Looking Ahead

BCRC has many great things planned this year. We shared many of them at our first meeting of the year on September 2nd at Pritchardville.

Meetings
We originally had another meeting scheduled for October 28th, but it has been postponed to December 9th. We try very hard not to conflict with other major meetings and it came to our attention that we were once again going to be conflicting with the mentor meeting. We'd like to involve all of our newest teachers in the council, so we made the decision to reschedule. At this meeting, we will have a special guest sharing many grant opportunities that are out there for teachers. With funding as tight as it is, this is the time to be creative in where we look.

Community Service
This year, we will be starting a new event we'd like to call Books and Blankets. It is in the planning stages and we need you to get involved. Our goal is to host one event on the Beaufort River and one on the May River. Please contact us if you'd like to be a part of these activities.

Literacy Mini-Conference
We received so much positive feedback from the first one, we are already working hard at getting our next mini-conference planned. We have confirmed that USCB will again be working with us this year and we thank them for hosting us. The conference will be held on the first Saturday in February from 8:00-3:00.

Membership
This year, we are working very hard to confirm a representative at each building including private and public schools. We are offering a wonderful incentive. The building rep whose school has the highest percentage of members, will win a complimentary registration to SCIRA's Literacy Conference, A Ticket to Adventure, on February 24-26th.

If that isn't exciting enough, we are also going to give another registration to the SCIRA conference to one lucky member. On November 1st, we will randomly choose one person who has either become a new member or renewed their membership. That member will also receive a complimentary registration.

So, plan to join, renew and get involved!