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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;">Happy Friday!</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;">There's a couple OAGC sessions I'd like to promote!</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;">On <b>Tuesday at 10:00 in the Easton Grand Ballroom Salon C & D</b> we will have a collaboration session for teachers to work together to develop common assessments. We are a small community, and we all know what it is like to be the only person providing service to gifted students in your building - perhaps even the only person in your district! Come share ideas, talk about what is happening in your district, and above all collaborate! Make those connections with someone across the state! This session is not just for teachers - everyone is welcome - please come and share your expertise!</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 have a Google Drive Folder that you can create google docs within and collaborate with each other from anywhere set up at: <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9lO7ikZWebVS2xrVHBodzJSTFU&usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9lO7ikZWebVS2xrVHBodzJSTFU&usp=sharing</a></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;">If you have any other type of document that you would like to contribute, Ohio Gifted PLC's dropbox folder is: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2qykx96czzo2rz2/ROZTlQQhQ7" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2qykx96czzo2rz2/ROZTlQQhQ7</a> Save any common assessments within the "Common Assessment" folder. There are folders within for grade bands, social-emotional, and research assessments.</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;">Also on <b>Tuesday at 2:30 in the Regent Ballroom Salon 3</b>, Colleen Boyle will be talking about SLOs for the Gifted Classroom. Many of us have questions about what this will look like for GIS. Of particular interest from the session description is: <i>We will also talk about issues that impact gifted </i></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;"><i>specialists including: size of student group tied to SLO, relevant standards, selecting appropriate assessments, setting reasonable growth targets, and ideas for capstone projects. We will review sample SLOs developed by an OAGC committee and shared by ODE.</i></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;"><b>This Saturday 8-9am Ohio Gifted PLC</b> will have a meeting on <a href="http://www.bigmarker.com" target="_blank">www.bigmarker.com</a> in preparation for this Tuesday's session. What are the essential questions - possible areas of assessment - etc. Please join us by signing up on <a href="http://www.bigmarker.com" target="_blank">www.bigmarker.com</a> (it's free), and then joining the group at: </font><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/Ohio-Gifted-PLC/room8"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;">https://www.bigmarker.com/Ohio-Gifted-PLC/room8</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;">Meetings are recorded, but to view them after the date you will have to join the community (it's 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;"><b>Future meeting dates for Ohio Gifted PLC are:</b></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;">October 26, 2013 8-9am</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;">November 16, 2013 8-9am</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;">January 25, 2014 8-9am</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;">February 22, 2013 8-9am</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;">March 15, 2014 8-9am</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;">April 26, 2014 8-9am</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;">Topics for the future meetings are all open, so if you would like to present let me know!!</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;"><b>Past Ohio Gifted PLC meetings:</b></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;">If you join the community you can view the recordings. In the dropbox there is a folder for each meeting with handouts and pertinent documents. Here are the past presentations:</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;">November 17, 2012 - Literacy Differentiation</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;">January 26, 2013 - Math Differentiation</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;">February 23, 2013 - SLOs - guest speaker Dr. Donna Huber</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;">March 23, 2013 - Data Collection with Excel</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;">April 27, 2013 - Assessments - with guests Stefanie Hall and Cheri Turner</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;">August 17, 2013 - Anxiety, Motivation, and Getting into the Flow!</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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