<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">March 24, 2013 NWERA Board Meeting</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">Additional meeting thoughts with board members: </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">Checking preferred meeting dates with OSPI for our annual meeting agreed June 27 is open for us.</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">There was general discussion regarding the use of Post cards at exhibits/conferences and at meetings with curriculum people and schools – Are they effective? Are they being distributed?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what's happening?</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">Conference &amp; exhibits, what's happening?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will look at NWERA having a presence at the WSASCD conference this fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This will give us an opportunity to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">NWERA signup for a few exhibits to promote us, i.e., WASASCD, it is local (doesn’t require an overnight stay) and is gaining a different exhibitor audience  and may allow us to expand our membership and will also allow us to connect with administrators. </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">Discussion about adding a blog or Facebook business page in addition to the NWERA website.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Need to allocate funding, resources.   Linking to information such as OER type, Smarter Balanced, Achieve the Core....</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Copperplate Gothic Bold&quot;;">Note:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we need to be careful of what information we are giving away on a Facebook page, since our business model relies on paid subscriptions.</span></strong></p>