SIGCT_Exec_Bd_Conf_Call

**DRAFT Agenda for SIGCT Executive Committee one-hour conference call**
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 * Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 5pm EDT / 4pm CDT / 3pm MDT / 2pm PDT**

**Cliff Notes version of this detailed agenda:**

 * Introductions
 * Comments on SIGCouncil May 2009 report on SIGCT activities + discussion of the SIGCouncil meeting
 * Publications Committee: JCT
 * NECC 2009: Breakfast Forum; Other activities at NECC; NECC Review Committee responsibilities, SIG Leadership Workshop
 * NECC 2010: including Trivial Compute
 * Nominations Committee: plan for filling Elementary Rep position after NECC
 * SIGCT Officer Responsibilities and Succession Plan + discussion of committees and voluteers
 * Computer Science Rep on the ISTE Board
 * NETS-A SIGCT Board statement [[file:NETS_A_Comments-from-SIGCT.pdf|here]]
 * NCATE-CS involvement - for a policy committee that could be formed?
 * Bylaws Committee: SIGCT Mission clarification and by-laws changes
 * Collaborations: NCWIT, others
 * Webinars / Professional Development
 * SIGCT Newsletter - part of publications committee?
 * Others
 * Actions
 * Next Meeting (mid-August)

**Now, the Details**

 * Introductions** (2 min)
 * Welcome to the newly elected Communications Officer, Kevin Kniesley. (He will take office as of the SIGCT Business meeting at NECC).
 * In related election news, Scott Horan (running unopposed) has been elected to a second term as the High School Representative


 * [[file:SIGCT Activities-May2009-sigcouncil-mtg.doc|Quarterly Report of SIGCT activities to SIGCouncil (May, 2009)]]** - comments, corrections, additions? (2 min)
 * At the SIGCouncil meeting, some ideas that were mentioned by other SIGs included using a Ning as a communications forum, using Second Life, video streaming meetings and professional development sessions, having a playgrond at a future NECC, doing a book study.
 * At SIGCT Business meeting include items such as volunteering possibilities, opportunities at NECC, non-NECC professional development opportunities, future officers


 * Pulbications Committee: Journal for Computing Teachers (JCT) - John** (3 min)
 * Update on ISTE's desire to bring JCT behind the membership "wall" (John and Jeff)
 * Report on completed issues and upcoming issues in preparation, status with ISTE, marketing JCT, encouraging writers


 * NECC 2009 items** (8 min)
 * list of SIGCT recommendations - updated list with some time changes, additions and deletions is now available - see link on the SIGCT wiki home page
 * - Breakfast Forum at NECC 2009**
 * As of late May, we have about 40 registrations
 * Our two speakers: Jeannette Wing from NSF on Computational Thinking and Mark Ciampa, author/lecturer on Internet Security and their computing needs determined
 * Other needs: continue to market to SIGCT members, create final agenda sheet, create evaluation form, determine greeters, afterwards summarize evaluations
 * Announcement of NCWIT Gotta Have IT resource kit and our volunteer participation at the joint NCWIT/SIGCT booth
 * - During NECC 2009**
 * Vounteers from the SIGCT Board to attend the SIGCT Top 20 picks (or at least the 9 chosen by the SIGCT Review Committee for NECC proposals)
 * announcing themselves, SIGCT and the speaker(s)
 * evaluating these sessions (at least those 9 submitted by SIGCT's NECC Program Committee
 * encouraging the speaker(s) to consider writing an article for JCT
 * reasons? make SIGCT known to those attending; evaluate speakers for future NECC, webinar or JCT articles
 * extending this effort to include more of the 80 sessions on our sessions of interest to SIGCT members?
 * - NECC Review Committee - Philip**
 * Committee plan for soliciting potential SIGCT-oriented speakers for the next NECC conference prior to the September proposal time
 * - SIGCouncil Leadership Workshop, Saturday, June 27, 2009**
 * Attendees will be Jeff, Kevin, Scott, Karen and Joe (Jeff, Kevin and Karen will receive some monetary support from ISTE)
 * This will be similar to last year's event but with more time for intra and inter-SIG networking. where a number of the elected board members were involved. (More details occured in the March 2 conference call agenda)


 * NECC 2010 - Jeff** (3 min)
 * Trivial Compute game proposed by Jeff - need small group of non-board volunteers led by at least one SIGCT Board member to plan and execute this idea for next year.
 * Advertise this as a committee related to NECC 2010 both at business meeting and via other communications (listserve, newsletter, possibly a Ning site?


 * Nominations Committee: Officer Elections - Jeff** (3 min)
 * As reported during the introductions, Kevin Kneisley is the new Communications Officer, Scott Horan continues as the HS Representative
 * Jeff will become the new President at the SIGCT Business meeting and Joe will become Past President
 * SIGCT Board needs to determine how to handle the empty Elementary Representative position
 * we could solicit at the breakfast as we successfully did two years ago
 * we could name someone to this position


 * SIGCT Officer Responsibilities and Committees** (10 minutes)
 * The list of SIGCT organizational activities as noted in the agenda for December, 2008 is available [[file:SIGCT Organizational Activities.doc|here]] . I've added an annotation to each item indicating who might take the leadership of that item. I would propose this list or something similar be put in place starting with the 2009-2010 year (which starts at NECC 2009)
 * Committees and volunteers (current committee list)


 * Computer Science Representative on the ISTE Board - Joe** (3 min)
 * Dr Steve Rainwater has held this over the past two years
 * Dr Eliot Soloway (U of Michigan) will hold this position for 2009-2011
 * We should reach out to Dr. Soloway as we did with Steve, by meeting with him (at least informally) during NECC, by including him on our conference calls once he is installed and involving him with our efforts to deal with the NETS standards and the upcoming NCATE revisions


 * NETS-A: NETS for Administrators** **- Steve R** (5 min)
 * Submitted our NETS-A suggested additions/modifications by that committee's deadline
 * Steve R provided an updated draft of the NETS-A document which includes some of our thinking, but does not include verbage calling for administrators to advocate for curricula which support CS/IT career paths.


 * NCATE: Involvement with revision of Standards for Teaching CS - Steve R** (3 min)
 * Steve suggested identifying a team of folks, research that represents the most up-to-date and quality practice in the area of CS -- e.g. policies and recommendations from CS organizations like ACM, CSTA -- and get an initial draft in place to use with perhaps an online survey along with (NECC) conference activities designed to provide quality feedback on what the new standards should include.
 * Interested?


 * Mission clarification and by-laws changes - Steve C.** (5 min)
 * The statement about the Mission of SIGCT which occurs on the JCT page has been clarified.
 * Changes needed (here's the original wiki page soliciting ideas; here are two new wiki pages, defining abbreviations and summarizing the suggestions):
 * Clarification of the Mission statement to better reflect what SIGCT does and has represented since June, 2005
 * Nominations committee description needs a change so that the person in charge is not up for election,
 * Wording on annual meeting of Executive Board needs change
 * Review bylaws in light of the requirements of Division SIG status


 * Collaborations** (5 min)
 * NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology)
 * Booth volunteering status: of the 16 SIGCT slots, 12 have been filled (thank you Jeff, Scott, Luci and Karen), 3 other SIGCT members will likely commit. The open times right now are Tuesday 8-11, and 2-4:30 plus Wednesday, 8-10 and 10-12. Joe will finalize this schedule in the next few days and email everyone involved with further information.
 * As a reminder SIGCT and NCWIT volunteers will work in the booth where the updated Gotta Have IT resource kit will be distributed at. One or more SIGCT volunteer will be assisting NCWIT members during each of the timeslots beginning Sunday evening and ending on Wednesday afternoon
 * SIGCT will place a link to the website for this kit on the SIGCT Wiki in their resources section, mention it in their newsletter and entertain articles for JCT on its use.
 * Based on a suggestion from a SIGCT member, SIGCT will host a webinar in the Fall, 2009 which will feature one or more leaders from NCWIT talking about using the resources in Gotta Have IT. The individuals contacted will be those who picked up a kit at NECC or those to whom a kit was sent. Depending on the interest, there may be followup webinars
 * What's in such a collaboration for SIGCT?
 * ISTE is an organizational member of NCWIT and SIGCT as its only SIG dealing with teaching about computing, we would be the best vehicle for ISTE support of NCWIT
 * Visibility for SIGCT
 * Possibilities of partnering with one or more NCWIT sponsoring organizations and businesses
 * Any others, or revisions to these?
 * Comments?
 * In the last half year three SIG-based have been mentioned: SIGTC (Jeff and Steve), SIG Games & Simulations (new Forum SIG, Jeff, Steve and Joe), SIGAdmin (Joe)
 * Comments?


 * Webinars - Luci** (3 min)
 * An excellent membership benefit to fulfill our quarterly professional development offerings for our membership
 * They are free (at least at this time)
 * Webinar being plannedby ISTE/NCWIT for SIGCT; this is focused on recipients of NCWIT Gotta Have IT resource kit (further info in Collaborations item above)
 * Other possible topics should be able to draw perhaps 25 individuals and involve pre or early hs experiences and include IT experiences (based on the IT Career Pathways document)
 * [[file:Webinar+Request+Form.pdf|ISTE SIG Webinar Request Form (draft)]]

Kevin will assume publishing our monthly newsletter beginning after the June Newsletter
 * SIGCT Newsletter items and editor** (2 min)


 * Other items** (e.g., CT Tops, SIGCT award)


 * Action Items from this meeting:** (3 min)

Next meeting: mid-August (NECC, JCT, membership prof dev opportunities, membership volunteer opportunities)

Don't forget** to print and use the when you talk with colleagues or make presentations. I just used it last week and a number of people in the audience didn't even know we existed even though they knew about ISTE!

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