1. TRC Project Director Webinar February 2-3,2012

2. Greetings  Agenda for Today:  Eighteenth Annual Meeting  Grant Update (2011-2012)  RFA Update (2012-2013)  Interim Reporting  Assessment of Teacher Knowledge  Social Networking  PDAs and PDMs

3. Eighteenth Annual Meeting  “Higher Standards—New Horizons: Achieving Excellence in STEM education through the TRC ”  Dates: June 27-29, 2012  Location: Renaissance Austin Hotel  Notes:  Awards luncheon Wednesday, June 27th  Showcase, Reception, and Dinner the evening of Wednesday, June 27 th.  Pre-Meeting on Tuesday, June 26 th TBA

4. Eighteenth Annual Meeting Registration, Break-Out Sessions, Awards  March 7, 2011: Annual Meeting packets arrive by email:  Applications for presentations  Applications for teaching and mentoring awards  Registration information (including registration link)  April 16 th : Award and presentation applications DUE  May 15 th : Notification of presentations and awards  May 28 th : Room block closes and registrations DUE  Registration Fee: $300/person  Hotel Sleeping Room Block: up to 5 rooms per Collaborative

5. DataCenter Status Report NumberAverage STMs served1,57264 hours MTMs served89154 hours Science CMs4,134 9.5 hours Math CMs3,419 10. 3 hours Campuses4,326---

6. Regional Collaborative Events MathScience Proposed Training Events 287631 Completed Training Events 7551,005  639 events addressing life science or biology  312 events addressing environmental science  514 events addressing algebra  318 events addressing geometry

7. Monitoring Current Progress  Projects were required to have an average of 30 hours in the DataCenter for STMs/MTMs by Oct 15.  Projects were required to have data about all STMs/MTMs committed to in your Statement of Work (SOW) entered by Oct 15.

8. If you Plan to Apply for 2012-13 Funding…  By the application deadline the DataCenter should show:  100% of STMs/MTMs entered and active  50% of STM/MTM contact hours completed on average  50% of CMs entered and active  40% of total grant invoiced  Note: Project Measures are major factor in the rubric for the new grant. These goals must be met to have a competitive application!

9. DataCenter Updates  Project Team (ITMs)  Project Measures (SOW)  Immersion Status  Training Events (Timeline)  Mentor Assessment Report Checklist  Completed Summary Form  Updated Instructional Timeline  Agendas and Sign-in Sheets  Value-Add Description  Assessments of Classroom Impact Interim Reporting: DUE March 20, 2012

10. DataCenter – Report 2 View

11. Project Measures  100% of MTMs/STMs need to be entered into the DataCenter.  All MTMs/STMs should have approximately 50% of training completed and entered into the DataCenter.  50% of all CMs need to be entered into the DataCenter.

12. Assessment Update: Mathematics  2011-2012 Grant:  Post-assessments administered when program activities end.  Report scores by IRT into DataCenter  2012-2013 Grant:  Assessment and Evaluation seminar via the web after Grant notifications. (TBA)  Plan to administer pre-assessment at your first TRC meeting of the new grant cycle.

13. Social Media Update  Central location for  TRC news and updates  Grant opportunities  STEM news and articles  Instructional technology resources  Post to the wall  Integrated with TRC Twitter page  Alternatives for viewing Facebook posts  “Like” button  RSS feed  SMS texts  Mobile app  Follow the TRC on Twitter

14. Social Media Update  TRC Facebook postings  STEM news  Diversity of instructional technology resources  Easily connect with other teachers  Integral component to personal learning networks (PLN)  Viewing TRC tweets  Mobile app and notifications  Twitter.com (must have an account)  3 rd party applications

15. Recent PDAs: Math  ESTAR 3-4,  September 12-14, 2011  Participants: ~40  Young Mathematicians at Work 5-8,  October 4-7, 2011  Participants: ~40  ESTAR K-2,  December 5-7, 2011  Participants: ~25  Secondary Numeracy 1 & 2,  October 25-28, 2011 and January 10-13,2012  Participants: 41

16. Upcoming PDAs: Math  Young Mathematicians at Work 1-4: Multidigit Addition,  Austin, March 20-23, 2012  Young Mathematicians at Work 3-7: Multidigit Multiplication  Austin, May 8-11, 2012  Developing Mathematical Ideas: Patterns Functions and Change K-8,  Huntsville, July 30 to August 3, 2012 44 participants YMAW, Region 6, 2011-12

17. Project Director Meeting, April 12-13  Location: Ben Hur Shrine Center, Austin  Thursday, April 12, Content Focus  11:30 to 4:30  Friday April 13, Joint Business Meeting  8:30 to 2:30 Registration open by February 15 th.

18. Thanks for All You Do for Texas Math Teachers!