Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Addendum B to January 2012 Meeting

At this week's meetings, our leadership team and department chairs decided they want to utilize the ICU program as our main focus to ensure student learning as opposed to creating after-school STAAR test interventions. Since we will not need all of our stipend money, we would like to use this money to purchase classroom technology. Therefore, we will need to make the following amendment to our Title1 budget:

The following account will be decreased:
  • Stipends                           $2,000
The following account will be increased:
  • Technology Hardware       $2,000
Please vote to approve or disapprove this amendment. You can do this is by posting a comment that has your vote. Thanks!

7 comments:

  1. Is this money that would have been used to compensate teachers for their time after school? If so, would it be possible to use it to compensate teachers who stay for ICU, especially since that IS our "intervention"? What technology are we looking at purchasing?

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  2. Yes, I thought about that. The issue is that it is very little money to share with a lot of people, and no matter how we divide it up, it will not seem fair. I'm afraid it will cause hurt feelings and create divisions. We had an experience with the TEEG grant a few years ago that caused such divisions.

    As for the technology, I'm open to suggestions. Many teachers do not have enough technology in their classrooms for their students.

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  3. What is the cost of moving an ActivBoard from one room to another?

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  4. Let's go for technology. Approve

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  5. I approve and also would like to entertain Ms. Hoye's suggestion.

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  6. Approve! @Hoye, Lewis--I can move it for free! :)

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  7. Sorry for the delay. I thought I voted already. Consider this my approval.

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