Southwest Area Group
Serving: Clark, Cowlitz, Pacific (partial), Skamania, and Wahkiakum counties
Districts: Battle Ground, Camas, Castle Rock, Cascade Technical Academy, Evergreen, Green Mountain, Hockinson, Kalama, Kelso, La Center, Longview, Mill A, Mount Pleasant, Raymond, Ridgefield, Skamania, South Bend, Stevenson-Carson, Toutle Lake, Vancouver, Wahkiakum, Washougal, Woodland
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Area Group Leaders
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Kevin Doyle, LaCenter
Committee Representatives
Awards
Joan Huston, CTA
Communications
Bill Ofstun, Longview
CTE Administrative Program Advisory
Katie Morrison-Siewert, Vancouver
In-service/Conference
Cindy Arnold, Battleground
Legislative
Tiffany Gould, Ridgefield
Scholarship
Kyle Hurley, Wahkiakum
What do Area Group Leaders do?
- Participate in WACTA meetings:
- WACTA Executive Board/Group Leader meetings
- Area Group Leader conference calls
- WA-ACTE Legislative GoTo Meetings (if Legislative Representative cannot)
- Establish or update Area Group communication tree:
- Member telephone numbers (work and home)
- Member mailing addresses (work and home)
- Member e-mail addresses (work and home)
- Contact system
- Identify Area Group legislative representative and inform them of their responsibilities
- Conduct local area group meetings:
- Develop agenda
- Communicate meeting dates, time, and location to members and OSPI Career & Technical Education staff
- Share WACTA Program of Work and current issues (including legislative)
- Develop or solicit submittals for WACTA Board meetings and website
- Area Group report for WACTA Board meetings
- Informational articles for posting on WACTA website
- Organize Area Group door prize contributions to Fall and Spring Conferences if area group is asked to assist
- Organize Area Group participation in WACTA Awards and activities:
- Scholarships
- Administrator of the Year Award
- Annual Program of Work committee assignments
- Facilitate communication of state level CTE issues to Area Group members, as well as local Area Group concerns/input to WACTA Executive Board