Friday, April 4 - 10-11 AM

  ______ Keynote Follow-Up with Bill Morris (Tentatively Scheduled)

presented by

Bill Morris, Decision Resources, Ltd.

In his keynote session, Bill will discuss what school leaders need to know about their communities to engage everyone in school district goals.  Join this session and continue the dialogue about how to be better at listening to and informing the public.

  ______ Getting Started with PLCs

presented by

Barb Muckenhirn, Director of Teaching and Learning, Princeton Schools

This session will provide information based on the work by the DuFours and Eaker.  Participants will leave with an understanding of what a Professional Learning Community (PLC) is and how to start implementing them in your school.

  ______ Mining the Child Count Data to understand Special Education Population

presented by

Ann Thomas, President, SchoolFinances.com

James Sheehan, SchoolFinances.com

Can you easily identify the number of students receiving special education services in your district?  Can you easily identify the ages of these students? Their service areas?  This presentation will feature a child count reporting system developed by SchoolFinances.com that puts this information at a user's fingertips as well as providing a means to compare this information for every district in the state.

  ______ RtI: Leadership in a Unified System

presented by

Lynne Kovash, Assistant for Teaching and Learning, Moorhead Area Schools

Jill Skarvold, Director of Learner Support, Moorhead Area Schools

This presentation will show the structure of how Moorhead Area Public Schools has developed a unified system of support for all students.  We will talk about the leadership support used to create the components and goals of the RtI process, including a comprehensive assessment and data plan as well as a system of tiered supports.  Professional development has been restructured to support collaborative processes within a unified model that responds to student need.

  ______ Issues Related to Employee Internet Use

presented by

Jennifer Earley, Attorney, Knutson, Flynn and Deans

This presentation will address topics such as discipline issues that arise from employee use of the Internet both on and off school district premises, the ability of employees to use school district computer resources for union activities and data privacy concerns that arise with employee electronic communications.

  ______ Creating an Ambassador Program in Your District

presented by

Beth Johnson, Red Tail Communications

Beth Johnson has spent her 23-year career building community through communications.  Join her for this session and learn how you can engage your stakeholders throughout the community to support and champion the children of your school district through an ambassador program.

  ______ Contract Purchasing...Out of The Box

presented by

Duff Erholtz , National Joint Power Alliance

The Join us and participate in a presentation and discussion highlighting the proven and successful methods and steps to leveraging a successful national contract purchasing program for your school. Contract Purchasing . . . Out Of The Box highlights the value of a model and concept as developed by the National Joint Powers Alliance (NJPA), a national educational cooperative and new business partner of AASA. This custom designed program for K-12 will streamline and effectively guide your district step by step through a contract purchasing program and process. Discussion will highlight multiple value added benefits for your school through substantial time and dollar savings highlighted by exceptional quality of goods and services supported by exceptional marketing material. Participants will clearly understand the value of the message that connects Contract Purchasing to Contract Selling through a Contracting Agency such as NJPA.

  ______ Advancing Professional Practice for School District Leaders

presented by

Mark Wolak, Superintendent, Mahtomedi Schools

Superintendents and district leaders can impact school improvement and culture when they adopt both research-based and evidence-based practices.  This presentation will provide an overview of specific leadership practices that, when implemented with fidelity, will improve school district performance.