Director Report - Summer Message
Jim Bohan, NCSM Eastern 2 Regional Director
Summer 2011

We hope that many of you were able to take advantage of the opportunity to attend the NCSM Leadership Academy this summer. It will be an experience that could change the entire direction of your professional life.

If you were not able to attend the Leadership Academy, please use summer for a time of reflection and consideration of our opportunities that ...

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Welcome to Summer! A great time to rest, reflect, and prepare for the next episode of our individual and collective professional adventures. We continue to be faced with challenges and ambiguities of unparalleled dimensions: Common Core State Standards, National Assessment, Reauthorization of EESA, just to name a few. Let us hope that as we prepare for 2011-12, we can see a clear path to enhance the mathematics education experience of all students in North America. Let us recommit to work together to achieve these goals.

Many years ago, as a new Mathematics Department Head in a public high school in Pennsylvania, I was told at a PCTM meeting that there was an organization of math supervisors that might be of interest to me. I checked with several people at the meeting and the most information I could find is that the organization was based in Colorado. Happily I did find the address and joined NCSM. Over the years I have been delighted with the opportunities to learn and to contribute to the mathematics education community. I have served as Eastern 2 Regional Director, Director of the first NCSM Leadership Academies, and now again as the Eastern 2 Regional Director for a second time. I am honored by these opportunities to serve the members of my region and the mathematics education leadership community as a whole.