Greetings,

Apologies again for having to ask for a postponement of the Board meeting scheduled for March 9th. Thanks to Deborah and everyone for moving ahead with the membership stuff.

Looking forward to speaking with you all on the 21st. A couple of things to think about between now and then:

Board Development:

I have sent Heather a draft of a message to send to members regarding the election of Kristin Lahurd to the one open board seat that we have due to a term expiring. I have also sent a message to Kristin to confirm she is still interested. (If anyone who knows Kristin would like to send her a note of encouragement, please do! ) Once she has reconfirmed, Heather can send out the message about the election. I have posted a form that we can use for voting here:

In addition, as you will remember, two Board members whose terms had not yet expired left the board last fall, Jeff Fantine and Jean Fleming. In accordance with our bylaws, these vacancies are filled by a vote of a majority of Boards currently in office. We had previously identified candidates to fill these vacancies: Christy Rhodes of AAACE, and Judy Mortrude of CLASP — who already serves as our Policy Chair. I will find out between now and the 21st if they are willing to serve.

Schedule:

When we talk on Monday, we’ll need to revisit our schedule for the rest of the year. Earlier in the year we talked about officer calls in between board meetings. To get us (re)started, I sketched together this schedule as a starting point for discussion:

March 21 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 4pm-5:30pm
April 13 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
May 11 | Full Board Meeting (in person), 10:00am-12:00pm (tentative, depending on the date of any event we hold that month.)
May 12 | Member Meeting? (Again, very tentative, just want to get something down as a placeholder)
June 8 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
July 13 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 10:00am-12:00pm
Sept TBD (likely tied to an event, but can’t remember likely dates for this)
If I made a mistake above, please let me know. We might also consider moving our next member meeting and/or event to the early part of June. Another possibility is to again tie our meeting to a CEF event here in town that may be of interest to our members: the Presidential Candidate forum CEF is hosting May 26 from 9-12 at the Newseum.

Caucus Update:

At long last I have a meeting scheduled with staff from Rep. Roe and Hinojosa’s staff on March 24th to discuss next steps with the caucus. So on the 21st, I suggest we spend some time discussing some ideas for them.

Thanks — let me know if any of this does;t make any sense! :)

Jeff

Hello again,

Sorry - I sent my previous message about Christy before I'd read this one. Jeff, FYI, I talked with Christy at the AAACE meeting last fall and she was enthusiastic about serving.

Also, an agenda item for next Monday: We need to discuss whether or not to make the minutes of board meetings publicly available on the website. The questio of access to the minutes has been raised by COABE.

Thanks again,

Deborah

Deborah Kennedy
Associate Vice President, Adult English Language Education
Director, English for Heritage Language Speakers Program
Center for Applied Linguistics
202/355-1572
www.cal.org
www.ehlsprogram.org

From: Board board-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org on behalf of Jeff Carter jcarter@literacypolicy.org
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:39 PM
To: National Coalition for Literacy Board Members List
Subject: [NCL Board] Update

Greetings,

Apologies again for having to ask for a postponement of the Board meeting scheduled for March 9th. Thanks to Deborah and everyone for moving ahead with the membership stuff.

Looking forward to speaking with you all on the 21st. A couple of things to think about between now and then:

Board Development:

I have sent Heather a draft of a message to send to members regarding the election of Kristin Lahurd to the one open board seat that we have due to a term expiring. I have also sent a message to Kristin to confirm she is still interested. (If anyone who knows Kristin would like to send her a note of encouragement, please do! ) Once she has reconfirmed, Heather can send out the message about the election. I have posted a form that we can use for voting here:

In addition, as you will remember, two Board members whose terms had not yet expired left the board last fall, Jeff Fantine and Jean Fleming. In accordance with our bylaws, these vacancies are filled by a vote of a majority of Boards currently in office. We had previously identified candidates to fill these vacancies: Christy Rhodes of AAACE, and Judy Mortrude of CLASP - who already serves as our Policy Chair. I will find out between now and the 21st if they are willing to serve.

Schedule:

When we talk on Monday, we'll need to revisit our schedule for the rest of the year. Earlier in the year we talked about officer calls in between board meetings. To get us (re)started, I sketched together this schedule as a starting point for discussion:

• March 21 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 4pm-5:30pm
• April 13 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
• May 11 | Full Board Meeting (in person), 10:00am-12:00pm (tentative, depending on the date of any event we hold that month.)
• May 12 | Member Meeting? (Again, very tentative, just want to get something down as a placeholder)
• June 8 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
• July 13 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 10:00am-12:00pm
• Sept TBD (likely tied to an event, but can't remember likely dates for this)

If I made a mistake above, please let me know. We might also consider moving our next member meeting and/or event to the early part of June. Another possibility is to again tie our meeting to a CEF event here in town that may be of interest to our members: the Presidential Candidate forum CEF is hosting May 26 from 9-12 at the Newseum.

Caucus Update:

At long last I have a meeting scheduled with staff from Rep. Roe and Hinojosa's staff on March 24th to discuss next steps with the caucus. So on the 21st, I suggest we spend some time discussing some ideas for them.

Thanks - let me know if any of this does;t make any sense! :)

Jeff

Thanks Jeff.  I know Kristin at ALA, so I'll send her a note of encouragement! She'll be a great addition and I think she'll be willing to serve. Deborah, that's great to hear that Christy Rhodes is already enthusiastic about it.

Jeff, regarding your note about the possibility of an in-person meeting in late May or early June, I think that would work well. At the last board call, we tentatively set the week of May 23rd. If the NCL meetings/event could coincide with CEF's presidential candidate forum, that would be even better!  Looking forward to talking more about this on Monday's call.

Deborah, I agree, we do need to address the public availability of board minutes. That has seemed to come up a few times.

Looking forward to talking with everyone on Monday!

Michele

From: Board [mailto:board-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org] On Behalf Of Deborah Kennedy
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 9:21 AM
To: Jeff Carter jcarter@literacypolicy.org; National Coalition for Literacy Board Members List board@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org
Subject: Re: [NCL Board] Update

Hello again,

Sorry - I sent my previous message about Christy before I'd read this one. Jeff, FYI, I talked with Christy at the AAACE meeting last fall and she was enthusiastic about serving.

Also, an agenda item for next Monday: We need to discuss whether or not to make the minutes of board meetings publicly available on the website. The questio of access to the minutes has been raised by COABE.

Thanks again,

Deborah

Deborah Kennedy
Associate Vice President, Adult English Language Education
Director, English for Heritage Language Speakers Program
Center for Applied Linguistics
202/355-1572
www.cal.orghttp://www.cal.org
www.ehlsprogram.orghttp://www.ehlsprogram.org

From: Board <board-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.orgmailto:board-bounces@lists.national-coalition-literacy.org> on behalf of Jeff Carter <jcarter@literacypolicy.orgmailto:jcarter@literacypolicy.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 1:39 PM
To: National Coalition for Literacy Board Members List
Subject: [NCL Board] Update

Greetings,
Apologies again for having to ask for a postponement of the Board meeting scheduled for March 9th. Thanks to Deborah and everyone for moving ahead with the membership stuff.
Looking forward to speaking with you all on the 21st. A couple of things to think about between now and then:
Board Development:
I have sent Heather a draft of a message to send to members regarding the election of Kristin Lahurd to the one open board seat that we have due to a term expiring. I have also sent a message to Kristin to confirm she is still interested. (If anyone who knows Kristin would like to send her a note of encouragement, please do! ) Once she has reconfirmed, Heather can send out the message about the election. I have posted a form that we can use for voting here:
In addition, as you will remember, two Board members whose terms had not yet expired left the board last fall, Jeff Fantine and Jean Fleming. In accordance with our bylaws, these vacancies are filled by a vote of a majority of Boards currently in office. We had previously identified candidates to fill these vacancies: Christy Rhodes of AAACE, and Judy Mortrude of CLASP - who already serves as our Policy Chair. I will find out between now and the 21st if they are willing to serve.
Schedule:
When we talk on Monday, we'll need to revisit our schedule for the rest of the year. Earlier in the year we talked about officer calls in between board meetings. To get us (re)started, I sketched together this schedule as a starting point for discussion:

• March 21 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 4pm-5:30pm
• April 13 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
• May 11 | Full Board Meeting (in person), 10:00am-12:00pm (tentative, depending on the date of any event we hold that month.)
• May 12 | Member Meeting? (Again, very tentative, just want to get something down as a placeholder)
• June 8 | Officers Meeting (conference call), 10am-11am
• July 13 | Full Board Meeting (conference call), 10:00am-12:00pm
• Sept TBD (likely tied to an event, but can't remember likely dates for this)
  If I made a mistake above, please let me know. We might also consider moving our next member meeting and/or event to the early part of June. Another possibility is to again tie our meeting to a CEF event here in town that may be of interest to our members: the Presidential Candidate forum CEF is hosting May 26 from 9-12 at the Newseum.
  Caucus Update:
  At long last I have a meeting scheduled with staff from Rep. Roe and Hinojosa's staff on March 24th to discuss next steps with the caucus. So on the 21st, I suggest we spend some time discussing some ideas for them.
  Thanks - let me know if any of this does;t make any sense! :)
  Jeff