Michigan Assessment Consortium Board of Directors,
This message is a quick reminder of the approaching Board meeting, scheduled for Friday, April 19, 2013, from 9:30am until 3:00pm, at the
MELG Building.
Meeting Technology and Connectivity:
Board/Committee
Full Board Meeting Remote Participation
9:30am
until 3:00pm
Professional Development Committee
1:00pm until
2:00pm
Assessment Development Committee
1:00pm until
2:00pm
Knowledge and Practice Committee
1:00pm until
2:00pm
Back-up connectivity
Instructions
Access to the Board meeting will be available through a Marquette-Alger bridged polycom video confer
conference, please share your IP Address with Kristen Perttunen (kristen@maresa.org , 906-226-5131
The full committee is expected to be present at the meeting. If remote connectivity becomes necessar
(Please contact Terri Portice, before Friday, if you know this will be a necessity, to allow time to prepar
This committee will continue to utilize the polycom video conference for committee discussion.
This committee will utilize the conference call account and the MELG conference phone for committee d
Passcode: 792039
GoToMeeting: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/284166389
Meeting Materials: For those participating remotely, the meeting documents will be posted to the Michigan Assessment Consortium wiki:
http://michiganassessmentconsortium.wikispaces.com/
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Greetings MAC Board Members
The format for this meeting varies from our typical schedule.
We will start with presentations. The MI Assessment Literacy Standards (MiALS) Meeting Feedback Protocol is a tool (in addition to an online
survey) available for our board members to use with their key stakeholder groups. The presentation by Sara Bryant, is a professional
learning opportunity customized for our board.
While we anticipate committee work time, it will occur after lunch and be just an hour with an opportunity for whole board committee
reports/updates following (chairs will want to plan accordingly). This means the business portion of the MAC Board meeting with treasurer’s
report, membership report, any necessary action from Nominations etc. could occur at the 5/21 board meeting.
Please note those board members participating in the Lewis Cass Formative Assessment Series would stay to finalize plans for the 4/26 MAC
facilitated final session.
Two additional items…
1. We will attempt to address the issue of scheduling 2013-14 MAC Board meetings at MELG – those of you with obligations to other
organizations that may conflict with MAC – please bring that information 4/19.
2. Attached is a template to complete and return to Jason O’Donnell jodonnell@michiganascd.org with information we could use to post a
short bio and photo on the MAC website of our Board members. In February I showed you a sample on the mi-arts wiki, which is the
work site for the MI Arts Education Instruction and Assessment Program – the MAC is coordinating. (http://miarts.wikispaces.com/MAEIA+Project+Management+Team)
Our topics/draft agenda:
• Meeting protocol for gathering feedback on the MAC Assessment Literacy Standards – facilitated by Kathy Humphrey 9:30-10:45
• Special Presentation “How moderated scoring could strengthen the potential use of teacher-developed common assessments
used to measure and report student growth in educator evaluation systems” – Sara Bryant, Measured Progress. While Sara
will provide a very brief overview of the MAC videoconference aired 4/15/13…MAC Board members will increase the usefulness of
interaction with Sara if they can watch the videoconference before 4/19. 11:00 – 12:30
(http://www.mistreamnet.com/catdetail2010.php?cat=assess&sub=all)
• Committee meeting work time 1:00 – 2:00
• Committee Reports 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Professional Development
Assessment Development
Knowledge and Practice
Nominations (update/get ready 5/21)
 Planning Lewis-Cass ISD MAC facilitated 4/26 session 3:00-4:00
All the Best, Jason O'Donnell
Associate Director
Michigan ASCD
1001 Centennial Way
Suite 300
Lansing, MI 48917
517.327.9224
517.327.0779
(fax)
jodonnell@michiganascd.org