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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Good Afternoon!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">We will have our fourth Ohio Gifted PLC meeting this Saturday, March 23 at 10am.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">To join the conference go to: </font><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/ohio-gifted-plc/room4"><font face="Arial" size="+0" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">https://www.bigmarker.com/ohio-gifted-plc/room4</font></a></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">To join the community go to: </font><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/Ohio-Gifted-PLC" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="+0" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">https://www.bigmarker.com/Ohio-Gifted-PLC</font></a></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">This month's topic is collecting data for SLOs. I will be sharing the spreadsheets I use on Excel. If you have another collection method, please email me! I'd love to share the stage!! </font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">The hour long meeting will be a mix of presentation and discussion. You can type or use a microphone.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">All professionals working with gifted students are welcome! There is no charge to attend. This is a participant driven professional learning community.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Please remember to join the community after you sign up for Big Marker. The conferences are open to anyone, but I move them to member only after the live conference is over. To rewatch one, you will need to join the community. All of this is free!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">I also put a task on the community called Pretests. During our last PLC meeting Dr. Huber mentioned that our group would be ideal to write pretests that can be used to measure SLOs. I created the task, and if you would like to help do this please go to</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/tasks/show_task/14005" target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="+0" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">https://www.bigmarker.com/tasks/show_task/14005</font></a><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;"> and click the link that says "I will do this task."</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">I would like to have people share pre/post tests at our April meeting which will be on April 20th.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">While you are looking at your calendar - our May meeting is scheduled for May 18th</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">I look forward to seeing you on Saturday!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">~Heather.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Heather Cachat </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Gifted Intervention Specialist </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Holt Crossing Intermediate </font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;"><a href="http://www.swcs.us/~heather.cachat/" target="_blank">www.swcs.us/~heather.cachat/</a></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">Twitter: @HeatherCachat</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#006600" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#006600;">"The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are." ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt</font></div>
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