- Cathy Bernhard introduced Kathi Kennedy from Beaverton. She will replace Cathy Windsheimer as Area 3 Representative.

- On page 6, change the OEA contribution from $5000 to $3000. On page 3, change the Break Time from 11:03 to 10:03.

- A motion by Ann McMahon with a second by Lois Costine was made to accept the minutes as corrected. The motion to accept the corrected January 31, 2004 minutes was passed.

- Add NCTM Affiliates meeting

- Add OCEPT for new teachers under Old Business

- Add Gilbert House under Old Business

- There will be no scholarship meeting at lunch as there were no applicants. Maybe Nancy Rogers could get together with Publicity to figure ways to reach new and veteran teachers.

- Ann McMahon would like people to review the math education awards.

- At noon, a small group (because she has a small computer) needs to meet with Jackie Cooke to look at the OCTM web page.

- Ralph Schubothe requested help with envelope stuffing for a mailing of membership renewal.

- Giny has asked us to please discuss how we contact people to run for OCTM offices during our lunch conversations.

- Please refer to the end of the minutes for the individual Area Reports.

- Jim Specht asked if we could consider moving some of the unspent scholarship monies to meet the needs expressed during Area Rep reports.

- Nancy Rogers said that we need to revisit how scholarship monies are dispensed.

• Retooling Mike Gould

- Retooling, a.k.a. Mathematics Professional Development Council or Math-PDC

- 40 people gathered the first weekend in April. Don Crossfield made transcriptions of all the notebooks!!!!!!!

- Mission Statement:

"The Mathematics Professional Development Council is a statewide group of math educators committed to promoting ongoing staff development to school communities in support of current and national standards."

- Retooling efforts are still in the free form stage.

- Ginger Redlinger spoke to Susan Castillo, Superintendent of Education, who was impressed with the wonderful teachers who even know what CIM is. The math teachers are on the cutting edge.

- Ginger found a book on how different ages learn called How People Learn, Bridging Research and Practice from the National Research Council, ISBN 0-309-06536-4. See also www.nap.edu

- Marge Burak talked briefly about the book, The Tipping Point. Has anyone read this yet? The ideas presented still run rampant through Marge's head.

-Those that were in attendance at the April weekend meeting individually shared their thoughts and reactions about that weekend. They were: Mike Gould, Giny Christensen, Patty, Sandoz, Ginger Redlinger, Jill Sumerlin., Judy Johnson, Marge Burak, Nancy Rogers, Damon Langley., Brent Freeman, Ann McMahon, Nancy Anderson, Cathy Brown, Jackie Cooke, and Cathy Bernhard.

- The reviews of the weekend included: "like a think tank; very positive environment; very powerful; very focused and positive--not a chance to get together and complain; diversity of people in attendance;

- If a statewide professional development is to work, we must individually understand how it is to work.

- We want each person to have a toolkit. We should know what the history of the local area is, then proceed from there.

• Mission Statement Giny Christensen

- Giny first presented this version of the mission statement at the January 31, 2004 Board meeting. It is a melding of two versions that have floated around. Brent Freeman has the NCTM mission statement and goals.

- The following was suggested and will be brought back in August for further review:

OCTM Mission Statement

"Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics promotes a comprehensive

math education community supporting educators and ensuring mathematics

learning of the highest quality for all students."

OCTM Goals

• Stimulate and foster the interest in the learning of mathematics while providing instructional strategies, best practices, and useful assessment tools.

• Encourage and support educators in the process of change of mathematics standards as envisioned by the NCTM, Oregon Department of Education, and the United States Department of Education. (homework for August is to rewrite this!!))

• Support diversity and achieve equity within the Oregon mathematics education community.

• Develop and encourage strong leadership and service in the mathematics education community.

• Develop and maintain communication and coordination of services between OCTM and related educational organizations, public agencies, and private sector agencies.

- The five goals: Retype using the NCTM format with no numbers on the goals. Re-order the goals 4, 2, 3, 5, 1. Take the word "to" off each goal.

• OCTM Logo Jackie Cooke

- Should we have two different logos or one? The logo with the outline of the state more clearly identifies us. Jackie gets Ohio-CTM emails. Chuck Peterson had the archaic logo on a yoyo that he passed around. This was prior to the contest that generated the rhombus version of the logo. The biggest concern by Joe Spooner was that he did not want to step on any toes or hurt anyone's feelings. The state outline matches the logo on The Oregon Math Teacher. We need to have a brand, something that identifies us. It will cost us some money to change but we will use those rhombus materials till they run out.

- Discussion before motion: Should we include the words for the initials? Do we have official colors? flowers? bird? handshake?

- This logo issue will be thrown back to Joe Spooner to play around with.

- A decision will be tabled until Joe can give us something real to look at in August.

• NCTM Rep Brent Freeman

- Though Mary Ann Stine, the NCTM Rep, was not in attendance, she asked OCTM to help host the regional Affiliates Conference scheduled for Portland in May. She's asked for $500 to help support this as traditionally the host state contributes money, according to Cathy Bernhard.. Are there other contributions from other states? The statement was made that this is a little late to ask OCTM for money since the Affiliates Conference is three weeks away. The money is for the evening reception. Cathy Bernhard said we have taken responsibility in the past for the evening reception cost. It was pointed out that there is a Money Request Form for people seeking contributions.

- A motion by Mike Gould with a second by Trudy Mitchell was made to give the NCTM head office $500 to support the Friday evening reception of the May Affiliates Conference in Portland. The motion passed.

- Trudy thinks she has the banner. Other OCTM materials will also be set out.

- Should Susan Castillo, Superintendent, be asked to attend this? The answer was an overwhelming yes.

- Should there be other things for swapping such as "A present to you from Oregon." Lois will contact Mary Ann Stine about this.

• OCTM Funding Application Giny Christensen

- Sarah Reeve, of the Ford Family Foundation, is going to help Giny write a pre-application for the retooling efforts for rural, systemic, sustainable professional development. This will then go to their Board this summer. Giny is going to ask for more than $10,000. Sarah was impressed with the amount of money our organization is already willing to put on the table for this effort.

[Several groups have contributed funding over the years for the OCTM workshops including Wells Fargo (hence the name), Oregon Department of Education, OCTM, and now Oregon Collaborative for the Excellence in Preparation of Teachers. During the last two years OCEPT, through Marj Enneking, has contributed $42,500 for the continuation of the workshops and now the retooling efforts.]

• Procedures Manual Martha VanCleave and Nancy Swarat

- Martha put together what was given to her for the Procedures Manual but not all offices have a description. This is a draft, with inconsistent formatting, so that people who have been officers before can read through and make comments, additions, corrections. etc. More refinement will take place in August. The original vision is that the procedures manual is detailed. Giny has a procedure for Area Reps. This Area Rep vision has been expanded to include all Board members.

- April 30, 2004 email from Martha

"I have attached a PDF (a type of electronic formatting) copy of the procedures manual we are putting together, containing responsibilities of OCTM Board officers. I will also put a link on my webpage (www.linfield.edu/-mvcleave) and bring copies to tomorrow's Board meeting in Redmond."

• Strategic Action Plan Giny Christensen

- What just happened with the mission statement is now also the strategic action plan.

• Bill Briggs Jackie Nissen

- Jackie Nissen was not in attendance to do this so it will be tabled till the next meeting.

• Writers' Retreat Cathy Bernhard

- A one day Writing Retreat for K-12 math teachers will take place August 8-10 at Linfield College, following Oregon Math Leaders. See the orange paper included at the end of the minutes.

- This is an opportunity for people who like to "polish" articles for publication in TOMT magazine. These articles might be based on original ideas shared at the Swap Sessions or on successful classroom activities that would be useful for other Oregon teachers. The goal is to include new teachers in the process. Marj Enneking of Portland State University is hoping teams will apply with a team comprised of an experienced teacher and a newbie. A person does not have to have a partner though. This grant can also fund 1, 2, 3, and 4 year teachers to attend OML. Deadline is June 10, 2004 for a rough draft hard copy.

- Martha VanCleave has offered to contact Marj Enneking to clarify this. The OML registration people need to know this. Giny will give more info when she gives her President's report. Cathy Bernhard needs to get a list from Madeline Lapp or Cherie Haynes.

• Gilbert House Cathy Brown for Laura Lethe

- Cathy was giving this report as Laura could not attend today's meeting.

- Laura Lethe received the appropriate OCTM monetary request form for $500 from Gilbert House. (But Laura received this on the day she was doing Pentagames so she has not had time to deal with it.) Gilbert House will serve all of Oregon, not just Salem. But how will they serve eastern Oregon? This contribution of $500 would come out of the SCAM (Special Contributions for Activities and Mathematics) category.

- A motion by Nancy Swarat with a second by Nancy Rogers was made to grant $500 to Gilbert House. The motion passed.

- Giny will contact Laura Lethe to have her send Chuck Peterson some kind of documentation.

- Camille shared in an email that OCEPT has some additional unspent funds that may be used to support early career teachers who attend OML or perhaps the money could be used to underwrite regional workshops. See a copy of this email at the end of the minutes. Cathy Brown suggested the Retoolers find an early career teacher to team up with and then this money could be used. This is a Retooling Tag Along Grant or a Mini-Me Grant;

- Using the Ford Foundation monies as leverage was discussed. Giny will get back to Camille about this Tag Along idea.

Election Results Trudy Mitchell

- Winnie Miller is President-Elect and Ross Eells is Treasurer-Elect. Congratulations!

- Of 1400 ballots sent out, 136 ballots were returned. One had a comment thanking those that are willing to serve. One had Chuck Peterson's name written in.

- We need to think about how to get people to run for office. This will be discussed in August. - Both President and Treasurer are four year commitments.

- Jim Specht suggested keeping this informal because there is a compatibility issue for the officers involved. Giny received several emails complaining that the ballot was illegal because there was only one name for each office. But Giny could only find one candidate for each office. This is a dilemma.

• President's Report Giny Christensen

- COSA Presentation--The June COSA Conference is already scheduled so there is no room in the agenda for Giny to make a presentation but there is room at their August meeting. If she had included something about diversity she could have gotten into the June conference.

• Northwest Conference 2004 in Spokane Giny Christensen

- NCTM is going to help Spokane put on the conference by sending speakers to present a series of sessions on the Algebraic Thinking strand.

- It is hoped that NCTM understands that the 2005 conference is well under control by OCTM organizers.

- Why is NCTM all of a sudden interested in the northwest states?

• Texas Instruments Giny Christensen

- Paul Riopel of Texas Instruments has 50 units available for teachers to trade up. Paul has offered to be available on set of days in May and June in the Portland area for this exchange. See email. This is for the teacher's version of the TI-83 calculator that displays to the wall or a TV. - Many people proposed that this exchange be done by region. Giny will contact Paul Riopel about this.

• Northwest Science Expo Giny Christensen

- Giny authorized the expense of $25 for the purchase of awards for the Northwest Science Expo. The past practice is that we have done this. According to an email from Jackie Nissen to Giny this is something we've usually done.

• EBSCO Phil Bartsch

- Phil was not in attendance to give his report.

• Texas Instruments Conference Lois Costine

- Mary Lee asked if we would be interested in co-sponsoring a conference in the Portland area. - It would cost about $7000 to have an institute. Participants get a set of materials and a calculator.
- Should we as OCTM let people know that grants are available to have TI institutes? OCTM should avoid commercial enterprises. There is support for these institutes but OCTM should not get involved.

- Lois will take this info back to this person.

- Do we need to have a file for successful and unsuccessful grant applications?

Vice President Trudy Mitchell

- OMEC will meet in two weeks.

- Staples has a goody bag for teachers and they may give these goody bags out at events. A teacher can request them from an individual store manager. If the manager is fuzzy, go to the regional manager.

- It was suggested that Martha VanCleave ask Staples if they would provide these bags for OML Martha in turn suggested that the new Treasurer do this since he lives in the McMinnville/Newberg area.

- Trudy encourages people to go to National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM), the three day event prior to the NCTM meeting. Registration is not as much as the NCTM Annual Meeting.

- The 2005 NCTM Annual Meeting will be in Anaheim.

- Trudy was asked to send this info to the listserv.

Past President Jackie Nissen

- Jackie Nissen was not in attendance.

Treasurer Chuck Peterson

- In the January 31, 2004 minutes a correction on page 6, fifth line down--there should be six more o's and fewer n's in the minutes! (lllllloooooooooooonnnnnnnggggggg)

- Chuck quizzed us on how many categories and how many line items there are in the Treasurer's Report. Should this information be described in more detail? Definitely the general categories need to be explained in greater detail--written down as guidelines, though not policy written in stone.

- Chuck gave kudos to Redmond again for spending the least amount on food that he can remember--only $250.

- The far right two columns are historical information--prior fiscal year. The farthest left column is the adopted budget. The second column is how we're doing.

- Ralph Schubothe provides the best record of postage expense for the different mailings that Chuck has ever seen.

- We should have discussion sometime in the future about the cost of running an election. Historically there's only a 10 -15% return of ballots. Possible ideas:

— Put a ballot in TOMT

— Vote on line

— Other?

- The Gilbert House donation might come out of Publicity because the Gilbert House will put the OCTM name on their stuff. It could also come out of S.C.A.M. (Special Contributions for Activities and Mathematics).

- Definitely the general categories need to be explained in greater detail--written down as guidelines, though not policy written in stone.

- Do we still want 25 expense categories? This should be between Chuck and Ron Eells, Treasurer-Elect?

- Trudy suggested having a subcommittee to investigate how to get people to run for office. Giny asked Trudy to head this up and will give her all the Nancy's in the room and one Jackie. (Nancy Swarat, Nancy Rogers, Nancy Anderson and one of the Jackie's). [This might have been said in jest.]

- What about the dinner following the August Board meeting? The bill for this dinner was $640 which included a gratuity. There are now so many activities going on at OML and with OML starting on Sunday night that maybe the Jake's dinner has run it's course. It was nice but . . . If the Jake's dinner is scrapped, then dinner might have to be at Linfield's cafeteria. Giny will look into it and talk to the OML leaders.

- We need to find a school room to have the Board meeting in instead of paying for a room at Linfield. Last year the cost for the meeting room was $400. Hewlett Packard has still not come through with their offer to pay this rental fee.

Recording Secretary Patty Sandoz

- There is nothing to report.

Membership Secretary Ralph Schubothe

- A graph of the OCTM membership was distributed. In 1984 our membership was at 1270. Our highest level of membership was in 1997. Currently our membership is at 1524. See graph at the end of the minutes.

- Membership numbers are down.

NCTM Representative Brent Freeman

- Brent went to sessions that might help with our retooling efforts. He also went to the Western Caucus, Delegate Assembly, and one session on the theme of NCTM becoming more political.

- Western Caucus:

^ Political Advocacy Kit was the biggie. These are free, just ask for them from Reston, VA office.

^ In the toolkit:

• Congressional Directory

•NCTM Communication Guide "Expanding Our Reach"

•Mission Statement

•NCTM facts and figures

• Blue sheet sign up

•Executive summary of Principles and Standards

•FAQ about Principles and Standards

- Affiliates Leadership:

^ At that meeting Cathy Seeley, Mary Ann Stine (who will be working more on the national level than regional level in the future), Kevin ??--major players in political advocacy

- Delegate Assembly:

^NCTM is trying to get a regional meeting together in July in Utah. This is an effort to deal with the math wars that have been going on (reform versus tradition). Trying to find commonalities between the groups and the state standards. California is still embroiled with people who are anti-standards. Several states are facing more opposition than we are.

^Voted on: NCTM will become involved in interpreting the No Child Left Behind legislation. The NCLB website did not have NCTM info on there but Mathematically Correct (anti standards group) was there. Check out the webpage: www.mathematicallycorrect.com

^ 72% of the people visiting this website for Mathematically Correct home school their kids. Is there a push to get Mathematically Sane on there? This is the counter to the Mathematically Correct. New York is getting hit hard by Mathematically Correct.

- Politically Active:

^ If NCTM does not get politically active then Mathematically Correct will fill this void.

^ Free trial for Principles and Standards

^ NCTM feels there needs to be greater student involvement with affiliates group.

- NCTM goals:

^ Look at these for our own political abilities

^ NCTM has as one of its goals that every legislator knows at least one math teacher!

^ When sending a letter to Washington DC send it fax or email rather snail mail because of the anthrax scare bogging things down. Write the email in formal format.

Conference Coordinator Phil Bartsch

- Phil was not in attendance.

Grant Coordinator Lois Costine

-Somebody is figuring out how we can apply to the Gates Foundation.

- Lois will talk to Jackie Cooke about getting a grant link to our webpage.

Historian Jim Specht

- Chuck Hucka sends greetings. He's over 90 years old and living in Virginia. He was an Area 4 Rep. He asked about OCTM. Jim told him the membership numbers, we have over $300,000 to work with, the conferences we put on, and so on. He tells us, "He's proud of us all."

Oregon Department of Education--Curriculum Ginger Redlinger

- Ginger provided handouts on the following:

^ Reorganization of Oregon Department of Education

^ Career-related learning standards

^ Birth through Five Mathematics

(It has been suggested that this is a pre-natal Baccalaureate program called Calculus in the Womb!)

- Early childhood group was impressed with Jackie Cooke's lesson study articles.

-Mike Gould has donated time to talk to school districts about standards based high school programs.

- Math Forum--getting business people talking to business people. It is important to have problem solving based programs. The culture is about math literacy.

- In August we will get a CD with great lessons from the website.

- Title 2b: Grant for Hillsboro School District grades 5-8, ELL, and Special Ed focusing on Algebraic Thinking.

- Title 2b will double for next year with an additional allocation from the Feds.

Oregon Department of Education--Assessment Cathy Brown

- Handout of the math assessments web page: http://www.ode.state.or.us/asmt/mathematics/

• TOMT Jackie Cooke

- Cathy Bernhard had to leave but was thrilled to have one year under her belt as Co-Editor.

- Possible article features for next year include:

^ Parent feature has gone well.

^ Tari Querin has promised to give article on her Math and Muffins

^ Parent Content Focus workshops

^ Take home bags to get parents involved with their kids

^ Ann McMahon will write an article on home visits.

^ Navigations series will continue next year.

• Oregon Math Leaders Becky Reed

-Becky Reed was not in attendance.

- There was an email report from Cherie Haynes

^ 293 invitations sent--241 have had no response; three no's, 21 conflicts; 28 yes.

^ Madeline Lapp's information is not part of this.

• Publicity Ann McMahon

- Ann passed around copies of past recipients for the Oscar Schaaf, Mildred Bennett, and Hall of Fame awards.

- Area Rep Awards and pins are to the left of Giny's computer but she hasn't dealt with it yet. Nor can she open the Area Rep certificate program on her computer.

• Scholarship Nancy Rogers

- The Oscar Schaaf Scholarship is for someone working on advanced math degree but there were no applicants for this year.

- The scholarships should be a future discussion item.

• Contests Laura Lethe

- Laura Lethe was not in attendance.

• TOTOM Martha VanCleave

- There is nothing to report.

• Webmeister Jackie Cooke

- The first set of OCTM minutes are now posted--November 2003

- Any suggestions for changes, etc., would be appreciated soon because she will be meeting with Joe Spooner soon.

Area 1A Jill Sumerlin

Five new teachers have received free memberships. An introductory letter was sent out and there were responses to agree to be the building contact person from a few new locations.

Area 2 Tari Querin and Deanna Reisman

April 17, 2004 an Expanding Your Horizons conference was held at the University of Portland. This conference is for girls grades 6-12 , their parents and interested teachers. There were about 200 students and 60 adults in attendance. This is the second year we have included sessions done in Spanish. There is a wide range of women speakers with each one emphasizing the use of science and math in their professions. There are also workshops on personal development. The enthusiasm of both students and adults is great to see. Many students had attended for several years. This was the 19th year OCTM members have helped put on the conference.

Monthly math support meetings continued by individual grade levels through the spring. Schools that have participated in our National Science Foundation grant have been able to meet as grade level teams in their buildings to collaborate.

There were several more workshops for parents called Math and Muffins. These are 3-4 sessions held when parents drop their children off to school. The parents learned about changes in math and how to better help their children with homework. These parents were then encouraged to parent help in their

child's classroom.

As area reps we worked hard this spring to increase our invitation list for Oregon Math Leaders. Emphasis was also placed on following up with student teachers completing their last term of school to encourage them to join OCTM.

Area 4A and B Kayda Mitchell and Nancy Anderson

Kayda Mitchell continues to teach the Western Oregon University math class for Newberg teachers.

From Nancy Anderson:

Several exciting things have happened in Salem these past few weeks.

2. Cheryl Klampe VanHess is working with Cascade teachers on problem solving and I have been doing some elementary observations for that district as well. They have some pretty awesome first year teachers.

3. I did one of the last/first of the "old" OCTM workshops April 30 for the Head Start agency in Salem. I worked with approximately 100 teachers and aides to let them know how math is changing and some ideas for what they might do with their pre-school students. They would like to have me do future trainings for them.

5. A two day think tank on the OCTM retooling was held in Salem, April 3-4. It was an awesome experience with so many math minds focused on the same spot.

6. The Salem newspaper, the Statesman Journal, ran a series of articles on math in the city this week. There have been quotes from several math experts -Ginger Redlinger, Laura Lethe, Teresa Grindy (McKay High School), Debbie Simmons (Faye Wright Elementary), Dave Anderson (husband of Nancy) who is struggling with the high school Algebra for All curriculum at North Salem (and trying another approach).

7. I have been out of the state this week - in Idaho, doing a workshop for Hands On Equations and a model lesson at West Park Elementary (Moscow, ID). They have low salaries, but also small classes in Idaho.

8. Laura Lethe presented a Problem-Solving "Brunch" at McNary High School on Saturday, April 10. About 50 people attended. It was great as usual.

9. On April 3, 2004, McKay High School hosted the annual Salem-Keizer Public Schools 24 Challenge Competition. The competitions began at approximately 9:00 am and concluded with trophy and ribbon presentations at noon. Over two hundred twenty five Salem area fourth and fifth graders competed on that day in an exciting tournament which provided an opportunity to pit their arithmetic skills against those of their peers. At least 125 McKay students assisted in facilitating the event, including McKay's chapter of Mu Alpha Theta. The 24 Challenge is an exciting and memorable event for everyone involved at McKay especially since many of McKay's monitors were once participants themselves.

This was the fourth time that McKay High School hosted the 24 Challenge Math Tournament. Previously held at Auburn Elementary School, 4th and 5th grade students throughout the district have been participating in this contest for the past 14 years or so. The tournament is based on the 24 Challenge card game. The object of the game is to add, subtract, multiply, or divide four numbers together to obtain the number 24, using each number exactly once. Each participant plays three ten-minute rounds of 24 Challenge. The top 50 players with the most accumulated points will advance to the semifinals. In the semifinals and finals, the rules of the tournament are similar except the qualifiers are now trying to add, subtract, multiply, or divide the four numbers on the card to come up with a number given by the game monitor who could select any number from 0 to 48. Ribbons and/or trophies are awarded to all qualifiers of the semifinals and finals.

From Laura Lethe:

The High School Regional Math Contest was held at Chemeketa on April 22. It was organized by Bev Pratt and Judy Allen with nine area high schools participating. Sprague High School took top honors.

Pentagames was April 30 at Whiteaker Middle School and there was an article about that in Saturday's In the Know section of the Statesman Journal (last of the series of 7).

Area 7A Diane Kinney

Coos and Curry Counties:

The South Coast ESD hosted a problem-solving scoring site. As one of the scorers, I am happy to say that things went smoothly.

The Brookings District has their second Family Math Night for the year planned for May 6th. These have been very successful.

Many districts are struggling with next year's schedule and more cut days due to budget problems.

Area 7B Mike Gould

1. Douglas ESD was the home of a state scoring site during spring break. 75 educators were involved in this process. Sutherlin also hosted a site to grade the challenge down Problem Solving test for Below Benchmark.

2. Camas Valley, South Umpqua, Sutherlin, and Days Creek School Districts have used the services of the new OCTM workshop model. We have tried to supplement local teachers to help the district meet their professional development needs.

3. The first session of Mathematics for Paraprofessionals has finished. Over 50 instructional assistants worked hard for 10 weeks learning math and how to teach math. This class was designed to meet the Highly Qualified requirements of NCLB.

4. Mike and Don Crossfield continue to teach a VTEL/Annenberg professional development class to southern Oregon. There are plans to do another year long model in the 2004-05 school year.

5. Mike will be presenting at a professional development conference in December of 2004. The session will be based on using the Annenberg material to deliver professional development.

6. The UVEML is finishing up another successful year. We have nearly 900 students in 45 classrooms involved. We are also piloting a 3-4 level contest this spring so that in the fall we will offer a contest for grades 3-4 and 5-6.

Area 8A Francie Bostwick

The Southern Oregon Math Cadre is concerned about area districts being informed about concerns in math education (e.g., K-12 articulation, special education math curriculum alignment with standards, the need for training in scoring problem solving assessments and how to teach problem solving at all levels, OCTM's vision for helping schools, etc.). Some members of the Cadre met with the Southern Oregon Curriculum Council to discuss these issues on April 8th.

The Southern Oregon ESD is putting together an August Institute to be held the week of 23rd to the 27th. On the 25th of this week they will have keynote speaker Erin Gruhl (author of Freedom Writers Diary) for 1/2 day and some training on Poverty for the other 1/2 day.

AREA 8B Damon Langley

Klamath County Schools are arranging an August series of inservices offering a variety of math sessions. Presenters have been approached to teach sessions on problem solving, verification, number sense and a session using the Annenberg tapes on probability and statistics.

The Southern Oregon Math Cadre remains active, recently sending two representatives to meet with the Southern Oregon Curriculum Council. They raised concerns ranging from areas of need for professional development to k-12 articulation and also brought to the Council’s attention the need more a focus on special education math curricula. Many schools and districts make little effort to include their special education staff in math training or pay much attention to what kind of materials and standards are being taught in those classrooms. With NCLB requirements looming, it is important not to leave these folks out of the loop. The Cadre is assisting Southern Oregon ESD in arranging their August Institute, which always offers a wide variety of math-focused courses. The Cadre has also discussed an apparent drop in scores of our region's math problem solving assessment. It seems that many schools in our region have seen a 10-25% drop in their rate of met or exceeded test scores. Various possible causes have been discussed and some concerns were raised regarding the wording and/or field testing of test prompts.

A special note of congratulations to Brent Freeman of Ashland Middle School. Brent will be a half-time Teacher On Special Assignment for Southern Oregon ESD during 2004-05.

Representatives from Area 8B to the OCTM Retooling committee (now known as the Mathematics Professional Development Council) are Nancy Rogers from Klamath Union High, Ron Baker from Bonanza High and Sheryl Beverly and Damon Langley from Henley Middle School.

Area 9A Judy Johnson

Area 9 welcomes Marge Burak as a new Area Representative. Jacquie Gibbs will remain active in OCTM but has resigned from the Board in order to assume more leadership in district activities. Central Oregon again hosted a successful Pentagames contest, this year in Prineville. Seven teams participated with Sisters Middle School participating for the first time. High Desert ESD was a regional scoring site for Mathematics Problem Solving. Close to a hundred area teachers participated. Redmond School District has followed up their Teachers Development Group Best Practices Institute with leadership training and has formed collegial teams in all buildings. Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson Counties, through High Desert ESD, have received a Title IIB Math/Science Partnership grant, with activities to begin this summer.

Area 10 Molly Smith

Linda Bauck of the Wallowa ESD will be offering a two week institute this summer for teachers in low income districts and with few highly qualified teacher. This is called Greater Oregon Math or GO Math. It will use the Annenberg materials on Patterns, Functions, and Algebra designed to help elementary teachers get more comfortable with math with Chuck Peterson as instructor. Chuck's hand went up a little too high so Linda nailed him though he didn't really want to work harder as a retired teacher than as a teacher still in service. The teachers participating this summer will return to their schools and districts to train other teachers and paraprofessionals.

Mike Gould presented to North Powder teachers which was well received.

OMSI came over to Baker for a Super Science.

Area 11A Nancy Swarat

Pretty quiet out here. Everyone is keeping their head down and praying for the storm to blow over with testing. Most of our schools are using TESA and some are finding it difficult to get all students tested again with spring sports and extra activities. We will keep plugging away and hoping for summer.

Area 12A Mary Ruth Stranz

The Dalles Middle School sent five math teachers for a one day visitation to Bend area middle schools to observe the teaching of Impact Math. The focus for Back to School Night in The Dalles was math activities.

Area 12B Janet Echanis

The Hood River County School District is working on making sure their math curriculum matches to the latest state standards. They are planning a summer math workshop that will cover the best strategies for teaching math along with other math topics. Using information gathered from a teachers' poll, a group of elementary teachers are planning district math inservice time for the upcoming school year.

Thank you to Jacquie Gibbs, Marge Burak, and Judy Johnson for hosting the meeting.