TACTics Journal
Connections
(1) Conference
Fliers: Administrators & Students, Kay
Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
(2) Kay
Buckner-Seal
(1)
Conference
Fliers: Administrators & Students
From Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
We are working diligently to get the word out about The 5th Annual TOCFE International Conference, which will be held in
Detroit, June 25-28! Last week we
published a conference flier that was meant for distribution to teachers. According to feedback, many people were able
to open the attachment and share this information with their colleagues. We think our “budget” marketing plan may be
paying off! So, this week’s TACTics includes a flier for administrators
and one for students. We ask that you
copy the flier and distribute it to administrators and students in your circle
of influence. You have two options for
distributing this information:
1.
Electronically— Highlight, copy, then paste the information below
onto an e-mail page. Then forward it to
your colleagues.
2.
Paper copies— Notice that we have featured an attachment. The attachment is a formatted copy of the
flyer. All you have to do is drag the
attachment to your desktop and open it from Microsoft Word! Print it and make copies to give to your
colleagues!
We need feedback on option #2. Let us know if you are able to open the
attachments. If we find that most
people can open them with ease, then we may consider sending TACTics out as an
attachment each week along with our regular e-mail version. You will be surprised at the clarity you
will gain by opening TACTics as a PDF file!
Send your feedback to one of the addresses listed in the Editors’
Notes below.
Okay, the following are the e-mail versions of the
administrators’ flier and the students’ flier.
See #2 for directions to open the attachment.
What
if there was a way to solve these problems?
TOCFE
offers training in concrete, logic-based Thinking Process methodology
that guides you in analyzing a problem and systematically removing the
obstacles that prevent you from achieving your goals. Learn how to make effective decisions, solve problems, achieve
ambitious targets, and discover the possible negative effects of an action
before it is implemented.
WHEN
AND WHERE?
5THAnnual TOC for Education
Conference
June
25-27,2001
Northfield
Hilton, Troy, MI
Administrator
Module:
3
day training session, materials and refreshments-$99
Wayne
State University Credit / SB-CEUs Available
For
more information or to register contact:
Cheryl
Edwards redwards@sault.com or www.tocforeducation.com
Students!
TOC for Education
International Student Leadership Summit
June 25-27, 2001
Detroit, Michigan USA
"Our future leaders hold the keys to creating a better
tomorrow."
WANTED: Future Leaders
with Goals and Dreams
NEEDED: Concrete, simple
tools that effectively work with children of all ages and demographics to
achieve their goals and dreams.
The TOC for Education Leadership Summit is for students ages 12-18
and their teachers who dare to dream.
Internationally acclaimed TOC experts will teach concrete methodologies
to: get along with others, make good decisions, think through consequences,
remove obstacles that prevent the success of personal and group goals, and gain
consensus and influence othersaf4.
Activities will include:
peer mediation training, goal setting, group projects, and role playing
on authentic issues.
Facilitators include:
Galina Dolya (Russia), David Higgins (United Kingdom), Larry Till (USA),
Francis Conde (Venezuela), Jana Borisvljevic (Yugoslavia).
For more information visit our Web Site at: tocforeducation.com
(2) Kay
Buckner-Seal
Thanks
to all who sent feedback on Option #2 above.
That option gave directions on how to open the flier as an attachment in
order to make paper copies. You had to drag the attachment onto your desktop, open it
from Microsoft Word, and then print copies to give to your colleagues! If most people are able to open the
attachments with ease, then we are considering sending our weekly TACTics
newsletter as an attachment along with the regular e-mail version. It would be saved as a PDF file, which can
be opened via Adobe Acrobat, which can be downloaded for free from the
Internet. Here are a few responses from
our readers:
“I have opened the attachment and, as you
said, it is well formatted and clear.
The easiest way for me to open the attachment is to double click on
it. It opens automatically in Word. Good luck!”
—ZZippi
“I was able to open the attachment,
however the graphic and the title, ‘Teachers’ was not on it. How disappointing! It was on the flier when I sent it to Bernie, but it came to me
without it…go figure. (Hey, Bernie,
another cyberspace mystery!)” —K.
“The attachment saved to my disk easily but the ‘Teacher' did not
come with it. I think as long as we
send the journal without graphics we might be able to do it.” —C.
“As I was looking at this flier,
it struck me that a connection with content disciplines might help attract
secondary teachers. Will there be
seminars connecting TOC to Reading, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies,
etc.? If so, highlighting them may help
make the sale. What do you think? And, can I modify this flier to make that
point?” —Cal
Hey, the feedback has been rather positive so far! Send us a brief account of your experience to help in our POOGI. Send by mail to Cheryl A. Edwards, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville, MI 49719, USA. Or, send hyperlink to <redwards@sault.com> or <bucknek@earthlink.net.
To view TACTics in its intended formatting and to read previous issues, visit the TOC website at: www.tocforeducation.com!