​CMCFN Affiliate Report 9/23/17
 
The Far North Affiliate will have our annual conference on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017.
Website cmcfn.com has registration ready to go, and splash page updated. Now we are using our lists of “year leading up to,” Week before,” and “day of” files to keep on track.  This is the transition year from Beth B. as president to Gwen Neu pres-elect.  Gwen will be pres. in 2018. We need to find a Pres-elect for her.  
 
Prep Meeting 9/9/17

• Attending:  Beth, Gloria, Gwen, Cathy, Bill, Ali, Lynn, MaryAnn
• Treasurer’s report: $8000- up from $3000 4 years ago.
• Team #’s and $ are both on the rise.
• Reviewed Meeting agenda
• Massaged presenter matrix

 
**Most items have been copied to agenda** (see pasted below)
 
Things to do:

• Beth to email Alicia and Annika to prep a TK-2 breakout on Critter Legs from Marcy Cook - Will order a booklet for each teacher and give out at the session. Moved to Ursula F in 1st grade to pilot
• Beth and Bill to meet to streamline registration process-one general reg. Button on cmcfn.com and then a simple Google form to send out upon request for group registration  - last year’s registration was a problem when the Weebly store detached each registrant from his or her school or grant.  Billing was slow and tedious as we sorted out 120+ teachers.
• Beth ordering folders and pencils and sending to Lisa-done.
• Gwen to send MaryAnn equipment need for keynote
• Need to create and get out flyers-done and will do again.  Ryan K at HCOE stuffed boxes.
• Gwen to email/call Harold to see what workshops he can do and if he’s bringing a team-done
• -using classroom assessment to prepare students for SBAC
• MaryAnn to contact Mike Butler
• MaryAnn getting items for folders-confirmed

 
Our timeline is maturing and the basis of how we approach our annual conference:


CMCFN Conference Time-Line Updated 8/05/17
 
January
 
●      Action plan
●      Pay grants
●      Attend CMCN affiliates workshop (Beth,Cathy and MaryAnn)-update CMCFN
February
●      Committee members each have liaison schools and districts to get admin/LCAP to promote attendance to staffs
●       Meet with HSU (Dale Oliver)/HCOE to coordinate conference
●      Set a date for conference Oct 14, 2017
●      Set Facility-Sequoia
●      Begin researching keynotes/Cathy Humphries/Andrew Stadel/Chris Shore https://mathprojects.com/about/
●      Email past speakers
●      Keep webpage current ~ Cathy (photos)
●      Mission Statement on Webpage at the top
March
●      Begin working on speakers
●      Speaker proposal form on website
●      Keep webpage current ~ Cathy
●      Create/Maintain email list for math teachers-Beth
●      Lisa- Call school secretaries to send survey to teachers at the school.
●      Find the HCOE Math coordinator to support us with county communication. Ryan and Rosie)
●      Beth/ECS & Sup. DelNorte            Mary Ann/Northern Hum  Gwen/Charters  Cathy Sinnen FUHSD
●      Ken Pinkerton - Advertising and getting students involved
●      Executive Sect-(Gretchen)get members of CMCN in our Counties Humboldt/DelNorte
April
●      Continue working on speakers
●      Keep webpage current ~  (useful links to CCSS)
●      Get “save the date” info out to teachers-email with survey: “what do you and your math colleagues need?”
●      Submit conference description to HCOE/DelNorte/Trinity professional development catalog
●      Connect with RCPLI & ECS Arts Integration team to serve their attendees.
●      Ali is the BAGEL CZAR
 
May
 
●      Submit conference description to Communicator to:
                    Janet Trentacosta  
                    cmc-communicator@sbcglobal.net
●      Beth request HCOE facility
●      Post registration form to website
●      Continue working on speakers- especially K-2!
●      CMCFN meeting to finalize all conference committees
●      DelNorte: presenters/partner with CMCFN to bring keynoter
●      Beth get scholarship info from County Offices and HSU
June
●      Revise Grant application focus/google form           
●      Continue work on matrix-recruit presenters
July
●      Website-get e-registration up and running
August
●      Work on program draft
●      Continue to work on speakers
●      Email committee members to get updates on progress/set meeting date
●      CMCFN meeting to get update from all committees (first week of school) at Fiesta Grill
●      Email registration forms to CMCFN list
●      ORDER FOLDERS
●      Draft of conference program online
●      Email draft matrix and updates to Cathy to set up session evaluations
●      Folders find coolio paper puzzles to copy and put into folders Lisa and MaryAnn
●      Send registration forms to school sites via HCOE.  (  HCOE)
Include forms, posters, cover letter to             principals (Include 2 for 1 price)
●      Press releases (conference description) to Del Norte COE, Mendocino COE, Trinity.  Follow up call to these COEs.  Local radio stations and newspapers Lisa Klar/Beth do TV
●      Packets (see Folders)
●      Revise mini-grants-focused on teacher collaboration/peer coaching-update application on website
●      Facility/McMiddle (long story!)


 



 
Other Business:
CMCFN sponsors the Humboldt Math Festival with an annual grant.
 
Asilomar:
 
We will be raffling  2  $550 scholarships to Asilomar at the conf. This year two working teachers will come with the team to the CMCN conf. Last year we did not limit who could enter and a college Junior won, attended and then decided not to become a teacher.  Lesson learned.



 

​CMCFN Affiliate Report 5/20/17
 
The Far North Affiliate had the annual conference on Saturday, Oct. 15.
 
Overview of details:
 

• Keynote was author Anna Weltman
• New venue was the Sequoia Conference Center at the district office
• Conference team was effective in catering, evaluations, program, overall planning and organization
• Attendance was bolstered by partnerships with local grants, county and university (HSU)
• Detailed Google Share drive is in place and full of lists, flyers, letters and templates to provide structure for 2017
• President Elect will start 2017
• Fee was increased to $75, with a group rate for the grant participants
• Web page, cmcfn.com was used as platform to organize conference before, during and after
• WE are currently looking for a keynote for next year.  It can be difficult to get well-known math educators to travel to the far north with our budget:)
• Gave away two  $500 scholarships to Asilomar and traveled with an affiliate team of 8.
• Ended with a 2017 budget of $8900 for next year J

 
Other Business:
 
Asilomar:
 
Teams learned a lot and debriefed during the evening hours and the long car ride.  Conference was a great learning and networking experience.  
 
Planning for next year’s annual conference:
 

• Schedule team meetings
• Book venue
• Need keynoter for K-5 attendees
• Start breakout matrix
• Partner with grant agencies RCPLI grant will send 60+ attnedees
• Send out Save the date (Oct 14, 2017) information to sites/email to members
• Review 2016 Share drive to organize 2017 planning.
• Recruit presenters (esp. Primary- hard to get!)
• Include a focus on the content progressions by Bill McCallum

 
Teacher Shortage:
Affecting many sites-student teachers are being recruited as interns with mixed success.
 
 

CMCFN Affiliate report for CMCN Feb 4-Report written by Beth Baker, CMCFN President.  This report can be viewed online at CMCFN.com, under the Current News tab.
Attending member: MaryAnn Sheridan
Upcoming conference Oct 17, 2016

• Keynote: Possibly Robert Kaplinsky, or Andrew Stadel
• Co-sponsor with HSU Dept of Ed/HISI grant/DNCOE/HCOE...  Attendance is supported by partnerships with local university students and HISI grant participants.
• May need to raise fees to $75 next year
• Timelines set
• Next meeting March 2016
• Website needs to be somewhat updated
• Facilities may change to the new county’s media center-very new and nice, anbout $1500 a day
• New president elect is Gwen Neu...thank you, Gwen!

Past meetings
Asilomar 2015

• Team of 8 local teacher attended, blogged at http://www.cmcfn.com/current-news
• Gwen took over the NCTM book booth for Mary Ann for the 2015 season.
• Larger team than last year from Humboldt attended.