Notes from OUAWP Leadership Team APRIL 09

Members in Attendance: Chris Duke, Susan Hagerty, Tonya James, Sue Fletcher, Lois Spencer, Carly Hayes, Jackie Duffy, Bev Arms, Jayne Burger, Don Dudding

Tasks:

• Don distributed/obtained signatures for pay sheets; get all paperwork in SOON as OU cutbacks may affect how quickly paperwork gets handled.
• Bring applications for the SI 2009 interviews next week.
• Get tech survey out

Discussion:
• Don and Carly discussed the OCTELA Conference; there is a desire to form a state-wide network with other writing sites; suggested we connect leadership groups from these sites; Buckeye State Network (suggested name); do we want to appoint a person to represent the OUAWP in the state network?; send Don an email at don@dudding.net so he can put us in a group.
• Visual Media Workshop was held this week
• Grant writing team suggestion; NWP has archives of info about what program is and does; can use this to develop grant writing
• Political activism; develop contacts with various legislators; type in zip codes on websites to find legislators; statewide network could develop communication with legislators in Ohio.
• Pre-Institute Dinner: Chris volunteered to coordinate Pre-Institute Dinner on May 2; Bev to check out Wal-Mart for donations; original dinner plans scrapped because of funding cuts; Tonya James and Martha Walke will do teaching demos at the PID.
• Continuity Get-Togethers: spring get-together may be cancelled.
• The Write Spot Blog: Don will add teacher leaders to the blog; we need to email him; Chris suggested putting together a newsletter; she also says she will make a notebook.
• Tech. survey to come out on Survey Monkey and OUAWP Leadership Team notes will be posted on the blog
• Tanya volunteered to create a list of first year people to stay connected; Gina DeAndrea, a Logan-Hocking teacher and author, coming to summer AWP Institute to discuss her new book.
• Continuity Get Together: Summer Institute, June 26, ice cream social 2 p.m.; leadership team provides the ice cream, spoons, bowls, napkins; chance for teacher leaders to meet new AWP teachers; we need to reserve a room for this event.

Sub Committees: teams should meet before next leadership meeting

Activism: Sue Fletcher, Jackie Duffy, Chris Duke, Lois Spencer, Susan Hagerty

Outreach: Jackie Duffy, Chris Duke, Carly Hayes, Tonya James, Bev Arms, Martha Walke

Inservice: Tonya James, Bev Arms, Lois Spencer, Jayne Burger


Next Leadership Team meeting is May 13, 5:30 p.m. in Faculty Commons