DLD Business Meeting

CEC Convention

Thursday, April 9, 2015

  1. Previous year’s minutes passed out for review
  2. Agenda Overview
  3. Devin Kearns motioned to approve the agenda. Seconded. Motion approved.
  4. Officer Reports
  5. President’s Report, David Chard
  6. Encouraged participation in elections and service for DLD
  7. President Elect’s Report, Laurie deBettencourt
  8. Collaboration with CLD conference in Las Vegas; updates will come in emails
  9. Vice President’s Report, Linda Mason
  10. Year for learning the process of DLD
  11. Has ideas for how the vice president might be more involved
  12. Past President’s Report, Erica Lembke
  13. Coordinated review and selection for the conference; 18 sessions and 29 posters were slotted; there was a 44% acceptance rate; multiple presentation slots allow us to accept the highest number of high-quality proposals
  14. Coordinated the slate and the election process for officers
  15. Assisted with getting the Voices from the Field videos completed and many are now up on the website
  16. Coordinated survey and focus group on membership
  17. Worked with CEC to get 2 math webinars approved for the fall
  18. Committee Reports
  19. Publications and Communications, Bill Therrien
  20. Recognized committee members
  21. Editor Search
  22. Thank you to Diane Haagerand Chris Espin for their incredible work
  23. Application and Interview Process completed
  24. Linda Mason will be the new editor of LDR&P
  25. Kirk Award – Awardee authors unable to travel from Netherlands to join us and receive their award
  26. Wiley Contract is up for renewal
  27. LDR&P app being developed
  28. Early View will be coming to LDR&P
  29. 2-year impact factor
  30. Newsletter transitioned to an all online format
  31. Policy Report, David Bateman
  32. Summarized updates on ESEA reauthorization and will post notes to the DLD website
  33. Research Report, Bryan Cook
  34. Recognized committee members
  35. Continuing to do work on the Current Practice Alerts
  36. One new alert is out and on the website to access with two additional reports ready to go that will be out shortly
  37. Will begin to update older alerts as well
  38. Writing Research news blurb in the DLD Times; thank you to the authors
  39. DLD Research Doctoral Award - Jessica Namkung is this year’s award winner
  40. Professional Development, Standards, and Ethics Report, Rebecca Zumeta
  41. Worked on this year’s Showcase session
  42. Contributed to DLD Times and board initiatives
  43. Working on a practice piece for LDR&P
  44. Two Awards
  45. Fleischner Career Leadership Award awarded to Rollanda O’Connor
  46. Outstanding Educator Award awarded to Amanda Giorgi
  47. Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Diane Rodriguez
  48. Marva Collins Award awarded to Wendy Jacobs
  49. Approval of minutes for meeting of April 2014
  50. Susan motioned. Seconded. Motion approved.
  51. Ad-Hoc Committee Reports
  52. Nominations and Elections Report
  53. Peggy Weiss will continue as treasurer
  54. Stephanie Al Otaiba will be vice president
  55. Student Representative’s Report
  56. Organized student poster session
  57. Reminded members to have students apply for next year’s session
  58. Editors of TeachingLD.org
  59. Added new and noteworthy section
  60. New blog section with updates on LDR&P articles
  61. New Alerts are posted
  62. Newsletter is available as well as products
  63. Suggestions can be sent (contact the editors’ box on the website)
  64. New Business
  65. Natalie Olinghouse stepped down as membership chair; Michael Faggella-Luby has agreed to step in
  66. Membership Committee Update, Michael Faggella-Luby
  67. Dwindling Membership
  68. Summarized annual membership by month and recent trends for DLD and CEC
  69. As part of effort to improve membership the committee and past president conducted a survey of 400 members as well as follow-up interviews with a few members
  70. Staffed membership table in the Expo and provided incentives (headphones)
  71. Future Goals
  72. Continue to work on increasing overall membership
  73. Assist development of subdivisions
  74. Need one additional member on committee if you have interest
  75. Maintain and report current listing of subdivision officers and unit activities
  76. Treasurer’s Report, Peggy Weiss
  77. Financial Report was handed out
  78. Summary of report was provided
  79. Revenue from membership dues, journal, book, and webinars
  80. Funds are allocated for partnership initiative in the future
  81. Goals in Coming Year
  82. David Chard discussed goals for coming year
  83. LDR&P is a key focus of DLD; continuing to invest in the quality of the journal is important
  84. Seek strategic partnerships to increase membership and provide professional development opportunities for members; allow product development with organizations that have staff to work products
  85. Reinvestment of our savings including using interest to create a small grant competition to support student or early career or practitioner research
  86. Reminder that colleagues can subscribe to LDR&P even if they are not DLD members
  87. Questions
  88. Suggestion that abstracts in LDR&P be published in other languages (e.g., Chinese).
  89. Webinar materials may be used for other purposes that may generate revenue
  90. Recognition of David Chard’s Work as President
  91. Erica Lembke provided recognition of David’s work
  92. Business Meeting Adjourned at 6:02 pm.