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Participants: Joel Rothblatt, Michelle Herczog, Marth Infante, Merrell Frankel, Mark Elinson, Christian Lindke, Amanda Roraback, Steve Perez. 1. Reviews/Updates-Minutes are missing from last meeting. We must adhere to established procedures. 2. New SCSSA tagline “Serving Social Studies Educators Since 1912”-Group agrees the new tagline represents us well. Amanda will create a logo and incorporate the tagline. 3. Innovation Circles-Can offer PD hour credit and meet in several regions in Southern CA. This may be a need we can fill because of the reduction in Social Studies experts in the local districts. Innovative Circle website will be an interactive wiki site where dates, times, and locations. People will coordinate the events themselves to make it easy to attend. Coordinators are Joel, Martha, & Scott Petri. Times are flexible. 12 people max. Still need to develop guidelines such as sign in sheet and contact info. Chris recommends at contacting supervisors district and plenty of communication with organizers. Michelle will help Joel develop guidelines. Michelle suggests each one of us host an innovation circle, just one, at each of our sites (ie. LACOE, Mark’s office, schools). Joel wants the teachers to guide the process, technique themselves, not us telling them what to cover. Merrell feels elementary must be addressed. A calendar must be published (Joel). Refreshments may be offered if Perryman grant is approved. Joel is concerned about the “flash drive party” connotation. Change to “bring your lesson, soft or hard copy, to download on flash drives”. Perhaps content of these meetings can be compiled into a CCSS presentation. Amanda will publish all website changes by Wednesday. Times: 4:15-5:30
Martha-March 24 LA Academy HS Mark-May 6 Cleveland HS Joel-November 18th Emerson MS Christian-San Gabriel Valley/Glendora-Bell Gardens HS, date TBA Amanda-April SanMo HS Michelle-February
4. Professional Development-Things are up in the air, so it is hard to commit to any major initiatives. Museum field trip/museum opening will be headed by Steve Perez. 5. Grant Opportunities-Tom Andrews wants to offer grant money to teachers. It’s a good way to get $ to go to conferences. LA County public/private school teachers. Sub coverage may be included. 6. Membership/Outreach-Emails: Postcards need to be sent to members whose emails we don’t have. Joel will write postcard, Steve will handle printers, Amanda will send Steve the mailing labels. Martha will print out labels and send to Steve. Newsletter items must be received no later than Sept 14th: #1 Presidents letter (Joel) #2 Website announcements (Amanda) #3 Proposals for CCSS September 30 (Michelle to Amanda) #4 Innovative Circles (Joel) #5 Perryman sale (Amanda) 7. Membership/Outreach Lead Contact Program-A flyer was created by Joel to recruit lead contact people. A snippet will be placed on website (Amanda)to recruit more lead contacts. 8. Membership/Outreach-Pre-service programs-we must continue to recruit people from these programs. What about colleges? Should we be K-16 like Arkansas? 9. SCSSA legislative/political action group or committee-governor line-item vetoed all frameworks every revision per subject area. History social science framework had been updated as of July 16th. Governor vetoed funding for framework for next 5 yrs, including textbook adoption cycles that follow framework. Curriculum commissioners feel that decision should be reversed. Textbooks may be out, but framework should be continued. More civic education service learning different instruction, ells, updated pedagogy needs to be out in schools. Each commissioner gave strong appeal. Science will have stem cell research. Letter writing has begun. Lawsuit has been filed against governor. Nationally, movement for national standards. NCSS paying close attention to this. Each local council needs to give their opinion. We need to link to the CCSS legislative information website. (Amanda) 9.a. Constitution Day September 12th-250 people signed up. 200 will be eligible for stipend. Christian will be there to help set up. Michelle purchased 200 copies of Diana Hess’ book Controversy in the Classroom. She is also doing a workshop on marriage and controversy. Jackie, Amanda, Steve, Mark will be there at 12. Merrell at 730-900. At table, CCSS membership, sample Social Studies reviews, NCSS stickers. We need Jackie to fill in gaps. Joel cannot commit to being there. Martha and Amanda have been there the last 2 years. 10. Report from Arsalyn Teaching Training Seminar (August 13, 2009)- Christian reports that 37 teachers in attendance to learn about simulations city council school board elections. It doesn’t always have to be national elections. Paid $100 stipend to each teacher, lots of participation from LACOE’s email list. We want to continue with May event. Tentatively scheduled for May 15th. Plan is to make this a yearly event. Michelle suggests that focus for May event be governor’s election is next year. CCSS presentation can be done by Arsalyn. (Christian to write proposal) 11. Upcoming SCSSA event to plan, co/sponsor-Joel and Martha will form a subcommittee on a New Teacher Event with Ron Sima as a possible presenter. We can host it at SSSS and get $50-100 of SCSSA funding for refreshments. 12. Perryman Sale-Joel and Merrell will be there. Michelle says all board members should try to be there. 13. CCSS Annual Conference (March 5-7, 2010)- 9/27 conference committee is meeting at Michelle’s house from 10-3. Recruit people for your committees (All.) Proposals need to be pushed. We must all read proposals online during window of 10 days in October. October 24 @Merrell’s is next date to compile approved proposals. Martha and Amanda agreed to read proposals. PLC is a strand, also civics. We must be very active to recruit attendance. Mini-grant applications are due from Keeping History alive. 14. Financial Report/Budget Update-Sarah not here, will report at next meeting. She must be listed as a board member on the website. This was an oversight. Joel moved to close meeting, Martha seconded the motion. Meeting concluded at 11:00 am.
Next meeting December 5th Actionable Items by Person: Amanda-9 Joel-7 Martha-4 Michelle-3 Steve-2 Merrell-2 Christian-2 Mark-2 Sarah-1 Jackie-1 Ron-1
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