkas for attending the pre-session and the conference. 

Nancy had to leave early due to the weather.   

 

      E. Annual Conference 

      Conference –  Dave Blum/Jyll Johnson-Miner

      Dave Blum reported that he thought it went well.  Vendors came last night.  Some of the exhibitors broke down at 1:00.  There was not a lot of traffic with the exhibitors after the 1 o’clock keynote. 

      Dave is checking on the date for next year.  It needs to be the same Friday as the wrestling meet.  He will be able to determine the date within the next couple of days. 

(Maureen provided the following numbers to date for conference registrations:

Board members                                24

Speakers                                           92

Exhibitors                                           19

Students                                             52

West Des Moines teachers             55

Others                                  259

 

Total Registrations 2/21/2007         501

 

Monies for registrations                   $17, 735.00

     

      Program -  Ruth Avazian/Connie Nolan

Ruth didn’t hear anything negative and thanked the board for everything.  Ruth thought we had a wide variety of sessions.  The evaluations will reflect problems.  Deb thanked people for helping at pre-session, evaluations were good, 70 people were in attendance.  Cheri thanked Ruth, Jyll, Dave, Travis, for their excellent  work.

      Exhibits –  Travis Nuss

Travis reported that there were 29 vendors with 60 tables. 

 

F.  Publications

          Journal – Lori Mueller, Diane Royer, & Committee

 

      Diane talked about e-mailing speakers to share info in the journal.  Lori says several            articles have already been submitted.  Lori is concerned that we are advertising that        we have an “award winning” journal and does not know how that was determined. 

 

          Newsletter  & Website report -- David Burrow    

      Cheri would like the next newsletter to come out about April 1st.  This will work well to include NCTM conference pictures.  Everyone was asked to submit something to David.  Brooke mentioned that she would like the past newsletters archived on the web.  David indicated that it had been determined that the newsletters were for members only and so it would not work well to have them available on the website. Michael thought it would be good to select an article to put on the web as “from the newsletter.” 

 

G.  Outreach – Cathy Miller

Cathy would like the board to consider as an agenda item in June that if a grant is undersubscribed in one area the monies could be used to fund a grant in another area.   

 

H.  Department of Education –  Judith Spitzli

 

      Presidential Awards – need nominations – currently looking for high school and secondary, a person may nominate themselves, 13 nominations are in, deadline is May 1st.  Videos are to be included and in the past the nominee could submit 60 minutes and select 8 minutes.  Now you do 30 minutes of videos and up to an hour of tape, and you may continue for an hour or submit something else for 30 minutes.  All are encouraged to send those in.

 

I.   Governmental Liaison –  Edward Rathmell

Thanked ICTM for approving achievement in mathematics piece.  Ed has sent info to legislators and he indicated that the legislators are reluctant to view the information.  A draft has been going around showing achievement going down, which has been highlighted by Jan Mickelson on the radio.  Legislators have been listening to them more than the experts.  He noted that the graphs are “tainted”  by inaccurate scaling.  Ed will forward some information to Cheri and Maureen for possible inclusion in the newsletter.

 

J.   NCTM Representative – Michael Link

 

Michael indicated sales were very good this year yielding between $500 and $600 in sales.  There was nothing to report on the national scene and nothing yet on Atlanta scene

Joyce Becker is appointed NCTM Representative.

 

K.  IMSC – Cheri Ross and Judy Slezak

Cheri attended the meeting in October and Judy Slezak attended the most recent one.

IMSC was recognized for providing monies in support of our conference.  They are setting goals and determining action to be taken.  Judy spent time writing mission statement and looking at goals.  Cheri indicated we will apply for money from them again.

L.  Regional Directors/Student Director

Annette reported that she has used a master list serve in her area and some of the teachers received it who were not teaching mathematics.  It’s tough to get teachers identified in the mathematics area.  She indicated that she would rather send to too many rather than miss someone.

 

M.  Outreach –  Cathy Miller –

Cathy thanked Lisa Roose, the current student director.  Cathy has checked with other universities that have math education to check for another student director.

 

N.  Teacher Shortage Task Force –  Connie Nolan

Connie attended the Teacher Shortage Task Force and reported that there were 8 groups with 7 in a group composed of DE, educational examiners, etc.   The groups spent time brainstorming to resolve teacher education, too much negative stuff put out there, how we deal with that, work environment for new teachers, how to help deal with leadership issues, whether to pay extra monies to math/science, spec ed, ind tech, etc.

 

III.  New Business

1.  Volunteers for Nominating Committee  (ballot for Nov. 2007) – think about it on the drive home and e-mail Cheri. 

  Everyone should think about names for the nominating committee.  Board members were encouraged to run for a 2nd term if this is their first term.     Board members were asked to submit names at the June Board meeting for:

          AEA 267, AEA 8, AEA 10, AEA 11, AEA 15, AEA 16

           Vice-President – Middle School

           Vice-President – Post Secondary

 

    2.  Items to consider at summer retreat

          If anyone has items for the June retreat they are to e-mail those to Cheri. 

Brooke says how much e-mail helps to discuss things so that meeting goes better. 

Daryl says the first 24 – 48 hours will get responses. 

 

Adjournment

 

(Link, Royer) moved to adjourn. 

22 yes, 0 no, 0 abstain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

              The Business Meeting was held at 9:45 on Friday Feb. 23rd.

 

President Cheryl Ross thanked the keynote speaker Terri Sessoms.

 

Friend of Mathematics Awards were given to:

 

Joel Haack

David Steuben

Maureen Busta

 

Laura Brincks, Treasurer, provided copies of the Treasurer’s report for anyone who wanted to look at them.