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I would like to thank Brenda Lee ( Texas Region 14) for her invitation to present my Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives on March 23rd at the Texas Association for Education and Rehab for Blind and Visually Impaired. I know that the TAER conference will be a great opportunity to share and hear other innovative ideas from those in attendance. However, because I am in the classroom and have a long distance to the conference, I will not be able to attend this year.
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Dr. Teresa Gardner, President of the Alabama Council of Exceptional Children and JSU faculty member in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has invited me to present my math manipulatives to local and state math teachers and administrators at their Alabama Council of Exceptional Children Conference on February 22nd. As a former graduate (both 1992 and 2000) of JSU, I look forward to returning to my alma mater.
Mr. Lucky Palmer has invited me to share my ideas at the Hudson Mohawk Valley Area Mathematics Conference in Albany, New York in March. Although I am unable to attend the conference this year as I am still teaching, Mr. Palmer has offered to help me pass along information about my products to his colleagues at the conference by setting up my display table and product information. His help is greatly appreciated!
Slide-A-Round Math Manipulatives, LLC is going to be featured in the upcoming Rome-News Tribune Business Spotlight. I will share the link after publication. — The article looked great! I appreciate Doug Walker’s willingness to visit Elm Street to take the pictures. My students were so excited!!!
http://romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/21331979/article-Small-Business-Snapshot–Slide-A-Round-Math-Manipulatives?instance=lead_story_left_column
I would like to thank Rae Bachus and Shelby Kennerly for their interest in my math manipulatives. We discussed how all students can benefit from them because of their versatility. Based on my responses to their questions and other information that I provided, they offered to share my contact information and ideas with their colleagues across the state.
On December 17th, I will meet with Deborah Pound, Coordinator of Exceptional Students Educational Programs, and her teachers at Allgood Elementary School. Ms Pound attended my presentation at the RESA workshop on November 29th. Based on the information and quality of my math manipulatives, she invited me to share with her teachers.
I would like to thank Sarah Sonnier, a VI teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado, for her referral to Jim Olson, Coordinator of the Colorado Instructional Math Center. After Mr. Olson and I discussed my low vision and braille math manipulatives, he offered to send my contact information to all of his VI colleages in the state as well as to Susan Osterhaus, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
I spoke with Angyln Young, the Arkansas State Coordinator for ESVI, and she has offered to share my website/information with the teachers of the visually impaired across the state of Arkansas. She was appreciative that I have created a line of math manipulatives that includes visually impaired students.
Just a quick thanks to Linda McDowell, State Unit President of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), for her offer to help “spread the word” about Slide-A-Round. I was hoping to take her up on her offer to present at the annual Mississippi CEC conference in February, but the date did not coincide with my winter break from school as I had hoped. I am still planning to coordinate several meetings in MS during Feb. 14th and 15th.
I met with Debbie Blackmon, our local Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Director of Advertising, on October 24th to discuss the possibility of coordinating a Math Night for Rome City Schools and Floyd County Schools. On Tuesday, November 13th Slide-A-Round will be at the Rome Dwarf House with games, demonstrations, and prizes for our local students. The class with the most students in attendance will receive a free Slide-A-Round Teacher’s Aid as well as chicken nuggets and drinks delivered to their class by none other than the Chick-fil-A COW! We look forward to seeing you there!