October 28, 2002

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1.    COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM:  The Ohio Board of Regents announces a new competitive grant program that provides federal funds to public and private colleges and universities to support sustained and intensive high quality professional development for elementary and secondary teachers of mathematics and science.  Under the Improving Teacher Quality Program, which replaces the Eisenhower Professional Development Program, the Ohio Board of Regents will fund projects designed to improve the teaching of mathematics and science at the pre-college level by linking college and university faculty with elementary, middle, and high school teachers.   Proposals are to be submitted to the Ohio Board of Regents by January 6, 2003.
        The Request for Proposal is available at the Ohio Board of Regents web site:  http://www.regents.state.oh.us/mainpages/rfp.html.

2.    REMINDERS TO TEACHERS FROM THE LPDC: 
        A)    all teachers must have a Development Plan approved by the LPDC.  This plan is to be written and submitted to the LPDC as soon as a new certificate or license is issued to the teacher.
        B)     goals and objectives on the IPDP must be written in educational and student centered language.
        C)    certificates of participation/attendance which a teacher receives can be sent at any time to the LPDC for CEU credit.  (The principal's signature must be on the certificate of participation or attendance.)
        D)    teachers who have a non-tax certificate are expected to fulfill the same requirements as teachers who have a certificate or license.
        E)    entry year teachers who have a two year provisional license must complete a formal entry year program and pass Praxis III in order for the teacher to move to the first 5 year license.

3.    Sympathy is extended to
            . . . Cathy Patterson, secretary at St. Mary School, Delaware, whose father died recently.

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