ICTM Executive Board Meeting Minutes

22^nd-23^rd June 2007

Hanford Inn, Highway 122 West

Mason City, Iowa

Lunch was served beginning at 12:00 noon.

The meeting was called to order by President Cheryl (Cheri) Ross at 1:00 pm. Members present introduced themselves: Joyce Becker(NCTM Representative- effective July 1), Jane Haugen(VP-Elementary), Laura Brincks(Treasurer), Cheryl Ross(President), Callie Kronlage(Student Representative) , Marlene Meyer(AEA 10 Director), Ed Rathmell (Gov’t Relations Representative), Cathy Miller(VP-Postsecondary), Lori Mueller(Journal Co-Editor), David Burrow(Webmaster/Newsletter Editor), Nancy File (AEA 13 Director), Brooke Fischels(AEA 15 Director), Kathy Wilkerson(AEA 267 Director), Connie Nolan(AEA 4/12 Director), Ruth Avazian(AEA14 Director/Program Co-Chair), Albert Hayton (AEA 9 Director), Judy Slezak(President-Elect), Diane Royer(VP Middle/Journal Co-Editor), Judith Spitzli(DOE Math Consultant), Rose Jennings(AEA 16 Director), Maureen Busta(Executive Secretary).

Board Members not able to attend: Rachel Kruse, AEA 9 Director, NCTM AFC Central 2 Rep – Tom Muchlinski, AEA 1 Director – Ed Berry, AEA 8 Director – Annette Louk, AEA 11 Director – Michael Marcketti, NCTM Rep – Michael Link (until July 1), Conference Chair – Dave Blum, Conference Exhibits Chair – Travis Nuss.

Executive Secretary: Maureen Busta, Executive Secretary, discussed the minutes and provided contact information to the board. Several changes were made and Maureen will forward the updated information to all board members. (A report of the time Maureen has spent working on ICTM info this year was provided to all Board members.)

• February, 2007 minutes were approved. (Rathmell, Royer) 20 yea, 0 nay

Treasurer’s Report: Laura Brincks gave each member of the board a copy of the treasurer’s report and discussed reimbursement procedures.

Membership: Maureen Busta, Executive Secretary, gave each director a list of their members and a list of the lapsed members in their AEA. Full membership lists were given to the President, President-Elect, Vice-Presidents and members of the nominating committee. Everyone was asked to review the lapsed members and do whatever they could to get those people to send in their membership monies. Busta is continuing to work on clearing out those members from the list who have not sent in their renewal monies. She is having difficulty with the process of sending out postcards for renewal reminders and is asking for everyone to think of something that will help her with the membership renewals. Rathmell suggested highlighting the membership more at conference registration. Brincks indicated that schools often will not pay membership fees when they are paying for registration even though it would cost less. Busta noted that with the multiple year renewals it is working best to print 3 year renewal cards at the same time. The following membership report was given by Busta.

	June 6,2004	June 6,2005	June 16,2006	June 22, 2007
Regular $20	261	364	403	236
Regular $38				21
Regular $50				74
Ames ($10)	5	0	0	0
Retired	21	25	28	19
Student	35	35	25	52
Institution (Elem)	6	25	9	56
Free Promotion	0	6	8	10
Total Membership	355	455	473	469

	Regular	Student	Instit.	Retired	Ret. Free	Free Promo	Reg- $38	Reg- $50	Total per month	# of renewals
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
Feb. 2007	13	1	2	1	0	0	3	5	704	25
Mar. 2007	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	336	12
Apr. 2007	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	350	13
May-07	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	205	8
Jun-07	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	338	10
Total	236	52	56	19	1	10	21	74	9600	469
	0.50	0.11	0.12	0.04	0.00	0.02	0.04	0.16

June 2006 – 501 current members in database, 157 lapsed members

June 2007 – 516 current members in database, 262 lapsed members

NCTM Representative: Laura Brincks gave the NCTM Representative report for Michael Link, who could not attend.

· ICTM has sponsored a new NCTM affiliate group at the University of Northern Iowa. This Student Affiliate group was recognized at the delegate assembly at the National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

· Several resolutions were passed by the 2007 Delegate Assembly.

Resolution O.NR.07.01

Be it resolved that the Delegate Assembly recommends to the NCTM Board of Directors that the Western Caucus will meet following the opening session of the NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition in Salt Lake City (2008) and Washington, DC (2009) as a pilot.

Rationale: In order to attend the regional caucuses, many delegates must incur a time and financial burden to travel from one area of the country to another. For example, when traveling from the western to eastern or midwestern states, delegates have had to arrive the evening prior to the caucuses. This causes a loss of an additional work day and the need for funding an extra night’s lodging. In addition, some of those attending the NCSM conference have cut their time short in order to represent their Affiliate at the caucuses. To build strong leadership for all Affiliates, the caucuses and Delegate Assembly should be accessible to all representatives.

(Initiated by the Western Caucus)

Resolution O.NR.07.02

Be it resolved that the Delegate Assembly recommends to the NCTM Board of Directors that the review and release process for the grades 9-12 mathematics curriculum project include an opportunity for input from the general membership.

Rationale: New Hampshire is currently engaged in a state-level project addressing the transition between high school and college/university. One troubling finding is the lack of a consistent and coherent curriculum at the high school level. NCTM’s grade 9-12 project has the potential to have a tremendous impact on the mathematics curriculum in high schools. Therefore, it is important to have as much input as possible from the general membership. We feel that the processes or input used with the PSSM can serve as a nice model.

(Initiated by the Eastern Caucus)

Resolution O.NR.07.03

Be it resolved that the Delegate Assembly recommends to the NCTM Board of Directors that in order to qualify for the Leadership Circle the percentage of the Partner Affiliate’s membership who are NCTM members should be a tiered structure with at least 3 levels.

Rationale: In order for Partner Affiliates to qualify for the Leadership Circle 25% is a more realistic goal for NCTM membership. Institutional memberships do not count for the Partner Affiliates but their members are often individual members of Partner Affiliates. If the Leadership Circle is designed to support Partner Affiliates’ membership and NCTM’s membership, the goals for identification in this circle should be realistic.

(Initiated by the Southern Caucus)

· Consignment sales – earned $109.89 after expenses. Laura paid this years and last years this year.

• Upcoming NCTM dates are:

July 6-8, 2007 Affiliate Leaders Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah

August 10-12 2007 Affiliate Leaders Conference: Chicago, Illinois

October 25-26, 2007: Regional NCTM Meeting at Kansas City, Missouri – Opening Session will be held Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.

April 9-12, 2008 Annual NCTM Meeting at Salt Lake City, Utah

Future NCTM Annual Meetings:

April 22-25, 2009: Washington, DC

April 21-24, 2010: San Diego, California

April 13-16, 2011: Indianapolis, Indiana

April 25-28, 2012: Miami, Florida

April 17-20, 2013: Denver, Colorado

Government Liaison – Ed Rathmell

Get well wishes from the Board are being sent to David Duncan, a charter member of the mathematics organization that was instrumental in the formation of ICTM in 1972.

The Iowa Board of Regents has recognized the Regent universities for specific strengths: UNI – Education, Iowa State – Bio Tech, University of Iowa – medicine. An internal committee is organizing the first activity at UNI which is a summit on July 11^th. Challenges and opportunities in math & science education will be the focus of the meeting. Key stakeholders in Iowa are invited to attend. Projects will be identified to improve student achievement, secure high quality teachers and form collaborative efforts.

NCTM has a new committee on the production of approximately 20 books on Essential Understandings. These materials will address the issue of what are the understandings that teachers should have to teach mathematics They should be useful to guide professional development. The first set of books will be Rational Numbers at the Middle grades.

Department of Education – Judith Spitzli

· Update on Every Student Counts – This statewide initiative is in the 4^th year of training of a 5 year plan. Focuses on formative assessment. Data Analysis and Probability was just finished. All AEA’s are training in Every Student Counts and there are a large number of people being trained. Judith Spitzli asked all to call their AEA’s and ask when the training is available and at what level if interested. There is a problem based instructional task orientation available which is either in a 4 or 8 day model. This involves meaningful distributive practice from Ed Rathmell. Eric Hart and Judy Slezak are the facilitators. Catherine Miller is on the Middle School team. This training should go on and on.

· CGI – Cognitively Guided Instruction – is an elementary initiative which helps students think mathematically. Lots of people have been involved in this initiative: 1^st, 2^nd or advanced plus. Advanced plus will be trainers.

· Presidential Awards- Elementary – Jennifer Johnson, Every Student Counts trainer.

· Readers have identified finalists for Secondary Presidential Awardees. They will be receiving letters inviting them to join the Governor of Iowa in August at a luncheon.

· Elementary Presidential Awards will be awarded next time. Anyone can nominate themselves. Requirements include a DVD which includes 30 minutes of teaching and then another 30 minutes of the teacher doing whatever they want.

· Model Core Curriculum has been finished for Grades 9 – 12. Rita Martens and Eric Hart have been the facilitators. It is recommended that every high school teacher review the model core curriculum.

· K-8 Model Core will be written with a new work team, new facilitators, and writers. The work begins in September for State Board approval by May 2008.

· Brooke Fischels commented that the ICN sessions for the 9-12 Model Core Curriculum were held with two way communicative tool; however, teachers were not asked for feedback. The sessions were also held from 2-4, which prevented teachers from being able to attend. Methods teachers and higher education personnel need to be included in planning, design and information. The information went to AEA’s so the information didn’t get to the colleges, only K-12. Judith will forward this information for use with the K-8 Model Core team.

· Rose Jennings asked for an update of the focal points. Judith indicated that this is a national level item and that the Model Core Curriculum was requested by the Iowa legislature. The Model Core Curriculum is not a mandate. Each district needs to determine what their core curriculum will be.

· Ed Rathmell believes there is a consistent message about what effective mathematics is in Iowa; however, our testing program in the state is not consistent with the state initiatives. More emphasis is needed on the 2^nd assessment. ICTM needs to be aware of the problem with assessment not matching ITBS.

· Three math consultant positions are open at the State level – K-8, 7-12, and Special Needs math person.

· NCTM has announced that LENS will be out in the fall. LENS is the 9-12 version of the focal points.

· Math/science partnership monies are available. Two are currently being funded – Lesson Study – elementary 3^rd year and the University of Iowa – Great Prairie – AEA 15 & 16 – lesson study model at high school level – Cos Fi, Eric Hart

Conference Report – Ruth Avazian, Connie Nolan (Speakers), Laura Brincks($), & Maureen Busta (Registration, etc.)

At the 2007 Conference there were 72 speakers. Strengths of the conference were the connection to reading, concept maps and sessions where materials were available for the teachers to take with them. The afternoon keynote was not particularly well received. Parking was also a problem. Maureen indicated that a message needs to be highlighted in the 2008 Conference flyers that the conference is at a different site and parking will not be a problem. Participation was good. Ruth Avazian did an excellent job getting the speakers and Connie Nolan was excellent at getting the times/rooms arranged for the speakers. Speakers need to be reviewed for next year’s conference. Some rooms were too small. There were 501 registered. Ruth thanked her mentor, Joyce Becker. Ruth has already received information from speakers for next year. The 2008 Annual Conference will be at Southwoods on Feb. 15^th. Everyone needs to give Ruth Avazian 10 names of speakers. There was discussion regarding speakers who are not members. It was recommended that all speakers be ICTM members.

Laura referred members to the treasurer’s report citing the conference income/expenses. (The income for the conference was $25,489.39 and expenses were $9821.85 for a profit of $15, 667.54.)

Communications Report – David Burrow, Lori Mueller, Diane Royer

Three newsletters were sent last year. Each board member should write up something for the newsletter. David wondered if there were other uses for our website besides conference info. Cheri noted that David does an excellent job.

Lori & Diane asked that everyone write an article for the journal: something that teachers could take and use in their classrooms. Lori noted that there is no length specifically 1- 13 pages –Deb Tvrdik has handouts for pre-session conference that may be able to be submitted for publication.

Iowa Math Science Coalition: Judy Slezak , as ICTM representative, reported on attending the Iowa Math Science Coalition meetings in February and April. At the February meeting the vision and mission statement were reviewed and revised. The IMSC vision statement is: All Iowans will acquire and successfully apply Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) knowledge and skills to contribute personally and professionally in the global society. The IMSC mission statement is: The Iowa Mathematics and Science Coalition engages key stakeholders to influence public policy and educational practice and advocate their alignment to community and business needs and resources to provide globally-competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education for all students. At the April meeting the vision and mission statements were reviewed and revisions will be forwarded at a later time. Four basic strategies were outlined: Advocate, Communicate, Educate, and Motivate. Goals and timelines to accomplish these goals were set for each of these strategies.

Board Approval Items

The following appointments were moved and approved unanimously (20 yea, 0 nay)

· Executive Secretary – Maureen Busta (Mueller, Royer)

· Student Director - Callie Kronlage (Burrow, Meyer)

· Conference Program Co-chair - Brooke Fischels (Nolan, Royer)

· Motion to send about 4 people (Lori Mueller, Kathy Wilkerson, Cheryl Ross and the UNI Student Affiliate Representative) to the NCTM Affiliate Leadership Conference August 10 – 12^th with necessary expenses provided including meals (Fischels, Burrow) 20 yea, 0 nay

o A detailed report will be written after the Conference and a report to the newsletter will be provided by Cheri Ross

Nominating Committee - board members were asked to volunteer to serve on this committee. The following positions are up for election this fall: AEA267, AEA 8, AEA 10, AEA 11, AEA 15, AEA 16, Post-Secondary VP, Middle School VP (however, AEA 15 & 16 are merging and will be called Great Prair