K-8 Teachers For The New Millennium

PROJECT ADVISORY-MANAGEMENT TEAM (PMT) MEETING

Date: March 21, 2025

AGENDA

1.Site visits:

Completed	Upcoming
New Underwood	Kadoka
Lead-Deadwood	Spearfish
Belled Fourche	Meade
Wall	Douglas

• Account of site visits
• General reflections

2. Workshop update

• Attendance: Much higher than neumber of sign-ups
• Feedback: typically good(average overall rating of 4.2 on a scale of 1 to 5)--a few concerns about relevance to grade levels. Any responses below 4 are cause for concern--need to minimize.
• Need to get the information on the WEB-SITE--still plenty of confusion about when and where.

3. External Evaluation

• The mantle of Lead Evaluator has been transferred to Bob Magelky
• Update from Bob about Lead Evaluator Meeting in D.C.

4. Derrick's resignation--where do we go from here?

• Update on communication with Joyce Evans (Program Officer at NSF)
• NSF needs letter proposing change of leadership. This letter should emanate from President of BHSU and be signed by PMT. Recommendations from this meeting will guide the preparation of letter.

5. Proposed change in staffing

• PI and Project Director 25% FTE Ben Sayler
• Project Manager 75% FTE Master K-8 Teacher (BH to cover other 25%)
• Materials Coordinator 50% FTE (BHSU to cover entire salary, no grant funds)
• Project Director would make about 3 site visits per year to each distric, attend and teach workshops, aprovide guidance to Project Manager, correspond with NSF, oversee budget, participate in evaluation, atten PMT meetings. Project Director's contribution of time might exceed 0.25 FTE, but only a quarter salary would be charge to grant.
• Program Manager to have strong experience within k-8 arena. He or she would make about 8 site visits per year to each district. Site visits could involve model teaching, co-teaching, peer coaching, facilitation of after-school staffdiscussions, etc. Program Manager would also oversee web-site, coordinate external evaluation with Bob, facilitate PMT meetings, oversee materials coordinator. This position would be full-time, but only 75% FTE would be charged to grant.

6. NSF Site Visit

• Joyce Evans, our Program Officer, would lik eto atten some PD sessions and meet with PMT. Could be this summer or possibly next fall.

7. Planning for Summer Workshops

Offerings:

• repeat of 1-day workshops (phys, earth, life, maybe just K-3 and 4-8 since 6-8 tends to be a much smaler group)
• repeat of 4-day Bad Lands (Bill)
• repeat of 4-day Life Science I (Charlie)
• new 4-day Physical Science I -- Electricity and Magnetism (Andy)
• new 4-day Life Science II (Charlie)

  Possibilities:

• new 4-day Earth Science II (Bill)
• repeat of 1-day Project Orientation (by grade bands?)
• new Instructional Strategies (or something that's not as content-oriented)