Management+Meeting+8+May+2012

TCIC Agenda for Management Meeting

Date- Tuesday 8 May at 9.30 a.m. Venue- Central Normal School Tile Room Attended by Shona, Helena, Wendy, Jared, Kevin and Michael Apologies from Jo, Alastair (late - Auditor) and Stephen (late)

Please bring your laptop and ensure you have completed Goal 2 of Milestone 5 (Principal’s to lead integration of elearning)

Agenda:
 * Topical issues
 * 1) Google Apps people are not available to see our cluster as a whole
 * 2) How to maintain the momentum of eLearning in our schools?
 * 3) Kura o Takaro has changed to a new fluid website using google docs and iSolutions and moved away from Ultranet. The website can be updated by teachers using google docs. They have created a school Facebook page (closed group) and it is helping to extend the home-school partnership.
 * 4) Central Normal has an upgraded active website that continues to be updated.
 * 5) Hokowhitu School's website is currently being upgraded.


 * Quarterly funding
 * 1) Funding received at the end of each term.


 * Milestone Report including Strategic Plans
 * 1) Strategic Plans
 * 2) Milestone Report


 * Cluster Conference
 * 1) A creative focus with the aim of preparing teachers for the 'Manawatu Digi Awards'
 * 2) Outside experts invited: [|Derek Wenmoth], [|Stuart Hale] and Lyn Ross
 * 3) [|InspireNet] has agreed to provide us with a wireless solution for the day - thank you!
 * 4) Our Student Leaders will be sharing about Digital Citizenship
 * 5) Should we invite teachers from outside the cluster? Charge $85 pp?


 * Registering on the VLN and using this:
 * 1) Click 'Join Group' to join a group that interests you - click 'Leave Group' if you no longer wish to be a member of that group
 * 2) Read [|group discussions] that interest you and contribute when you feel ready
 * 3) Changes to [|site notifications]
 * 4) 'Friend' colleagues and experts who are interested in the same learning areas as you - this will allow you to see what they are doing and to send them messages without having to always have public conversations on the VLN
 * 5) An example of some of the[| PD opportunities] available on the VLN
 * 6) An example of a file uploaded by a school to share their [|BYOD agreement]


 * Lead Teacher Meeting
 * 1) Monday 14 May at Kairanga School
 * 2) Sharing
 * 3) VLN - how to encourage staff to use it
 * 4) Milestone Report
 * 5) Student Leaders
 * 6) Conference
 * 7) Teaching as Inquiry - contact made with other teachers before the conference


 * Lead Teacher Meeting 1/2 day
 * 1) Where do we see ourselves next year?
 * 2) How could the Lead Teacher model continue next year? (one LT per school?) - Coordinator?


 * Cluster Wiki and useful links


 * General stuff