Annual Membership Meeting 

ISPA Annual Membership Meeting: 10/4/19

94 members in attendance

President Vision: Tammy LaBonne

• Make the organization more efficient and useful for members
• Foster more effective communication:
• update website;
• quarterly newsletter
• resources
• clarify board member roles
• organize google drive
• foster continuity/alignment of vision and plan from one president to the next
• Proposed changes to the bylaws:
• Change language for membership and recruitment; past president; president and regional representatives.
• change regions represented by regional reps to align with those designated by the department of education
• the opportunity to vote on these by-law

Treasurer’s report: Kristi Zimmerman

• Projected account balance $27677.49
• $2210 projected amount that will be added to the ISPA scholarship fund

NASP delegate report: Teresa Fritsch

• Vision
• Work to address workforce shortage and to inform districts of the comprehensive practice model
• School Psych Awareness week:
• Link to dropbox on the website that includes powerpoint presentations and letters that can be used for community education about what school psychologists do. There is a sign-up sheet for members to volunteer to present to local universities. Contact Teresa if you would like to volunteer: Fritsch.Teresa@westada.org

GPR: Echo Mansfield:

• Sped directors may be coming to ask to take pictures of us doing something other than testing
• St Dept update
• Dyslexia group: presentation tomorrow that Echo will be attending
• Superintendent priorities
• pay
• social/emotional learning: this may be a topic in the legislative session
• expanding mastery based learning and literacy
• SESTA working to increase professional development options for school psychs
• safe schools symposium: looking to expose training and resource gaps

Awards: Mary Campbell

• Scholarship: Katrina Clifford
• School Psychologist of the Year: Leena Martin Weaver
• Lifetime Service Award: Joe Bisig
• Friend of School Psychology: Eric Zimmerman
• President’s award: Evelyn Johnson
• Distinguished Service Award: Naomi Aitken
• Nominations for President Elect-Elect:
• Robin Corder
• Sterling Fitch
• LaToya Richardson