No time for any dust to settle!
Just when I am finally getting my “AHA” moments in
sync it’s time to step down from the stage coach.
I hope that you will have an
opportunity to attend the Education and Business Summit June
21-25, 2009 at Carolina First in Greenville, SC.
The SCACTE Business meeting will be
from 4:30-5:30 pm on Monday June 22, 2009.
We have two big items to bring to the memberships
attention for voting.
The first item deals with proposed by-laws changes
and I would like you to go to our website,
www.scacte.org to go
over that document.
The second item will address offering $25,000
liability insurance for our members but that will require
increasing our membership fees for SCACTE from $40.00 to
$65.00.
I do appreciate all the support from
past officers to the current executive board members who
have helped keep me straight and on a smooth ride.
A BIG THANK YOU to all of you!
To recap this year, we began with the
hiring of a part time Executive Director – Ray Boland,
Irmo,
SC.
Folks, this is one of the best moves for SCACTE.
He will be a great asset and will contribute well to
the transition of officers through the years.
We also increased membership thanks to Randy Evans,
Membership chair and his committee and their efforts.
They had a membership drive that began at last year’s
EBS and concluded Oct 31, 2008.
The member that brought in the most new members
received registration for National ACTE held in
Charlotte,
NC.
Trina Greenwood, Cosmetology Instructor at Aiken
County
Career Center.
However, due to scheduling conflicts she was unable
to make National ACTE so we have applied it towards
registration for the EBS in June.
We also did a competitive membership drive amongst
divisions and the winner will be announced at the EBS Awards
Day when other award winners will be recognized for SCACTE.
Our current membership count is 524.
“SC Executive Director drives four Ms.
Daisy’s to Florida and Survives”
SC was represented at Region 2
Conference hosted by Florida ACTE held in Daytona October
4-12, 2008 by 5 members.
Attendance was much decreased than normal due to
budget cut restraints but SC members have a lot to be
thankful for compared to
Florida
and other states with their extreme teacher/personnel job
cuts. I was
honored to be selected as Region 2 Teacher of the Year.
The next Region 2 Conference will be
held September 24-27, 2009 in
Savannah, GA, hosted by Georgia ACTE.
This was my first Regions 2 conference
to attend and I enjoyed it tremendously, the workshops, the
networking, the food and of course the fellowship!
National ACTE held in
Charlotte,
NC was represented with SC folks,
some members and some non members.
We need to track down those who attended that were
not! From Bill
Daggett to Daniel Pink and countless great keynoters as well
as great workshops, vendors and more networking, it was
quite a conference. At the state luncheon, SCACTE received a
State Quality Association award which is awarded to states
that meet quota for criteria such as documentation of set
number of board meetings in a year as well as newsletter
mailing (email or hardcopy).
Ray Boland and Kathy Bradford attended
a meeting regarding tax return filing procedures for state
checking accounts which will be clarified at the next board
meeting in April.
I represented Region 2 and SC as
Teacher of the Year Candidate and even though I was not
selected, it was again an honor to be recognized as one of
the top 5 teachers in the nation.
Candidates for President Elect, Region
2 Vice President, some division Vice Presidents were
announced at the Business Meeting.
Two nominations were represented from South Carolina.
Pat Earle, Chesterfield
High School, one of 5 candidates for Ag
Division and Grace Decken,
Daniel
Morgan
Technology
Center, one of 3
candidates for Health Science Division.
SCACTE had 3 Voting Delegates
represented at the Business Meeting, Kathy Bradford, Region
2 Policy Committee Member, Ray Boland, Executive Director
and Grace Decken, SCACTE President.
Mark your calendar for the next
national conference which will be held in
Nashville,
Tennessee November 18-21, 2009.
Voting for Candidates was done by
electronic ballot this year and announcement of candidates
were made the beginning of March.
The election results were as follows:
President Elect – Gary Moore, North Carolina
Region 2 Vice President – Debby Ford, Georgia
Region V Vice President – Doug Meyer
VP Administration – Doug Major
VP Adult Workforce – Harry Snyder
VP Guidance & Placement – Lela Bunch,
VP Special Populations – Ella Thompson
VP Ag Ed – Jeff Maierhoffer
VP Health Science – Grace Decken, South Carolina
Everyone elected will hold a three year
term which will commence July 1, 2009 and end June 30, 2012.
We will attend our first board meeting July 11-13,
2009 which will be held at the ACTE office in
Alexandria,
Virginia.
“Part Two:
Executive Director Drives Three Ms. Daisy’s and a
Gentleman to Washington and survives again!”
The National Policy Seminar was held in
Crystal City, Virginia March 8-11, 2009 headed by Leonard
Williams, BJ Skeleton Career Center with 11 SC Delegates,
Nick Milosevic, Muck Muckenfuss, SC State Ed Dept, Patrick
O’Neil, Aiken County Career Center, Kathy Bradford,
Charleston County, Gwen Scarborough, Berkeley County, Tammy
Haile, Chesterfield County, Mike Parris, Enoree Career
Center, Cathy Shaw, Hannah Westside Extension Campus, Ray
Boland, Irmo, and Grace Decken, Daniel Morgan Technology
Center.
Teams were assigned to visit different
legislators represented by their districts of residence in South Carolina.
Some of the executive board officers
attended a finance workshop which was highly informative
regarding importance of proper documentation of state
finances and the importance of upholding a strong finance
committee for the state with representatives from each
division.
Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education was
the keynote speaker which I did not get to attend due to
early departure from NPS for attendance to SC HOSA State
Leadership.
There are some new faces and
restructuring of current staff members in ACTE to help
better serve the members.
Please take advantage of their assistance, that’s
what they are there for!
(website:
www.acteonline.org)
Ron Roveri,
York
High School, SCCTEA
President Elect and Ray Boland will be speaking at the 9th
Administration Institute on May 5th hoping to
recruit some new members as well as some new leaders for
SCACTE.
I look forward to serving as SCACTE
Past President as well as VP for Health Science Division for
ACTE next year and handing the President’s “gavel” over to
Gwen Scarborough in June.
She will do a great job to continue to carry the
momentum we are building to bring SCACTE to new heights.
Appreciate your support in helping her bring new
members and new leaders for SCACTE so that 90% of the work
is not just done by 10% of the same recycled folks (don’t
get me wrong, they do a great job!)
We just need more people to join/renew and upgrade
their membership tickets to third class!
Remember the Sound of Music movie?
One of my all time favorites!
Can’t remember the name of the song but it goes like
this…
“..So long, farewell, I hate to say goodbye, adieu, adieu,
to you & you & you…”
(Don’t worry; I won’t start singing at the EBS Business
Meeting)
Thank you for the opportunity and
privilege for serving you this year as your SCACTE
President.