FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK
Welcome Back!
By Steve Schiller
Welcome back to a new school year and the excitement and challenges that it brings. As a 20 plus year member of MACUL, it is truly an honor and privilege to serve as your President for the coming year. I would first like to thank our Past President, Mike Oswalt, for the excellent leadership he provided to MACUL this past year. Among his most noteworthy accomplishments were:
• Authored a proposal submitted to the fiscal agent for the MI Champions program that brought over $1 million to MACUL.
• Enabled a change in the MACUL bylaws that extended board terms to 3 years, and changed the number of terms board members could serve from 4 to 3. These changes promoted board effectiveness by lengthening terms while still honoring term limits.
• Expanded the MACUL membership by thousands of members during his term.
• Ended a 36-year history of charging membership dues.
• Held the largest MACUL conference in Grand Rapids in the last 12 years.
• Forged a historic strategic alliance with the REMC Association of Michigan that resulted in lower registration fees for our smaller conferences.
• Helped launch the first ever iPad and Mobile Learning conferences.
As you can see, Mike was a tremendous leader and his legacy will continue on for many years.
In the coming year it is my hope to piggyback off of Mike’s accomplishments,
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and continue to position MACUL as a leader in promoting the use of educational technology to ignite learning through meaningful collaboration and innovation. With the talented group of board members, and the equally talented SIG Leadership, we can continue to meet this goal. Our focus will begin with nurturing our fantastic new partnership with the REMC Association of Michigan, and then concentrating on four areas of our Strategic Plan: Professional Development, Collaboration, Advocacy, and Online Learning. At our Board retreat last May the leadership set goals for the upcoming year, and will now be working in earnest to complete those goals.
As a final note, I encourage each of you to take advantage of all that MACUL has to offer. Two things in particular are the AT&T/MACUL Student Technology Showcase which is an excellent opportunity to display your student’s work, and also the MACUL Grants, which could provide you the needed capital to proceed with an innovative technology project that you would like to implement. Have a great year everyone, and I look forward to meeting and talking with you at one of the many MACUL sponsored events.
Steve Schiller has been an educator since 1976 and is currently the Technology Director for Muskegon Heights Public Schools. He has been a MACUL member since the mid 1980’s and is the 2012-2013 MACUL President.
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On behalf of MACUL, I want to recognize and thank two Board members who ended their terms in August. Gina Loveless and Jon Margerum-Leys each served 2 years on the MACUL Board. In addition to Gina chairing the 2012 MACUL annual conference, she has served on many committees including Grants and Awards, the Strategic Plan Communications committee and assisted with the Mobile Learning Conference. Jon served on the Advocacy committee, conference evaluation committee and the exhibitor relations committee. Both Gina and Jon were outstanding Board members who will be greatly missed. We also say good-bye to Tim Staal, MAME Liaison, who has relocated in Mubai, India. Tim served on the Online Services committee, Grants and Awards and conference committees. Catch up with Tim via his blog at
tnstaal.blogspot.com.
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