Middle School Mathematics Professional Learning Community

Clauette Reep is the facilitator for both groups correct.

Linda -
We regularly have Karen Perry, Loretta Beaver, and Shera Ashley. They have been our most active participants this year. I have been serving as the ASU faculty contact for this group. Tracie


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Tracie McLemore Salinas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-2376
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Don't you all meet together? Paperwork has been a nightmare on this end.

We do meet together, which gives us the ability to talk across grade levels and engage in some more meaningful activities. We have tried to keep attendance separately and to maintain the two Q-topic sites, though, because that is how they are set up. I don't think that any of us would complain about having a single Q-topic site or a single PLC for mathematics. We've just tried to work within the structure as we inherited it. I didn't think the paperwork on your end would be any different. We just both happen to meet on the same night and only require one room.
Middle grades participants usually include Loretta Beaver, Karen Perry, and Shera Ashley. Secondary grades participants usually include Jason Willis, Amy Worley, Roseanna Wade, Christina Pennington, and Claudette Reep. We have others who pop in occasionally, but this seems to be our standard attendance. From ASU, Debbie Crocker and I are usually in attendance.
Does anyone have a concern over joining into a single PLC?


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Tracie McLemore Salinas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-2376
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no problem
Amy

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Doing one large group would be fine by me. I usually do the notes and attendance for the middle school group, but it would make sense to combine the groups into one since we meet together. It would save two of us sending pretty much the same information to people who get info from the HS and MS PLCs.


Loretta Thomas
8th Grade Mathematics Teacher
West Alexander Middle School

Our Mission: West Alexander Middle School will create a community of life-long learners by challenging students to learn, achieve and reach success.
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Claudette is going to send attendance each meeting to my assistant and continue to post minutes fro both groups on Q-topic> Do we have any volunteers from this group to come to the "Deepening the Dialogue" activity? April 23-24. You will stay at the Broyhill have dinner, breakfast and lunch, sub paid, shadow math professor on Friday. If you are not interested please choose two people from the Partnership schools (total of two). Thanks

Are you wanting just high school? If you need middle school reps also, I would be willing.


Loretta Thomas
8th Grade Mathematics Teacher
West Alexander Middle School

Our Mission: West Alexander Middle School will create a community of life-long learners by challenging students to learn, achieve and reach success.
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I hate to sound negative, but April 23&24 is the weekend of Merlefest in Wilkes Co.
I seriously doubt we'll have takers from our county. :(
I can't come b/c we take our 8th graders to Merlefest on that Friday. Amy

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We need two high school math teachers from the partnership region. Loretta if we have no takers from the region we would like for you to participate. Thanks

If you get the newsletter from the Math/Science Ed Center, you may already have these, but I wanted to share these dates:

March 28: Western Region Math Fair, Plemmons Student Union, ASU
April 22 - 25: NCTM Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, DC April 23: NC-MSEN celebrates 25 years. Open house 2:30 - 6:30 at ASU MSEC in Walker Hall June 15 - 19: NC-MSEN SITE Geometry and Integrated Math courses, 6-8 science course June 22 - 26: NC-MSEN SITE AFM and Algebra courses, 3-5 Science course July 20 - 24: NC-MSEN Site biology and Exploring math with the TI-Nspire courses



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Tracie McLemore Salinas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-2376
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Would you give an email or website to be able to find out more about the Integrated Math class to be offered this summer?
Thx
Amy Worley

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I'm looking, Amy. I pulled those dates off the newsletter but can't find that course on the website. let me doublecheck -
Tracie

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Tracie McLemore Salinas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
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It is a MELT course. Doug Jones will have the information.

Debbie
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         Dr. Deborah A. Crocker
         Department of Mathematical Sciences
         Appalachian State University
         Boone, NC 28608

         e-mail: crockerda@appstate.edu
         office phone: 1-828-262-2381
         FAX: 1-828-265-8617
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Hello Everyone!

Amy Maxey, from West Forsyth High School, has agreed to share some information and take questions about Integrated Mathematics at our meeting on Tuesday, March 24. Amy teaches Integrated Math at West Forsyth. If you have other teachers at your school or in your
district who would like to join the discussion, please invite them to attend.

Debbie and Tracie
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         Dr. Deborah A. Crocker
         Department of Mathematical Sciences
         Appalachian State University
         Boone, NC 28608

         e-mail: crockerda@appstate.edu
         office phone: 1-828-262-2381
         FAX: 1-828-265-8617
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You may have seen Linda McCalister's earlier posting:
 
We have been notified that until further notice, all
expenditures involving state monies are frozen. All remaining
PLC and PDS meetings will have to be done on a volunteer basis.
I will let you know if this changes. Thank you.

With this said, how many of you will attend an April meeting if you do not receive a stipend? Our plan for that session was to present some of the possible new technology that will be used to facilitate communications for the PLC in the near future, to discuss the upcoming year and possible opportunities, and to end the year with supper some where. Any thoughts?
Tracie Salinas