KAPPA Keynotes 2015-2016 AugustAndSeptember...

Kappa Keynotes The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International-‐Eta State-‐North Carolina

Region VIII Kappa Chapter-‐Charlotte-‐Mecklenburg County

Vol. 74, No. 1 August/September 2015

The President ’s Message

Dear Kappa Sisters,

Mark your calendars early! Kappa has many special events planned for the up-‐coming year you won’t want to miss! Peggy Jackson is preparing magnet reminders for our first meeting. Here’s your advance edition:

August Mail “100 Challenge” Pledge payments to Jeannette Carofano (see article)

September 24 First meeting of the year, 4:30-‐6:30, Myers Park UMC. Dinner provided by non-‐working members. Bring school supplies for Northridge M.S. (see article)

October 15 Meeting, 4:30-‐6:00, Alexander Graham Middle School, Media Center Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Elaine Jenkins, Chair, Educational Law and Policy Committee will speak on current legislative issues (see article)

November 14 Bunco! @ Rachel Goodgame’s home, 10-‐12

December 12 Meeting, 10-‐12, Sedgefield UNC Boxed Lunch December project: Bring non-‐perishable foods for Second Harvest or other community food closet. Also collecting $10 gift cards for Northridge M.S. teachers.

January 23 Bunco! @ Rachel Goodgame’s home, 10-‐12; Executive Board Meeting 12-‐2 All are invited to attend.

February 13 Meeting, 10-‐12, Holy Comforter Episcopal Church World Fellowship Presentation, Boxed Lunch

March 12 Bunco! @ Rachel Goodgame’s home, 10-‐12

April 21 Joint initiation of DKG members – Date and place TBD

May 21 Meeting & Picnic, 10-‐12, Squirrel Lake Park, Matthews. Bring a dish to share!

June 16 Bunco! @ Rachel Goodgame’s home, 10-‐12; Executive Board Meeting 12-‐2 All are invited to attend.

Enjoy your summer! See you on September 24th!

Jeannette Carofano Kappa President 2014-2016 [email protected] 704-814-71




DKG

South Eastern

Regional

Conference By Tisa Clark of Kappa Chapter Charlotte, NC

The South Eastern Regional Conference held in Savannah, GA offered many opportunities for exploring new ideas, learning new things, and meeting educators from around the country. Over 700 DKG sisters shared knowledge, ideas and friendship.

One of the more memorable presentations featured author Polly Letofsky. Polly is the first woman to walk around the world. During her presentation, she detailed her five year journey with stories of the supportive people she met and the unusual places she stayed (sometimes in a tent in a park but not in tall grass because of poisonous snakes.) Polly personifies the spirit that compels you to overcome life’s challenges one step at a time.

I encourage each Kappa Sister to attend one conference. This positive experience connects you with sisters throughout the state, country and world and allows you to learn about experiences beyond the typical educational realm. DKG is truly an international society with many members who connect with each other. Nashville here we come!!!!

(Pictured Above: Tisa Clark and Debbi Dryden attended the Southeast Regional Conference in Savannah, GA in July.)

The NC Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Foundation

Pledge Collection Continues

We continue to collect pledges made to The North Carolina

Delta Kappa Gamma Educational Foundation. These are tax-deductible donations, so checks are

preferred. Make checks payable to:

The North Carolina Delta Kappa Gamma Educational

Foundation.

Kappa President Jeannette Carofano emailed or phoned

each of you who made a pledge. She will deliver our

checks to the Foundation at the September 12th Executive

Board Meeting at Elon University. This deadline

comes before our Sept. 24th Kappa meeting, so please mail

your checks to: Jeannette Carofano,

729 Meadow Lake Drive, Matthews, NC 28105.

Thank you!




Happy Birthday!

…to those celebrating this Summer: JUNE 17th Betty Bell 28th Dawn Patterson JULY 5th Jennifer Stanley

22nd Cynthia Lockerman 29th Clara Hedberg

31st Robin Dorfer AUGUST 1st Barbara Koesjan

5th B.J. Godfrey 16th Ruth Hester 19th Vicki Kiziah September 9th Brenda Coble

Keep In Your Prayers

With Love and Concern… ♥ BJ Godfrey ♥ Barbara Koesjan ♥ Martha Tillman’s husband, Carl ♥ Cindy Lockerman ♥ And all those in distress!

Connect on the State Level at http://www.deltakappagamma.org/NC/ & on the International Level at https://www.dkg.org

CALENDAR of EVENTS 2015

June 17-20, 2015 — Eta State Leadership Development Seminar, Raleigh, NC

July 15 - 18, 2015 — Southeast Regional Conference, Westin Harbor Resort, Savannah, GA

Saturday 11/14/15 — BUNCO (Kappa Fundraiser) At the home of Rachel Goodgame from 10a – 12p

2016 Saturday 01/23/16 — BUNCO (Kappa Fundraiser) At the home of Rachel Goodgame from 10a – 12p

Saturday 3/12/16 — BUNCO (Kappa Fundraiser) At the home of Rachel Goodgame from 10a – 12p

April 22 - 24, 2016 — Eta State Convention, Winston-Salem, NC (Region IX)

Thursday 6/16/16 — BUNCO (Kappa Fundraiser) At the home of Rachel Goodgame from 10a – 12p

July 5 - 9, 2016 — DKG International Convention, Gaylord Opryland Resort, Nashville, TN

2017 April 28-30, 2017 — Eta State Convention,

Wilmington, NC (Region IV)

For more event details, visit the events page on our chapter website:

http://kappacharlottenc.weebly.com/events.html

Kappa Dues Avoid the rush at our September meeting! Mail your dues in now to:

Charlene Wertz 624 Ideal Way

Charlotte, NC 28203 Active Member Dues are $76 & Reserve Member Dues Are $25

Enclose the Kappa Dues form attached in this edition of Kappa Keynotes.




Little Tidbits and General Announcements

Committee Openings Committee Openings The Hospitality Committee is in need of troops! If you can manage dining supplies, send event reminders and collate lunch orders, then you can handle this job! Let your inner Martha Stewart shine! Interested? Contact Jeannette Carofano, [email protected].

Our September dinner will be coming soon!

BUNCO CALENDAR!!! Mark these dates on your calendar!!! Bunco meetings are from 10 a.m. – noon at Rachel Goodgame’s home in Mint Hill.

• Saturday, November 14th • Saturday, January 23rd • Saturday, March 12th • Thursday, June 16th

Bunco is an easy-‐to-‐learn dice counting game – no skill involved! These get-‐togethers are a fun way to enjoy Kappa friendships, new and old, while adding funds for Kappa activities. If you haven’t been lately, join us in November. You’ll be hooked!

Attention Bargain Shoppers! Back-to-school sales have begun! Keep our Northridge M.S. students in mind while you cruise the school supply aisles! Items especially needed: 3-ring binders, spiral notebooks, notebook paper, and mechanical pencils. Spot any other good deals? Snatch ‘em up and bring to our September 24th meeting at Myers Park UMC.

Your Membership Has Benefits

DKG membership offers benefits: insurance for people and pets, ID Theft Assist, free webinars and course discounts at Capella University and more.

Visit the Non-‐dues Revenue Committee page at www.dkg.org for more information. 2015-2017 THEME

“Create the Future—Imagine, Inspire, Ignite” Do you have good news? An accomplishment to celebrate?

Email [email protected] so we can all celebrate with you!




Invest in Kappa By Brenda Coble of Kappa Chapter, Charlotte, NC A new year to celebrate education is approaching. As a Delta Kappa Gamma member, you have a chance to help make a difference in the educational community. You can do this by helping to make programs for those who are in the classroom possible.

Unfortunately, our dues will only go so far. The Executive Board has decided to start an Invest in Kappa campaign. The Board is asking that each member Invest in Kappa, by making an optional tax deductible donation to Kappa between now and the end of October to help fund the programs and projects that will be planned for the 2015-‐2016 year.

We will continue Bunco, Books and Brags, and 50-‐50 to help raise money for our budget. Remember, the Finance Committee creates the year’s budget, based on estimated funds and collected funds by the end of October.

If anyone has any additional ideas for fund raising, please contact Brenda Coble, Ways and Means Chairperson or Jeannette Carofano, President.

Please Invest in Kappa according to your heart for Kappa and for your fellow educators.

Connect globally through DKG online Members can now connect online with DKG members around the world through the member portal. Now on the DKG website, members will be able to sign in to a private site for DKG members only. Members will use the six digit member ID as the username and the default password (contact [email protected] for password), to log in. After successfully logging in, members can change the password to a preferred password. However, the username will remain the member ID.

Although the new website coming soon will have a “sign in” area, members can temporarily access the member portal through the “My DKG” banner in the Member Center (gray banners in the lower right portion of the home page). By signing in, a member may access and revise her contact information, create a member profile, and if desired, allow other members to connect with her through a private members only directory (members must choose this option within their profile). Members may also join social and professional communities in order to network with other DKG educators throughout the Society.




State Budget Update By: Dr. Elaine Jenkins, Chair,

Educational Law and Policy Committee

The NC House and Senate have offered two very different versions of the state budget for the next two years. While both budgets have issues with which Eta State has some concern, the House budget is much closer to the priorities which members of Eta State have identified.

Note the proposed percentage increase in funds from each chamber to the three major areas of education: House Senate K-12 6.40%+ 2.18%+ Community College 3.74%+ .29%+ UNC System 5.26%+ 2.56%+

The House version raises beginning teacher pay to $35,000 and calls for a 2% salary increase for certified educators at each tier along with 2% for non-certified employees. It also calls for a 2% cost of living raise for retirees. The House version maintains the current level of teacher assistants.

The Senate version includes pay raises for teachers but concentrates those raises in teachers in the early years. This version eliminates 8,500 teacher assistants over the next two years with a plan to hire more teachers in the lower grades and lower the pupil teacher ratio. The Senate also proposes to eliminate medical insurance for educators and state employees hired after January 1, 2016 after they retire and until they qualify for Medicare.

There are a number of other differences in the two budget proposals that you may want to research. Because the differences are significant, budget negotiations could be long, making local hiring decisions problematic. I encourage you to contact your legislators to support the House version.

The July/August 2015 DKG News is now online!

There is much to explore in this online-only issue of DKG News, including the

announcement of Sandra Smith Bull as the new Executive Director of DKG and It’s

Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens as the 2015 Educators Book Award

winner, and part two of Dr. Schmid’s president’s column about her webinar

conversation with GenY members.

It also includes an article on membership, a list of the Cornetet and Educational

Foundation award winners (including our NC winners), and a recap of the May 2015

executive board meeting actions. You can view the entire newsletter online at https://

www.dkg. org/sites/default/files/files-‐for-‐download/2015_NEWS_Jul-‐Aug.pdf.

Kappa Pres ident’s Note

Mark Your Calendar!

Dr. Elaine Jenkins will be speaking to Kappa members at our October 15th meeting, 4:30-6:00 p.m. at Alexander Graham Middle School in the Media Center. Come with questions and bring a friend.

Please let Peggy Jackson know if you are bringing a guest to this meeting so we may prepare seating in the Media Center. She can be reached by email at [email protected].




See the World with DKG!

DKG has partnered with Go Ahead Tours to take DKG members on a fun, educational tour of

England, Scotland and Ireland in mid-‐July, 2016. The 12-‐day itinerary is online at

http://dkg.grouptoursite.com/, along with an enticing slide show of points of interest along the way. Learn more by joining one of the webinars

listed at http:// www.goaheadtours.com/dkgwebinars.

You shop: DKG wins Every dollar spent through AmazonSmile and Goodsearch earns revenue for DKG. Choose the DKG Supporting Corporation as the receiving charity and your shopping will earn money for the Society. Visit the Non-dues Revenue Committee page at www. dkg.org for more details.

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Or call 704-814-7197 Email the Keynotes Editor

[email protected] Or call 704-315-4333

LEROY “The Leadership Guy”

"Leadership is

an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance." J. Donald Walters



Vol. 74, No. 1 August/September 2015 Delta Kappa Gamma

Kappa Chapter Dues Form 2015-‐2016

For new members and for those of you that might have forgotten, here is the breakdown of the dues you pay to Kappa. Please fill out the form below and return it with your payment as soon as possible to Charlene. For those participating in Invest in Kappa, write in the amount of your tax deductible contribution in the space provided. A receipt of this contribution will be sent to you for your tax purposes.

Active Member Reserve Member

International Dues $ 40.00 International Dues $ 20.00 State Dues 15.00 State Dues 2.00 Scholarship 1.00 Scholarship 1.00 NC State House 2.00 Kappa’s Dues 2.00 Kappa’s Dues 18.00 Total $ 25.00 Total $ 76.00 Member’s name_____________________________________________________

Member’s status (Active or reserve member) ______________________________

Address ____________________________________________________________

Email address_______________________________________________________

Telephone Numbers (home)__________________ (cell)_______________

(work)__________________

Workplace________________________________

Active Member Dues $ 76.00 (Circle if you are Active Reserve Member Dues $ 25.00 or Reserve) Invest in Kappa $ ____________ Total payment $ _____________

(The Invest in Kappa contribution will help us fund the projects that we would like to do in the coming year. Give what you feel you can give.)

Make checks payable to Delta Kappa Gamma.

Return this form with your payment to Charlene Wertz 624 Ideal Way Charlotte, NC 28203

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