Ma-aste regional Meeting Minutes January 9, 2015; aste international Conference



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MA-ASTE Regional Meeting Minutes

January 9, 2015; ASTE International Conference




  • Rommel welcomes us with Bruno Mars and bear hugs and reminds us that the goal is to have a small campus/family feel




  • We go around the group and introduce ourselves - Name, Institution and State, and something unique (All attendees)




  • Mid-Atlantic ASTE Graduate Student Award presented to Jenay Sharp Leach, UVa by Rommel.

    • 4 graduate students in attendance

    • Jenay gave a few remarks about her MA-ASTE experience







  • Ron Hermann gives us an update on the historical project The Origin and History of MA-ASTE

    • The goal of this project is to honor the past to learn from each other

    • Ron gives update about project – as far back as possible (director, secretary, etc.), will be posted on website, ask others to contribute and fill in the blanks




  • Rommel reintroduces Facebook Discussion from Regional Meeting

    • Other region has Facebook site – the question is “What should the controls be like?”

    • Group Discussion

      • Eric Pyle – an administrator for geological society notes that it is good to have administrators and have sign up and checks to join

      • Recommendation is: Closed group with people requesting permissions and people being approved by an administrator




  • Job Searches and Celebrations:

    • Grad student position available in Geoscience Education (in SED or Dept. of Geology at Cincinnati; could be Masters or Doctoral level)

    • Leadership acknowledgements

      • 5 Members of the Elections committee; 4 are MA-ASTE members

      • Kathy Cabe Trundle, Warren DiBiase – Past president




  • News from the States:

    • DC - none

    • DE - none

    • KY – NGSS adopted, implemented statewide, trying to do 2 stage process to design assessment (1) collect evidence from teachers about assessments they use (2) combine “best of” to make state assessment

    • MD - none

    • NC – search for a dean at App State in College of Ed; NCSU search for full/associate in progress; teacher education: politically in bad shape – no pay for adv. deg. (possibly returned), increased charter schools, but maintaining numbers in teacher education; ranked 51st in “friendliest state for teachers” out of 51st

    • OH – early NGSS adopter but have introduced legislation to adopt Mass. Standards for 4 years while writing own as opposed to CC and NGSS; Duncan’s introduced regulations (likely to pass and impactful in changing teacher prep; favorable to charter schools; open to comment until Feb 2., research matters as does volume; need research piece and link to the place to comment)

    • TN – (will update on in minutes)

    • VA - (will update on in minutes)

    • WV - (will update on in minutes)




  • Some MA-ASTE folks will be given awards at lunch on Saturday - Gail Jones (10+ years career award); Pat Obenauf (mentor award)



  • Treasurer’s report: net profit from conference of ~$1100 (From Leslie on behalf of Rachel Wilson, Treasurer)




  • Karen Irving provides update on 2015 MA-ASTE Conference:

    • Salt Fork Lodge and State Park (near I-70 and I-77); October 22-24th (get rooms/cottages early b/c peak leaf season)

    • We began a discussion of how to deal with MA-ASTE regional meeting growth. Suggestions included concurrent sessions for some of the sessions or making the conference about a half day longer. Karen will create a survey to get feedback on these two options.



  • Rommel gives closing remarks

Respectfully submitted January 14, 2015 by Jennifer Maeng, MA-ASTE Secretary

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