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  • AR CEC Fall 2020 Electronic Meeting

    10/26/20-10/29/20

  • WELCOME EVERYONE! President: Leslie Rush Past President: Dee Dee Cain President Elect: Renee Speight Vice President: Suzanne Kucharczyk Secretary: Ruth Eyres Treasurer: Ashley Collins Awards/Scholarships/Grants Chair: Courtney Williams  Elected Rep: Karen Lange Appointed Rep: Amber Likes Historian: Dee Dee Cain CAN: Peggy Schaefer-Whitby Communications Chair: Jeryca Einhorn Membership Chair: Melanie Crider AR CEC Student Advisor: Alicia Brown DADD: Suzanne Kucharczyk CASE: Rhonda Daniels DCDT: Paul Johnston 

    This ELECTRONIC MEETING WILL BE OPEN FROM NOW THROUGH 10/29/20 AT 10 pm. All reports received are included. If a report was not received or if you let us know there was no report, it will be listed as "no report" and understood that no new information or activity has occurred within your role since our last meeting. If you have any problems, questions or concerns, please text Leslie Rush at 501.626.0963. Each section will have and open area for comments to be used as a discussion tool. Voting matters will require a response. We appreciate your support in this unusual time.

  • President, Leslie Rush

    1) Due to Elizabeth Churchman's resignation from the position of President Elect, Renee Speight has advanced into the position of President Elect. This left the Vice President position vacant therefore the Presidential Advisory Committee asked Suzanne Kucharczyk to serve as Vice President for the remainder of the term. She has agreed to serve in the position of Vice President. THANK YOU SUZANNE!
  • 2) Conference Facilities/Services/AV Contract was signed to transfer AR CEC 2020 to Oct. 21st-22nd, 2021. Board will arrive and meet on Oct. 20th.
  • 3) National CEC Conference is going virtual March 8th-13th. Learning Interactive Virtual Event (L.I.V.E.), featuring 700+ on-demand sessions, 3 keynote presentations, 30 live mainstage sessions, 400 poster videos, a series of pre-conference workshops, and more. 2022 will return to an in person conference in Orlando, FL. Since we chose to pause on our 2020 conference, I plan to work with Jeryca to promote the National Conference and offerings each week until the event. Early Bird Registration ends Oct. 31st.
  • 4) CEC has incredible resource links to free CEC webinars for teachers AND administrators. Make sure to refer others, share links on social media, and take advantage of all CEC has to offer.
  • 5) Interested in being a part of National CEC’s committees? The following positions are available for terms beginning Jan. 1, 2021: Finance and Audit Standing Committee: 2 positions; 3-year terms Honors Committee: 2 positions: 2-year terms Policy Steering Committee: 3 positions; two 3-year term and one 2-year term. Terms of appointment will be determined by the Policy Steering Committee Chair. Professional Standards and Practice Committee: 2 positions; 3-year terms Yes I Can Committee: 2 positions; 2-year terms The deadline for receipt of all application materials is 12:00 pm Eastern, November 24, 2020. More info at cec.sped.org
  • 6) Our Survey Monkey has expired and rates have increased once again. We are working on a 25% nonprofit discount rate before paying the new invoice. Our application was approved but we are waiting for our invoice to be updated. Until then we will not have access to the paid version on Survey Monkey.

  • Past President & Historian, Dee Dee Cain

    No Report

  • President Elect, Renee Speight

    No Report

  • Vice President & DADD President, Suzanne Kucharczyk

    1) AR-DADD is working across 3 Universities (UA, Henderson, Arkansas State) to create resources for educators working with students with significant disabilities across the state. Resources are being created as templates for how to support learning with students who are distance/virtual learning. These should be completed and shared on a website by early 2021. We have sent a survey of needs across the state and received back about 80 responses (see distribution across state). We hope these resources support educators and families.
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  • Secretary, Ruth Eyres

    No Report

  • Treasurer Report, Ashley

    1) Account Balance (10/25/20): $65,157.67  AR CEC: $55,061.99  DCDT: $2,681.86  DADD: $5,475.97  SCEC: $ 1,937.85  CASE: Independently held Interest (YTD): $8.19 Service Charge (YTD): $21.77
  • 2) REMINDER--- PAYMENT PROCEDURES:As stated in the policy manual, payment procedures are as follows: Timelines for submitting bills or reimbursement requests: within four weeks of the activity. Reimbursement Procedure: treasurer to pay within 30 days of receipt of approvablerequest. Timelines for payment of bills: pay within 30 days of receipt of approved request or bill.It is required that all requests for payment include an invoice in order for treasurer to issuepayment.

  • Awards, Scholarships, and Grants Chairs, Courtney Williams

    No Report- Will open up nominations after our first meeting in 2021.

  • CAN Representative, Peggy Schaefer-Whitby

    No Report

  • Elected and Appointed Reps, Karen Lange & Amber Likes

    No Report

  • Communications Chair, Jeryca Einhorn

    1) See voting under Treasurer's report to determine how I move forward with the website.
  • 2) When Facebook updated, it removed everyone from our Nonprofit Facebook account as "admin". It moved previous admin, Leslie and Melanie, to editor role which cannot add me on as admin. Therefore, I've been up able to maintain social media as I would like. We've attempted to contact Facebook help multiple times without correspondence.

  • Membership Chair, Melanie Crider

    Current Membership 181 Members in AR

  • AR CEC Student Advisor: Alicia Brown CASE: Rhonda Daniels DCDT: Paul Johnston

    No Report

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