President’s Letter May, 2014 Dear DVR-PASCD Members, The spring event entitled, Teaching and Leading in the Digital Age was held Tuesday April 29th at Cabrini College in Radnor, PA. It was a collaborative effort with the Sigma Rho Education Honor Society from Cabrini College and Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Topics for this fabulous event included: • • • • •
Building Your Professional Learning Network (PLN) Online Creating a Connected, Transparent Learning Organization Flipped Learning for Instruction and Professional Development Amazing Apps: Exciting Educational Apps for Today's Classroom Cautious Communications: Personal and Professional
We are very busy planning our fall event and because of the positive feedback, we are considering an event very similar to our Spring event. Stay tuned for further details. I have other important news I would like to share with all of you as regional members. We are in the process of transitioning some of our board positions. I need to resign as board President. I am finishing my first year during my second two year term. During the upcoming school year, I will be focusing and preparing to stand for tenure at Cabrini College. Meredith Denovan has agreed to take over as President for the last year of my two year term. I can't thank Meredith enough for her support and really appreciate her willingness to serve as President. I plan to remain actively involved on the executive board and look forward to supporting DVR in other ways moving forward. Linda Bluebello has always asked to step down as President Elect for the next year. Linda has been a tremendous support at all board events. She has been a leader and planned multiple professional development events during her time on the board and as President Elect. She will remain on the board as well and will continue to support the professional development events. Dorie Martin has agreed to take over Linda's last year as President-Elect. I thank Dorie as well for her commitment and support of DVR and look forward to following her leadership in the future. I want to thank everyone for your support and your efforts to maintain and continue the wonderful work we do in the Delaware Valley Region. In the meantime, feel free to contact us for information, propose ideas for region events and/or to see how you can get involved in this fine organization. We look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Colleen Lelli
Delaware Valley Region-PASCD President colleenlelli@yahoo.com or CL724@cabrini.edu 2