Minutes+from+September+22,+2011

**9:00 – 11:30** **22 September 2011**
 * KU Meeting**


 * Attending**: Carola Lee, Carolyn Smith, Millie Olsen, Stephanie Robinson, Kathy Schroeder, Judy Sweetman, Cindy Johnson, Gayle Slattery


 * Minutes from State Meeting:** Reviewed the minutes from the State meeting. We (the State) have been in contact with Ann Hoffman. She may present at the conference for free. Anyone who wants to be newly trained may have to go to Kansas.

There is no funding for Fusion Reading longer. Fusion Reading has been sold to McGraw-Hill.

June 12 – 13, 2012 are the dates for our summer conference. We will be in Rooms 3 & 4 at Heartland AEA in Des Moines. Patty Graner will be the presenter—at no charge. There is a pre-conference on June 11.

Structure Your Reading – new program for reading that provides students with strategies to enhance reading comprehension.

Strategic note taking – This is one strategy that we could use to train special Ed teachers. We need to help Special Ed teachers to use some new strategies that fit with the RTI emphasis. If we can come at it from a different angle—as a way to close the gap and improve AYP, perhaps we could generate some interest. Test Taking and Strategic Tutoring are two other strategies that might work.
 * KU at Northwest AEA:**

KU Conference for Northwest AEA teachers, coaches, and strategists. Now that all schools are in the new model, we could provide the support the attendees would need. It might be possible to offer licensure renewal credit, if we add an implementation piece. (KU Kamp)

Training requests from other states: We no longer have our KU Moodle site, as it was purged. But we could send out information when it comes in on the Google calendar specifically for KU.

We could create a Google site with links to other KU sites, such as Edge Enterprises, SIM, etc. We could also create a KU wiki, and put resources for teachers on this wiki.

Our new wiki is: Rock Towards Improvement: RTI. Our wiki can be found at: http://rocktowardsimprovement-rti.wikispaces.com/

Our next meeting will be November 29, 2011, Room 107 from 9:00 – 11:00.