Attending: John Anderson, Greg Bernhardt, Dick Clark (June 18th), Ada Beth Cutler, Vern Henshaw, Nick Michelli, Deb Shandley, Carol Wilson, Ann Foster
Action Items:
Tripartite Council roles
The Tripartite Council serves as the conscience for the NNER and provides direction to the Governing Council. To promote this role, the Tripartite Chairs will be lead facilitators at the Tripartite Meeting in October at the annual conference using the four strategic goals identified by the Tripartite Council at its October 2003 meeting and refined by the Governing Council at its Feb. 7, 2004 meeting.
The four goal areas are:
- Collaboration with organizations to advance the Agenda for Education in a Democracy
- Influence policy to promote the democratic purposes of schools
- Develop a comprehensive research agenda to advance the NNER mission
- Demonstrate progress toward the NNER Statement of Equity
Action:
A template will be provided for the settings for their annual reports that includes the four strategic goals along with the settings’ local updates on initiatives, changes, and other items unique to the settings.
|
Responsible for action:
Ann Foster
|
Setting contacts will work with their tripartite representatives to write the annual report and have it completed by the Tripartite meeting at the annual conference October 21, 2004.
|
Setting contacts and tripartite representatives
|
Plan meeting activities and format for the collated results. Tripartite Council members will bring their setting’s annual report to the meeting and work with colleagues to develop goals and identify strengths and gaps in the network’s collective work. |
Deb Shandley, John Anderson, Vern Henshaw, Carol Wilson, Ann Foster
|
Produce a summary of adaptable good practices and challenges that we must address.
|
Tripartite Council, Ann Foster |
Tripartite representatives will take the collected information back to the setting for conversation and goal setting.
|
Tripartite representatives |
Tripartite Chairs will convene sessions for their constitutes at conferences or other events that support their work i.e. Convene NNER school administrators at the AASA meeting. |
Tripartite Chairs |
Governance Document
Action
Add wording to the NNER Governance Document to reflect the motion to include progress toward the NNER Statement on Equity.
Recommend wording to clarify the terms of office for the executive council to be voted on by the GC. Recommendation: The officers elected by the GC serve two year terms, may serve more then one term in office, TC leaders serve for the duration of their terms on the TC |
Ann Foster
Carol Wilson at GC meeting |
Budget and Conference
Action
Formulate discussion for the Governing Council on the free registrations and the implications for the overall budget. |
Ann Foster, Carol Wilson |
Review the budget for balance between the income and expenditures including the reserve allocated to underwrite the conference.
Review NNER contributions to the Executive Director and IEI support staff.
|
Greg Bernhardt |
Develop a budget plan for specific NNER activities that support the strategic direction of the organization while accounting for the fixed expenditures. |
Ann Foster |
Formulate discussion with the Governing Council on possible dues increase and strategies for balancing the budget.
|
Greg Bernhardt, Carol Wilson |
Develop a process for bridging support for settings committed to long term participation while undergoing immediate budget shortfalls |
Greg Bernhardt, Carol Wilson |
The NNER settings contributed funds to acknowledge the exemplary work of Nick Michelli and Dick Clark. The EB agreed that an award in honor of each would be presented at the NNER annual conference using the funds for a plaque for recipients.
The award in Nick’s name will be for promoting social justice issues and for Dick the award will be for exemplary partner school work.
Final criteria will be developed and the awards will be announced at the conference in St. Louis to be awarded for the first time in SC. |
Ann Foster |
Finalize the criteria for hosting the NNER conference for the years 2006 and beyond and disseminate it to settings.
|
Ann Foster |
New setting application: Brandon School Division-University Partnership, Manitoba, Canada
Action
Review the application materials for recommendation to the Governing Council at the Oct. meeting. |
Vern Henshaw, Ada Beth Cutler with tripartite colleagues from their partnerships. |
Research Committee: The research committee work is key to the strategic direction of the network and is interrelated to other aspects of networking. The executive board would like an update on the committee’s activities in order to support the work.
Action
Presentation from the research committee to the Governing Council in Oct. |
Cindi Chance (Ann Foster will contact her.) |
NNER goals and direction
The Tripartite Council provides direction to the NNER. Using those goals, the executive board would like an annual report of progress toward the goals and other initiatives undertaken by the executive director. These will be used in conjunction with a yearly evaluation, salary discussion, and goal setting process for the executive director. The current executive director job description and the strategic goals will be the foundation for the report. |
Ann Foster |
The NNER at the national level will work to address diversity and equity issues just as the settings will do at the local level.
The executive board will seek ways to include equity issues and promote strategies to advance equity in its work. Examples include goals for the national level that address equity, developing venues at the annual conference that support and promote equity and address gaps in progress, seeking equity among the partners at the governance level |
Executive Board and Governing Council |
[Close Window] |