Buffalo State Master Teacher
Cohort Meeting, Oct 15, 2016
SUNY Fredonia
Agenda
8:00 Advisory Board Agenda
· Annual, State-wide meeting. August 12!
o Solicitation of sessions: Format, style; Review process
o Organizing volunteers
o Keynote speaker
o Pre/Post conference activities
· Introduction activities – ways we can get to know each other better
· Discuss: PLT leaders joining Advisory Board meeting in November
· Concerns, Ideas, Celebrations
9:00 Sign in, coffee, tea, social, T-shirts
· Think about and discuss ideas for bring 6-12 students to campus for STEM activities
9:30 Welcome & announcements
Discuss ideas for bring 6-12 students to campus for STEM activities
10:00 GLOBE Project, Dr. Michael Jabot
11:00 Break
11:15 Learning Standards Discussions
Math: Feedback on revised Common Core
Science: NGSS Practices
12:00 Come back together and report
12:30 Lunch will be provided for groups ( Mentoring PLT & Middle Level Science staying for meetings.
Announcements
Advisory Boards
o State Advisory Committee: Amy G-D is our representative for this year. Thank you Amy!
o Western MT Advisory Board: Introduce members, you are always free to reach out to these master teachers to bring items to our meeting
Congratulations to Sarah English: Excellence in Teaching Award
PLTs
§ Wanted: PLT representative from each PLT for new MT orientation, Oct 27
§ PLTS: Let us know if you are NOT going to open to new MTs (Because of size, work trajectory, etc)
§ Registration should be stabilizing. Our goal is to have PLT membership all set my end of October.
§ PLT descriptions. We are asking PLT leaders to engage you in being sure the descriptions of the PLTs are rich and fully describe your work.
§ Setting Norms: Be sure these are listed at the top of your PLT log
Minicourses We have some great local and state wide minicourses this fall!
· P-8 Science Workshops Session II: Oct. 17, 19, 24, 26
· P-8 Math Landscapes Session II: Oct. 17, 19, 24, 26
· Group Theory: Oct. 24th, Nov. 14th, Nov. 28th
· Weather: Oct. 26th, Nov. 2nd, Nov. 9th
· GLOBE Workshop: Oct. 29th
· Tissue Engineering: Nov. 16th, Nov. 30th, Dec. 7th
· Topology & Geometry: Nov. 21st, Dec. 5th, Dec. 12th
· The Arctic: Jan 31st, Feb. 7th, Feb 14th
Summer Meetings. You are welcome to attend any or all of these
· Buffalo! Aug 12
· SUNY Albany - Aug 18
· SUNY Purchase (Westchester) – Aug 8
Other Announcements
o March 2017 has been designated as “NYSMTP Open Professional Development Month.” Keep this in mind with your PLT work. We are open to your suggestions on how we can invite the broader education community to participate in our work.
o Email reminder. Please read, and respond as needed, to our emails and Josephine’s emails. With over 100 Master Teachers this year, we need to rely on individual accountability! We try to keep emails to a minimum, so when we send one, please take it seriously. Please do not send any emails to the whole MT group yourselves. If you have something to share with the whole group send it to us.
o Master Teacher information and biography updates. Once we have the new MTs on board, you will get a request to update your information. In the meantime, if there are any changes, please let us know.
o Reminders from Josephine
· STEMReach Newsletters – pass on to your administration if it makes sense
· NYMTP Google Community
o Miscellaneous
· If you need a new nametag, let Dave Henry know. We will be putting gin an order for the new MTs and can include you.
· WBs are available if you want some. We hope to have more WB making workshops in the future.
o Upcoming events
· Please join the Great Lakes Center and Biology Department for a seminar titled “The Maumee River, a fish-eye view”, presented by Christine Mayer of the Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, on Monday, October 17th from 4:30 – 5:45 p.m. in Bulger Communication Center room 2W. All faculty, staff and students are welcome. Please print, post and share the information on the attached flyer.
· GLOBE Workshop, Oct 29, 9:00-4:00