Dear Everyone,

Some good news from BERA HQ: in the Mentoring & Coaching SIG we had to abandon Part 2 of our 
'06 symposium because teacher participants would have had to pay the full BERA rate for one day:

Dear Sarah

This is an ongoing cause of great angst for all concerned we do know. 
In response, the conference committee last year introduced the day 
conference rate for the Saturday at a cost of £60 (from memory the letter is 
just about to go out) and will, if at all possible, try to arrange that 
teachers presenting can do so on that day. We have also introduced, in 
the last 3 years, teacher bursaries of up to £200 to offset the cost of 
supply cover for attendance to present. Aside from that the answer is 
I'm afraid no, certainly not for 2007.

I hope you are well

Best wishes 
Olwen
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf St.Clair [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 21 November 2006 12:22
To: Olwen McNamara
Subject: Fw: Mentoring and Coaching SIG Referees

Over to you with this one!

R.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Fletcher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Ralf St Clair" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Mentoring and Coaching SIG Referees


> Hi Ralf,
>
> I am getting questions from schoolteachers in our SIG asking if 
> there'll be a day rate for BERA this year, otherwise they cannot take 
> part in the conference.  I was at CARN last week and many people came 
> for the Saturday only (£95) Could we do something similar for our 
> conference?
> I don't think we'll lose participants - we'll gain, if we day rate 
> Saturday.
> Please could you put this to BERA 07 organising committee if needs 
be?
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Sarah
>
> --- Ralf St Clair <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Splendid, thanks Sarah.
>
> Sarah Fletcher
> http://www.TeacherResearch.net