Ncte Regions 2, 4, 5, 6 Affiliate Leadership Meeting

NCTE REGIONS 2, 4, 5, 6 AFFILIATE LEADERSHIP MEETING #ncteaffiliate St. Louis, Missouri — JULY 8–10, 2016 Agenda

For these days together we, as a community of affiliate and NCTE leaders, will  tell stories of what our affiliates have been, of how we perceive our affiliates now, and of what we’d like our affiliates to be.  work together to find ways we can better represent our affiliates to the world (think brand) by showcasing our members’ stories in their own voices and working in partnership with NCTE to better support the educators we serve.  develop our own toolkit of resources that we can share, add to, and use.

Hotel Check-In is 3:00 p.m.

Friday, July 8, 2016 Laying the Groundwork Friday Meetings — Orly Room

3:00–3:30 p.m. — SCOA Gathering

3:30–4:00 p.m. — Set up your affiliate materials on the affiliate display tables

4:00–6:00 p.m.  Housekeeping, Introductions & Getting Acquainted, Goal Setting, A Reading — Millie Davis, NCTE Senior Developer, Affiliates  “Stories and Personality →The Passions of Our Affiliates → A Process” — Emily Kirkpatrick, NCTE Executive Director, Millie Davis, and Members of the Standing Committee on Affiliates (SCOA)

6:00 p.m. — A Reading — Carol Revelle

6:30 p.m. — Group dinner in the hotel — Lambert CD

Saturday, July 9, 2016 Inquiring / Exploring / Gathering Data / Analyzing Information Working to Translate What Our Organizations Do to Support Our Members and Prospective Members into What Our Members Want to Do and How to Facilitate Their Telling Their Stories in Their Own Voices Saturday Meetings — Orly Room

7:30 a.m. — Check-In and Continental – Lambert CD

8:15–9:15 a.m.  A Reading — Curt Bobbitt  Reflection on what we learned yesterday. (stickies & popcorn)  “NCTE & Affiliates – Moving Forward Together, Starting with Questions” — Emily Kirkpatrick 9:15–10:00 a.m. — “Empowerment: Dismantling and Rebuilding--Recapturing Our Voices, Our Agency, Our Mission” — Jocelyn Chadwick, NCTE Vice President.

10:00–10:15 a.m. — Break — Orly Room

11:00–11:30 a.m. — Let’s change the world of our members and would-be members. What do we as educators want and need? How do we translate this to our members and prospective members? What do they want and need from us?  Getting personal—ourselves, ourselves as teachers – writing, talking, sharing

11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. — Lunch — Lambert CD 1:00–2:15 p.m.  A Reading — Marge Ford  We’ll use what we know about ourselves as teachers to discover o What are the needs and wants of our members and would-be members to help their students succeed? o How does our affiliate’s work embrace them and their stories? o How does our brand become something they hold dear and our work something they pass on by word of mouth? o How do we work with NCTE on this?  Let’s put our affiliate hats on, look back to the questions above, use the: What, So what, Now what? Protocol (http://www.nsrfharmony.org/system/files/protocols/what_so_what_0.pdf ), and figure out o What does my affiliate have to do to help our members attain #1? o How does our affiliate attain #2? o What do we need to do for #3 to come about? o What are suggestions for #4? o As an affiliate organization what is in-and-out of my control?  Let’s create: ideas/ tools/resource kits to address the ideas we identified.

2:15–2:30 p.m. — Break + Dessert — Orly

2:30–3:05 p.m. — Sharing Our Resources

3:15 p.m. - A Reading — Stacey Takanishi

3:15–4:22 p.m. — REGIONAL MEETINGS (Affiliate Regions 2, 4, 5, 6)  “Working Together to Figure Things Out Across Our Regions” — NCTE Standing Committee on Affiliates Members: Margaret Ford, Region 2 Representative, and Curt Bobbitt, Region 7 Representative Cheryl Staley, Incoming Region 4 Representative, Stacey Takanishi, Region 8 Representative, and Jean Boreen, Chair Dixie Keyes, Region 5 Representative, and Meredith Potter, Region 1 Representative Carol Revelle, Region 6 Representative, and Julie Rucker, Region 3 Representative

4:30–5:30 p.m. — Standing Committee on Affiliates (SCOA) Meeting

4:30–5:30 p.m. — Affiliate Leaders except SCOA members — Relax, Reflect, Renew

Dinner on Your Own — Enjoying the company of others — Check out the list of possibilities Sunday, July 10, 2016 Reflecting on Our Learning and Synthesizing Conversation Take-Aways Based on the Passion We Find Within and Outside of Our Organizations Sunday Meetings — Orly Room

7:45–8:30 a.m. — Continental Breakfast — Lambert CD

8:30–9:15 a.m. —Incorporating These Ideas into Conversations and Actions to Take To Our Boards  A Reading — Dixie Keyes  Review and reflect on what we’ve learned so far  What do we want to take back to our boards from what we’ve learned this weekend?  How do I talk about this when I go back? How do I translate this weekend into energy and excitement for them?

 Practicing with the “Engaging Skeptics” exercise.

9:15–10:00a.m. – On the Cover  Affiliates create a front page and list of contents of how they envision their group looking in 3-5 years.

 Sharing How We’ll Be

10:00 a.m. — BREAK — Orly Room

10:15–11:15 a.m. — Picturing Conversations to Bring Back to Your Affiliate  Parting Reflections: one new idea / one belief strengthened / one belief changed  Housekeeping  A Reading — Millie Davis

11:30 a.m. — ADJOURN — Don’t Forget to Turn in Your Evaluation Form, to Travel Safely, and to Take Your Affiliate Statement, Graphic, and Tag Line/Bumper Sticker Back to Your Affiliate Board

Hotel Checkout is 12 noon

Please remember to prepare and send in your reimbursement voucher as soon as you arrive home!