AzTEA Westside Chapter
Welcome to the
Westside AzTEA Chapter
We'd love to have you join us!!
Our goal is to model communication and collaboration within the AzTEA organization as well as demonstrate the power of a Wikispace to teachers and administrators around the state.
Your Westside 2009-2010 Officers:
Sandra Israel - Co-chair
Laura Sheehy - Co-chair
Secretary- Open (any volunteers?)
Ann Lumm - Workshop Coordinator
Westside AzTEA Meetings
We will be posting both the meeting minutes and agendas for our leadership meetings on a separate page on the Westside Leadership wikispace. http://westsideleadershipteam.wikispaces.com/ Our goal is to have the proposed agenda posted a couple of weeks before each meeting. If you subscribe to the RSS feed to keep track of changes you will automatically receive a message either in your feedreader or your email letting you know there has been a change on the page. We encourage you to add proposed items and topics of interest to the agenda because we want our meetings to reflect your needs/interests. If we can't fit it in for that meeting (time constraints) we'll move it to the next month's agenda. We review and approve new chapter goals for each year in our first meeting. We're hoping that all of you will review the proposed agenda in advance of each meeting so you will know what is being planned for discussion. This will allow you to bring along your resources and ideas to share during the meeting. We're looking forward to some very active participation throughout the year!
During each meeting (usually the last half hour) we will hold a professional development time to present and discuss issues, challenges and strategies for management of educational technology in schools/districts. Anyone can volunteer to be a presenter/facilitator for these sessions. We have used Livestream.com to broadcast our meetings so people who can't get away from school/work at that time can either join the event live and participate in the chat room or view the archives later. http://www.livestream.com/greatnews
We are also hoping to stream all of our Westside workshops this year. AzTEA now has a new community partnership with Elluminate so it may be possible for us to use this fantastic web conferencing service for sharing professional development opportunities with others throughout the year.
Participants in our monthly leadership meetings can receive a certificate for re-certification credit hours. Each month we highlight district technology websites from around the state to learn more about how these sites are organized to support teacher technology use in their schools/districts. Anyone is invited to volunteer to share your site(s). Another regular agenda item is sharing/problem solving which is a time anyone can bring up questions and obtain advice from others in the group.
Westside Leadership Team Meetings for 2009-2010
Meeting Dates for 2009-10
http://aztea.wikispaces.com/AzTEA+Google+Calendar+of+Events
To view the agenda for each of our meetings, go to the Westside Leadership Team wikispace.
http://westsideleadershipteam.wikispaces.com/2009-10+Meetings
Generally, our meetings are held on the first Monday of the month, 12:00-1:30pm at the Cartwright Training Center.
The Cartwright Training Center is located at 4242 N. 51st Ave, Phoenix, S/W corner of Glen Rosa and 51st Ave.--1 block north of Indian School
Click on link for map to the Training Center: http://moourl.com/jnmp7
September 14 Meeting Agenda and Minutes: Time 12:00-1:30pm, Cartwright Training Center
Note: September 7, 2009 is Labor Day.
October 5, 2009: Time 12:00-1:30pm (virtual meeting via Elluminate)
November 2, 2009: Time 12:00-1:30pm, (virtual meeting via Elluminate)
December 7, 2009: Time 12:00-1:30pm, (virtual meeting via Elluminate)
January 11, 2010 Time 12:00-1:30pm, (virtual meeting via Elluminate) (2nd Mon. in Jan.)
February 1, 2010: Time 12:00-1:30pm, Cartwright Training Center
March 1, 2010: Time 12:00-1:30pm, (virtual meeting via Elluminate)
April 5, 1020: Time 12:00-1:30pm, Cartwright Training Center
May 10, 2010: Time 12:00-1:30pm, Cartwright Training Center
(Final "meeting" is our social event in late May or June)
