Submitted by Mary Jo Davis

Mission/goals:
1. To provide resources to parents.

2. To support teachers, administrators and the Gifted and Talented coordinator in their job of providing differentiated learning for academically talented students in their classrooms.

3. To support the ongoing efforts of the Talented and Gifted Advisory Committee of the Saline Area School District.

Projects:
This was deferred to the next meeting. Our main project right now is to get the Tracy Cross talk going well.

Job Assignments:
Meeting facilitator-Mary Jo
Membership-Lisa Morrow
Webmaster- Joy Burns and Fang Dong
Operations- Carrie Berkley
Newsletter-Paula Muhs
MAGE liasion-Marilyn Chong
T&G Committee liasion- Paula Muhs
Publicity-Marilyn Chong
Programs-Barb Cey and Carrie Berkley

We discussed possible e-mail meetings. I brought up Web Caucus that I am involved with for a class at EMU. We asked Joy to look into a least some type of discussion board for the Website where we could all communicate electronically.

Paula will have the first newsletter for the Oct 12 Tracy Cross meeting. Anyone with items for the newsletter should get them to her by Oct. 6.

Future meetings:
We decided to have a meeting in November with Barb Cey as the featured speaker. We will also invite parents who attend the Oct 12 meeting to a followup discussion group sometime in late Oct or early Nov.

We decided not to have meetings in Dec or May. We will look for a "regular" date for other meetings (ie first Tuesday of the month). Currently Woodland Meadows PTA has only meetings planned until Dec and they are all on Wednesdays. Houghton is the 2nd Thursday of the month. Heritage only has 3 meetings per year -the first one is on a Tuesday. The middle school is the first Thursday of the month.

Our next Steering committee meeting was set for a Friday Morning at 10:30am Oct 6. Our main topic for the next meeting is to discuss affliating our group with the Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education. That will mean that we will have to pay dues. Barb is going to email something to everyone about the benefits of our group joining MAGE before our next meeting.

We will also finalize the details for the Tracy Cross presentation and pick out our meeting dates for the rest of the 2000-2001 school year.

Marilyn Chong is working on publicity - if you have any ideas of places that we can post a flyer please email her.

There are still some openings for parents on the district G&T advisory committee. If you are interested or know someone who is, please contact Barb.

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