Table of Contents President’s Welcome Letter...... 2
Executive Director’s Welcome Letter...... 3
2015 AASA National Conference on Education Program-at-a-Glance...... 4
2015 Focus Zones...... 6
Knowledge Exchange Theater...... 8
A–Z Conference Information...... 12
AASA Awards...... 16
Sponsor Award Acknowledgments...... 24
Sponsor Acknowledgments...... 25
Pre-Conference Workshops...... 26
Thursday Conference Sessions-at-a-Glance...... 28
Thursday Conference Session Details...... 30
Friday Conference Sessions-at-a-Glance...... 46
Friday Conference Session Details...... 48 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE Saturday Conference Sessions-at-a-Glance...... 60
Saturday Conference Session Details...... 61
Welcome to the NCE Marketplace...... 66
Exhibitor Listing by Alpha...... 68
Exhibitor Listing by Booth...... 82
NCE Marketplace Floor Plan...... 84
Meetings and Functions Index...... 85
Speaker Index...... 86
Advertiser Index...... 88
1 President’s Welcome Letter
Welcome to San Diego and the 150th anniversary celebration of AASA, The School Superintendents Association. The National Conference on Education is one of the premier events for educators throughout North America.
This year will be extra special as we use the occasion of our organization’s anniversary to celebrate the success of public education. San Diego is a city known for its world-class restaurants, beautiful beaches and thriving neighborhoods. I can’t think of a better location for AASA and my fellow superintendents to celebrate such a significant milestone. PRESIDENT’S WELCOME LETTER AASA has always been the nation’s premier organization for superintendents. Our policies and beliefs have always focused on what is best for students. My membership with AASA has helped me to broaden my view when it comes to education policy. Meetings like this have enabled me to network with superintendents from across the country. Information I gathered has allowed me to go back to my district in Ponca City, Okla., and prepare for things that are coming down the pike — all to best position my district to address challenges with our students’ best interests in mind.
One of the most important aspects of our conference is the level of professional development opportunities available. Whether it’s principles of leadership, digitizing learning or superintendent/school board relationships, you’ll find what you’re looking for at this meeting.
Enjoy the National Conference on Education. Enjoy San Diego. Your presence is an indication that you are committed to making a positive difference, not only in your own district, but throughout your state and the country. Meanwhile, I’m here to help you. If there is anything I can do for you, please do not hesitate to contact me.
David Pennington President AASA, The School Superintendents Association
2 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Executive Director’s Welcome Letter
Dear Colleagues:
It is an honor and pleasure to officially welcome you to 2015 National Conference on Education — the kick-off of our 150th anniversary celebration.
As we applaud school leaders everywhere, we are especially grateful that you made the journey to San Diego to help us commemorate this milestone. As the leaders of your school districts, you are setting the pace for the way our children learn and what they will achieve later in life.
AASA, The School Superintendents Association, has been bringing together education leaders for generations. Our conferences have been known for delivering world-class speakers. This year’s meeting will be no different. You will find our agenda to be rich with inspiration and insights from the best and brightest.
Appropriately themed “Celebrate Public Education in America,” our conference will address some of public education’s most critical issues, including:
• Common Core State Standards • Curriculum and Instruction
• Superintendent/School Board Relationships • Digitizing Learning
• Governance and District Management • Healthy School Environments
• Leadership
I am also pleased to share that in addition to announcing AASA’s 2015 National Superintendent of the Year at our conference, we will proudly unveil the first cohort of superintendents that has completed our National Superintendent Certification Program. As you are well aware, a superintendent must not only be an instructional leader, but also a CEO and community leader. The program prepares newer superintendents for this sometimes daunting job. We’ve had tremendous feedback from those who’ve participated in the certification program. Please join us in congratulating the first of what will be many groups of superintendents to earn our certification.
As you meet new and old friends in public education, we hope that the strategies and practices exchanged during the conference will serve you in the best possible way. I’m sure you’ll find that the issues you face in your school district are the same issues that your peers are facing. You will also have the opportunity to visit with more than 200 companies committed to improving the EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S WELCOME LETTER WELCOME EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S K–12 space.
Enjoy your stay in San Diego. While AASA serves as the voice for superintendents across the country, you serve as the voice for your students. We applaud your contributions to public education. We look forward to hearing from you throughout the conference.
Daniel A. Domenech Executive Director AASA, The School Superintendents Association
3 Conference Program-at-a-Glance THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Registration Hours...... 7:30am – 4pm
Coffee in the NCE Marketplace...... 8:30 – 9am
NCE Marketplace Hours...... 8:30am – 3pm
Educational Sessions...... 9 – 10am
Thought Leader Session...... 9 – 10am
• Featuring Mark Edwards
Thought Leader Sessions...... 10:15 – 11:15am
• Featuring Sarah Pitcock, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Bolgen Vargas & Antwan Wilson CONFERENCE PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE • Featuring Robert Avossa, Alberto Carvalho & Sharon Contreras
Educational Sessions...... 11:30am – 12:30pm
Federal Relations Luncheon...... 11:45am – 1:15pm
• Featuring Pedro Noguera
Professional Development Seminar and Lunch...... 11:45am – 1:15pm
Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours...... 12:30 – 1pm
Educational Sessions...... 1:15 – 2:15pm
Thought Leader Sessions...... 2:30 – 3:30pm
• Featuring Alan Blankstein & Pedro Noguera
• Featuring Bill Daggett
Opening General Session...... 3:45 – 5:45pm
• Featuring Cal Ripken, Jr.
• Featuring Former Secretary of Education Richard Riley
AASA 150th Anniversary Celebration Reception...... 6 – 7pm
4 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Professional Development Seminar and Breakfast...... 7 – 8:30am
Registration Hours...... 7:30am – 4pm
Second General Session...... 8 – 10am
• Featuring Dan Heath
Coffee in the NCE Marketplace...... 10 – 10:30am
NCE Marketplace Hours...... 10am – 4:15pm
Educational Sessions...... 10:30 – 11:30am
Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours...... 11:30am – 12noon
Professional Development Seminar and Lunch...... 11:30am – 1pm
Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Luncheon...... 11:30am – 1:30pm
Thought Leader Sessions...... 12:15 – 1:15pm
• Featuring Deb Delisle
• Featuring Tom Boasberg
Educational Sessions...... 1:30 – 2:30pm
Thought Leader Sessions...... 2:45 – 3:45pm
• Featuring Dan Domenech & Tom Gentzel
• Featuring Bob Marzano & Darrell Scott
Happy Hour and Dedicated Hours in the NCE Marketplace...... 3:45 – 4:15pm
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Registration Hours...... 7:30am – 12noon
Educational Sessions...... 8 – 9am PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE CONFERENCE
Educational Sessions...... 9:15 – 10:15am
Thought Leader Sessions...... 10:30 – 11:30am
• Featuring Kari Arfstrom
• Featuring Dan Cardinali & Dan Domenech
Closing General Session...... 11:45am – 1:15pm
• Featuring Consuelo Kickbusch
5 Focus Zones Throughout the program, you’ll find these icons so you can easily select the sessions and topics that may be of particular interest to you.
C C Common Core Standards and Assessments D E Digitizing Education • Recognizing and Evaluating Depth and Rigor of Assessments Sponsored by: • Research-Based Practices to Allow All Students to • A hiTEC Future Achieve the Common Core • Evaluating and Assessing Your Digital Learning • Using Predictive Data to Shrink the Achievement Initiative: Keys to Success Gap in Mathematics • How to Go from Tech Scared to Tech Savvy • How Top Superintendents Leverage Existing C I Curriculum and Instruction Resources for True Digital Transformation Sponsored by: • Optimizing Education Technology While Protecting Student Data Privacy • Aligning College/Career Readiness Efforts to Meet 21st-Century Post-Secondary Realities • Professional Development Breakfast — Avoid the Pitfall: The Common Mistakes Superintendents Make • All Means All: Ending Failure as a Default Regarding Technology • Assessment Inextricably Coupled with Instruction: • Revenue Generation for Schools When It’s Not About a Grade, Rank or Score • School Efficiency, Organization and Collaboration • Creating an Online, Blended Learning Environment: with Microsoft OneNote A Guide to Vision/Implementation • The Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) • EMERGING from the Shadows FOCUS ZONES Students and Teachers Accessing Tomorrow (S.T.A.T.) • Enhancing Career & College Readiness Using Initiative: Preparing Globally Competitive Students Naviance • The Superintendent’s Social Media Lounge: Part 1 • Eradicating Learned Passivity in Long-Term English • The Superintendent’s Social Media Lounge: Part 2 Learners • Transitioning to Digital: What It Looks Like, Why It • Finding, Evaluating and Buying: Insights from a Works and Why It’s Time National Ed-Tech Purchasing Study • Turn Technology from Teacher’s Enemy to Assistant • Middle School Mission — Closing the Achievement Gap G D Governance and District Management • Model English Language Learner Programs • 2015: New Legislative Agenda, New Congress, New • OECD (PISA for Schools) and 21st-Century District Outcomes? Transformation • AASA Leadership: Advocacy and Policy in Action • PRECON — Excellence through Equity: 10 Practices • AASA President-Elect Candidate Forum of Highly Effective Schools and Districts • A Bridge to a Brighter Future: Unprecedented Three- • Professional Development Lunch — Connected District Partnership Instruction Delivered Digitally • Decisive • Raising the Bar for All Students through International Benchmarking • Federal Relations Luncheon — Rethinking Standards and Accountability • Redesigning Professional Development to Empower Educators and Increase Student • Federal Relations Update I Achievement • Getting Smart About Summer Learning • STEM Implementation Reaches All Children • Knowledge Management for Innovation in Education • Systemic Alignment of Supervisor, Principal and • Mission Possible: Recruiting Effective Teachers in Teacher Evaluations Hard-to-Staff Schools • The Aspirations Gap: Making College Readiness a • Policy Research: Effective Grassroots Campaigns and Priority Districtwide Public Education • The Data Lens: Using Instructional Coaches to • Rethinking Standards and Accountability Lead Student Growth • Smarter School Spending: New Tools to Sustain • The Digital Transition: If You Haven’t Done It, Why Instructional Priorities Not? • The Affordable Care Act and Public Schools • Values and Education, Finding Those “Teachable • The Time Has Come: Practical Social Media from the Moments” Experts
6 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE • The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil • Ethics in Education — Focusing on What’s Truly Rights (OCR): What School Administrators Need Important to Know • Federal Relations Update II • Using Advanced Analytics to Improve District • From “Seat Time” to “Competency-Based” Strategy Professional Development • Valuing Diversity • How to Communicate Effectively with Parents, • Who Cares About Your District’s Official App? Staff and Politicians Your Community • Leadership Dedicated to All Students • Why Not Now? Efficiencies and Savings You Can’t • Leadership in the Information Age: A Changing Afford to Ignore! Role for Superintendents • Leading a 21st-Century District H E Healthy School Environments • Next-Generation Leadership: A Closer Look at • A New Model for Health and Academic Teacher Leaders Achievement • Next-Generation Leadership: Building a Pipeline of • Farm-to-School: The New School Food Landscape Great School Leaders • Implementing a Staff Wellness Program at Your • Optimizing Teaching and Learning through School Transformative Leadership Training • Mental Health First Aid for Youth and the Now Is • PRECON — Leading for Effective Teaching: the Time & Project Aware Grants Leadership Tools to Support Principal Success • School Climate: Improving Discipline, Safety & • PRECON — Move the Middle! Learning • Professional Development Lunch — Freedom to • Supporting the Grieving Student: A New Resource Focus on Your Core Mission of Education for School Administrators • Promoting Positive Discipline by Addressing • What Superintendents Think: AASA Student Student Needs Health and Youth Development Survey Results • Publishing Professionally: Guidance for School District Leaders J C Job Central • Redesigning Professional Development Systems: • Developing a High-Performance Superintendent/ The Why, What and How Board Leadership Team • Rock, Paper, Scissors Your Way to Improved • Effective Communication Techniques for the Board Student Achievement of Education/Superintendent Team • Social Media and Cybercivility: Educational and • Increasing Your Chances of Getting the Job You Legal Challenges Want • Strategically Infusing Rigor and Embedding • Is Your Career Ready for a Tune Up or a Complete College and Career Readiness Overhaul? • Thank You for Your Leadership — The Power of
L Leadership Distributed Leadership for Digital Conversion ZONES FOCUS • 2015 Women in School Leadership Award Finalists • The New “3Rs” in Education: AR, VR and QR: Make Panel Discussion Them Work for Your Distict • 21 Trends…Getting Connected and Creating a • The Prerequisite for Achievement That Every Future Leader Needs to Know • AASA Collaborative • The Role of Principal Supervisors in Developing Effective School Leaders • Addressing Today’s Challenges within the Context of Emerging Trends • To Flip or Not to Flip: Administrators’ Dilemmas • Awakening the Learner and Transforming Schools • Unpacking International Assessments • Blueprint 2.0 and the Role of Communication in S R Creating a World-Class School System Superintendent/School Board Relationships • Building Positive, Productive Superintendent/ • Building a Culture of Leadership in Your District School Board Relationships • Building Capacity by Building a Community of • Building Superintendent and School Committee Leaders and Learners Relationships, Yielding Results • Changing the Picture of Education through • District Turnarounds: Suburbia’s New Dilemma Integrated Student Supports • Engaging Your Community in 21st-Century • Co-Creating Innovation for Our Public Schools — Education An Action Agenda • Regional Stewardship: Superintendents as Civic • Courageous Leadership for Districtwide Success Leaders • Creating District Conditions to Scale Effective • School Districts: Adapt or Perish Leadership • Special Contracts Session • Data Privacy: Best Practices to Avoid Media Headlines • Superintendent/School Board Relations, A Discussion with the NSBA Executive Director • Developing the Talent from Within: Building Capacity for Student Success • When Things Go Wrong • Do the Impossible! 100% of Students Reading on Grade Level! 7 Knowledge Exchange Theater 11:30am – 12:30pm Thursday, February 26 C I Middle School Mission — Closing the 8:30 – 9am Achievement Gap G D Who Cares About Your District’s Official This session presents a transformative and exciting new paradigm that includes real-world App? Your Community curriculum, citizen science and access to real When a superintendent chooses to deploy an STEM professionals. This approach involves official app for their school district, it quickly engaging school leadership with private partners becomes one of the most visible district to fund an increase in teachers’ skills in science touchpoints for parents, students and the education, helping students to consider careers community. The district’s reputation is on the line. in the STEM subjects, and promoting new How can leaders ensure that they are providing approaches to teaching science. Early indications the type of experience that parents are looking are that student achievement in science is also for? Join superintendents from around the increasing. Includes a Q&A segment followed by country to discuss their experience deploying an a book signing by Daniel Duke and Aaron Alford. app with ParentLink and the five things to look Presenters: Aaron Alford, Health Research for when evaluating providers. Scientist, Battelle, Arlington, VA; Daniel Duke, Professor of Educational Leadership, University
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER Presenter: Benny Gooden, Superintendent, Fort Smith Public Schools, Fort Smith, AR of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Mort Sherman, Superintendent-in-Residence, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Eleanor Smalley, Executive Vice President 9 – 10am and Chief Operating Officer, JASON Learning, Ashburn, VA D E The Superintendent’s Social Media Lounge: Part 1 How are superintendents engaging on social 1:15 – 2:15pm media today? The AASA digital team gives an G D AASA Leadership: Advocacy and Policy in overview of the latest social media and web Action developments at AASA and how superintendents can get involved. During the second half, the AASA’s Executive Committee spends a portion facilitators of #suptchat demonstrate how of each quarterly meeting reflecting on key superintendents can network with one another education policies and discussions. As a way to through Twitter conversations around education. highlight the ongoing leadership and priorities of the Executive Committee as well as those of Presenters: Francesca Duffy, Digital and AASA’s elected leaders, this session features Advocacy Media Editor, AASA, Alexandria, VA; AASA’s President, President-Elect and Past Michael Lubelfeld, Superintendent, Deerfield President. Topics may include school nutrition, Public School District 109, Deerfield, IL; Gayane data collection, IDEA and funding, among others. Minasyan, Online Technologies Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA; A. Katrise Perera, Presenters: Noelle Ellerson, Associate Executive Superintendent, Isle of Wight School District, Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, Alexandria, Smithfield, VA; Nicholas Polyak, Superintendent, VA; David Pennington, AASA President & Leyden Community High School District 212, Superintendent, Ponca City Schools, Ponca City, Franklin Park, IL OK; David Schuler, AASA President-Elect and Superintendent, Township High School District 214, Arlington Heights, IL; Amy Sichel, AASA 10:15 – 10:30am Immediate Past President and Superintendent, Abington School District, Abington, PA D E Revenue Generation for Schools 2:30 – 3 SkoolLive is a leading technology and media company that works exclusively with schools 2:30 – 3:30pm in order to provide revenue opportunities by D E Transitioning to Digital: What It Looks placing brand sponsorships and digital media on Like, Why It Works and Why It’s Time school campuses. SkoolLive created a 58-inch interactive kiosk that it provides to schools for Core resources running on tablets, mobiles and free. The kiosk also provides multiple tools for laptops arrive with cloud-based connectivity school administrators to use to enhance their and media DNA. Digital means differentiated, campus. Come by SkoolLive’s booth to learn updatable and effective. When the textbook more. finally goes digital, the whole game changes. But for technology to strengthen classroom Presenter: Kyle Warren, Territory Sales Manager, practice means modification and redefinition SkoolLive, San Diego, CA of traditional learning tasks. Content creation, account-based learning and incredible tools
8 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE must be understood within traditional learning for connecting students’ learning with life. See environments. This session explains how the how to improve institutional effectiveness and tools for teaching and learning have changed as ease processes for staff and administrators while have the tools for leadership, communication and providing premier services to students and families. evaluation. Learn why the digital transformation Presenter: Kim Oppelt, Community Relations is so important and examine models to assist you Manager, Hobsons, Arlington, VA in designing your roadmap for getting there. Presenter: Hall Davidson, Senior Director of Sponsored by: Global Initiatives, Discovery Education, Los Angeles, CA 12:15 – 1:15pm L Federal Relations Update II Part II of the federal advocacy update, this Friday, February 27 session follows, but does not repeat, the Thursday session. Over the course of these two 10 – 10:30am breakouts, the AASA advocacy team outlines H E Supporting the Grieving Student: A New the prospects of key federal policy discussions. Resource for School Administrators Conversation focuses on AASA priorities and covers ESEA, IDEA, appropriations, competitive AASA is a founding member of the funding, Perkins Career/Tech, Affordable Care Coalition to Support Grieving Students Act, rural education, E-Rate, school nutrition, (www.grievingstudents.org), a unique school climate, vouchers and more. collaboration of the 10 leading professional organizations representing a broad range of Presenter: Noelle Ellerson, Associate Executive school professionals who came together to Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, Alexandria, VA develop practitioner-oriented video and print training materials. David Schonfeld, MD, Director 1:30 – 2:30pm of the National Center for Grieving Students, led the development of these materials and D E The Superintendent’s Social Media showcases the website and provides practical Lounge: Part 2 advice on how school administrators can ensure that grieving students receive the support they Join your colleagues and learn how to make need. your voice heard on social media. AASA’s digital team unveils the revamped AASA LinkedIn page Presenter: David J. Schonfeld, Director, National and shares tips on getting your message across Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, on different social media channels. During the Philadelphia, PA second half hour, three AASA members lead a conversation on the appropriate use of social media as a superintendent, and the fears that 10:30 – 11:30am impede school leaders from using social media L The New “3Rs” in Education: AR, VR and as a communications tool. QR: Make Them Work for Your District Presenters: Francesca Duffy, Digital and It’s time to add QR codes, Augmented Reality Advocacy Media Editor, AASA, Alexandria, (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to the old 3Rs. VA; Daniel Frazier, Superintendent, Litchfield Independent School District 465, Litchfield, MN; Learn how to build and use these new layers for THEATER EXCHANGE KNOWLEDGE school information or classroom education so Chris Gaines, Superintendent, Wright City R2 that classes can take interactive virtual field trips School District, Wright City MO; Gayane Minasyan, to spots around the world — or make your own Online Technologies Director, AASA, Alexandria, of the school for parents; how schools can create VA; Candace Singh, Superintendent, Fallbrook a channel for animations, videos, images or audio Union Elementary School District, Fallbrook, CA triggered by everyday objects, books, school pictures or illustrations; and how families and 2:45 – 3:45pm students with tablets or smart phones gain new insights and information. S R Superintendent/School Board Relations, Presenter: Hall Davidson, Senior Director of A Discussion with the NSBA Executive Global Initiatives, Discovery Education, Los Director Angeles, CA Hear an informative discussion between the Sponsored by: AASA and NSBA executive directors about superintendent/school board relations and how the two organizations can work together to 11:30am – 12noon accomplish common goals. C I Enhancing Career & College Readiness Presenters: Dan Domenech, Executive Director, Using Naviance AASA, Alexandria, VA; Tom Gentzel, Executive Director, NSBA, Alexandria, VA Learn how your district and schools can centralize academic, personal, college and career planning in one location. Naviance provides a solution for districts and students as a one-stop shop 9 AASA, The School Superintendents Association, Aramark and VALiC take great pleasure in announcing the 2015 AASA national Superintendent of the year Finalists. Seton Hall University graduates enjoy
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AASA, Aramark K-12 Education, and VALiC stand together to salute our nation’s outstanding contributors to public education. Our heartfelt thanks for your dedication, talent, and ability to make education more accessible and more meaningful to America’s students. Aramark K-12 Education and VALiC thank our partner, AASA, for their unfailing support, leadership, and commitment to the Superintendent of the Year Program. Seton Hall University graduates enjoy successful careers as Superintendents, Central Office and Building Leaders in 30 states and 7 countries.
Patrick Michel, Ed.D. ’04 Superintendent, Salem City school district Salem, N.J. Our Executive Ed.D. degree offers a Proven Value, plus: • Extensive networking and professional development opportunities for DISCOVER AN aspiring, new and established superintendents and other school leaders INNOVATIVE ED.D. • Intensive 2-year program; weekends and summer sessions PROGRAM THAT PUTS YOU ON THE • Engaging full-time faculty who mentor as well as teach PATH TO SUCCESS. • National Reputation • Cohort community supporting advancement during and after the program • Dissertation research that forwards leadership vision and practice To learn more, visit us at www.shu.edu/go/execedd 400 South Orange Avenue South Orange, NJ 07079 or call 1-800-313-9833. A-Z Conference Information AASA 150TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Friday, February 27 RECEPTION 11 – 11:30am...... Merle Horowitz ...... Thursday, February 26 6 – 7pm 3:45 – 4:15pm...... Bob Marzano & Darrell Scott Ballroom 20BC, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Book signings take place in the bookstore. Center Join us as we celebrate the AASA National AASA TECHNOLOGY CENTER Conference on Education and AASA’s 150th Anniversary. Mingle with old friends and network Located within Microsoft’s Exhibit Booth, the AASA with new ones! Technology Center is where you can relax, take a seat, charge your mobile devices and explore the Sponsored by: exciting new technologies available from Microsoft. Quality education is essential to the future of our society. And technology can expand the power of
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AWARDS AASA award and scholarship programs recognize excellence, profile best practices in public education, and honor leaders from inside and outside the field of school administration whose contributions have made a significant impact on the lives and learning of children. See pages 16–22 for the winners of this year’s awards. AASA CENTRAL AND BOOKSTORE Be sure to stop by AASA Central and the Bookstore BADGES to learn about the new and exciting things going on Please wear your conference name badge at all at AASA and to peruse the latest education-related times while in the San Diego Convention Center. titles. Both can be found in the NCE Marketplace, Room monitors and security personnel have been Hall G, Level 1 of the convention center. instructed to deny entry to those without a badge. If The bookstore is open the following hours and hosts your badge is incorrect or has been misplaced, visit the following book signings: the Badge Corrections and Reprints Counter in the AASA Registration Area, Level 1, Main Lobby of the Thursday, February 26...... 8:30am – 3pm convention center.
Friday, February 27...... 10am – 4:15pm ® Sponsored by: BOOK SIGNING SCHEDULE Thursday, February 26 BUSINESS CENTER 10 – 10:30am...... Mark Edwards Thursday, February 26...... 8am – 5pm 3:30 – 4pm...... Bill Daggett*; Alan Blankstein Friday, February 27...... 8am – 5pm & Pedro Noguera* Saturday, February 28...... 9am – 5pm *Please note this book signing takes place outside the A full-service business center is located inside the speaker’s session room. convention center in Lobby D. Friday, February 27 CONFERENCE BAGS 10 – 10:30am...... Dan Heath Each registered attendee is allowed one conference 10:30 – 11am...... Gary Marx bag. Bags can be picked up at the Materials Pick-Up Counter in the AASA Registration Area, Level 1, Main Lobby of the convention center.
12 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY Sponsored by: CONFERENCE DAILY ONLINE FOOD SERVICE AASA provides daily coverage of key speakers, topical A variety of stations are available in the NCE sessions and award presentations, along with a photo Marketplace, Hall G. gallery of the conference, Twitter feed, audio and video clips, and conference blog with daily postings from several AASA members. An e-newsletter is GENERAL SESSIONS distributed daily and the AASA website is updated General Session speakers are selected to help you with conference news throughout the three days at take your leadership to new heights so you can move resources.aasa.org/ConferenceDaily. your district and community forward. All General Sessions take place at the San Diego Convention Center in Hall H. DR. EFFIE H. JONES MEMORIAL LUNCHEON ($70) Friday, February 27...... 11:30am – 1:30pm Thursday, February 26...... 3:45 – 5:45pm Room 29, San Diego Convention Center Cal Ripken, Jr., Hall of Famer and Co-Founder of the Cal Ripken, Sr., See page 53 for more information. Tickets may be Foundation, Baltimore MD purchased in the AASA Registration Area. Values and Education, Finding Those Sponsored by: “Teachable Moments” Friday, February 27...... 8 – 10am EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS Dan Heath, Senior Fellow at Duke Choose from more than 100 Educational Sessions, University’s CASE Center, and Best- Thought Leader Sessions and General Sessions. See Selling Author, Raleigh, NC session descriptions for more details about speakers. Decisive All sessions take place at the San Diego Convention Center, unless otherwise noted, during these hours: Saturday, February 28...... 11:45am – 1:15pm Thursday, February 26 LTC (R) Consuelo Kickbusch, President and CEO, Educational Achievement 9 – 10am, 10:15 – 11:15am*, 11:30am – 12:30pm, Services, Inc., Las Vegas, NV 1:15 – 2:15pm, 2:30 – 3:30pm*, 3:45 – 5:45pm* Valuing Diversity Friday, February 27 8 – 10am*, 10:30 – 11:30am, 12:15 – 1:15pm*, HOTEL INFORMATION 1:30 – 2:30pm, 2:45 – 3:45pm* Official Conference Hotels Saturday, February 28 San Diego Marriott Hotel Indigo San Diego 8 – 9am, 9:15 – 10:15am, 10:30 – 11:30am*, Marquis & Marina Gaslamp 11:45am – 1:15pm* (Headquarters Hotel) 509 9th Avenue *These are Thought Leader Sessions or General Sessions. 333 West Harbor Drive San Diego, CA 92101 San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 727-4000 (619) 234-1500 Hotel Solamar San Diego FEDERAL RELATIONS LUNCHEON ($70) Embassy Suites San 435 6th Avenue INFORMATION CONFERENCE A–Z Thursday, February 26...... 11:45am – 1:15pm Diego Bay Downtown San Diego, CA 92101 601 Pacific Highway (619) 819-9500 Room 29, San Diego Convention Center San Diego, CA 92101 Omni San Diego Hotel (619) 239-2400 To purchase a ticket for this lunch, see the Onsite/ 675 L Street Assisted Registration Counter in the AASA Hard Rock Hotel San San Diego, CA 92101 Registration Area, Level 1, Main Lobby of the Diego (619) 231-6664 convention center. Onsite tickets are sold on a first- 207 Fifth Avenue Residence Inn San Diego come, first-served basis and are subject to sell out. San Diego, CA 92101 Downtown Gaslamp See page 39 for details. (619) 702-3000 356 6th Avenue Sponsored by: Hilton San Diego San Diego, CA 92101 Bayfront (619) 487-1200 Hosted by AASA Advocacy & AASA Collaborative. 1 Park Boulevard San Diego Marriott San Diego, CA 92101 Gaslamp (619) 564-3333 FIRST AID 660 K Street If you have a medical emergency, please pick up Hilton San Diego San Diego, CA 92101(619) the nearest house phone to be connected with Gaslamp Quarter 696-0234 401 K Street the facility’s operator. If you are in need of non- Westin Gaslamp Quarter San Diego, CA 92101 emergency assistance, a first aid station is located 910 Broadway Circle (619) 231-4040 on Level 1 in Box Office G of the convention center. San Diego, CA 92101 Horton Grand Hotel (619) 239-2200 311 Island Avenue San Diego, CA 92101 13 (619) 544-1886 HOUSING Ray and Assoc. A representative from AASA Housing is available Ryan Ray; [email protected] to answer questions about hotels and reservations (319) 393-3115 during registration hours at the Housing Desk in East Dubuque, IL the AASA Registration Area, Level 1, Main Lobby of Ray and Assoc. the convention center. This representative can help Dr. Don Kussmaul; [email protected] you locate friends and colleagues who made their (815) 266-1925 reservations through AASA’s housing service. East Dubuque, IL Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL JOB CENTRAL Lora, Wolf; [email protected] Search Firms and State Associations (319) 524-8184 Job Central provides efficient opportunities for state Macomb, IL school board associations and potential job seekers to share information about job opportunities within specific states and about the characteristics boards LOCAL TOURS are seeking in candidates. The Job Fair is open at Many local and regional tours are held during the following times: the National Conference on Education. If you are interested in purchasing a tour ticket, visit the Friday, February 27...... 8am – 5pm Onsite/Assisted Registration Counter in the AASA Search firms and state associations can be found at Registration Area, Level 1, Main Lobby of the Job Central, Room 22, in the San Diego Convention convention center. Center. Job Central also has its own Focus Zone A–Z CONFERENCE INFORMATION for Educational Sessions on topics such as career planning, interview skills and contract negotiations. LOST AND FOUND When looking through the program book, look Turn in any items you may find at the AASA for sessions marked with JC to note Job Central Information Kiosk, located in the AASA Registration sessions. Area. Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates Hank Gmitro; [email protected] MEETINGS AND FUNCTIONS (847) 724-8465 See the index on page 85 to see which state Rosemont, IL associations and organizations are hosting events at Illinois Association of School Administrators the conference. Dr. Richard Voltz; [email protected] (217) 753-2213 NCE MARKETPLACE Springfield, IL Making the Job of School System Leaders Easier Illinois Association of School Boards Thursday, February 26...... 8:30am – 3pm Donna Johnson; [email protected] (630) 629-3776 Friday, February 27...... 10am – 4:15pm Lombard, IL Your schedules are full and your budgets are Illinois Association of School Boards tight, but your job still requires you to address Thomas Leahy; [email protected] your day-to-day school system needs. As the (217) 528-9688 ultimate decision maker, you owe it to yourself to Springfield, IL seek out the abundant resources available within the NCE Marketplace. Not a sales pitch, it is an McPherson & Jacobson L.L.C. avenue to invigorate your perspective on what is Thomas Jacobson; [email protected] possible, what is new and cutting edge, and what (402) 991-7031 can be applied or retooled to fit your unique K–12 Omaha, NE community. See page 66 for more details. New England School Development Council Ken DeBenedicts; [email protected] (508) 481-9444 Marlborough, MA Ray and Assoc. Gary Ray; [email protected] (319) 393-3115 Cedar Rapids, IA
14 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE PHOTOGRAPHY THOUGHT LEADERS AASA strives to bring exemplary speakers to the AASA’s official photographer: National Conference on Education to discuss critical issues that affect students, leaders, communities and school systems. Thought Leaders evaluate how Printing provided by Lifetouch for School global, national and state issues will affect your Administrator magazine. schools and communities.
Thursday, February 26 PRESS 9 – 10am, see page 33 for details. Press information is available at onsite registration in the AASA Registration Area. Mark Edwards Thank You for Your Leadership — The Power of Distributed Leadership for Digital Conversion PROGRAM CHANGES AASA will post any program changes to the 10:15 – 11:15am, see page 34 for details. Conference Daily Online website at resources.aasa.org/ConferenceDaily. Sarah Pitcock, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Bolgen Vargas & Antwan Wilson Getting Smart About Summer Learning REGISTRATION Robert Avossa, Alberto Carvalho & Sharon Contreras Level 1, Main Lobby of the convention center Redesigning Professional Development Systems: Thursday, February 26...... 7:30am – 4pm The Why, What and How Friday, February 27...... 7:30am – 4pm 2:30 – 3:30pm, see page 43 for details Saturday, February 28...... 7:30am – 12noon Bill Daggett Addressing Today’s Challenges within the Context of SHUTTLE SERVICE Emerging Trends Shuttle Service to and from the Embassy Suites San Diego Bay Downtown Hotel and The Westin Alan Blankstein & Pedro Noguera Gaslamp Quarter Hotel is available. Courageous Leadership for Districtwide Success
Shuttles run during the following days and times: Friday, February 27 Thursday, February 26...... 7 – 10am and 5 – 7:30pm 12:15 – 1:15pm, see page 54 for details Friday, February 27...... 6:30 – 9:30am and 3 – 5pm Deb Delisle Saturday, February 28...... 7 – 9am and 12:30 – 2pm Leadership Dedicated to All Students
All shuttles arrive at and depart from the drive in Tom Boasberg front of Halls F, G and H of the convention center. Next-Generation Leadership: Building a Pipeline of Great School Leaders Sponsored by: 2:45 – 3:45pm, see page 58 for details INFORMATION CONFERENCE A–Z SOCIAL MEDIA Bob Marzano & Darrell Scott Awakening the Learner and Transforming Schools Share your experiences at the National Conference on Education on Twitter! Add this to your tweet: Dan Domenech & Tom Gentzel #NCE15. Superintendent/School Board Relations, A Discussion with the NSBA Executive Director
Saturday, February 28 10:30 – 11:30am, see pages 63–64 for details Dan Cardinali & Dan Domenech Changing the Picture of Education through Integrated Student Supports
Kari Arfstrom To Flip or Not to Flip: Administrators’ Dilemmas Share your experiences and observations of the conference with others by contributing to the official Twitter feed at WIRELESS INTERNET Wireless Internet is available for the first 1,000 paid #NCE15. attendees who log on. Please see the ticket you were provided in your packet at check-in for the network password. 15 AASA Awards THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26• 3:45 – 5:45pm GENERAL SESSION
THE NATIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD The National Superintendent of the Year program has enabled Americans to recognize and honor U.S. superintendents for the contributions they make every day advocating for public education, our nation’s children and our country’s future. Now in its 28th year, the National Superintendent of the Year program, co-sponsored by Aramark, VALIC and AASA, celebrates the leadership of these outstanding public school superintendents. One of the four finalists will be named the National Superintendent of the Year and will represent colleagues and the profession over the next 12 months.
MaryEllen Elia Philip D. Lanoue Currently: Superintendent of Schools, Currently: Superintendent, Clarke Hillsborough County Public Schools County School District, Athens, GA, July (HCPS), Tampa, FL, July 2005–present 2009–present Previously: Chief Facilities Officer, Hillsborough Previously: Area Assistant Superintendent, Cobb County Public Schools, 2003–July 2005 County School District, 2005–2009 Academic Degrees: Certification in Education Academic Degrees: Ph.D. in Educational Leadership, Leadership; Master of Professional Studies in Mercer University; M.Ed. in Administration and Reading, State University College of New York at Planning, University of Vermont; Bachelor’s in AASA AWARDS Buffalo; Master of Education, State University of Secondary Education, University of Vermont New York at Buffalo; Bachelor of Arts, Daeman District Size: 13,054 students College Accomplishments: Under the leadership of Philip 206,000 students District Size: Lanoue, the Clarke County School District has Accomplishments: Under MaryEllen Elia’s been honored as a Title I Distinguished District leadership, HCPS has earned a national reputation for being Georgia’s #1 large district for closing as an innovator that has expanded educational the achievement gap. The district has received choices for families, successfully promoted college numerous state recognitions as a model technology and career readiness among all students, and school district, Georgia’s #1 Career Academy and reinvented the way it supports effective teaching the state’s top award for exceptional Response to and school leadership. Intervention practices. Recently named a District The district has changed the way teachers and of Distinction by District Administration magazine principals are recruited, hired, evaluated, supported for increased dual enrollment credits, Clarke and compensated — with the help of major grants County is home to a National Blue Ribbon School, from private foundations. In 2010, HCPS achieved a MetLife/NASSP Breakthrough School and a districtwide accreditation from the Southern NAMM Top Community in Music Education. Also, Association of Colleges and Schools. In the past six all middle schools and traditional high schools are years, the district has increased by more than 200% now International Baccalaureate World Schools. In the number of students participating, and succeeding, addition, Dr. Lanoue has fostered a variety of local, in Advanced Placement courses, and more than state and national partnerships, including forming 4,000 students have earned industry certification. In a University of Georgia Professional Development 2011 and 2013, HCPS’ 4th and 8th graders led the way School District and designing a state-level in math and reading scores among 22 urban districts personalized digital learning system. in the landmark Trial Urban District Assessment.
16 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Patrick K. Murphy Patrice Pujol Currently: Superintendent, Arlington Currently: Superintendent of Schools, Public Schools, Arlington, VA, July Ascension Parish Public School System, 2009–present Ascension Parish, LA, July 2010–present Previously: Assistant Superintendent, Accountability, Previously: Assistant Superintendent, Ascension Fairfax County Public Schools, August 2005–June Parish Public School System, 2006–2010 2009 Academic Degrees: Ed.D., Southeastern Louisiana Academic Degrees: Virginia Polytechnic Institute University; M.Ed., Louisiana State University; B.S., and State University, Doctorate, Educational Southeastern Louisiana University Administration; Virginia Polytechnic Institute District Size: 21,500 and State University, Master of Arts, Educational Administration; James Madison University, Bachelor Accomplishments: Patrice Pujol’s highest priority of Science, Physical Education (K–12) upon becoming superintendent was to close the achievement gap between the lowest performing 25,649 District Size: schools serving high numbers of poverty students Accomplishments: Patrick Murphy is an instructional and the top performing schools in her district. leader and advocate on a mission to eliminate the Under her leadership, the district created a highly achievement gap for all students. By challenging successful Turnaround Zone, using the Teacher and motivating students to “stretch,” he believes Advancement System (TAP) as the whole-school they can realize their potential. Murphy has served reform model and restructuring the central office public education in many leadership roles — teacher, to provide district-level leadership coaches at every principal and assistant superintendent — in large school. She and her team have also developed a and small school divisions. Arlington Public Schools robust Leadership Academy to develop a deep recently earned the Medallion of Excellence from talent pool for succession planning. Additionally, she Virginia’s U.S. Senate Productivity Award program has instituted an aggressive one-to-one program based on Baldrige criteria and Arlington’s priority for at all schools with a focus on using technology to continuous improvement. The result of these efforts transform the teaching/learning process. Ascension include a 92% graduation rate with rates for Hispanic Parish is an “A” school district in the Louisiana and Black students increasing by 8 and 13 percentage accountability system and is ranked the 4th highest points, respectively; a dramatic 67% decline in in the state for student achievement. The district dropouts; 72% of 11th and 12th graders taking at least has won the prestigious National TAP District of one AP or IB class; and a 20% increase in 8th grade Distinction Award and has recently been featured Algebra/Geometry participation with an 86% pass in two national articles for their work in improving rate on Virginia’s Standards of Learning math tests. outcomes for impoverished students — Center for American Progress, “Looking at the Best Teachers and Who They Teach,” April 2014, and Education
Trust, “Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating AWARDS AASA Conditions in High Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning,” June 2012.
17 The highest performing state-level, Canadian and international winners will also be honored. They are:
Alaska...... David Herbert, Saint Mary’s School District Alabama...... John Heard, Perry County Alabama School District Arkansas...... Tony Thurman, Cabot School District Arizona...... Denton Santarelli, Peoria Unified School District California...... Gregory Franklin, Tustin Unified School District Colorado...... Brian Ewert, Englewood Schools Connecticut...... Elizabeth Feser, Milford Public Schools Delaware...... Michael Thomas, Capital School District Florida...... MaryEllen Elia, Hillsborough County Public Schools Georgia...... Philip Lanoue, Clarke County School District Iowa...... Denny Wulf, Norwalk School District Idaho...... Geoffrey Thomas, Madison School District 321 Illinois...... Thomas Bertrand, Rochester Community Unit School District 3A Indiana...... Rocky Killion West, Lafayette Community School Corporation Kansas...... Randall Watson, McPherson Unified School District 418 Kentucky...... James Flynn, Simpson County Schools Louisiana...... Patrice Pujol, Ascension Parish School System Massachusetts...... William Lupini, The Public Schools of Brookline Maryland...... Stephen Guthrie, Carroll County Public Schools Maine...... Steven Bailey, Central Lincoln County School System/AOS 93 Michigan...... Yvonne Caamal Canul, Lansing School District Minnesota...... Sandra Lewandowski, Intermediate District 287 Missouri...... Roy Moss, Grain Valley R-V School District
AASA AWARDS Mississippi...... H. Gearl Loden, Tupelo Public School District Montana...... Michael Magone, Lolo School District North Carolina...... Rodney Shotwell, Rockingham County Schools North Dakota...... Larry Nybladh, Grand Forks Public Schools Nebraska...... Brian Maher, Kearney Public Schools New Hampshire...... Jerome Frew, Kearsarge Regional School District New Jersey...... Timothy Purnell, Somerville Public Schools New Mexico...... Paul Benoit, Floyd Municipal Schools Nevada...... Jeff Zander, Elko County School District New York...... James Langlois, Putnam/Northern Westchester BOCES Ohio...... Jeffrey Patterson, Lakewood City Oklahoma...... Ann Caine, Stillwater Public Schools Oregon...... Randy Schild, Tillamook School District Pennsylvania...... James P. Capolupo, Springfield School District Rhode Island...... Barry Ricci, Chariho Regional School District South Carolina...... Russell Booker, Spartanburg School District No. 7 South Dakota...... Timothy Mitchell, Rapid City Area Schools Tennessee...... Wanda Shelton, Lincoln County Department of Education Texas...... Michael McFarland, Lancaster Independent School District Utah...... Marshal Garrett, Logan City School District Virginia...... Patrick K. Murphy, Arlington Public Schools Vermont...... Brent Kay, Orange Southwest Supervisory Union Washington...... Dennis Kip Herren, Auburn School District Wisconsin...... Jamie Nutter, Fennimore Community School District West Virginia...... Douglas Lambert, Pendleton County Schools Wyoming...... Pamela Shea, Teton County School District #1
Canada...... Brent Kaulback, South Slave Divisional Education Council Norway...... Linda Duevel, International School of Stavanger
18 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 • 3:45 – 5:45pm GENERAL SESSION
AASA DR. EFFIE H. JONES HUMANITARIAN AWARD The Dr. Effie H. Jones Humanitarian Award honors the memory of Effie H. Jones, an educator and leader who performed groundbreaking work in elevating the status of minorities and women in education during her tenure as the organizer of the Office of Minority Affairs at AASA. She was profiled in the film “Women at the Top” for her work in the 1970s with women who aspired to the superintendency. Prior to coming to AASA, Jones worked as a teacher, counselor and school administrator. Recipients, including a past president of AASA, are selected based on their dedication and efforts related to the advocacy, support, mentoring, encouragement, and successful advancement of women and minorities in education.
Sponsored by:
The 2015 recipient is: Human Development and was deputy director of the Metropolitan Center. A retired Superintendent LaRuth Gray, Scholar in Residence, New York University’s Metropolitan of Schools in Westchester County, she, like Dr. Center for Research on Equity and Effie Jones, has dedicated her life to improving the Transformation of Schools, New the quality of education and the quality of life York, NY for vulnerable children and to addressing social issues of equity and opportunity. A graduate of Dr. LaRuth Gray is Scholar in Residence at New Howard University, Nova University and Columbia York University’s Metropolitan Center for Research University Teachers College, Dr. Gray volunteers as on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. the Government Relations and Legislative Liaison Prior to that, she served as an Affiliate Professor to board of the National Alliance of Black School in Administration, Leadership and Technology in Educators and is a life-long AASA member. NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and
The winners, listed below, will be announced at the Friday morning General Session from 8 – 10am in Hall H. Region #1 Krista Parent, Superintendent, South Lane School District The Helping Kids Program Lillian Maldonado French, Superintendent, Mountain View School District Linda, Clark, Superintendent, West Ada School District The National Joint Powers Alliance, NJPA, is the premier School Region #3 Solutions Center partner of AASA, The School Superintendents Jon Kringen, Superintendent, Long Prairie Grey Eagle Public Schools Association. In 2012, NJPA and AASA joined forces to create Vic Bugni, Superintendent, Colon Community Schools the Helping Kids Program, an urgent mini grant that is funded Region #4 by AASA through a partnership with NJPA and open to AASA Wendy Robinson, Superintendent, Fort Wayne Community Schools and NJPA members. In 2013 and 2014, seven winners were Kimberly Boryszewski, Superintendent, Schiller Park School District chosen, one for each of AASA’s seven regions. As a response Region #5 to the significant number of applications received, we have Heath Grimes, Superintendent, Lawrence County Schools doubled the number of awards from seven to 14. Thomas B. Lockamy, Superintendent, Savanah-Chatham County Public Schools The grant can be used for immediate needs that directly MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent, Hillsborough County Public Schools impact students. Grantees’ requests have ranged from boots, Region #6 coats and non-perishable sundries to dental care and even William A. Clark, Superintendent, Warren County School District temporary housing stipends. William Harner, Superintendent, Quakertown Community School District We want to thank NJPA for their continuing support of Region #7 AASA and for supporting students in need through the James H. Hunderfund, Superintendent, Malverne Unified School District Helping Kids Program. Cheryl F. Kloczko, Superintendent, Torrington Public Schools
19 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 8 – 10am GENERAL SESSION
WOMEN IN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AWARD The Women in School Leadership Award, sponsored by Farmers Insurance and AASA, pays tribute to the talent, creativity and vision of outstanding women educational administrators in the nation’s public schools. Any female superintendent, assistant superintendent, aspiring superintendent, central-office director, school principal or other school system leader in the United States who plans to continue in the profession may apply. The award program is designed to recognize the exceptional leadership of active, front-line female administrators who are making a difference in the lives of students every day. One Women in School Leadership Award will be given in each category.
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The 2015 finalists in the Superintendent/ The 2015 finalists in the Principal/Central Office Assistant Superintendent category are: Personnel category are:
Karen Cheser, Deputy Superintendent, Chief Julie Jensen, Executive Director for Student Academic Officer, Boone County Schools, Florence, Services, Linn-Mar Community School District, KY Marion, IA Prior to working in Kentucky education as a teacher, Julie Jensen has served the school district in coach, literacy and math specialist, principal, this position since January 2005. Prior to joining Distinguished Educator and district administrator, Linn-Mar Community Schools, she served as the Karen Cheser worked for Procter & Gamble Inc. associate director of special services for the Cedar in sales and brand management. She has been a Rapids Community School District, a position she
AASA AWARDS leader in the state and region, guiding initiatives held from July 2000 to December 2004. and directing organizations such as the Northern Kentucky Education Council. Michelle Zundel, Principal, Ashland High School, Ashland School District, Ashland, OR MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Tampa, FL The principal of Ashland High School since August 2010, Michelle Zundel has held administrative MaryEllen Elia was appointed superintendent of the positions in the school district since August 1995. school district on July 1, 2005. A lifelong educator, she began her career as a social studies teacher in the state of New York in 1970. In 1986, she relocated to the Tampa Bay area after accepting a position at Plant High School as a reading resource specialist. She was promoted to several key positions in the district over the next 20 years.
THE LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMMUNICATION AWARD The Leadership Through Communication Award recognizes the leadership of outstanding superintendents and public relations communications professionals in achieving the education goals of their districts. The award is jointly sponsored by AASA, the National School Public Relations Association and Blackboard Inc. The award recipient receives $10,000 to be used in the school district for student scholarships or communication activities that benefit students and schools.
The 2015 recipient is: Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), a K–12 suburban school system in Towson, MD S. Dallas Dance, Superintendent Mychael Dickerson, Chief Communications Officer
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20 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 8 – 10am GENERAL SESSION
AASA DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS AASA honors exceptional educational leaders, as well as the immediate past president of the association, with the Distinguished Service Award. These educational leaders are recognized by AASA for bringing honor to themselves, their colleagues and their profession; rendering exemplary service to their state or national professional association; and contributing to the education field through writing, public advocacy or other activities.
The 2015 recipients are:
Irwin Blumer served for 35 years in the education called Navigation 101. The program is designed to profession as a teacher, assistant principal, principal assist all secondary students in developing a four- and finally as superintendent of schools for 16 year education plan for their future. As a significant years in Massachusetts, seven in the Concord contribution to public education, Rasmussen’s and Concord-Carlise School District and nine career has been distinguished by his ability and in the Newton Public Schools. He then went to leadership to attract and develop quality teachers Boston College to teach in the Lynch School of and educational leaders for the future. Education Graduate Program, preparing principals and superintendents of school. Recognizing the Amy F. Sichel is the superintendent of schools for shortage of applicants for superintendent positions, the Abington School District in Abington, PA, a he partnered with the Massachusetts Association of position she has held since 2001. She has served School Superintendents to transform the doctoral in public education for Abington for 39 years, as a cohort program for practicing administrators to one counselor, psychologist, central office administrator that focused on preparing future superintendents. and assistant superintendent, and for 15 years as The program emphasized instructional leadership, the superintendent. Sichel served as president of ethical decision-making and issues of social justice. PASA, the PA Association of School Administrators, He is proud of the fact that a significant number of in 2010–2011 and as president of AASA in 2013– Massachusetts’ superintendents are graduates of 2014. She was named a finalist in the Women that Boston College program. in School Leadership Award from AASA and Farmers Insurance in 2012, was the Pennsylvania James F. Causby is one of North Carolina’s most Superintendent of the Year in 2010 and was the renowned education leaders. He led three school recipient of the 2010 Tech-Savvy Superintendent districts to excellence. While superintendent in Award from eSchool News. Sichel is an adjunct Johnston County, student achievement improved associate professor at the Graduate School of from the bottom third to the top 10% in the state. Education at the University of Pennsylvania, a Causby passed school bond referendums in Swain lecturer at Delaware Valley College and a mentor/ County, Polk County and Johnston County Schools, coach for the AASA’s national superintendent and served as consultant on dozens of successful certification program, the SUPES Academy. She AWARDS AASA school bond campaigns. He was honored as North has received numerous awards and citations for her Carolina’s Superintendent of the Year three times, service to education from organizations including received the prestigious Jay Robinson Leadership the University of Pennsylvania, the PA State Award and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, which Education Association and the NAACP. is North Carolina’s highest civilian award. After 27 years as superintendent, Causby served as Lawrence C. Walker has served in educational executive director of the North Carolina Association leadership roles in a career that spans five decades of School Administrators for two years and the and over 40 years in education. Dr. Walker North Carolina School Superintendents Association was instrumental in leading the school district for six years. While effective in all these roles, he to issue the first bonds in 50 years in order to is perhaps best known as a mentor and leader of consolidate 11 schools into six, with two of the six superintendents in North Carolina. being newly constructed schools. His leadership led Piedmont Community College to construct a Steve Rasmussen has served as an educational facility on the campus of the only high school in leader in the state of Washington for over 40 the county. Dr. Walker collaborated with various years as a teacher and building and central office stakeholders to build the first Civic Center on administrator, including 24 years as a school public school property in the United States. After superintendent. He served as president of the serving as superintendent, Dr. Walker served as the Washington Association of School Administrators, executive director of the Central Carolina Regional national president of the Horace Mann League, Educational Service Alliance where he provided and on the AASA Executive Committee (2004– leadership and mentored superintendents in the 2008). Rasmussen was named Washington region. Dr. Walker collaborated with leaders in State Superintendent of the Year and a National business and industry to improve the quality of Superintendent of the Year Finalist in 2002. As education in the region. a note of pride, Rasmussen and district leaders developed and implemented a systematic district program, later adopted by the state of Washington,
21 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 8 – 10am GENERAL SESSION
THE ARCHITECTURAL AWARDS PROGRAM The Architectural Awards Program is in partnership with AASA and the American Institute of Architects Committee on Architecture for Education and the Council of Educational Facility Planners International. Begun in 1949, the two awards have been bestowed on the projects that exemplify outstanding design and educational purpose.
The Shirley Cooper Award is presented to the project that best meets the educational needs of its students. This year’s award winner is:
studioMLA Architects for its design of the Penn State University Hort Woods Child Care Center/Lab School in College Park, PA.
The Walter Taylor Award is presented to the project that best meets a difficult design challenge. This year’s award winner is:
Integrus Architecture for its design of the STEM Secondary School in Redmond, WA.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 • 11:45am – 1:15pm GENERAL SESSION
AASA EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDS The AASA Educational Administration Scholarship was created in 1949 to provide incentives, recognition and financial assistance to outstanding graduate students in school administration who intend to make the
AASA AWARDS school superintendency a career. AASA selects recipients on the basis of their experience and excellence in school administration, personal essays and recommendations from university faculty. Each recipient receives a $2,500 scholarship given in honor of AASA’s former executive directors; Worth McClure, Finis E. Engleman, Forrest E. Connor, Paul B. Salmon, Richard D. Miller and Paul D. Houston.
The 2015 Scholarship recipients are:
Michael K. Bunch, Principal, Gustine Middle School, Gustine, CA
Eugene Figueroa, Dean of Students, New York City Dept. of Education, Bronx, NY
Benjamin J. Ploeger, Principal, Eagle Ridge Academy High School, Brighton, CO
VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC AWARD
This award for distinguished support of music education is sponsored by the VH1 Save The Music Foundation in collaboration with AASA. The award is given to a superintendent or chief executive officer who is committed to ensuring that music education is part of the core curriculum in all schools in his or her school district.
The 2015 recipient is:
Kristi Sandvik, Superintendent, Buckeye Elementary School District, AZ
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22 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Whatever it takes
• to increase academic performance • to graduate more at-risk seniors on time • to free our teachers to teach
We do whatever it takes to+ improve academic achievement by working one-on-one with over 1.3 million at-risk kids inside and outside the classroom. Our onsite coordinators support kids and teachers K-12 in over 180 communities.
=* the highest reduction in dropout rates of all existing nationally scaled dropout prevention organizations in the U.S.
Join us at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, February 28, for our session, Changing the Picture of Education through Integrated Student Supports, to learn how we can help your school. And visit us at CommunitiesInSchools.org.
*Refers to Communities In Schools’ case-managed students for the 2012-2013 school year. Source: The Communities In Schools Data Book 2012-2013. © 2015 Communities In Schools, Inc. Sponsor Award Acknowledgments AASA acknowledges and expresses sincere appreciation to our award sponsors:
NATIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR AWARD
SPONSOR AWARD ACKNOWLEDGMENTS WOMEN IN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AWARD
LEADERSHIP THROUGH COMMUNICATION AWARD
Blackboard®K-12
DR. EFFIE H. JONES HUMANITARIAN AWARD
VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC AWARD
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25 Pre-Conference Workshops WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25
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Room 26B Room 25C C I Excellence through Equity: 10 Practices L Leading for Effective Teaching: of Highly Effective Schools and Districts Leadership Tools to Support Principal While the movement for standards and Success accountability has largely succeeded in In this session, superintendents and school bringing greater attention to disparities district leaders responsible for providing in student achievement, surprisingly little principal evaluation and support get hands-on attention has been given to what it takes to experience with several of the most popular create conditions in schools that will make tools for developing principal instructional achievement for all students more likely. leadership. Review and interact with these Missing from much of the policy debate tools, including the Principal Support related to achievement is how to place Framework with three specific actions PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS equity at the center of education reform, areas, an accompanying needs assessment and how to support effective teaching in that allows district leaders to gauge their schools so that academic excellence is the readiness for action, a cycle of inquiry norm. This presentation describes principles overview to support principal growth, and the and practices that have proven effective newly released 4 Dimensions of Instructional in meeting the needs of a wide variety of Leadership Framework (Version 2.0.) Hard learners. It also explores how schools can copies of each tool are available to each develop leadership capacity at all levels participant. and effective partnerships with parents and community groups to enhance student Presenters: Sandra Austin, Project Director, achievement. Center for Educational Leadership, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Karen Cloninger, Presenters: Alan Blankstein, President, Hope Project Director, Center for Educational Foundation, Bloomington, IN; Pedro Noguera, Leadership, University of Washington, Seattle, Professor, New York University, New York, NY WA; Stephen Fink, Executive Director/Affiliate Sponsored by: Professor, Center for Educational Leadership, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
1 – 5pm • Develop indicators of excellence and compare them to your district’s culture Room 25A • Explore how a strategic model, when L Move the Middle! intentionally implemented, transforms a culture from the inside out In every district, there are those who support what we do. There are a few who, no matter As a result, you’ll see motivation increase, what we desire to implement, are committed negative beliefs and attitudes shift, and to the status quo. And there are those in the enthusiasm rise as learning flourishes and middle who are not quite certain that following results improve. the leader is worth the effort or the risk. In Presenters: Larry Perondi, Superintendent, this session, learn how to create and sustain Oceanside Unified School District, Oceanside, a culture of excellence that challenges the CA; Mark Reardon, Chief Learning Officer, supporters, shakes up the status quo and Quantum Learning Network, and Former School invites those in the middle to commit. Administrator, Oceanside, CA In this session: • Grasp the impact of social-emotional factors on a culture focused on learning, collaboration and accountability • Grasp the four core components of a powerful leading and teaching system and the results it creates • Discover eight principles that create a common language of excellence PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS PRE-CONFERENCE
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27 Thursday Conference Sessions-at-a-Glance 7 – 10am 9 – 10am Shuttle Service Available THOUGHT LEADER 7:30am – 4pm Room 20A L Level 1, Main Lobby, Convention Center Thank You for Your Leadership — The Power of Registration Hours Distributed Leadership for Digital Conversion 8:30 – 9am 9 – 11am Hall G, Level 1 SPECIAL CONTRACTS SESSION Coffee Break in the NCE Marketplace Room 26B S R 8:30am – 3pm Tickets, sold on a first-come, first-served basis, are limited to the first 125 participants and can be Hall G, Level 1 purchased in the AASA Registration Area. NCE Marketplace Hours 10:15 – 10:30am Hall G, Level 1 Bookstore Hours Knowledge Exchange Theater D E Revenue Generation for Schools 8:30 – 9am Knowledge Exchange Theater 10:15 – 11:15am Who Cares About Your District’s Official App? G D THOUGHT LEADER Your Community Room 20D G D Getting Smart About Summer Learning 9 – 10am Room 26A THOUGHT LEADER Room 20A 2015: New Legislative Agenda, New Congress, G D L Redesigning Professional Development Systems: New Outcomes? The Why, What and How Room 25C 11:30am – 12:30pm A New Model for Health and Academic H E THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Achievement Room 20D D E A hiTEC Future Room 24A C I All Means All: Ending Failure as a Default Room 25B L Building a Culture of Leadership in Your District Room 23C Building Capacity by Building a Community of L Room 23C Leaders and Learners Building Positive, Productive Superintendent/ S R Room 25A School Board Relationships Engaging Your Community in 21st-Century S R Room 25C H E Education Farm-to-School: The New School Food Landscape Room 28C Room 28E Eradicating Learned Passivity in Long-Term C I Developing a High-Performance Superintendent/ J C English Learners Board Leadership Team Room 23B Room 23A Finding, Evaluating and Buying: Insights from a C I Developing the Talent from Within: Building L National Ed-Tech Purchasing Study Capacity for Student Success FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP Room 28C Ethics in Education — Focusing on What’s Truly L Room 28A D E School Efficiency, Organization and Collaboration Important with Microsoft OneNote Room 24A Room 23A Evaluating and Assessing Your Digital Learning D E From “Seat Time” to “Competency-Based” L Initiative: Keys to Success Professional Development Room 26B G D Room 28D Getting Smart About Summer Learning Implementing a Staff Wellness Program at Your H E Room 25A L School Leading a 21st-Century District Room 28E Knowledge Exchange Theater Is Your Career Ready for a Tune Up or a Complete J C Middle School Mission — Closing the Achievement C I Overhaul? Gap Room 25B Room 28D C I Knowledge Management for Innovation in G D Model English Language Learner Programs Education Room 24B Room 24C Raising the Bar for all Students through C I Promoting Positive Discipline by Addressing L International Benchmarking Student Needs Room 24C Room 24B Recognizing and Evaluating the Depth and Rigor C C Regional Stewardship: Superintendents as Civic S R of Assessments Leaders Room 23B Rock, Paper, Scissors Your Way to Improved L Knowledge Exchange Theater D E The Superintendent’s Social Media Lounge: Part 1 Student Achievement Room 28B Room 28B Using Advanced Analytics to Improve District G D Why Not Now? Efficiencies and Savings You Can’t G D Strategy Afford to Ignore!
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 28A Room 25C The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil G D Redesigning Professional Development to C I Rights (OCR): What School Administrators Need Empower Educators and Increase Student to Know Achievement Room 26A Room 25B Using Predictive Data to Shrink the Achievement C C Research-Based Practices to Allow All Students to C C Gap in Mathematics Achieve the Common Core 11:45am – 1:15pm Room 23C S R Room 29 School Districts: Adapt or Perish FEDERAL RELATIONS LUNCH Room 28B C I Rethinking Standards and Accountability G D STEM Implementation Reaches All Children To purchase a ticket for this luncheon, see Room 24B the Onsite Registration counter in the AASA Strategically Infusing Rigor and Embedding L Registration Area College and Career Readiness Room Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Room 28C Marquis & Marina The Data Lens: Using instructional Coaches to C I Professional Development Lunch — Freedom to L Lead Student Growth Focus on Your Core Mission of Education Room 23B D E Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted on Turn Technology from Teacher Enemy to Assistant a space-available basis. 2:30 – 3:30pm 12:30 – 1pm THOUGHT LEADER Hall G, Level 1 Room 20D L Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours Addressing Today’s Challenges within the Context 1:15 – 2:15pm of Emerging Trends Room 20D THOUGHT LEADER The Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) Room 20A L Students and Teachers Accessing Tomorrow D E Courageous Leadership for Districtwide Success
(S.T.A.T.) Initiative: Preparing Globally Competitive Knowledge Exchange Theater 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, Students Transitioning to Digital: What It Looks Like, Why It D E Room 24A Works and Why It’s Time 21 Trends…Getting Connected and Creating a L 3:45 – 5:45pm Future GENERAL SESSION Knowledge Exchange Theater G D Hall H AASA Leadership: Advocacy and Policy in Action Values and Education, Finding Those “Teachable C I Room 28D Moments” Data Privacy: Best Practices to Avoid Media L Special Guest and Recipient of the Champion for Headlines Children and Public Education Award Room 23A S R 5 – 7:30pm District Turnarounds: Suburbia’s New Dilemma Shuttle Service Available Room 28E 6 – 7pm Effective Communication Techniques for the J C Ballroom 20BC, Upper Level Board of Education/Superintendent Team AASA 150th Anniversary Celebration Reception FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP Room 28A C I Assessment Inextricably Coupled with Instruction: When It’s Not About a Grade, Rank or Score Room 24C How Top Superintendents Leverage Existing D E Resources for True Digital Transformation Room 26A Policy Research: Effective Grassroots Campaigns G D and Public Education
29 Thursday Conference Session Details
7 – 10am 9 – 10am
Shuttle Service Available Room 26A G D 2015: New Legislative Agenda, New Sponsored by: Congress, New Outcomes? The new year brings a new Congress and a new 7:30am – 4pm AASA legislative agenda. Learn AASA’s legislative priorities for 2015 as well as prospects for Level 1, Main Lobby, Convention Center Congressional action. Registration Hours Presenters: Noelle Ellerson, Associate Executive Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, Alexandria, VA; 8:30 – 9am Leslie Finnan, Policy Analyst, AASA, Alexandria, VA
Hall G, Level 1 Room 25C H E Coffee Break in the NCE Marketplace A New Model for Health and Academic Achievement To illustrate how schools holistically contribute 8:30am – 3pm to both child health and academic success, the
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Hall G, Level 1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and ASCD jointly developed the new Whole NCE Marketplace Hours School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) framework with experts from the fields of public Hall G, Level 1 health, education and academia. Built from the Bookstore Hours Coordinated School Health (CSH) and Whole Child models, the new framework incorporates academic outcomes and health outcomes. Compared to 8:30 – 9am the original CSH and Whole Child models, WSCC places a greater emphasis on the collaborative development of policies and practices, on KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER establishing linkages across the community G D Who Cares About Your District’s Official (government agencies, community organizations, schools and other community members) and App? Your Community engaging parents and other family members in When a superintendent chooses to deploy every step of change and implementation. In this an official app for their school district, it session, Wayne Giles, M.D., M.S., Director of the quickly becomes one of the most visible Division of Population Health at the CDC, describes district touchpoints for parents, students the connections between health and academic and the community. The district’s reputation outcomes, provides an overview of the WSCC is on the line. model, and presents new and upcoming resources How can leaders ensure that they are to help put this framework into action. A panel of providing the type of experience that superintendents responds to Dr. Giles’ remarks parents are looking for? Join superintendents and discusses how the changes to the model will from around the country to discuss their impact CSH in districts. experience deploying an app with ParentLink Presenter: Wayne Giles, Director of the Division and the five things to look for when of Population Health, National Center for Chronic evaluating providers. Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Atlanta, GA Presenter: Benny Gooden, Superintendent, Fort Smith Public Schools, Fort Smith, AR Room 24A
C I All Means All: Ending Failure as a Default Fourteen years after NCLB, achievement gaps and low achievement for African-American students, Latino students, English language learners and students in poverty are still all too commonplace in our schools. Educational failure is often seen as a default for these students. This session explores the top 10 ways schools inadvertently perpetuate educational failure. Join us to identify the changes in expectations, messages, structures and priorities
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
that must take place in your school or system in Presenters: Kathy Hurley, SVP of Strategic order to promote student success. Then create an Partnerships, Pearson, Upper Saddle River, NJ; action plan to communicate and realize this needed Ken Kay, CEO, EdLeader21, Tucson, AZ; Steve expectation of success for all of our children. Lockard, Deputy Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, Falls Church, VA Presenter: Teresa Hill, Superintendent, South Holland School District 151, South Holland, IL Room 28C
Room 23C C I Eradicating Learned Passivity in Long-Term L Building Capacity by Building a Community English Learners of Leaders and Learners This session explores learned passivity — a Dysart (AZ) Unified School District developed characteristic developed over time by many a unique program to create a 21st-century English language learner students who are community of learners and a sustainable model eventually classified as “long-term English for developing leaders throughout the district. language learners.” Presenters share best Your Community as Leaders and Learners practices and then model powerful, research- (YourCaLL) increases leadership capacity within proven instructional techniques that immediately and across all employee groups by empowering boost engagement and learning. While these tools staff with personalized professional development. benefit all students, they are especially effective Staff design and propose projects that support in preventing learned passivity and reducing long- their individual professional growth goals in term English language learner status. Elementary alignment with the district strategic plan and 21st- and secondary administrators will be equipped century skills. The YourCaLL program includes with the power to reverse many of the harmful defined criteria, rubrics, digital collaboration instructional traditions that affect these students. tools, levels of participation and recognition Presenters: Sid Haro, Assistant Superintendent, components. This session provides information Lompoc Unified School District, Lompoc, CA; on the process, the support tools and sample
Elizabeth Jimenez, CEO, GEMAS Consulting, 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, projects developed by the district. Pomona, CA; Raul Maldonado, Superintendent, Presenters: Michelle Benham, Director of Palmdale Unified School District, Palmdale, CA; Instructional Technology, Dysart Unified School Trevor McDonald, Superintendent, Lompoc District, Surprise, AZ; Teresa Heatherly, Director Unified School District, Lompoc, CA of Curriculum and Instruction, Dysart Unified School District, Surprise, AZ; Gail Pletnick, Room 23B Superintendent, Dysart Unified School District, C I Finding, Evaluating and Buying: Insights Surprise, AZ; Stephen Poling, Assistant from a National Ed-Tech Purchasing Study Superintendent, Dysart Unified School District, Surprise, AZ Education leaders from over 50 school districts and executives from nearly 50 companies Room 25A participated in a national study and shared S R their perspectives on the challenges and Engaging Your Community in 21st-Century opportunities with finding, evaluating and buying Education learning technology products and services. It turns out that communities around the country Join this session to hear about the results and are not only open to but excited about having recommendations and participate in a lively conversations about what competencies their discussion around opportunities for school students need in the 21st century. Dozens districts and vendors to improve their buying/ of districts around the country have hosted selling of innovative digital instructional products. community conversations around 21st-century Presenters: Phil Martin, Manager of Education competencies. Kathy Hurley (Pearson) and Ken Marketplace Initiatives, Digital Promise, Kay (EdLeader21) host two superintendents who Washington, DC; Steve Pines, Executive Director, have had experience engaging their communities Education Industry Association, Vienna, VA in these conversations and present resources on how to engage with specific communities, including students. 31 9 – 10am (cont.) program for more than 230 schools in Nebraska and hear from superintendents about the positive FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP impact the program is having on their staff and their buildings’ cultures. Room 28A Presenters: Howie Halperin, Wellness D E School Efficiency, Organization and Administrator, EHA Wellness, Omaha, NE; Linda Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote Kenedy, Wellness Coordinator, EHA Wellness, Did you know the most powerful tool for Omaha, NE; Kyle McGowan, Superintendent, you and your staff might be one you already Crete Public Schools, Crete, NE; John Skretta, have? Microsoft OneNote can be used in Superintendent, Norris Public Schools, Firth, NE new and innovative ways to save teachers Room 28E and staff time, become better organized and collaborate more effectively. OneNote J C Is Your Career Ready for a Tune Up or a is not just for notes! Classroom scenarios Complete Overhaul? covered range from interactive lessons, digital curriculum and project-based Your career as a school leader may have learning to administrative scenarios such accelerated like a race car off the line but you as running more effective faculty meetings, may be due for a tune up or an overhaul. You improving collaboration on school or district- could keep motoring along, but others may have wide projects, and fostering professional different ideas. Are there warning signs out there development for teachers and staff. OneNote you are ignoring? This session helps you gear up works well with other Microsoft Office to keep your career on the road. programs and, because OneNote is available Presenters: Don Kussmaul, Regional Search and free on all platforms and devices, this talk Director, Ray & Associates, East Dubuque, IL; Gary applies to everyone! Ray, President, Ray & Associates, Cedar Rapids, IA Presenter: Dallas Dance, Superintendent,
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Room 25B Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD G D Knowledge Management for Innovation in Sponsored by: Education This session focuses on the language and best Room 23A practice regarding Knowledge Management. L Learn about the first steps of a systematic From “Seat Time” to “Competency-Based” process to determine how educators can identify, Professional Development process, store and share information across their Advances in technology allow us to personalize organizations, and identify linkages between learning for students. How can we leverage the Knowledge Management and innovation, strategic same technologies to personalize learning for planning, and data-driven decision making and teachers? This session explains how the Cajon measurement systems. Valley (CA) Union School District developed Presenters: Chris Gaines, Superintendent, Wright its own digital learning academy and job- City School District, Wright City, MO; Raina Knox, embedded learning options to allow teachers President, Excellence in Missouri Foundation, greater flexibility over time, space and structure Jefferson City, MO as they advance their professional growth and development. Room 24C Presenters: Jon Guertin, Chief Technology L Promoting Positive Discipline by Officer, Cajon Valley Union School District, El Addressing Student Needs Cajon, CA; Kari Hull, Assistant Superintendent, Cajon Valley Union School District, El Cajon, CA; Across the country, schools are moving away David Miyashiro, Superintendent, Cajon Valley from zero tolerance and other harsh disciplinary Union School District, El Cajon, CA; Steve Regur, policies and practices that have been leading Educators Cooperative, Cajon Valley Union School to negative educational outcomes for children, District, El Cajon, CA especially children of color. As cities, states and even the federal government begin to Room 28D take a closer look at school discipline data and H E policies, it is important that schools become safe, Implementing a Staff Wellness Program at nurturing learning environments for children Your School without exclusionary discipline practices. This A healthy staff is a productive staff…we know this session examines ways educators are partnering intuitively, but how can we implement a wellness with parents, students, district officials, program with everything else we have to do? This community organizations and policymakers to session describes what wellness is, how a staff move away from harmful and counter-productive wellness program works in the school setting, discipline policies and toward proven restorative the benefits staff and school buildings gain from approaches to meeting student needs, repairing improving health, and ideas for getting started and restoring relationships, and reducing and or enhancing wellness programming. During preventing harmful behavior in schools. this engaging workshop, learn from experts Presenters: Dwanna Nicole, Policy Advocate, coordinating a statewide school staff wellness Advancement Project, Washington, DC; Michaelle 32 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Pope, Executive Director of Student Support Initiatives, Broward County Public Schools, Ft. Lauderdale, FL FOCUS ZONES C C Common Core Standards and Assessments H E Healthy School Environments
C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
Sponsored by: L Leadership
D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 24B Room 28B S R Regional Stewardship: Superintendents as G D Using Advanced Analytics to Improve Civic Leaders District Strategy All organizations are influenced by an array Do you think your district uses data to drive of external forces. This session explores ways decision making? Is there room for improvement? superintendents can exercise leadership in the Hear how the Wake County (NC) Public Schools larger external community to achieve community has achieved new levels of strategic insight for progress and, ultimately, improve district policy and managerial decisions through the use performance. Presenters focus on defining the of advanced analytics and data strategy. With the regional stewardship role for superintendents and support of Harvard University’s Strategic Data the process of developing successful community Project, the Wake County team has effectively change strategies, evaluating progress and leveraged their data to uncover impactful sustaining the work. A panel shares a successful information about the district’s college-going regional stewardship process and provides an pathway and teacher lifecycle. The panel shares opportunity for participants to identify and get outcomes from the analytic inquiry and highlights feedback about a challenge or opportunity to insights gained from key performance indicators. increase regional stewardship in their districts. Panelists also discuss process considerations, including how better evidence can lead to improved Presenters: Michael Chirichello, Professor, strategic planning and policy development. Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY; Robin Cochran, Superintendent, Washington Presenters: Darryl Hill, Strategic Data Fellow & County Schools, Springfield, KY; James Neihof, Director, Performance Strategy and Analytics, Superintendent, Shelby County Public Schools, Wake County Public School System, Cary, NC; Shelbyville, KY; Randy Poe, Superintendent, Boone James Merrill, Superintendent, Wake County County, Florence, KY; James Votruba, President Public School System, Cary, NC; Nicholas Morgan, Emeritus & Professor of Educational Leadership, Executive Director, Harvard University Strategic Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY Data Project, Cambridge, MA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY,
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER THOUGHT LEADER D E The Superintendent’s Social Media Room 20A Lounge: Part 1 L Thank You for Your Leadership — How are superintendents engaging on The Power of Distributed Leadership for social media today? The AASA digital team Digital Conversion gives an overview of the latest social media Thank You for Your Leadership is Mark and web developments at AASA and how Edwards’ new companion book to the superintendents can get involved. During hugely popular Every Child Every Day. This the second half, the facilitators of #suptchat book provides details about how distributed demonstrate how superintendents can leadership turbo charged the nationally network with one another through Twitter recognized Mooresville (NC) Graded School conversations around education. District’s (MGSD) digital conversion. Edwards Presenters: Francesca Duffy, Digital and shares the detail of the cultural framework Advocacy Media Editor, AASA, Alexandria, of abundant leadership and how developing, VA; Michael Lubelfeld, Superintendent, authorizing and challenging everyone to lead Deerfield Public School District 109, Deerfield, when the opportunity arises is the foundation IL; Gayane Minasyan, Online Technologies of a successful digital conversion. Numerous Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA; A. Katrise national leaders offer examples and views of Perera, Superintendent, Isle of Wight School their experience with distributed leadership District, Smithfield, VA; Nicholas Polyak, and the MGSD model. Don’t miss this launch Superintendent, Leyden Community High of this much anticipated new book! School District 212, Franklin Park, IL Presenter: Mark Edwards, 2013 AASA Superintendent of the Year, and 2014 Common Sense Media National Educator 33 of the Year, Mooresville, NC 9 – 11am 10:15 – 11:15am
SPECIAL CONTRACTS SESSION THOUGHT LEADER Room 26B Room 20D S R No part of a superintendent’s working G D Getting Smart About Summer Learning conditions is more important than the Districts across the country are getting smart contract with the school board. Get an about summer learning — using the time overview of key contract provisions for to accelerate academic and non-academic superintendent contracts and contract achievement for the young people who provisions to be avoided, and participate need it the most. Whether you’re thinking in a discussion of who should negotiate a about starting a summer learning program contract for a superintendent. Understand or already have one or more programs how a superintendent can avoid being underway, walk away from this session with terminated and key provisions of severance strategies you can use to ensure that your agreements should termination be necessary. programs are coordinated and effective. Hear Hear the results of the 2014 National how other districts have accessed a variety Superintendent Salary and Benefit Study. of funding streams and effectively engaged Geared toward superintendents and aspiring community partners to implement sustainable superintendents. programs. Learn about ways your peers are Tickets, sold on a first-come, first-served coordinating within and outside the district basis, are limited to the first 125 participants office to ensure summer programs reach the and can be purchased in the AASA kids who need them most. And find out the Registration Area. latest research underway on the impact of district programs on student outcomes. Presenters: Robert McCord, Research
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Professor-in-Residence, AASA, Alexandria, Presenters: Sarah Pitcock, CEO, National VA; Maree Sneed, Attorney, Hogan Lovells, Summer Learning Association, Chicago, Washington, DC IL; Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Education, Washington, DC; Bolgen Vargas, Superintendent, 10:15 – 10:30am Rochester City School District, Rochester, NY; Antwan Wilson, Superintendent, Oakland Unified School District, Oakland, CA KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER D E Revenue Generation for Schools Sponsored by: SkoolLive is a leading technology and media company that works exclusively with schools in order to provide revenue opportunities by placing brand sponsorships and digital media on school campuses. SkoolLive created THOUGHT LEADER a 58-inch interactive kiosk that it provides to schools for free. The kiosk also provides Room 20A multiple tools for school administrators L Redesigning Professional Development to use to enhance their campus. Come by Systems: The Why, What and How SkoolLive’s booth to learn more. Participate in this interactive Thought Leader Presenter: Kyle Warren, Territory Sales session with some of the country’s eminent Manager, SkoolLive, San Diego, CA superintendents on the need for, challenges of, and strategies to redesign professional development systems. Teachers and districts agree that many current professional development systems are not operating at peak effectiveness. This session showcases superintendent leadership as a driver to more effectively deploy resources (time, money, personnel) and to create effective systems and supportive policies for high-quality professional development. Presenters: Robert Avossa, Superintendent, Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, GA; Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL; Sharon Contreras, Superintendent, Syracuse City School District, Syracuse, NY
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
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11:30am – 12:30pm Room 23C S R Room 20D Building Positive, Productive Superintendent/School Board Relationships D E A hiTEC Future This session presents the Strategic Model for How does a rural school district, during shaky Superintendent/School Board Relationships, economic times, build teacher, parent, student a research-based model developed by and community support for an expensive one-to- the Ridgefield (WA) School District (RSD) one technology initiative? Join Dr. Agnes Slayman superintendent and used by the RSD as she discusses the important groundwork superintenden/school board leadership team to that was laid before the implementation of her create a climate of trust and understanding. It is district’s successful hiTEC program (Helping the framework for the solid relationship enjoyed Integrate Technology, Education and Careers). by this group. Supports include the annual Learn more about the unique community and superintendent evaluation process, the annual business partnerships she forged, as well as the superintendent/governing board goal-setting process she led to ensure students have access to process and quarterly communication work/study today’s best technology devices and programs. sessions. Develop greater understanding of the This South Carolina school district has a bright critical importance the superintendent/school “hiTEC future” and is sure to produce graduates board relationship plays in increasing student who are ready to compete in a global economy. achievement and overall district health. Presenter: Agnes Slayman, Superintendent, Presenter: Nathan McCann, Superintendent, Chester County School District, Chester, SC Ridgefield School District, Ridgefield, WA Sponsored by: Room 25C Room 25B H E Farm-to-School: The New School Food L Building a Culture of Leadership in Your Landscape District With over 4,000 school districts and over 40,000 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, This workshop addresses a topic crucial to schools nationwide participating in farm-to-school urban education across the nation — connecting initiatives, local produce is becoming an integral administrators, teachers and support staff in part of the school food landscape. Join Deborah building a powerful culture in support of improved Kane, National Director of USDA’s Farm to School teaching and learning. Learn how to engage staff Program, as she gives an overview of farm-to- across the system in leadership learning that school programs nationwide. Learn how districts includes: personal narrative, vision and leadership have built sustainable relationships with their local styles along with courageous conversations and farmers, how to use your district as a farmers resilience. Learn the importance of authentic market for your community, and how to integrate leadership and how to shape personal vision locally-sourced food into the school meals to support the work of transforming teaching program. Hear about the outcomes and benefits and learning. A protocol for having courageous school districts are realizing related to revenue, conversations is provided to support the health, and their local community; and receive U.S. challenges that come with making meaningful and Department of Agriculture resources that can take lasting changes to district culture. your district to the next level. Deborah Kane, National Director, USDA Presenters: Carmella Franco, Consultant & Presenter: Farm to School Program, Washington, DC Retired Superintendent, Whittier, CA; Maria Ott, Executive-in-Residence, USC Rossier School of Education, Los Angeles, CA; Darline Robles, Clinical Faculty, USC Rossier School of Education, Los Angeles, CA
35 11:30am – 12:30pm (cont.) Room 24A D E Room 28E Evaluating and Assessing Your Digital Learning Initiative: Keys to Success J C Developing a High-Performance Evaluating and assessing your digital learning Superintendent/Board Leadership Team initiative is key to both adjusting implementation Learn how to create and maintain open and knowing whether you have reached your communication between the board and goals. This presentation explains how the superintendent. Presenters focus on clarifying Salisbury Township (PA) School District is using expectations and roles and explain the importance a simple, replicable framework for evaluating of creating and effectively evaluating performance and assessing its 1:1 digital learning initiative. objectives for the superintendent, as well as the By the end of the session, you will be able to need for creating clear board operating principles design your own evaluation/assessment process to guide the leadership team. for an existing digital learning initiative, select Presenter: Thomas Jacobson, CEO & Owner, appropriate quantitative and qualitative data McPherson& Jacobson LLC, Omaha, NE sources in support of clearly defined goals, and determine the best avenues for reporting results Room 23A based on audience. L Developing the Talent from Within: Building Presenters: Lynn Fuini-Hetten, Supervisor of Instructional Practice, Salisbury Township Capacity for Student Success School District Allentown, PA; Michael Roth, In this era of educational reform, shrinking Superintendent, Salisbury Township School financial resources and ever-increasing regulations, District, Allentown, PA; Randy Ziegenfuss, distributed leadership is essential to the success of Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and our schools. Examine how dynamic and effective Learning, Salisbury Township School District, leaders can be developed from within. And find Allentown, PA out how positive union-management relations THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 can help districts develop comprehensive talent Room 26B development systems so that every school has the G D leaders it needs to succeed. Getting Smart About Summer Learning Districts across the country are getting smart Presenters: Donna Adduci Mik, Director of Pupil about summer learning— using the time Personnel Programs, Meriden Public Schools, to accelerate academic and non-academic CT; Mark Benigni, Superintendent of Schools, achievement for the young people who need it Meriden Public Schools, CT; Thomas Giard, the most. Whether you’re thinking about starting Assistant Superintendent for Personnel and Talent a summer learning program or already have one Development, Meriden Public Schools, CT; Michael or more programs underway, walk away from Grove, Assistant Superintendent for Finance and this session with strategies you can use to deliver Operations, Meriden Public Schools, CT programs that are coordinated and effective. Room 28C Hear how other districts have accessed a variety of funding streams and effectively engaged L Ethics in Education — Focusing on What’s community partners to implement sustainable Truly Important programs. Learn about ways your peers are coordinating within and outside the district Are we deemphasizing the ethical development office to ensure summer programs reach the kids of our students and our core values in the tidal who need them most. And find out the latest on wave of mandates, Common Core, PARCC, new research currently underway on the impact of evaluations systems and so on? Take a break district programs on student outcomes. from these pursuits and spend time talking about what is truly important: integrity, honesty and Presenters: Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Senior empathy. Examine ways for ethical teaching to Policy Researcher, RAND Education, Washington, be incorporated into a Common-Core-driven DC; Sarah Pitcock, CEO, National Summer world, methods for messaging core values to Learning Association, Chicago, IL; Antwan Wilson, communities, and ways to engage in scenario Superintendent, Oakland Unified School District, discussions when core values come into conflict. Oakland, CA; Bolgen Vargas, Superintendent, Rochester City School District, Rochester, NY Presenter: Mike Nekritz, Chief Research and Operations Officer, The SUPES Academy, Chicago, IL Sponsored by:
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Room 25A Room 28D L Leading a 21st-Century District C I Model English Language Learner Programs There’s no district in the country undertaking School districts are struggling with increasing 21st-century education without a strong leader. numbers of English language learner programs Hear from some of the most visionary leaders in and the legal requirements for these programs. 21st-century education. AASA President David This presentation focuses on the educational Pennington leads a panel of superintendents in and legal aspects of the model ELL programs a discussion about how they are leading 21st- being implemented by the Elgin Area (IL) School century education initiatives in their districts. District U-46. These programs include one-way They specifically focus on using the “7-steps” and two-way, dual-language programs and a as a framework for implementing 21st-century gifted program to serve all students, including education. ELL students. Presenters: Elizabeth Fagen, Superintendent, Presenters: Tony Sanders, CEO, Elgin Area School Douglas County School District, Castle Rock, CO; District U-46, Eligin, IL; Maree Sneed, Attorney, Ken Kay, CEO, EdLeader21, Tucson, AZ; David Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC; Jose Torres, Pennington, AASA President and Superintendent, President, Illinois Mathematics and Science Ponca City Schools, Ponca City, OK; Valerie Academy, Aurora, IL Truesdale, Chief Officer, Technology, Personalized Learning, Engagement, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Room 24B Schools, Charlotte, NC C I Raising the Bar for all Students through International Benchmarking KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER To succeed in today’s globally competitive era, students must master rigorous academic content D E C I Middle School Mission — Closing the and develop key 21st-century skills such as critical Achievement Gap thinking and complex problem solving. The OECD This session presents a transformative and Test for Schools (based on PISA) provides school 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, exciting new paradigm that includes real- and district leaders with unique insight into how world curriculum, citizen science and access well individual schools are preparing students to real STEM professionals. This approach to compete with their global peers. This tool for involves engaging school leadership with learning assesses student mastery of math, science private partners to fund an increase in and reading content, as well as student perceptions teachers’ skills in science education, helping of learning and the school environment. During students to consider careers in the STEM this session, district leaders whose schools have subjects, and promoting new approaches participated in the OECD Test for Schools share to teaching science. Early indications are how they have leveraged their results from this that student achievement in science is also assessment to make critical improvements in increasing. Includes a Q&A segment followed curriculum and instruction to help more students by a book signing by Daniel Duke and Aaron meet higher standards and better prepare them for Alford. success in our changing world. Presenters: Aaron Alford, Health Research Presenters: Terri Breeden, Assistant Superintendent Scientist, Battelle, Arlington, VA; Daniel for Instruction, Loudoun County Public Schools, Duke, Professor of Educational Leadership, Ashburn, VA; Jack Dale, Former Superintendent, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Fairfax County Public Schools, Washington, DC; Mort Sherman, Superintendent-in-Residence, Renee Foose, Superintendents, Howard County AASA, Alexandria, VA; Eleanor Smalley, Public Schools, Ellicott City, MD; Carolyn Trager Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Kliman, Program Director, America Achieves, Officer, JASON Learning, Ashburn, VA Washington, DC
37 11:30am – 12:30pm (cont.) Room 28A G D Room 24C The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR): What School C C Recognizing and Evaluating the Depth and Administrators Need to Know Rigor of Assessments The flood of new OCR guidance and enhanced The increased conceptual demands on the enforcement continues and shows no sign of 21st-century learner require a new model for stopping. As of May 2014, OCR had released the monitoring the depth and rigor of assessments. most comprehensive Civil Rights Data Collection This session provides a framework to recognize to date and published four Dear Colleague Letters questions that are both enriching and rigorous. and 50-page guidance on sexual violence. OCR’s Administrators learn how to unpack a Common continued push for stricter enforcement and Core math standard and its conceptual publicizing results makes it more important than requirements and how to evaluate practice ever for school administrators to understand and assessment items, the fidelity of their their obligations under federal civil rights law. alignment, and their ability to fairly assess student This presentation by attorneys synthesizes OCR’s understanding. recent guidance into key takeaways and provides Presenters: Corey Miklus, Director of Instruction, administrators with strategies to take home. Seaford School District, Seaford, DE; Dianne Presenters: John Borkowski, Partner, Hogan Morada, Manager, Content Development, Lovells, South Bend, IN; Joel Buckman, Attorney, TenMarks Education, Burlingame, CA Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC
Room 23B Room 26A L Rock, Paper, Scissors Your Way to Improved C C Using Predictive Data to Shrink the Student Achievement Achievement Gap in Mathematics How do you move a district chronically THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Algebra I is considered the gateway course underperforming and in the bottom 4% of a state to upper level math classes necessary to to the top 1/3? Not with silver bullets, but with be “college ready.” Historically, it has been rocks, paper and scissors. This simple approach an elite course offering for academically to student achievement has worked well for the gifted 8th grade students. Minorities and Wright City R-II (MO) School District, and others economically disadvantaged students have are starting to apply these simple concepts to been underrepresented and, subsequently, their efforts. Come spend some time with us unlikely to reduce their achievement gap in high and learn how Rock, Paper, Scissors can make a school. Learn how one school, then district, difference in your district, building or classroom. used predictive analytics to strategically place Presenter: Chris Gaines, Superintendent, Wright students in 8th grade Algebra I, thereby providing City R-II School District, Wright City, MO equitable access to more students projected to be successful. Room 28B Presenters: Elanie Hanzer, Former Principal, G D Why Not Now? Efficiencies and Savings You Wake County Schools, Wake Forest, NC; Patches Can’t Afford to Ignore! Jacobs, Principal, Wake County Schools, Wake Forest, NC; Clinton Robinson, Southwestern Area Join this interactive discussion highlighting Superintendent, Wake County Public Schools, the opportunities available to create business Cary, NC efficiencies by leveraging National Cooperative Contract Purchasing solutions. Explore the process of an executive level decision regarding the implementation of cooperative purchasing contracts into the culture of current business processes. Learn from your peers and share in the discussion as we pose questions. What are CONFERENCE the internal challenges school leaders face when implementing business and process changes? E-NEWSLETTER & PHOTOS What are the anticipated points of resistance Follow the proceedings of this conference to changes in your current procurement through AASA’s Conference Daily Online. process? What is stopping your organization The e-newsletter (posted at from leveraging efficiencies that are available www.aasa.org) carries daily coverage now? Share your experience and/or learn from of keynote speakers, topical sessions experiences and strategies shared by others as and awards, along with a photo gallery, we put some common “challenges” on the table. Twitter feed and conference blog Gain a clear understanding of the opportunity postings from several AASA members. to leverage cooperative contract purchasing solutions and a move forward strategy. Presenter: Mike Hajek, Director of Contracts & Marketing, National Joint Powers Alliance, NJPA, Staples, MN
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Hall G, Level 1 FEDERAL RELATIONS LUNCH Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours Room 29 G D Rethinking Standards and 1:15 – 2:15pm Accountability While raising standards and increasing Room 20D accountability has been the focus of state and federal policy for the last several years, we The Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) have done very little to improve conditions Students and Teachers Accessing Tomorrow for learning, particularly in schools that (S.T.A.T.) Initiative: Preparing Globally serve our most disadvantaged children. Competitive Students We have also done very little to hold the individuals with the most power and authority Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) is the accountable for their role in supporting public 25th largest school district in the United States with education. This presentation explores the more than 110,000 students and more than 18,000 kinds of policy changes needed to improve employees, including 8,792 teachers. For the current learning conditions and to promote mutual fiscal year 2015, the budget for the school district accountability among all stakeholders. is $1.6 billion. In June 2013, the Board of Education adopted Blueprint 2.0, a five-year strategic plan. Presenter: Pedro Noguera, Professor, New Part of the plan is the Theory of Action, based York University, New York, NY on equity and access for all students: To equip To purchase a ticket for this luncheon, see every student with the critical 21st-century skills the Onsite Registration Counter in the AASA needed to be globally competitive, BCPS must Registration Area. ensure that every school has an equitable, effective digital learning environment, and every student 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, Sponsored by: has equitable access to learning and developing proficiency in a second language. Hosted by AASA Advocacy & AASA Collaborative Dr. Dallas Dance focuses on the S.T.A.T. Initiative by outlining how the BCPS started with the development of digital curriculum before Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & choosing a device. This has been critical in Marina keeping the focus on instruction, professional L Professional Development Lunch — development, and the creating of collaborative Freedom to Focus on Your Core Mission of and engaged learning environments for students Education and teachers. Measure and improve your district’s performance. Included in Dr. Dance’s presentation is the strategic Delegate tasks distracting you from your core plan BCPS has developed in transforming teaching mission. Find cost savings to invest where it and learning through the use of 1:1 devices, the matters most. challenges faced, and how to gain support for a new initiative that is costly but essential for 21st- Presenters: Fred Clark, Vice President of Sales century learning. & Marketing, GCA Education, Mission Hills, KS; Chris Jones, Senior Regional Sales Director, GCA Presenter: Dallas Dance, Superintendent, Education, Macungie, PA; Russell Leboff, Senior Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD Regional Sales Director, GCA Education, Amelia, VA Sponsored by: Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted on a space-available basis.
Sponsored by : SERVICES GROUPSM 39 1:15 – 2:15pm (cont.) Room 23A S R Room 24A District Turnarounds: Suburbia’s New Dilemma L 21 Trends…Getting Connected and Creating Suburban school districts are not generally a Future thought of as places needing significant cultural Here’s the challenge: Getting and staying ahead and educational retooling. But complacency and of the curve in a fast-changing world. What we the demands of shrinking resources as well as the do in the trenches is important but, as leaders, incursion of charter schools and cyber programs so is perspective. Futurist, author and education require new thinking and stronger approaches leader Gary Marx, in his latest book Twenty-One within suburban communities. This program Trends for the 21st Century…Out of the Trenches shows how an experienced administrator brought and into the Future, explores massive forces that a good district along the path to being great. affect everyone. In this session, Marx explains Presenter: Robert Copeland, Superintendent, how political, economic, social, technological, Neshaminy School District, Langhorne, PA demographic and environmental trends are coming together in a perfect storm that can either Room 28E create havoc or generate energy to invigorate everything education leaders do. J C Effective Communication Techniques for Presenter: Gary Marx, President, Center for Public the Board of Education/Superintendent Outreach, Vienna, VA Team This session discusses effective communication techniques for the board/superintendent team, KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER including team development techniques, qualities G D AASA Leadership: Advocacy and Policy of successful communication between the board and superintendent, board/superintendent in Action interactions, communicating with internal publics
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 AASA’s Executive Committee spends a and external publics, communication pitfalls, portion of each quarterly meeting reflecting forms of communication and communication tips. on key education policies and discussions. Presenters: Ryan Ray, Consultant, Ray & As a way to highlight the ongoing leadership Associates, Cedar Rapids, IL; Lora Wolf, Assistant and priorities of the Executive Committee as Professor, Western Illinois Macomb, IL well as those of AASA’s elected leaders, this session features AASA’s President, President- Elect and Past President. Topics may include FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP school nutrition, data collection, IDEA and funding, among others. Room 28A Presenters: Noelle Ellerson, Associate C I Assessment Inextricably Coupled with Executive Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, Instruction: When It’s Not About a Alexandria, VA; David Pennington, AASA Grade, Rank or Score President & Superintendent, Ponca City Schools, Ponca City, OK; David Schuler, AASA With the first PARCC and SBAC assessments President-Elect and Superintendent, Township almost upon us, many folks are fixated High School District 214, Arlington Heights, IL; on the high-stakes or summative level of Amy Sichel, AASA Immediate Past President assessment. Noted assessment expert and Superintendent, Abington School District, Dylan Wiliam advances that we’re likely to Abington, PA see more growth, however, if we focus less on “quality control” (the summative level) and more on “quality assurance” by making Room 28D sure that teachers are well versed in high- quality formative classroom assessment L Data Privacy: Best Practices to Avoid Media strategies. This session provides an overview Headlines of the essential research base of formative The U.S. Department of Education recently released assessment and explores practical, easily guidance on protecting student privacy and the use implemented strategies that can have of technology in the classroom that could require significant impact on student performance. alterations to district student data policies and Links also made between focusing time on practices for contracting with service providers. formative assessment and setting teachers It guides districts to examine use of computer up for success under evolving educator software, mobile applications and web-based tools effectiveness initiatives. to ensure compliance with FERPA and other federal Presenter: Gene Kerns, Chief Academic laws. This presentation provides information about Officer, Renaissance Learning, Inc., Dallas, TX how to protect student privacy when using online educational services, best practices for written Sponsored by: agreements with service providers, and guidance on how to communicate with parents about issues related to student privacy online. Presenter: Maree Sneed, Attorney, Hogan Lovells, Washington, DC 40 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE FOCUS ZONES C C Common Core Standards and Assessments H E Healthy School Environments
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Room 24C Room 25C D E How Top Superintendents Leverage Existing C I Redesigning Professional Development to Resources for True Digital Transformation Empower Educators and Increase Student Join some of the country’s top superintendents as Achievement they share how they’ve succeeded in transforming This interactive, hands-on workshop covers their districts into state-of-the-art, digitally- the groundbreaking work of the Innovative driven, 21st-century learning centers that lead the Professional Development (iPD) Challenge nation in innovation. Understanding how vital it Districts featured in the Thought Leaders session. is to connect students to all available resources, Take a deeper dive into the case studies and these superintendents were able to stay ahead discover the processes, tools and results of of budget disasters and staff shortages by the districts’ assessments of their professional recognizing and repurposing the resources, development systems. Get the inside perspective talent and expertise already in place in their on their redesign plans and acquire best practices districts. As members of Project Connect — a for assessing and creating effective systems group of educational leaders working to connect that empower teacher ownership of high-quality traditional “silos” of expertise to the work of other professional development and increase student areas of the school — these superintendents achievement. Whether making incremental are committed to finding solutions to the many changes or doing a complete overhaul, this challenges that arise from a digital transformation. workshop can help you enhance your professional The panel shares insights on how student development. outcomes have improved in their districts by Project Manager, allowing staff members to work outside their Moderator: Vera Turner, Education and Communications, Alexandria, VA traditional job descriptions and empowering all to have a more influential voice in key curriculum Presenters: Lydia Conway, Executive and digital decisions. Director, Professional Learning, Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, GA; David Moore, Assistant Moderator: Britten Follett, Director of Social Superintendent, Academic Support, Miami-Dade 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, Media and Web Content, Follett Corporation, County Public Schools, Miami, FL; Westchester, IL Paula Shannon, Chief Academic Officer, Syracuse City School Presenters: Gail Dickinson, 2014–2015 District, Syracuse, NY; Ron Wade, Chief HR Officer, Immediate Past President, American Association Fulton County Schools, Atlanta, GA; Margaret of School Librarians, Norfolk, VA; Mark Wilson, Director of Professional Development, Edwards, Superintendent, Mooresville Graded Syracuse City School District, Syracuse, NY School District, Mooresville, NC; Steve Joel, Superintendent, Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, NE; Todd Litzsinger, Chairman of the Board, Follett Corporation, Westchester, IL; Donna Wright, Director of Schools, Wilson County Schools, Lebanon, TN
Room 26A G D Policy Research: Effective Grassroots Campaigns and Public Education As education politics has moved from the federal level to the grassroots, AASA has expanded its work at the local level. Learn about effective grassroots campaigns and how to use AASA research to advocate for beneficial policies at the local level. Presenter: Leslie Finnan, Policy Analyst, AASA, Alexandria, VA
41 1:15 – 2:15pm (cont.) Room 24B L Room 25B Strategically Infusing Rigor and Embedding College and Career Readiness C C Research-Based Practices to Allow All The Westfield High School (WHS) administrative Students to Achieve the Common Core team and district superintendent outline a Several district leaders and Goalbook team strategic, data-driven, multi-pronged approach members lead an interactive discussion of that has earned the school recognition as one of instructional best practice to support teachers the most rigorous high schools in the country and varying the levels of support in the classroom a leader in excellence and access in the Advanced according to student needs, including behavior and Placement (AP) program. WHS has significantly SEL, English language learners and students with increased passing rates for end-of-course disabilities. In addition, district leaders share how assessments and the number of honors diplomas to analyze the PARCC/SB assessment items, how earned, AP credits earned, advance college to deconstruct the Common Core standards and project dual credit courses and Project Lead the how to implement strategies in the classroom that Way honors offerings. Leave this session with break down various learning barriers to accessing replicable strategies for addressing professional grade level content. Universal Design for Learning development, parent participation, student is shared as a framework for promoting academic commitment to rigor and the financial challenges success and social emotional development. of moving to a rigorous culture. Presenters: Deann Jeffreys, Executive Director, Presenters: Mark Keen, Superintendent, Westfield Chula Vista Elementary School District, Chula Washington Schools, Westfield, IN; Stacy Vista, CA; Amy Lambert, Assistant Superintendent, McGuire, Principal, Westfield Washington Schools, Glendale Unified School District, Glendale, CA; Westfield, IN Sonia Picos, Executive Director, Special Education, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego, CA; Room 28C Daniel Yoo, Founder, Goalbook, San Mateo, CA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 C I The Data Lens: Using Instructional Coaches Room 23C to Lead Student Growth S R School Districts: Adapt or Perish The vast amount of available data in today’s schools can empower and transform a school district when With the advent of school choice, districts are used effectively. District leaders can empower now competing for every student and every instructional coaches to help principals and teachers dollar. Surviving in this landscape — despite the accurately assess student performance, prepare disruptive effects of social media — requires interventions and promote differentiated instruction brand management and customer service to ensure student growth. This session examines commensurate with 21st-century expectations. one district’s decision to create an instructional Building on its success with hundreds of school coach position and the use of instructional coaches districts nationwide, K12 Insight weaves cutting- to create greater assessment and data literacy to edge solutions into the cultural fabric of district support student growth. operations at all levels, maximizing authentic, ongoing engagement with every stakeholder. Presenters: Ethan Lenker, Superintendent, Pitt County Schools, Greenville, NC; Theresa Melenas, Presenter: Suhail Farooqui, CEO, K12 Insight, Assistant Principal, Sampson County Schools, Herndon, VA Clinton, NC
Room 28B C I STEM Implementation Reaches All Children AASA and JASON Learning have a unique partnership focusing on bringing STEM learning to children everywhere. This panel features representatives from across the country who are using JASON Learning in their districts, schools and classrooms. Discussion focuses on the importance of scientific literacy for the 21st-century learner and the ways JASON Learning is addressing this issue. Presenters: Luvelle Brown, Superintendent, Ithaca City School District, Ithaca, NY; HD Chambers, Superintendent of Schools, Alief Independent School District, Houston, TX; Linda Macias, Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction and Accountability, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Houston, TX; Matthew Montgomery, Superintendent, Waterloo Central Schools, Waterloo, NY; Mort Sherman, Superintendent-in- Residence, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Eleanor Smalley, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, JASON Learning, Ashburn, VA
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 23B THOUGHT LEADER D E Turn Technology from Teacher Enemy to Room 20A Assistant L For many teachers, technology has been perceived Courageous Leadership for Districtwide as a distraction rather than help. This session offers Success a new perspective on this issue and innovation If ever there were a time to understand and tap adoption in schools in general. It showcases two into the foundational power of courage, this specific applications developed for the special testing, assessment and policy-driven period education program but applicable to general is it. Education leaders who succeed in serving education as well that capitalize on the power the needs of all their students must find ways of analytics and automation to help teachers to pursue excellence and equity simultaneously do their job easier and better. Results from and to create conditions in schools that internal evaluation show how the two technology address the academic and non-academic applications have helped teachers spend less time needs of children (i.e., health, nutrition, safety, making better decisions regarding service eligibility. etc.). For all of this to occur, leaders must have Presenters: Mike Slagle, Assistant Superintendent, a clear sense of how to systematically build the Blue Valley School District, Overland Park, KS; Bo capacity of their schools to meet the needs Yan, Chief Investigator for Research and Evaluation, of the students they serve. This presentation Blue Valley School District, Overland Park, KS describes how such strategies are being implemented successfully even in the most disadvantaged communities where the needs 2:30 – 3:30pm are great. It also provides concrete strategies for school leaders to develop effective partnerships with community organizations THOUGHT LEADER and parents that can help in furthering efforts to raise achievement and transform the culture Room 20D 26 FEBRUARY THURSDAY, and performance of schools. L Addressing Today’s Challenges within Booksigning will occur immedicately following the Context of Emerging Trends the session outside the session room. Today’s challenges are so overwhelming that Presenters: Alan Blankstein, President, Hope they consume the agenda of most schools. Foundation, Bloomington, IN; Pedro Noguera, Equally as important, but often overlooked, Professor, New York University, New York, NY are a series of emerging trends that will profoundly affect the future of our students, Sponsored by: schools and education in general. This session describes these emerging trends and how we need to address today’s challenges within their context. Booksigning will occur immedicately following the session outside the session room. Presenter: Bill Daggett, Founder & Chairman, International Center for Leadership in Education, Inc., Rexford, NY
43 2:30 – 3:30pm (cont.) C I GENERAL SESSION CONTINUED Values and Education, Finding Those KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER “Teachable Moments” D E Transitioning to Digital: What It Looks Cal Ripken, Jr., is known as the “Ironman” Like, Why It Works and Why It’s Time for playing 2,632 consecutive games in the Core resources running on tablets, mobiles major leagues. Ripken was raised in a family and laptops arrive with cloud-based where “going to work every day and having connectivity and media DNA. Digital means the right attitude” was an absolute. The values differentiated, updatable and effective. he learned in the home and in the classroom When the textbook finally goes digital, the have been vital to his success during and whole game changes. But for technology after his career in baseball. Values such as to strengthen classroom practice means perseverance, discipline, empathy and respect modification and redefinition of traditional have helped Ripken become the man he is learning tasks. Content creation, account- today. Hear Ripken explain how values gained based learning and incredible tools must through education, or what he often refers to be understood within traditional learning as “teachable moments,” are essential to the environments. This session explains how development and success of young people the tools for teaching and learning have today. changed as have the tools for leadership, Presenter: Cal Ripken, Jr., Baseball Hall of communication and evaluation. Learn why Famer and Co-Founder, The Cal Ripken, Sr., the digital transformation is so important and Foundation, Baltimore, MD examine models to assist you in designing your roadmap for getting there. Special Guest and Recipient of the Champion for Children and Public Education Award: Presenter: Hall Davidson, Senior Director of Richard W. Riley, Former Secretary, U.S.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Global Initiatives, Discovery Education, Los Department of Education; Former Governor of Angeles, CA South Carolina; Senior Partner, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Sponsored by: AASA presents former Secretary of Education Richard Riley with the Champion for Children and Public Education Award for his many years of dedicated service as a leader and advocate 3:45 – 5:45pm for public education.
GENERAL SESSION 5 – 7:30pm Hall H Shuttle Service Available Student Entertainment The Opus Honor Orchestra, Directed by Mario Sponsored by: Miragliotta, Chula Vista Elementary School District, a VH1 Save The Music Foundation partner school district 6 – 7pm AASA Executive Director’s Remarks Ballroom 20BC, Upper Level Dan Domenech, Executive Director, AASA AASA 150th Anniversary Celebration President’s Remarks Reception David Pennington, Superintendent, Ponca City Join us as we celebrate the AASA National School District, Ponca City, OK Conference on Education and AASA’s 150th Anniversary. Mingle with old friends and network AASA National Superintendent of the with new ones! Year Award Sponsored by: AASA National Superintendent Certification Program Graduation
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6:30 – 9:30am Knowledge Exchange Theater Shuttle Service Available The New “3Rs” in Education: AR, VR and QR: L 7 – 8:30am Make Them Work for Your District Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Room 28C Marina The Prerequisite for Achievement That Every L Professional Development Breakfast — Leader Needs to Know Avoid the Pitfall: The Common Mistakes D E Room 24A Superintendents Make Regarding Technology The Role of Principal Supervisors in Developing L Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted Effective School Leaders on a space-available basis. Room 24C L 7:30am – 4pm Unpacking International Assessments Level 1, Main Lobby. Convention Center 11:30am – 12noon Registration Hours Knowledge Exchange Theater 8 – 10am Enhancing Career & College Readiness Using C I GENERAL SESSION Naviance Room Hall H G D Hall G, Level 1 Decisive Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours 10 – 10:30am 11:30am – 1pm Hall G, Level 1 Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Coffee Break in the NCE Marketplace Marina Knowledge Exchange Theater Professional Development Lunch — Connected C I Supporting the Grieving Student: A New H E Instruction Delivered Digitally Resource for School Administrators Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 10am – 4:15pm on a space-available basis. Hall G, Level 1 11:30am – 1:30pm NCE Marketplace Hours Room 29 Hall G, Level 1 Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Luncheon To purchase a ticket for this luncheon, see Bookstore Hours the Onsite Registration Counter in the AASA 10:30 – 11:30am Registration Area. FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP 12:15pm – 1:15pm Room 20D D E School Efficiency, Organization and THOUGHT LEADER Room 20A L Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote Leadership Dedicated to All Students Room 25C 2015 Women in School Leadership Award L THOUGHT LEADER Room 20D Finalists Panel Discussion L Next-Generation Leadership: Building a Room 26B G D Pipeline of Great School Leaders AASA President-Elect Candidate Forum Knowledge Exchange Theater Room 24B L Federal Relations Update II Building Superintendent and School Committee S R Relationships, Yielding Results 1:30 – 2:30pm Room 25B Room 28A L Co-Creating Innovation for Our Public Schools L AASA Collaborative — An Action Agenda Room 25A C I Room 23B Aligning College/Career Readiness Efforts to Creating an Online, Blended Learning C I Meet 21st-Century Post-Secondary Realities Environment: A Guide to Vision/Implementation Room 24A Blueprint 2.0 and the Role of Communication in L Room 23A C I EMERGING from the Shadows Creating a World-Class School System Room 26A Room 24C G D L Federal Relations Update I Do the Impossible! 100% Students Reading on Grade Level! Room 28E Room 26B Increasing Your Chances of Getting the Job You J C Next-Generation Leadership: A Closer Look at L Want Teacher Leaders Room 28D Room 25B Social Media and Cybercivility: Educational and L OECD (PISA for Schools) and 21st-Century C I Legal Challenges District Transformation Room 25A Room 28D The Aspirations Gap: Making College Readiness C I Optimizing Education Technology While D E a Priority Districtwide Protecting Student Data Privacy
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 24B Optimizing Teaching and Learning through L Transformative Leadership Training CONFERENCE BLOGGERS Room 28B Publishing Professionally: Guidance for School L Several AASA members are blogging District Leaders about their experiences at the 2015 Room 28C National Conference on Education. Smarter School Spending: New Tools to Sustain G D Find their daily postings, which are part of Instructional Priorities AASA’s Conference Daily Online, Room 23A at www.aasa.org. Systemic Alignment of Supervisor, Principal C I and Teacher Evaluations Room 26A G D The Affordable Care Act and Public Schools Room 23C The Digital Transition: If You Haven’t Done It, C I Why Not? Knowledge Exchange Theater The Superintendent’s Social Media Lounge: D E Part 2 Room 25C What Superintendents Think: AASA Student H E Health and Youth Development Survey Results Room 23B S R When Things Go Wrong 2:45 – 3:45pm THOUGHT LEADER 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, Room 20D L Awakening the Learner and Transforming Schools THOUGHT LEADER Knowledge Exchange Theater S R Superintendent/School Board Relations, A Discussion with the NSBA Executive Director 3 – 5 pm Shuttle Service Available 3:45 – 4:15pm Hall G, Level 1 Happy Hour in the NCE Marketplace
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6:30 – 9:30am 8 – 10am Shuttle Service Available GENERAL SESSION Sponsored by: Room Hall H Student Entertainment 7 – 8:30am Chamber Bravura, Directed by Katherine Girvin, Thurgood Marshall Middle School, Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & San Diego Unified School District, a VH1 Save Marina The Music Foundation partner school district D E Professional Development Breakfast — AASA Past Presidents Introduction Avoid the Pitfall: The Common Mistakes Superintendents Make Regarding The NJPA Helping Hands Mini-Grant Technology Program Are you aware of the most common reasons why technology initiatives fail? Even if your The AASA Women in School Leadership school system avoids major embarrassing Award headlines, what measurable results will your technology investments have? How will your AASA Candidates for President-Elect legacy be remembered in that school system just
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 12–24 months from now? Join HP as America’s G D Decisive education strategists come together for an Research in psychology has revealed that our informative breakfast session, sharing their work decisions are disrupted by an array of biases on 1:1 projects ranging from 250 to 250,000 and irrationalities: We’re overconfident. We students. During this session, learn: seek out information that supports us and • The six reasons why K–12 technology initiatives downplay information that doesn’t. We get fail distracted by short-term emotions. • Why focusing on the device is a recipe for When it comes to making choices, it disaster seems, our brains are flawed instruments. Unfortunately, merely being aware of these • How some experts believe 99% of 1:1 programs shortcomings doesn’t fix the problem, any in schools today are unsuccessful more than knowing that we are near sighted • Why some fads — like BYOD — deliver few helps us to see. The real question is: How can results and may actually cause more harm than we do better? good Dan Heath introduces a four-step process • How industry research can help guide you designed to counteract these biases — a through questions of budgeting, compatibility process based on an exhaustive study of the and planning decision-making literature. Along the way, Presenters: Mike Belcher, America’s Education Heath shares an array of fascinating stories, Strategist, HP, Houston, TX; Elliott Levine, from a rock star’s ingenious decision-making America’s Education Strategist, HP, New York, NY trick to a CEO’s career-ending acquisition to a single question that can often resolve thorny Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted on personal decisions. a space-available basis. Heath shares the answers to critical questions such as: How can we stop the cycle of Sponsored by: agonizing over our decisions? How can we make group decisions without destructive 7:30am – 4pm politics? And how can we ensure that we don’t overlook precious opportunities to Level 1, Main Lobby, Convention Center change our course? Registration Hours Walk away with fresh strategies and practical tools that will enable you to make better choices. Because the right decision, at the right moment, can make all the difference. Presenter: Dan Heath, Senior Fellow at Duke University’s CASE Center, and Best-Selling Author, Raleigh, NC
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
10 – 10:30am 10:30 – 11:30am
Hall G, Level 1 Coffee Break in the NCE Marketplace FOCUS ZONE SPONSORSHIP Room 20D D E School Efficiency, Organization and KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER Collaboration with Microsoft OneNote H E Supporting the Grieving Student: A New Did you know the most powerful tool for Resource for School Administrators you and your staff might be one you already have? Microsoft OneNote can be used in AASA is a founding member of the new and innovative ways to save teachers Coalition to Support Grieving Students and staff time, become better organized (www.grievingstudents.org), a unique and collaborate more effectively. OneNote collaboration of the 10 leading professional is not just for notes! Classroom scenarios organizations representing a broad range covered range from interactive lessons, of school professionals who came together digital curriculum and project-based to develop practitioner-oriented video and learning to administrative scenarios such print training materials. David Schonfeld, as running more effective faculty meetings, MD, Director of the National Center for improving collaboration on school or district- Grieving Students, led the development of wide projects, and fostering professional these materials and showcases the website development for teachers and staff. OneNote and provides practical advice on how school works well with other Microsoft Office administrators can ensure that grieving programs and, because OneNote is available students receive the support they need. and free on all platforms and devices, this talk Presenter: David J. Schonfeld, Director, applies to everyone! National Center for School Crisis and 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, Presenter: Dallas Dance, Superintendent, Bereavement, Philadelphia, PA Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD Sponsored by: 10am – 4:15pm Room 25C Hall G, Level 1 L 2015 Women in School Leadership Award NCE Marketplace Hours Finalists Panel Discussion Hall G, Level 1 Four finalists for the 2015 Women in School Bookstore Hours Leadership Award participate in a discussion of current topics in education. Two finalists represent the assistant superintendents/superintendents category and two represent the principal/central office category from across the United States. Moderated by Dan Domenech, AASA Executive Director. Presenters: Karen Cheser, Deputy Superintendent, Boone County Schools, Florence, KY; MaryEllen Elia, Superintendent, Hillsborough County Public Schools, Tampa, FL; Julie Jensen, Executive Director for Student Services, Linn-Mar Community School District, Marion, IA; Michelle Zundel, Principal, Ashland High School, Ashland School District, Ashland, OR
Sponsored by: 49 10:30 – 11:30am (cont.) Room 25B L Room 26B Co-Creating Innovation for Our Public Schools — An Action Agenda G D AASA President-Elect Candidate Forum “Minnevate!” is a dialogue process to build an action Meet the candidates for AASA president-elect. agenda for education leadership in Minnesota. This is a lively town hall discussion with the We live in times of rapid, pervasive change — not candidates seeking to become AASA’s next just in the technology that affects every part of nationally elected leader. This is your time to our lives, but in the fabric of our communities, the ask questions, get answers and learn what each expectations of public organizations, the impacts candidate’s goals are for AASA. Take the time now of economic shift, and the interaction of diverse to become a knowledgeable voter. communities locally and globally. We must prepare Ballots will be sent to eligible AASA voters in our young people for futures that we cannot yet March. imagine. The Minnesota Association of School Administrators has embarked on an initiative to Presenter: Amy Sichel, AASA Immediate Past bridge the space between our visions for the future President and Superintendent, Abington of Minnesota’s schools and the realities of today. School District, Abington, PA Join us for this session and learn about a process to engage our communities in co-creation of the Room 24B future of our schools. S R Building Superintendent and School Presenters: Gary Amoroso, Executive Director, Committee Relationships, Yielding Results Minnesota Association of School Administrators, Some reform-minded school leaders mistakenly St. Paul, MN; Jay Haugen, Superintendent, believe that they must choose between reforms Farmington Area Public Schools, Farmington, MN; and relationships, but the two need not be Mia Urick, Director of Professional Development, mutually exclusive. Bold educational reforms Minnesota Association of School Administrators, are needed to close persistent gaps in student St. Paul, MN
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 achievement, but if we want these reforms to last, we must put effort and energy into building Room 23B stronger, more effective relationships with our C I Creating an Online, Blended Learning school boards and school community. Julie Environment: A Guide to Vision/ Hackett recently wrote a book on this topic, Implementation published by the Harvard Education Press in fall 2014. This interactive session includes videos, Creating a successful blended or online learning testimonials, handouts and practical strategies environment requires a strong foundation with and techniques that school leaders can use to a robust vision and implementation guide. This improve their school board relationships and session provides resources, recommendations and tackle the tough educational reforms necessary guidance needed to begin an online or blended to make lasting change that will improve the life learning environment. Construct a personalized outcomes of our children. vision, an implementation guide and a plan for sustained professional learning detailing the Superintendent, Taunton Presenter: Julie Hackett, components necessary for success. Public Schools, Taunton, MA Presenters: Shanna Hensley, Principal, Cora Cox Academy, Kingsport, TN; Laurie Norris, eLearning Coordinator, Kingsport City Schools, Kingsport, TN
Room 23A C I EMERGING from the Shadows Three years ago, the Houston, TX, Independent School District (HISD) discovered that large AASA MOBILE APP numbers of our high-achieving, low-income black News and information about AASA’s and Hispanic students mirrored the national norm policy and advocacy issues, children’s by being tracked into two-year colleges and open- programs and leadership events are now access four-year colleges. Fast forward to today. available through the AASA mobile app, HISD has implemented EMERGE, a program that powered by ParentLink. identifies low-income, high-potential students and helps them get into and graduate from Tier I/ Blackboard and ParentLink, Ivy League universities. Learn how EMERGE has better together. helped 70 low-income, high-achieving students get accepted, on full-ride scholarships, to schools such The free app is compatible as Stanford, Amherst, Pitzer, Texas A&M, Trinity with both iPhone and Android. (CT), Baylor, Rice, Lewis & Clark and Bryn Mawr. Visit aasa.org/app.aspx. Your district can realize similar, fantastic, results. Presenters: Rick Cruz, Assistant Superintendent for College Completion, Houston Independent School District, Houston, TX; Terry Grier, Superintendent, Houston Independent School District, Houston, TX 50 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE FOCUS ZONES C C Common Core Standards and Assessments H E Healthy School Environments
C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
Sponsored by: L Leadership
D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 26A Room 28D G D Federal Relations Update I L Social Media and Cybercivility: Educational Over the course of two breakouts, the AASA and Legal Challenges advocacy team outlines the prospects of key federal School districts are facing educational and legal policy discussions. Conversation focuses on AASA challenges as a result of the dramatic increase priorities and covers ESEA, IDEA, appropriations, in social media. This session focuses on how competitive funding, Perkins Career/Tech, Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools Affordable Care Act, rural education, E-Rate, school has dealt with the challenges of social media, nutrition, school climate, vouchers and more. The including the creation of a cybercivility task force sessions are complementary, not redundant. See charged with developing strategies to encourage February 27, 12:15 – 1:15pm, for Part II. positive online decisions and behaviors by Presenters: Noelle Ellerson, Associate Executive students and adults. Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Presenters: Maree Sneed, Attorney, Hogan Lovells, Leslie Finnan, Policy Analyst, AASA, Alexandria, VA Washington, DC; Joshua Starr, Superintendent, Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD Room 28E J C Increasing Your Chances of Getting the Job Room 25A You Want C I The Aspirations Gap: Making College This session focuses on three key components Readiness a Priority Districtwide of an executive search. The process: following Why are students who aspire to attend college at procedures, knowing who to contact and an early age not matriculating to college? Join a paperwork. The right job/fit: self-assessment, panel discussion with three superintendents who location/family, experiences/match, research and have made college readiness a priority in their pulling out. Interview preparation: researching the districts. Topics include prioritizing initiatives, district, being on time, self-assessment, typical using big data to analyze college readiness, and 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, questions, proper attire, note taking, candidate tools that help foster and track college readiness questions and portfolios. in districts. To submit your question, tweet us at Presenters: Donna Johnson, Director, Executive #NavianceNetwork #AASA2015 Search, Illinois Association of School Boards, Presenters: Todd Bloom, Chief Academic Lombard, IL; Thomas Leahy, Consultant, Illinois Officer, Hobsons, Arlington, VA; Dan Hoverman, Association of School Boards, Springfield, Superintendent, Mounds View Schools, Shoreview, IL; Richard Voltz, Associate Director, Illinois MN; Patrick Murphy, Superintendent, Arlington Association of School Administrators, Springfield, IL County Public Schools, Arlington, VA; Jamie Wilson, Superintendent, Denton Independent School District, Denton, TX
51 10:30 – 11:30am (cont.) Room 24A L The Role of Principal Supervisors in KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER Developing Effective School Leaders L The New “3Rs” in Education: AR, VR School districts across the country are and QR: Make Them Work for Your increasingly focusing on the role of principal District supervisors as a critical leverage point to improve principal performance. This presentation shares It’s time to add QR codes, Augmented Reality how the Highline (WA) School District revised (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) to the old 3Rs. its principal supervisor role into a hands- Learn how to build and use these new layers on leadership, teaching and coaching role for school information or classroom education working side-by-side with principals. Highline so that classes can take interactive virtual is participating in the Leading for Effective field trips to spots around the world — or Teaching Project, an effort led by the University make your own of the school for parents; how of Washington Center for Educational Leadership schools can create a channel for animations, to determine promising practices for how central- videos, images or audio triggered by office leaders can best support principals as everyday objects, books, school pictures or instructional leaders. Participants are provided illustrations; and how families and students specific readings, frameworks and tools to with tablets or smart phones gain new support the redesign of the principal supervisor insights and information. role. Senior Director of Presenter: Hall Davidson, Presenters: Susan Enfield, Superintendent, Global Initiatives, Discovery Education, Los Highline School District, Burien, WA; Stephen Angeles, CA Fink, Executive Director, Center for Educational Sponsored by: Leadership, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Susanne Jerde, Chief Academic Officer, Highline School District, Burien, WA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Room 24C Room 28C L Unpacking International Assessments L The Prerequisite for Achievement That Every Leader Needs to Know International assessments are a hot topic but reductive and loaded with inappropriate We all know, even on an intuitive level, that a comparisons. This session presents a 4-year study positive and vibrant social-emotional culture that provides another way to look at comparative breeds academic and personal excellence. Yet, our performance by examining school achievement often-myopic focus on testing distracts us from within the economic and social context of 10 the essential work of developing the heart and advanced economies: Canada, China, Finland, character of our students, teachers and leaders. France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United This work requires an overt orchestration of our States and Great Britain. Student performance organization’s values, traits and expectations — data are just the tip of the iceberg. The public the purposeful construction of an empowering needs to look at the whole picture and then draw culture focused on learning. Join us to explore its conclusions. strategies that align your staff, foster respect and amplify the factors that accelerate achievement. Presenters: Charles Fowler, President, School Leadership, Exeter, NH; James Harvey, Director, Presenters: Larry Perondi, Superintendent, National Superintendents Roundtable, Seattle, Oceanside Unified School District, Oceanside, WA; Christine Johns, Superintendent, Utica CA; Mark Reardon, Chief Learning Officer, Community Schools, Sterling Heights, MI; Robert Quantum Learning Network and Former School Martin, Chief of Staff, Utica Community Schools, Administrator, Oceanside, CA Sterling Heights, MI
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
11:30am – 12noon 11:30am – 1:30pm
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER Room 29 C I Enhancing Career & College Readiness Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Luncheon Using Naviance Speak, Interact, Question, Reflect: Our Voices Learn how your district and schools can on Equity in Education centralize academic, personal, college and Today’s education landscape is increasingly career planning in one location. Naviance complex, impacted by advances in technology, provides a solution for districts and students shifting demographics, attacks on public as a one-stop shop for connecting students’ education and educators, and influence from learning with life. See how to improve outside forces like no other time in history. institutional effectiveness and ease processes However, the core issue of educational for staff and administrators while providing achievement remains the central focus of premier services to students and families. AASA’s work as it has since our founding in Presenter: Kim Oppelt, Community Relations 1865. In honor of AASA’s 150th anniversary, this Manager, Hobsons, Arlington, VA year’s Dr. Effie H. Jones Memorial Luncheon will focus on equity — the hallmark of Dr. Sponsored by: Jones’ work — in an exciting new format. Peer-led discussions focus on education and the values that must be upheld to ensure Hall G, Level 1 the academic success of all students in our nation’s schools, regardless of economic Dedicated NCE Marketplace Hours status, race, gender or ability. Come prepared to speak on an issue, respond to a question,
11:30am – 1pm reflect in community and interact with your 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, peers. Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & To purchase a ticket for this luncheon, see Marina the Onsite Registration Counter in the AASA C I Professional Development Lunch — Registration Area. Connected Instruction Delivered Digitally Sponsored by: This session looks at the future of Instructional Response to Intervention (IRI) for groups of students needing that extra instruction to be successful. IRI is a highly structured instructional process that makes learning relevant and directed to individual learning needs by connecting highly competent instructors across the nation to students and schools that need it most. Presenters: Shailey Barnwall, CEO, Elevate Learning, LLC, Chicago, IL; Terry Grier, Superintendent, Houston ISD, Houston, TX; Grenita Lathan, Superintendent, Peoria Public Schools, Peoria, IL Pre-registration is required. Walk-ins permitted on a space-available basis.
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53 12:15 – 1:15pm KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER L THOUGHT LEADER Federal Relations Update II Room 20A Part II of the federal advocacy update, this session follows, but does not repeat, L Leadership Dedicated to All Students the Thursday session. Over the course of In an era that seems infatuated with these two breakouts, the AASA advocacy achievement test scores, leaders struggle team outlines the prospects of key federal to find an appropriate balance between policy discussions. Conversation focuses demonstrating that students are, indeed, on AASA priorities and covers ESEA, IDEA, learning while also providing a supportive appropriations, competitive funding, Perkins system that helps adults and students to Career/Tech, Affordable Care Act, rural thrive. In this session, Deb Delisle emphasizes education, E-Rate, school nutrition, school the need for a significant transformation climate, vouchers and more. of district and school cultures to meet the Presenter: Noelle Ellerson, Associate needs of our students for their future — not Executive Director, Policy & Advocacy, AASA, our present. Delisle challenges everyone to Alexandria, VA resist those who believe that our best days are behind us and to renew our commitment to kids. Through stories about students, classrooms and leaders, get energized and 1:30 – 2:30pm inspired to create a learning system that embraces innovation and, perhaps, even Room 28A creates breakthroughs that have yet to be L AASA Collaborative imagined. The AASA Collaborative started in May 2014 and Presenter: Deb Delisle, Assistant Secretary now has 22 members from across the country
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 for Elementary and Secondary Education, creating study groups that lead to action via Department of Education, Washington, DC consultancies and site visits. Advisors include Yong Zhao, Ron Ferguson, Chris Tienken and Bena Kallick. Topics identified for action this year include Achieving Equity (Jere Hochman and THOUGHT LEADER Ron Ferguson), Making Sense of Assessments for Room 20D your Staff and Community (Jill Gildea and Chris Tienken), Use of Case Studies (Leslie Boozer and L Next-Generation Leadership: Building a Bena Kallick) and Leadership and Aesthetics (Jon Pipeline of Great School Leaders Drescher). This session is an update of their work. Denver Public Schools (DPS) has cut its All who are members or interested in the work of principal turnover rate by nearly half in five the Collaborative are invited to attend. years. At the same time, the percentage of Presenters: Leslie Boozer, Co-Chair, AASA teachers reporting that their principals are Collaborative, Fontana, CA; Jere Hochman, Co- effective has grown. The district has developed Chair, AASA Collaborative, Bedford, NH; Mort a much stronger pipeline for school leader Sherman, Superintendent-in-Residence, AASA, development by defining the expectations Alexandria, VA of excellent school leaders and then creating systems for recruitment, selection, internal Sponsored by: leadership development and school leader evaluations. Join DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg to learn about the work his district is doing to create a sustained and vibrant pipeline to school leadership, from teacher leaders to preparing to be an assistant principal to developing assistant principals and preparing assistant principals to be principals. BOOK REVIEWERS SOUGHT Presenter: Tom Boasberg, Superintendent, School Administrator magazine welcomes Denver Public Schools, Denver, CO AASA members who would like to join the book reviewing corps. Book reviewers receive a long list of new titles and Sponsored by: typically are asked to review two new books in a 12-month period. Contact [email protected] to express your interest.
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
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D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 25A Room 24C C I Aligning College/Career Readiness Efforts L Do the Impossible! 100% of Students to Meet 21st-Century Post-Secondary Reading on Grade Level! Realities This session explains how you can have 100% of Learn how one California district has redefined your 4th grade students reading on grade level. A its career and technology education curriculum superintendent and two school board members programs to meet the rigor of today’s college, who not only believe it can be done but delivered career readiness and Common Core state on the promise give interventions, a game plan standards mandates after receiving a grant and methods for sustaining the results. from the California Association of Latino Presenters: Frank Agovino, School Board Superintendents and Administrators. The grant President, Springfield School District, Springfield, was designed to explore, develop and implement PA; James Capolupo, Superintendent, Springfield a rigorous and relevant program with applied School District, Springfield, PA academics, job readiness skills development, online blended instruction and community- Room 26B based partnerships. The session also features a L host of ideas on ways to replicate the program Next-Generation Leadership: A Closer Look to prepare middle and high school learners for at Teacher Leaders post-secondary education and high-demand, Denver Public Schools leads the nation in its focus high-wage opportunities via a technology-based, on innovative teacher leadership efforts. In this competency-driven program and details the breakout session, Superintendent Tom Boasberg district’s professional development platform for highlights this work and its importance to the their career technical education teachers. district’s overall development of teachers and Presenters: Richard Martinez, Superintendent, effective school leaders. Denver is pioneering Pomona Unified School District, Pomona, CA; the use of teacher-led teams in its schools, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, Enrique Medina, Director, Career Readiness, enabling teacher leaders to accelerate the spread Pomona Unified School District, Pomona, CA of excellent classroom instructional practices while sharing responsibility with principals for Room 24A the development and growth of both individual teachers and teacher teams. L Blueprint 2.0 and the Role of Communication in Creating a World-Class School System Presenter: Tom Boasberg, Superintendent, Denver Public Schools, Denver, CO In order to have a world-class school system, it is imperative that effective communication be a top priority. Learn how the recipients of the Sponsored by: 2015 Leadership Through Communication Award have made communication one of four key focus areas of the Baltimore County Public Schools’ comprehensive plan of action, Blueprint 2.0, resulting in improved transparency and the active engagement of stakeholders in building a culture of trust. Moderator: Rich Bagin, Executive Director, NSPRA, Rockville, MD Presenters: Dallas Dance, Superintendent, Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD; Mychael Dickerson, Chief Communications Officer, Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD
55 1:30 – 2:30pm (cont.) Room 28B L Room 25B Publishing Professionally: Guidance for School District Leaders C I OECD (PISA for Schools) and 21st-Century What does it take to be a successful editorial District Transformation contributor to a professional publication serving The PISA-based test for schools allows districts K–12 education leaders? The editor of School and school leaders an unprecedented opportunity Administrator, AASA’s monthly magazine, to improve 21st-century student outcomes. The discusses writing opportunities in School test, newly developed by OECD, allows education Administrator and other education periodicals. leaders to compare their high school students’ AASA’s director of communications discusses problem-solving abilities in reading, science and book writing opportunities at AASA. The session math to their peers in the United States and around shares practical insights into the review process, the world. District leaders share promising practices some do’s and don’ts, examples of appropriate and lessons learned. topics for publication and key messages to convey Presenters: Elizabeth Fagen, Superintendent, — all of which should better position future Douglas County School District, Castle Rock, submissions for favorable consideration. CO; Valerie Greenhill, Chief Learning Officer, Presenters: Jay Goldman, Editor, School EdLeader21, Tucson, AZ; Steve Lockard, Deputy Administrator Magazine, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Superintendent, Fairfax County Public Schools, Jimmy Minichello, Director of Communications, Falls Church, VA; Joshua Starr, Superintendent, AASA, Alexandria, VA Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD Room 28C Room 28D G D Smarter School Spending: New Tools to D E Optimizing Education Technology While Sustain Instructional Priorities Protecting Student Data Privacy How do school districts budget in an era of This session highlights tools that help schools decreased public funding and still fulfill their FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 easily determine whether a website, app or other mission to increase student achievement? Hear technology product could be used in compliance how superintendents from two school districts with FERPA and applicable state laws or local identified and tested school budgeting best policies. Additionally, presenters discuss how to practices — from the initial creation of the best create a school culture that embraces technological practices to direct implementation in their opportunities, explore communication strategies districts. Learn about some unexpected but for use with parents, and present a privacy K–12 welcome outcomes, including the forging of a curriculum that teaches students about their rights partnership between business operations and and responsibilities in the digital environment. academics and how a program rescued from Presenters: Nancy Gifford, Senior Director of being cut saved a student’s academic career. Law and Policy, iKeepSafe, Arlington, VA; Marsali Also learn how a group of school district Hancock, CEO & President, iKeepSafe, Arlington, VA executives from across the country worked together to document a new series of “Best Room 24B Practices in School Budgeting” to foster a L Optimizing Teaching and Learning through budget process focused on increasing academic achievement and staying within available Transformative Leadership Training resources. Learn how you can access these free Hear from school superintendents, graduates resources, including tools and templates, to help of the Illinois School for Advanced Leadership make your own budget success stories. (ISAL), about how they were able to affect Presenters: Shayne Kavanaugh, Senior instruction and student performance through this Manager, Research, Government Finance transformational training. ISAL is a research-based, Officers Association, Chicago, IL; Jeff Rose, professional development approach with effective Superintendent, Beaverton Public Schools, coaching at its core, which enables school district Beaverton, OR; Don Schlomann, Superintendent, leaders to use coaching and proven strategies to Community Unit School District 303, St. Charles, IL transform building leaders. Presenters share how ISAL participants used the knowledge, skills and dispositions they gained to successfully create leadership coherence that transformed their districts’ learning systems. Hear how their students have benefited through continuous improvements within the system, and how teachers are now coaching their students toward higher achievement. Presenters: Jeff Fritchtnitch, Superintendent, Altamont CUSD #10, Altamont, IL; Nick Osborne, Co-Director, Illinois Association of School Administrators, Springfield, IL; Jamie Reily, Superintendent, Maercher District 360, Westmont, IL; Gary Zabilka, Director, Illinois Association of School Administrators, Schaumburg, IL
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
Sponsored by: L Leadership
D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 23A Room 23C C I Systemic Alignment of Supervisor, Principal C I The Digital Transition: If You Haven’t Done and Teacher Evaluations It, Why Not? Coaching and evaluating principals and principal Districts across the country have transitioned supervisors are central to transforming schools and from textbooks to techbooks at all levels. Data are districts. Systemic alignment of these evaluation presented showing how this transition engages systems with teacher evaluations and district goals students, helps close the achievement gap and helps maximize performance and results. This saves money. Learn specific strategies needed to session outlines the basic components of rigorous overcome the obstacles, convince school boards evaluation systems at each level tied to student and make it happen now. achievement and performance metrics. Presenters Presenters: Hall Davidson, Senior Director of describe the purposeful alignment between the Global Initiatives, Discovery Education, Los systems that ensure strong calibration and fidelity Angeles, CA; Barbara Nemko, Napa County of implementation. Superintendent of Schools, Napa County Office of Presenter: Mike Miles, Superintendent, Dallas Education, Napa, CA Independent School District, Dallas, TX Sponsored by: Room 26A G D The Affordable Care Act and Public Schools This session focuses on crucial aspects of the KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE THEATER Affordable Care Act (ACA) and provides critical D E The Superintendent’s Social Media next steps to prepare for 2015 and beyond. Public school employers are informed of their Lounge: Part 2 responsibilities relative to the ACA, its potential Join your colleagues and learn how to make financial impact, required action items and timelines. your voice heard on social media. AASA’s 27 FEBRUARY FRIDAY, This is an opportunity to have questions addressed digital team unveils the revamped AASA and to gain critical information necessary to LinkedIn page and shares tips on getting appropriately plan for the ACA requirements. your message across on different social media channels. During the second half hour, Presenters: Randy Collins, Staff Associate for Public Policy, Connecticut Association of Public three AASA members lead a conversation on the appropriate use of social media as a School Superintendents , West Hartford, CT; superintendent, and the fears that impede Steven May, Senior Health Benefits Consultant, school leaders from using social media as a Milliman, Inc., Windsor, CT; Joseph Spurgeron, Senior Health Benefits Consultant, Milliman, Inc., communications tool. Windsor, CT Presenters: Francesca Duffy, Digital and Advocacy Media Editor, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Daniel Frazier, Superintendent, Litchfield Independent School District 465, Litchfield, MN; Chris Gaines, Superintendent, Wright City R2 School District, Wright City MO; Gayane Minasyan, Online Technologies Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Candace Singh, Superintendent, Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, Fallbrook, CA
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Room 25C THOUGHT LEADER H E What Superintendents Think: AASA Student Room 20D Health and Youth Development Survey Results L Awakening the Learner and AASA conducted a survey of its members Transforming Schools regarding their thoughts and opinions on issues Explore ways students, teachers and related to health and youth development, administrators can be motivated to including mental health, childhood obesity, unprecedented levels of self-efficacy and college readiness and engaging instruction. Join personal responsibility through programs AASA Children’s Programs staff to learn the major and practices developed over the last 15 findings of the survey. This is a lively session in years by Rachel’s Challenge. Learn how this which the audience is encouraged to react to the phenomenon fits into a model of school data and give examples that support or contradict transformation referred to as High Reliability the survey results. Schools developed by Marzano Research Presenters: Kelly Beckwith, Project Director, Laboratory over the last three decades. AASA, Alexandria, VA; Kayla Jackson, Project Presenters: Robert Marzano, Co-Founder Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA & CEO, Marzano Research Laboratory, Centennia, CO; Darrell Scott, Founder, Room 23B Rachel’s Challenge, Highlands Ranch, CO S R When Things Go Wrong What do you do when you fall out of favor with THOUGHT LEADER your school board or make a critical mistake that causes you to lose your superintendency? After Knowledge Exchange Theater the shock of losing a position, superintendents S R FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Superintendent/School Board Relations, need to become strategic with respect to their A Discussion with the NSBA Executive next course of action. This session provides Director quantitative and qualitative action steps needed should a superintendent ever be released or Hear an informative discussion between the resign from their position. Presenters discuss the AASA and NSBA executive directors about legal aspects of a release, professional steps to superintendent/school board relations and be taken for the next job, dealing with the media, how the two organizations can work together moving on by forgiving, completing an autopsy of to accomplish common goals. the issues and looking at Windshield Indicators. Presenters: Dan Domenech, Executive Presenters: William Clark, Superintendent, Warren Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA; Tom Gentzel, County School District, Warren, PA; Richard Executive Director, NSBA, Alexandria, VA Mextorf, Superintendent, Grove City School District, Grove City, PA 3 – 5pm Shuttle Service Available
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3:45 – 4:15pm
Hall G, Level 1 Happy Hour in the NCE Marketplace Each registrant was provided one drink ticket with their registration materials. Be sure to bring it when you come to this fun event!
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7 – 9am 10:30 – 11:30am Shuttle Service Available THOUGHT LEADER 7:30am – 12noon Room 20D L Level 1, Main Lobby of the Convention Center Changing the Picture of Education through Registration Hours Integrated Student Supports 8 – 9am THOUGHT LEADER Room 25C Room 20A L Bridge to a Brighter Future: An Unprecedented G D To Flip or Not to Flip: Administrators’ Dilemmas Three-District Partnership 11:45am – 1:15pm Room 25A GENERAL SESSION Creating District Conditions to Scale Effective L Room Hall H G D Leadership Valuing Diversity 12:30 – 2pm Room 26A D E How to Go from Tech Scared to Tech Savvy Shuttle Service Available Room 25B Mental Health First Aid for Youth and the Now Is H E the Time & Project Aware Grants 9:15 – 10:15am Room 26A How to Communicate Effectively with Parents, L PROGRAM CHANGES Staff and Politicians
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Room 28A AASA will post late-breaking changes Leadership in the Information Age: A Changing L to the conference program schedule Role for Superintendents to AASA’s Conference Daily Online at Room 25C resources.aasa.org/ConferenceDaily. Mission Possible: Recruiting Effective Teachers for G D Hard-to-Staff Schools Room 26B School Climate: Improving Discipline, Safety & H E Learning Room 25A The Time has Come: Practical Social Media from G D the Experts
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
Sponsored by: L Leadership
D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Saturday Conference Session Details 7 – 9am Room 25A Shuttle Service Available L Creating District Conditions to Scale Effective Leadership Sponsored by: The George W. Bush Institute and New Leaders present a panel discussion of a recently published framework outlining the district conditions 7:30am – 12noon necessary for transformational school leaders to succeed. The framework and an accompanying Level 1, Main Lobby, Convention Center set of tools are aimed to help districts scale the Registration Hours number of successful principals across their school systems. This information is covered in the report Great Principals at Scale: Creating 8 – 9am District Conditions that Enable All Principals to be Effective, co-authored by the Bush Institute’s Room 25C Alliance to Reform Education Leadership and G D Bridge to a Brighter Future: An New Leaders. Panelists include report co-authors Unprecedented Three-District Partnership and superintendents from districts who have experience implementing components of the This session examines how three superintendents framework. combined resources and employed special legislation and best practices to jointly create an Moderator: Eva Myrick Chiang, Program Manager, environment where students previously struggling Education Reform, George W. Bush Institute, New 28 FEBRUARY SATURDAY, could thrive academically and behaviorally. York, NY Working closely with local school boards and Presenters: Jacquelyn Davis, Education Reform multiple community stakeholders, these district Fellow, George W. Bush Institute, Dallas, TX; Gina leaders empowered teachers to assist students Ikemoto, Executive Director of Research and previously off track for graduation to take Policy Development, New Leaders, Newport, MA; ownership of their future and become college Mike Miles, Superintendent, Dallas Independent and career ready. Equally impressive is the over School District, Dallas, TX; Lori Taliaferro, $600,000 they saved their local tax constituents. Executive Director, Policy and Practice Services, Learn how to replicate specific actions that will New Leaders, New York, NY; Alvin Wilbanks, increase your effectiveness in all collaborative Superintendent, Gwinnett County Public Schools, actions to maximize resources and student Suwanee, GA achievement. Presenters: Dan Kalbfliesh, Academy Principal, Berkshire Union Free School District, Canaan, NY; Dave Nagel, Professional Developer, NZJ Learning, Zionsville, IN; Bruce Potter, Superintendent, Berkshire Union Free School District, Canaan, NY
61 8 – 9am (cont.) Room 28A L Room 26A Leadership in the Information Age: A Changing Role for Superintendents D E How to Go from Tech Scared to Tech Savvy Advances in electronic technologies are changing From Twitter to tablet apps, technology is a major the world as we know it. Yet some school part of schools today. Learn from your peers what leaders seem slow to adapt to the change. This you need to know, what details you can avoid and session helps school leaders take control of their how to demystify social media. district’s messaging to tell their district’s story. Presenters: Ben Daley, Chief Academic Officer, Topics include communicating with stakeholders, High Tech High, San Diego, CA; Dallas Dance, demands for instant communication with staff Superintendent, Baltimore County PS, Towson, and with the public, the increased role for public MD; Wayne D’Orio, Editor in Chief, Scholastic relations in education, the influence of social Administrator, New York, NY; Cindy Marten, media, new professional development needs for Superintendent, San Diego Unified School District, staff, ethical issues and the school leader’s role in San Diego, CA modeling for staff. Presenters: Dan Frazier, Superintendent, Litchfield Room 25B Independent School District 465, Litchfield, MN; H E Mental Health First Aid for Youth and the Bridget O’Connell, Superintendent, Palisades Now Is the Time & Project Aware Grants School District, Kintnersville, PA; Joe Sanfelippo, Superintendent, Fall Creek School District, Fall Mental Health First Aid for Youth is a public Creek, WI; Brad Saron, Superintendent, Chippewa education program designed for adults who work Falls Area Unified School District, Chippewa Falls, with youth ages 12–18. The program helps teachers WI and other school staff recognize the signs and symptoms of mental illness and substance use Room 25C early, provide support, deescalate possible crisis
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 G D and refer individuals to professional help. This Mission Possible: Recruiting Effective workshop outlines the background and mission Teachers for Hard-to-Staff Schools of this groundbreaking public education program, Guilford County (NC) Schools, with 72,000 discusses available financial support, delves into students, more than half of whom qualify for free the course content, and provides participants with or reduced lunch, found that their best teachers an increased awareness and specific skills to share were clustered in affluent schools. To change at their sites immediately. this, rather than offer bonuses to willing teachers, Mental Health First Aid is an evidence-based Guilford identifies highly effective teachers using practice that is listed on SAMHSA’s National value-added reporting and then recruits them Registry of Evidence Based Programs and to these “Mission Possible” schools where they Practices and was included by President Obama can earn bonuses of up to $12,000 a year for in his recommendations on reducing gun violence increasing student performance above district in schools. averages. This session shares the lessons learned and successes gained using this approach. Presenter: Bryan Gibb, Director of Public Education, National Council for Behavioral Health, Presenter: Amy Holcombe, Executive Director Washington, DC of Talent Development, Guilford County Schools, Greensboro, NC
9:15 – 10:15am Room 26B H E Room 26A School Climate: Improving Discipline, Safety & Learning L How to Communicate Effectively with Despite national efforts, bullying, harassment Parents, Staff and Politicians and cyber-bullying continue to negatively impact From the Common Core to the student privacy our schools, affecting achievement, attendance, debate, school officials have been caught reacting discipline and school climate. This presentation to news more than being proactive. Learn how introduces the Whole School Climate Framework, to build consensus in your community for key a research-based blueprint for achieving safer initiatives, avoid partisan battles and react quickly and higher-performing schools, and explores and decisively in emergencies. best practice strategies for developing effective school climate improvement plans, restorative Presenters: Dan Brenner, Superintendent, Roslyn Public Schools, Roslyn, NY; Wayne D’Orio, Editor practice alternatives to suspensions and cost- in Chief, Scholastic Administrator, New York, NY; effective actions for achieving measurable results Patrick Murphy, Superintendent, Arlington County while recovering funds and spending less time on Public Schools, Arlington, VA; Cindy Marten, discipline. Superintendent, San Diego Unified School District, Presenter: Rick Phillips, Executive Director, San Diego, CA Community Matters, Santa Rosa, CA
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C I Curriculum and Instruction J C Job Central
Sponsored by: L Leadership
D E Digitizing Education S R Superintendent/School Board Relationships Sponsored by:
G D Governance and District Management
Room 25A 10:30 – 11:30am G D The Time Has Come: Practical Social Media from the Experts THOUGHT LEADER Join school communication superheroes Kitty Room 20D Porterfield and Meg Carnes, authors of Why L Social Media Matters: School Communications in Changing the Picture of Education the Digital Age, as they share how districts can through Integrated Student Supports implement a practical social media strategy at Decreasing dropouts, increasing graduation each school, not just at the district level. In the and preparing graduates for college is a process, learn how to make social media safe, challenge for many districts — particularly effective and fun with Sociability, the world’s first those that serve large populations of poor social media management system built exclusively and disadvantaged students. They struggle for schools and powered by ParentLink. Get with developing, coordinating, managing and serious about destroying the obstacles keeping financing the comprehensive social service your district from finally unlocking social media’s programming these kids need to succeed. potential to engage families. Attendees receive a free copy of the presenters’ book courtesy of Communities In Schools (CIS) partners with ParentLink. rural, urban and suburban school districts to bring an effective, cost-efficient and Presenters: Adam Bushman, Marketing sustainable model of Integrated Student Director, ParentLink, Provo, UT; Meg Carnes, Supports, or wrap-around services, to Partner, Porterfield & Carnes, Alexandria, VA; communities and achieve collective impact. Kitty Porterfield, Partner, Porterfield & Carnes, Alexandria, VA The Wall Street Journal writes: “With backing at local, state and federal levels, the decades-old idea for improving schools and neighborhoods is gaining ground.” Join CIS to learn how Integrated Student 28 FEBRUARY SATURDAY, Supports programming can be brought to your district. Presenters: Dan Cardinali, President, Communities In Schools National Office, Arlington, VA; Dan Domenech, Executive Director, AASA, Alexandria, VA
63 10:30 – 11:30am (cont.) 11:45am – 1:15pm
THOUGHT LEADER GENERAL SESSION Room 20A Room Hall H L To Flip or Not to Flip: Administrators’ The AASA Singing Superintendents Dilemmas AASA President-Elect Address Among district administrators, 25 percent identify flipped learning as having significant David Schuler, Superintendent, Township impact on transforming teaching and learning High School District 214, Arlington Heights, IL in their districts, surpassing other digital G D Valuing Diversity learning trends such as educational games and mobile apps and even online professional Learning to accommodate cultural differences development learning communities for is important for managers and employees in teachers and administrators. Also, a national order to be successful in the work environment. research survey conducted by Project Moreover, it is important in parenting and Tomorrow and the FLN found that 40 percent education Lt. Col. Consuelo Kickbusch (ret.) of administrators were interested in trying provides her personal story of challenges flipped learning in their schools. And data and triumphs as a child of the “barrio” who suggest that previous concerns about exactly succeeded in spite of many cultural, social and how to use flipped learning are waning educational obstacles. She gently guides her among administrators. This interactive session audience to a better understanding of cultural helps participants better understand how differences and similarities as she emphasizes their districts might benefit from flipped that appreciation of diverse cultures and learning. their contributions to today’s society is a very important element of team building SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Presenter: Kari Arfstrom, Executive Director, and teamwork, which makes for a successful, Flipped Learning Network, Arlington, VA productive work environment. Col. Kickbusch Sponsored by: The Martin Essex Memorial provides insights on the need for successful Fund professional development and personal growth. This introspective keynote forces participants to look inward at themselves, their work environments and their communities and motivates them to take action. Presenter: Lt. Colonel Consuelo Kickbusch (ret.), President and CEO, Educational Achievement Services, Inc., Las Vegas, NV
12:30 – 2pm Shuttle Service Available
AASA MOBILE APP Sponsored by: News and information about AASA’s policy and advocacy issues, children’s programs and leadership events are now available through the AASA mobile app, powered by ParentLink. Blackboard and ParentLink, better together. The free app is compatible with both iPhone and Android. Visit aasa.org/app.aspx.
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NCE Marketplace JOIN VENDORS AND FELLOW SCHOOL SYSTEM LEADERS COMMITTED TO IMPROVING K–12 EDUCATION AS WE CELEBRATE OUR 150TH ANNIVERSARY!
The NCE Marketplace is your one-stop shop for networking with industry leaders, discovering new products and services, and finding solutions targeted to improve student achievement. Located on the exhibit floor, the NCE Marketplace is your opportunity to check out the latest in curriculum, software and hardware — all ready to bring back to your school district! Stop by and check out some of these highlights:
• Visit the expanded AASA Central and the AASA Bookstore — Be sure to stop by AASA Central and the AASA Bookstore to learn about the new and exciting things going on at AASA, peruse the latest education-related titles and meet authors at our book signings.
• AASA Technology Center — Located within Microsoft’s Exhibit Booth, the AASA Technology Center is where you can relax, take a seat, charge your mobile devices and explore the exciting new technologies available from Microsoft. Quality education is essential to the future of our society. And technology can expand the power of education and unlock the potential of students, NCE MARKETPLACE educators and schools. That’s why Microsoft is dedicated to creating education software, providing high-quality professional development and services that deliver real impact for better student and education outcomes.
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• Knowledge Exchange Theater — We’ve greatly expanded the content offered on the exhibit hall floor in our Knowledge Exchange Theater! Don’t miss the chance to experience engaging sessions on the show floor!
• Join NCE exhibitors on Friday afternoon for a Happy Hour in the Hall. From 3:45 – 4:15pm, stop by the NCE Marketplace to network with the exhibitors and enjoy time with fellow superintendents.
MARKETPLACE HOURS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 8:30am – 3pm
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 10am – 4:15pm
66 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE PROMOTIONAL AND PRIZE DRAWINGS
ABMM Financial Maximus K-12 Education Booth: 801 Booth: 404 Apple TV Kindle Fire 7 Drawing to be held on February 26 at 2:50pm. Drawing to be held on February 27 at 4pm. Winner notified directly at booth. Winner notified directly at booth. Charging Dock Drawing to be held on February 27 at 4pm. Sanford Harmony Program Winner notified directly at booth. Booth: 314 Two sets of Quick Connection Cards American Fidelity Assurance Co. Winner notified directly. Booth: 426 Kindle Fire School Innovations & Achievement Booth: 310 Durham School Services ESEA/IDEA Insider Subscription Booth: 613 Drawing to be held on February 27 at 3:45pm. iPad Drawing to be held on February 27 at 4pm. Skyward, Inc. Item will be mailed to the winner. Booths: 504 & 506 Apple iWatch LearnSprout MARKETPLACEWinner EVENTS notified directly. Booth: 602 Apple iPad Mini WRiTE BRAiN World Drawing to be held on February 27 at 4pm. Booth: 433 Winner notified by email. Winner also be posted to WRiTE BRAiN Book Author’s Package (40 students) Twitter: @Learnsprout Drawing to be held on February 27 at 11:45am. Winners posted to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
8:30 – 9am...... Complimentary Coffee Break 10 – 10:30am...... Complimentary Coffee Break NCE MARKETPLACE 8:30 – 9am...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — 10 – 10:30am...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Who Cares About Your District’s Supporting the Greiving Student: Official App? Your Community A New Resource for School Administrators 9 – 10am...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — The Superintendent’s Social Media 10:30 – 11:30am...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Lounge: Part 1 The New “3Rs” in Education: AR, VR and QR: Make Them Work for 10:15 – 10:30am...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Your Distict Revenue Generation for Schools 11:30am – 12noon...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — 11:30am – 12:30pm.... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Enhancing Career & College Middle School Mission — Closing Readiness Using Naviance the Achievement Gap 12:15 – 1:15pm...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — 1:15 – 2:15pm...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Federal Relations Update II AASA Leadership: Advocacy and Policy in Action 1:30 – 2:30pm...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — The Superintendent’s Social Media 2:30 – 3:30pm...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Lounge: Part 2 Transitioning to Digital: What It Looks Like, Why It Works, and 2:45 – 3:45pm...... Knowledge Exchange Theater — Why It’s Time Superintendent/School Board Relations, A Discussion with the NSBA Executive Director 3:45 – 4:15pm ...... Happy Hour in the Hall
67 Exhibitor Listing by Alpha ABMM Financial Anchor Audio Portable Sound Systems Booth: 801 Booth: 706 517 Route 1 South, Suite 4100 5931 Darwin Court Iselin, NJ 08830 Carlsbad, CA 92008 ABMM is an independent financial services organization Anchor Audio is the leading manufacturer of portable specializing in retirement planning for public school, sound and public address systems. We provide easy-to- non-profit and governmental employees. use, dependable and long-lasting systems. www.abmmfinancial.com www.anchoraudio.com
Achievement Loop Anonymous Alerts & K12 Alerts Booth: 605 Booth: 822 111 Glenwood Road #2 245 Main Street, Suite 450 Somerville, MA 02145 White Plains, NY 10601 Elevate student learning with individualized, verbal Anonymous Alerts® empowers students to feedback. Stop by to learn how Achievement Loop anonymously report bullying, depression, weapons/ can help teachers provide better feedback for more threats and more using mobile apps, patent pending. students, more efficiently. K12 Alerts® patented emergency communications system. B-Notified mobile app builds community and ActPoint KPI parent involvement. EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA Booth: 402 www.anonymousalerts.com 5105 200th Street SW, Suite 200 Lynnwood, WA 98036 Apollo After School Superintendent’s data dashboard for financial and Booth: 633 operational results (KPIs). Manage for Results with 4450 N. Central Avenue ActPoint KPI. Compare your district’s results to other Chicago, IL 60630 peer districts. Developed in partnership with TransACT Apollo After School is a low-cost, tuition-based and the Council of the Great City Schools. enrichment program which coordinates all aspects of www.transact.com your out-of-school time. With an exciting, interactive curriculum and vendor management, our staff of ALICE Training Institute education professionals provides a high-quality Booth: 135 enrichment program for your school. 3613 Reserve Commons www.apolloafterschool.com Medina, OH 44256 The purpose of ALICE (Alert, Lockdown, Inform, Aramark K-12 Education Counter, Evacuate) training is to prepare individuals to Booth: 601 handle the threat of an active shooter. ALICE teaches 1101 Market Street individuals to participate in their own survival, while Philadelphia, PA 19107 leading others to safety. To support the K–12 educational mission, Aramark K–12 www.alicetraining.com Education provides industry-leading food and nutrition, and facilities services programs to over 500 school American Fidelity Assurance Co. districts nationwide. Booth: 426 www.aramarkschools.com 2000 N. Classen Boulevard Oklahoma City, OK 73126 Arizona State University Employee Benefit Programs, IRS Section 125 Booth: 316 Administration, Flexible Spending Account 1475 N. Swittsdale Road Administration and Health Care Reform Implementation Swittsdale, AZ 85257 Support. Arizona State University is the largest public research www.afadvantage.com university in the nation. Ranked a “Top 100 World University,” ASU offers over 100 degree and certificate American Heart Association programs online, including a Doctor of Education (EdD). Booths: 136, 234 educationonline.asu.edu 7272 Greenville Avenue Dallas, TX 75231 ASCD The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest, Booth: 307 largest voluntary organization devoted to fighting 1703 N. Beauregard Street cardiovascular diseases and stroke. We’re the nation’s Alexandria, VA 22311 leader in CPR education training. ASCD is committed to excellence in learning, teaching www.heart.org and leading. Together, with our community of researchers and practitioners, we offer a variety of professional development opportunities. www.ascd.org
68 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies Brenthaven Booth: 214 Booth: 309 753 West Boulevard 321 3rd Avenue S., Suite 403 Chipley, FL 32428 Seattle, WA 98104 The Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies Brenthaven’s K–12 Education Collection of laptop and (AEPA) is a 26-state non-profit organization of tablet cases are expertly designed to withstand the educational service agencies that leverages its rigors of the school environment and keep technology purchasing power to benefit all schools. protected. www.aepacoop.org www.brenthaven.com/education
Audio Enhancement Inc. Bright White Paper Co. Booth: 530 Booth: 322 14241 S. Redwood Road P.O. Box 2472 Bluffdale, UT 84065 Palm City, FL 34991 Classroom amplication for maximizing learning within Education Pro Color Poster Makers — 24”, 36” & 44”, the classroom. Security features to ensure student and color printers for educators, thermal poster printers and teacher safety. discounted poster paper, Easyboard display holders www.audioenhancement.com and Xyron Cold Laminators. www.brightwhitepaper.com AXA Booth: 722 BrightBytes 1290 Avenue of the Americas Booth: 419 New York, NY 10104 490 2nd Street, Suite 302 With a 155-year heritage, AXA stands among the San Francisco, CA 94107 nation’s premier providers of annuities and serves as an BrightBytes, an educational research organization, industry leader in the 403(b) market. partners with industry experts to create evidence- www.axa.com based frameworks and translate complex data into simple, fast actions that improve student learning. Background Investigation Bureau www.brightbytes.net Booth: 217 9710 Northcross Center Court Buck Institute for Education Hunterville, NC 28078 Booth: 221 BIB specializes in providing background screening 18 Commercial Boulevard solutions for school employees and volunteers. BIB Novato, CA 94949 is a member of AASPA and is an NAPBS accredited The Buck Institute for Education creates, gathers and screening firm. shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and www.bib.com products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools and districts. Blackboard Inc. www.bie.org Booth: 522 650 Massachusetts Avenue NW Cambridge International Examinations Washington, DC 20001 Booth: 740 Blackboard is the world’s leading education technology 1 Hills Road company. We challenge conventional thinking and Cambridge CB1 2EU, United Kingdom ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR advance new models of learning in order to reimagine Cambridge International Examinations is part education and make it more accessible, engaging and of Cambridge Assessment, a department of University relevant to the modern day learner and the institutions of Cambridge. that serve them. www.cie.org.uk www.blackboard.com CareFlow Electronic Student Health Records Boardworks Education Booth: 315 Booth: 609 433 West Market Street, Suite 6 174 N. 11th Street West Chester, PA 19380 New York, NY 11211 CareFlow offers the most comprehensive on- and off- Boardworks is a leading educational software publisher. campus student health records solutions for school We offer ready-made, editable, interactive K–12 lessons nurses, athletic trainers, coaches, school counselors, that encourage use of interactive whiteboards and save school administrators and student parent/guardian teacher preparation time. groups. www.boardworkeducation.com www.carelowmr.com
69 Champions Cyber High Business Development Booth: 826 Booth: 227 650 NE Holladay Street, #1400 2840 E. Floradora Avenue Portland, OR 97232 Fresno, CA 93703 Champions is the leading provider of high-quality, Cyber High is the best value in quality online education curriculum-based out-of-school time programs serving for high school students. Fully accredited, CCSS aligned more than 18,000 students at over 400 schools and a-g approved courses improve graduation rates! nationwide. www.capassprogram.org www.kueducation.com Darkness to Light Chartwells School Dining Services Booth: 225 Booth: 302 7 Radcliffe Street, Suite 200 3 International Drive, 2nd Floor Charleston, SC 29403 Rye Brook, NY 10573 Darkness to Light empowers adults through awareness www.eatlearnlive.com and educational programs to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to childhood sexual abuse. Colonial Life www.d21.org Booth: 639 1200 Colonial Life Boulevard Dasbotics Columbia, SC 29210 Booth: 101 As a leader in the voluntary benefits industry for 4425-C Treat Boulevard, Suite 189 more than 75 years, Colonial Life has a rich history Concord, CA 94518 and an award-winning reputation for superior service Dasbotics is a 3D printing company providing and innovative products. With our suite of cost- curriculum, services, support and sales. We are the first management solutions, we can help you manage the to offer the latest in a complete educational package. EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA rising cost of employee benefits — while still providing www.dasbotics.com them the quality benefits and services they deserve. www.coloniallife.com Davis Demographics & Planning Booth: 540 Communities In Schools 11850 Pierce Street, Suite 200 Booth: 105 Riverside, CA 92505 2345 Crystal Drive, Suite 801 22 years leading our industry in client advocacy and Arlington, VA 22202 superior consultancy. Our strong philosophies and Communities In Schools (CIS) is the nation’s largest and premier software assure our clients achieve a precise most effective dropout prevention organization, serving demographic strategy. 1.3 million young people and their families each year. www.davisdemographics.com
Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation District Administration Magazine Booth: 636 Booth: 415 1501 Lee Highway, Suite 300 488 Main Avenue Arlington, VA 22209 Norwalk, CT 06851 A non-profit organization offering a free curriculum District Administration is the leading provider of that uses the oral histories of Medal of Honor recipients practical insights and strategies for K12 administrators and citizen heroes to teach students about values. at school districts throughout the United States. The www.cmoffoundation.org District Administration Leadership Institute produces special events and creates communities for the nation’s Connor Sport Court International top K12 leadership. Booth: 728 www.districtadministration.com 5445 W. Harold Gatty Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84116 Drexel University — School of Education Sport Court is the industry-leader at providing safe, Booth: 805 high-quality, low-maintenance outdoor sports courts 3001 Market Street, Suite 100 and gym floors. Philadelphia, PA 19104 www.sportcourt.com Drexel University’s School of Education produces leaders who affect change in classrooms, Creative Learning Systems administration, and research and policy. Booth: 735 drexel.edu/soe 1140 Boston Avenue Longmont, CO 80501 Durham School Services Creative Learning Systems develops engaging, next- Booth: 613 generation STEM and DMA environments for K12. 4300 Weaver Parkway SmartLab™ programs set the standard for integrating Warrenville, IL 60555 applied technology and core academics. Durham School Services is a full-service student www.creativelearningsystems.com transportation provider dedicated to getting students to school safely, on time and ready to learn. www.durhamschoolservices.com
70 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE ECRA Group, Inc. & HYA Executive Search Ellingsen & Associate Online Speech Therapy Booth: 329 Booth: 325 5600 North River Road, Suite 180 6373 N. Camiro Hermosillo Rosemont, IL 60018 Tucson, AZ 85718 ECRA Group is a research and analytics consulting firm Speech and language therapy services serving schools composed of leading researchers and Ph.D. statisticians. since 1980. The leading innovator in providing speech ECRA offers organizations unique solutions to support services online for thousands of students using cutting- their evolving data and research needs. edge technology. www.ecragroup.com www.onlinespeechtherapy.com
Educate Online Inc. Energy For Schools Booth: 230 Booth: 730 99 Conifer Hill Drive 16300 Katy Freeway, Suite 140 Danvers, MA 01923 Houston, TX 77094 Educate Online’s Guided Learning Solution brings Energy aggregation for Texas school districts. personalized one-on-one, competency-based learning www.energyforschools.org to your students to help build the critical gateway skills needed for academic success. Executive Ed.D. in K-12 Administration College of Booth: 431 Education Logistics, Inc. College of William and Mary School of Education Booth: 117 P.O. Box 8795 3000 Palmer Street Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795 Missoula, MT 59808 execedd.wm.edu Education Logistics’ solutions encompass all aspects of K–12 pupil transportation, including items for routing, First Student, Inc. GPS, driver time and attendance, enrollment projections Booth: 414 and consult services. 600 Vine Street, Suite 1400 www.edulog.com Cincinnati, OH 45202 Stop by our booth to learn why more school districts Education Networks of America trust First Student to deliver safe, reliable and cost- Booth: 726 effective student transportation. 618 Grassmere, Suite 12 www.firststudentinc.com Nashville, TN 37211 ENA is the nation’s leading provider of Infrastructure as Follett a Service (IaaS) solutions to school systems, libraries Booth: 614 and governments. 1340 Ridgeview Drive www.ena.com McHenry, IL 60050 Follett provides educationally relevant content, Education Week integrated educational technology solutions, and value- Booth: 736 added services to PreK–12 schools and districts in the 6935 Arlington Road, Suite 200 United States and around the world. Bethesda, MD 20814 www.follettlearning.com Education Week, publishing since 1981, provides singular news coverage and analysis on K–12 education. Forecast5 Analytics ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR Visit Education Week at Booth 736 for a chance to win Booth: 526 free group online access for your school or district. 2135 City Gate Lane, 7th Floor www.edweek.org Naperville, IL 60563 Forecast5 is changing the way schools make strategic Edupoint Educational Systems and financial decisions through utilization of data Booth: 824 discovery and data analytics tools in a collaborative 1955 S. Val Vista Drive, Suite 200 environment. Mesa, AZ 85204 www.forecast5analytics.com www.edupoint.com Forrest T. Jones & Co. Inc. ELERTS Booth: 216 Booth: 133 1760 Reston Parkway #303 1132 Main Street Reston, VA 20190 Weymouth, MA 02190 Forrest T. Jones & Co. is the AASA insurance program ELERTS develops school safety communication systems administrator, offering 15 different insurance products. using smartphones. ELERTS apps are consistent with As an additional benefit of membership, eligible AASA ALICE training principles for responding to active members receive $1 million of professional liability shooters and other violent threats. protection. Visit our website or call (800) 821-7303 for www.elerts.com more information. www.ftj.com
71 Fortinet The Gordian Group Booth: 631 Booth: 128 899 Kifer Road 140 Bridges Road, Suite E Sunnyvale, CA 94080 Mauldi, SC 29662 Fortinet, a pioneer in high-performance network The Gordian Group provides industry-leading security, has positioned schools to be able to respond construction procurement services to facility and rapidly to a sophisticated IT threat landscape. infrastructure owners from every sector across the U.S. and Canada. www.fortinet.com www.thegordiangroup.com Frontline Technologies (AppliTrack) Booth: 710 8725 W. Higgins Road, Suite 325 Government Finance Officers Association Chicago, IL 60631 Booth: 231 5,000+ districts use Frontline’s human capital 203 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 2700 management tools, including Aesop (absence Chicago, IL 60601 management/automated sub-calling), VeriTime (time GFOA is a non-profit organization dedicated to and attendance) and AppliTrack (recruiting/selection/ improving the financial management of school districts HR file). and other governments, we provide best-practice www.frontlinek12.com guidance for school budgeting. www.gfoa.org Frontline Technologies, Inc. Booth: 708 Graduate Follow-Up by LifeTrack Services 397 Eagleview Boulevard Booth: 226 Exton, PA 19341 1271 Port Drive Over 5,000 districts use Frontline’s suite of tools, Clarkston, WA 99403 EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA including Aesop (absence management and automated Senior exit surveys, comprehensive five-year graduate sub-calling), VeriTime (time and attendance) follow-up, season-ending athletic surveys and and AppliTrack (recruiting, selection and HR file Title IX interest surveys. Customized surveys and management). comprehensive reporting. Online or paper based. www.frontlinek12.com Graduation Alliance GCA Education Services Booth: 513 Booth: 620 310 S Main Street, Floor 12 4702 Western Avenue, Suite 101 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Knoxville, TN 37921 Graduation Alliance gives school districts across the GCA Education Services, Inc. is a leading provider nation the resources and support needed to serve of custodial, grounds and facility operations and students for whom life obstacles have prevented prior maintenance services to 300 education clients across academic success. the United States.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute Booth: 502 Grand Canyon University 49 W. 45th Street, 6th Floor Booth: 109 New York, NY 10036 3300 W. Camelback Road The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is Phoenix, AZ 85017 a New York–based national nonprofit devoted to the Founded in 1949, Grand Canyon University is a private, teaching and learning of American history. Christian university that offers more than 160 online and campus-based degree programs and concentrations. Goalbook www.gcu.edu Booth: 641 P.O. Box 1289 Great Expectations San Mateo, CA 94401 Booth: 732 Goalbook provides best-in-class online resources and 1805 Courtney Lane professional development that helps teachers design Edmond, OK 73013 rigorous instruction for ALL students, aligned to Great Expectations transforms classrooms into a Common Core and Universal Design for Learning. positive climate that ensures academic success. www.goalbookapp.com www.greatexpectationsok.org G.R.E.A.T Program Booth: 130 PO Box 12729 Tallahassee, FL 32308 Gang Resistance Education And Training (G.R.E.A.T.) is an evidence-based and effective gang and violence prevention program built around school-based, law enforcement officer-instructed classroom curricula. www.great-online.org
72 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Hapara, Inc. Booth: 320 HMS 801 High Street, Suite 200 Booth: 709 Palo Alto, CA 94301 5615 High Point Drive Hapara’s teacher dashboard organizes Google Apps Irving, TX 75038 for teachers. Interact allows teachers to see student HMS Employer Solutions creates value for self-funded browsing activity in real time. Insight is analytics of and fully insured health plans. We offer the best- Google Apps activity. in-market cost-containment solutions: dependent www.hapara.com eligibility verification audits, including enrollment-based and ongoing, and working spouse provision audits. Heartland School Solutions www.hms.com Booth: 701 787 Elmgrove Road Rochester, NY 14624 Hobsons Heartland School Solutions is the leading provider of Booth: 408 secure online and on-campus payment solutions and 50 E-Business Way, Suite 300 comprehensive school nutrition management software. Cincinnati, OH 45241 We help optimize operations for more than 30,000 Naviance by Hobsons, the world’s leading college and schools throughout the United States. career readiness platform, helps maximize student www.hearlandschoolsolutions.com success and institutional effectiveness through every stage of the learning lifecycle. Heery International www.hobsons.com Booth: 421 999 Peachtree Street NE Horace Mann Atlanta, GA 30309 Booth: 501 Heery is a full-service architecture, engineering, #1 Horace Mann Plaza program management, construction management and Springfield, IL 62715 interior firm with 25 offices nationwide. www.horacemann.com www.heery.com Imagine Learning Inc. Hellas Sports Construction Booth: 713 Booth: 206 191 River Park Drive 12710 Research Boulevard, Suite 240 Provo, UT 84604 Austin, TX 78759 A literacy software program designed to help students Headquartered in Austin, TX, Hellas Construction is master essential reading and speaking skills. The a nationwide contractor with a strong reputation for program adapts to each student’s needs, providing delivering premium-quality sports construction projects individualized instruction. across the U.S. Hellas controls the entire supply chain www.imaginelearning.com from the design, construction, manufacturing, and installation of sports surfaces, including after the Infinite Trading Inc. sale services for all facilities and clients. For more information, visit hellasconstruction.com and Booth: 739 matrix-turf.com or follow on Twitter and Facebook. 3651 Lindell Road, Suite D120 Las Vegas, NV 89103 www.hellasconstruction.com ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR
Hewlett Packard Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) Booth: 745 Booth: 120 One Old Country Road, Suite 250 16399 W. Bernardo Drive Carle Place, NY 11514 San Diego, CA 92127 The Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) transforms The world’s largest technology company, HP brings underserved and underperforming high schools to together a portfolio that spans networking, servers, better prepare students for success in college and storage, printing, personal computing, software and careers. services. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our www.studentachievement.org customers’ needs. www.hp.com The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) Booth: 407 4648 US Highway 271 North Pittsburg, TX 75686 The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) is a purchasing cooperative serving public and private school districts, colleges, universities, federal, state, county and city municipalities. www.TIPS-USA.com
73 International Baccalaureate Americas Global Knovation Centre Booth: 521 Booth: 527 3630 Park 42 Drive, Suite 170F 7501 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200 West Cincinnati, OH 45241 Bethesda, MD 20814 Our suite of personalized learning solutions, including The International Baccalaureate (IB) offers four high- netTrekker, icurio and professional learning services, quality and challenging educational programs for a help educators engage students where they are with worldwide community of schools, aiming to create a the right digital resources. better, more peaceful world. www.knovationlearning.com www.ibo.org/iba Knowledge Delivery Systems JASON Learning Booth: 308 Booth: 544 110 William Street 44983 Knoll Square, Suite 150 New York, NY 10038 Ashburn, VA 20147 Knowledge Delivery Systems (KDS) is the leading www.jason.orgK12 provider of research-based, blended-model strategic professional development solutions for states, districts Istation and schools, supporting the professional growth and Booth: 125 needs of individual teachers, coaches and school leaders. 8150 North Central Expressway 2000 www.kdsi.org Dallas, TX 75206 Istation helps students grow. Early and advanced The Leadership Program reading teachers depend on our computer-adaptive Booth: 204 assessments and instructions for the data they need to 535 8th Avenue, 16th Floor personalize learning. New York, NY 10018 EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA www.istation.com The Leadership Program, a nationally recognized youth and professional development organization, provides ISTE training, curricula and programming designed to inspire Booth: 617 participants to step into their leadership. 180 West 8th Avenue, Suite 300 www.tlpnyc.com Eugene, OR 97401 The International Society for Technology in Education Lea(r)n, Inc. (ISTE®) is the premier nonprofit organization serving Booth: 229 educators and education leaders committed to 310 S. Harrington Street empowering connected learners in a connected world. Raleigh, NC 27601 www.iste.org LearnTrials, the independent, research-backed platform, helps schools and districts save 80% of the time it takes K12 Insight, Inc. to know which technology products are best for their Booth: 542 classrooms 2291 Wood Oak Drive, Suite 300 www.learntrials.com Herndon, VA 20171 K12 Insight is the category leader in helping school LearningAisle leaders build trust with all stakeholders by building a Booth: 121 culture of superior customer service and leading by 115 Mendosa Avenue listening. San Francisco, CA 94116 www.k12insight.com LearningAisle is the market leader in customized Quiz/Homework Management Platform. RETURN ON Keystone Purchasing Network (KPN) EDUCATION — let us help schools reduce per-student Booth: 627 costs and improve learning outcomes. 90 Lawton Lane www.LearningAisle.com Milton, PA 17847 The Keystone Purchasing Network offers cooperative Learning Sciences International purchasing contracts on a national basis with no cost to Booth: 116 join. Visit our website to join or for more information. 175 Cornell Road, Suite 18 www.thekpn.org Blairsville, PA 15717 Learning Sciences International provides print, web-based and onsite professional development to educators worldwide, serving more than 4 million students in the United States alone. www.learningsciences.com
74 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE LearnSprout Mid-Career Doctoral Program in Education Booth: 602 Leadership 630 8th Street, Suite 100 Booth: 716 San Francisco, CA 94103 3440 Market Street, Suite 560 The LearnSprout Early Warning System and Data Philadelphia, PA 19104 Analytics analyzes your PowerSchool data to help The Mid-Career Doctoral Program, founded in 2001, identify historical trends, track college readiness and is a cohort-based, intensive three-year program for spot at-risk students. experienced P–12 educational leaders. www.learnsprout.com www.gse.upenn.edu/midcareer
LifeLoc Technologies My Learning Plan, Inc. Booth: 434 Booth: 621 12441 W 49th Avenue, Suite 4 8586 Potter Park Drive Wheatridge, CO 80033 Sarasota, FL 34238 LifeLoc breath alcohol testers are trusted nationwide by My Learning Plan, Inc. is the leading provider of web- school administrators. It’s fast, easy, and cost effective based educator evaluation and professional learning to test students and open beverage containers for data management solutions used by K–12 school alcohol. districts throughout the United States and around the www.lifeloc.com world. www.mylearningplan.com
MAXIMUS K–12 Education National Institute of Justice Booth: 404 Booth: 733 15030 N. Hayden Road, Suite 100 700 N. Frederick Avenue Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Gaithersburg, MD 20879 MAXIMUS provides authoritative software for special NIJ’s goals are to advance scientific research, education and RTI throughout North America. TIENET development and evaluation to enhance the is also the PowerSchool Special Education module. administration of justice and public safety. CASE endorsed and widely used. www.nij.gov www.maximus.com National Joint Powers Alliance Mentoring Minds, L.P. Booth: 210 Booth: 113 202 12th Street NE, P.O. Box 219 P.O. Box 8843 Staples, MN 56479 Tyler, TX 75711 NJPA is a municipal contracting agency that provides Mentoring Minds develops effective, affordable national purchasing contracts competitively solicited learning tools that help students succeed. Experienced for all government, education and non-profit agencies. educators create K–12 resources that integrate best www.njpacoop.org practices for instruction, assessment and learning. www.mentroingminds.com National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) Booth: 428 Microsoft Corporation 8350 N. Central Expressway, Suite M-2200 Booth: 626 Dallas, TX 75206 One Microsoft Way NMSI is transforming education across the nation ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR Redmond, WA 98052 by building college readiness through exceptional Located within Microsoft’s Exhibit Booth, the AASA teaching. We are a nonprofit focused on delivering Technology Center is where you can relax, take a seat, educational programs to states and schools by charge your mobile devices and explore the exciting providing training and resources. new technologies available from Microsoft. Quality www.nms.org education is essential to the future of our society. And technology can expand the power of education National Network of Digital Schools and unlock the potential of students, educators and Booth: 313 schools. That’s why Microsoft is dedicated to creating 294 Massachusetts Avenue education software, providing high quality professional Rochester, PA 15074 development and services that deliver real impact for NNDS is the exclusive provider and developer of lincoln better student and education outcomes. Come visit interactive, a fully accredited, standards-based online us and learn how you can inspire and engage your curriculum for K–12 students. students with interactive activities to easily connect www.nndsonline.com with students, parents, and community—anytime, anywhere. National Peanut Board www.microsoft.com/edu Booth: 102 3350 Riverwood Parkway, Suite 1150 Atlanta, GA 30339 National Peanut Board funds food allergy research and education and promotes the good nutrition of peanuts. Visit www.peanutallergyfact.org to learn about managing food allergies. www.nationalpeanutboard.org 75 National School Public Relations Association OverDrive Booth: 520 Booth: 114 15948 Derwood Road One OverDrive Way Rockville, MD 20855 Cleveland, OH 44125 National organization for building community Make OverDrive your central digital content solution. understanding and support for schools. Professional The only solution compatible with iPad®, Chromebook™ public engagement, marketing, communication and Kindle® (U.S. only). Serving thousands of schools materials, resources, consulting services, including worldwide. communication audits and plans for accountability. company.overdrive.com/education/k-12-schools www.nspra.org Panorama Education National University Sanford Education Center Booth: 335 Booth: 215 109 Kingston Street, 5th Floor 11355 North Torrey Pines Road Boston, MA 02111 La Jolla, CA 92037 Panorama Education helps schools improve through The Sanford Education Center at National feedback surveys and data analytics. Trusted by over University provides educators, nonprofit leaders 6,000 schools, Panorama supports student, parent and and administrators with educational and training staff surveys. resources to inspire learning and develop harmonious www.panoramaed.com interrelationships. ParentLink OraSure Technologies Booth: 536 Booth: 703 180 N. University Avenue, Suite 500 220 East 1st Street Provo, UT 84601 Bethlehem, PA 18015 ParentLink helps school districts engage families EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA OraSure Technologies offers products for drugs through the communication platform they prefer, of abuse, cotinine and alcohol. The Intercept® and powering the most official district mobile apps, social OraSure® tests offer laboratory confidence with oral media management and traditional messaging. fluid convenience while QED offers quantitative ethanol www.parentlink.com detection in 2 minutes. www.orasure.com Paxton/Patterson LLC Booth: 610 The OrganWise Guys, Inc. 724 E. 1st Street Booth: 129 Fort Worth, TX 76102 450 Satellite Boulevard Cloud Learning Management System blended Suwanee, GA 30024 with project-based learning. Anywhere! Anytime! The OrganWise Guys is an evidence-based, obesity Any device! Individualized learning with real-time prevention program that seamlessly integrates core remediation for STEM, Health Science, Construction and curricula objectives and healthy living education to FACS. improve academic performance. www.patxonpatterson.com www.organwiseguys.com Peachjar Outdoor Aluminum, Inc. Booth: 201 Booth: 422 15090 Avenue of Science, Suite 101 P.O. Box 118 San Diego, CA 92128 Geneva, AL 36340 Increase parent and community engagement by We are a manufacturer of grandstands, custom delivering important information directly to parents. bleachers, picnic tables, benches, press boxes and other Peachjar offers the leading eflyer management tool related seating. used by thousands of schools across the nation. www.outdooraluminum.com www.peachjar.com
Overcoming Obstacles — Life Skills Education Pepperdine University Graduate School of Booth: 802 Education 334 East Bayfront, Suite 159 Booth: 734 Charleston, SC 29401 6100 Center Drive, 5th Floor The non-profit Community for Education Foundation Los Angeles, CA 90045 provides the award-winning, research-based The Pepperdine University Graduate School of Overcoming Obstacles Life Skills curriculum to Education and Psychology offers a variety of master’s educators at no cost. Teach life skills and change our and doctoral degrees in the fields of education and world. psychology. Many of our programs are designed for the www.overcomingobstacles.org working professional with classes that meet during the evenings, online and occasionally on weekends. gsep.pepperdine.edu
76 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Pitsco Education RaaWee Inc. Booth: 635 Booth: 712 917 East Jefferson 800 E. Campbell Road, Suite 201 Pittsburg, KS 66762 Richardson, TX 75081 Students of all learning styles have success in Pitsco RaaWee K12 Solutions empowers Student Support STEM labs. Our hands-on approach provides a variety Services in enterprise and cloud administrative of flexible implementation models that build STEM application development to solve business and student literacy. support challenges of public schools nationwide. Our www.pitsco.com core solutions are: Truancy & Dropout Prevention System, Online Student Registration, On-Demand PMA Financial Network, Inc. Development, Asset Loss Prevention Systems. Booth: 528 2135 City Gate Lane, 7th Floor Rave Mobile Safety Naperville, IL 60563 Booth: 123 PMA Financial Network, Inc. is a full-service public 50 Speen Street finance company with over 30 years of experience Framingham, MA 01710 providing clients long-term financial solutions that Rave Mobile Safety is a leading provider public safety, work. K–12 and higher education technology solutions, www.pmanetwork.com including Smart911, Rave Panic Button, Rave Alert and SmartPrepare. Pride Surveys www.ravemobilesafety.com Booth: 534 2490 Jefferson Terrace Read To Them Atlanta, GA 30344 Booth: 134 For over 30 years, Pride Surveys has helped schools 1011 E. Main Street, Suite 204 measure student behavior, school climate, safety, Richmond, VA 23219 bullying and violence — all factors that affect the National family literacy organization Read to Them learning environment. promotes a culture of reading in homes, schools www.pridesurveys.com and communities through its One District, One Book program. Proximity Learning Inc. www.readtothem.org Booth: 436 900 S. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 5350 Renaissance Learning Austin, TX 78746 Booth: 514 Proximity Learning is a fully accredited online education 2911 Peach Street provider based in Austin, TX. Our courses are built Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494 around regularly scheduled live class sessions delivered Renaissance Learning™ is a leading provider of cloud- via web conferencing. based assessment and teaching and learning solutions www.proxlearn.com that fit the K12 classroom, improve school performance and accelerate learning. Quantum Learning Education www.renlearn.com Booth: 731 1938 Avenida Del Oro Responsive Classroom
Oceanside, CA 92056 Booth: 326 ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR Quantum Learning’s professional development 85 Avenue A, P.O. Box 718 programs have transformed more than 100,000 Turners Falls, MA 01376 teachers, affecting 12 million students worldwide. Our Responsive Classroom, a research- and evidence-based teaching methods are research based and student approach to K–8 education, results in social, emotional proven. and academic growth in students. Workshops, onsite www.quantumlearning.com consulting, professional development resources. www.ResponsiveClassroom.org Questeq Inc. Booth: 202 Responsive Technologies 420 Rouser Road Booth: 213 Coraopolis, PA 15108 365 Industrial Drive Questeq has spent years providing an outsourced Harrison, OH 45030 Educational Technology Management (ETM) service The Centurion Wireless Panic Button System provides specifically for K12 school districts. Our ETM service is an immediate direct link to law enforcement and school designed to deliver strategic outcomes in addition to personnel in an emergency. meeting the individual requirements and budgets of www.stoptechltd.com any school district. Questeq enables school districts to focus on the core mission of education while achieving unparalleled value from their technology investments. www.questeq.com
77 Right At School School Improvement Network Booth: 535 Booth: 413 1167 Wilmette Avenue 32 W. Center Street Wilmette, IL 60091 Midvale, UT 84047 Right at School provides meaningful recess and after- School Improvement Network provides award-winning, school programs to enrich the lives of students, gives on-demand professional learning resources that parents peace of mind, and help schools save money research shows help educators become significantly and focus on their academic mission. more effective and students more successful. www.rightatschool.com www.schoolimprovement.com
SafeDefend, LLC School Innovations & Achievement Booth: 236 Booth: 310 104 E Main Street 5200 Golden Foothill Parkway Gardner, KS 66030 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 SafeDefend provides the most effective, law School Innovations & Achievement helps improve enforcement supported approach to student and staff student outcomes and increase parent engagement safety available. We prepare, notify and protect those through our award-winning software programs, most important to you! Attention2Attendance® and Partnering4Student www.safedefend.com Success®. www.sia-us.com SafeGuard/IMMI Booth: 409 SchoolMessenger 18881 US31 N Booth: 425 Westfield, IN 46074 718 University Avenue, Suite 202 The first to introduce lap-shoulder belts to the school Los Gatos, CA 95032 EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA bus industry, IMMI’s SafeGuard® brand of seats and Founded in 1999, SchoolMessenger is a leading provider STAR restraints are the preferred choice for school and of communication solutions for education. Thousands daycare transportation. of school districts, public schools, colleges, universities, www.safeguardseat.com private schools and other educational facilities in all 50 states depend on the company’s innovative solutions to Sanford Harmony Program engage with their communities in any language and on Booth: 314 any device. P.O. Box 873701 www.schoolmessenger.com Tempe, AZ 85287-3701 The Sanford Harmony Program is an approach Schoology designed to enhance peer relationships in Pre–K Booth: 420 through 6th grade classrooms, thus reducing time 115 W. 30th Street, 10th Floor spent on classroom management. New York, NY 10001 www.sanfordharmonyprogram.org www.schoology.com
School Check IN Schoolwires Booth: 533 Booth: 532 P.O. Box 17979 330 Innovation Boulevard, Suite 301 Tampa, FL 33682 State College, PA 16803 www.schoolcheckin.com Schoolwires is dedicated to helping K–12 districts reach their optimal level of community engagement. We believe that a successful school district is a product of total community and parent involvement. That’s why School Device Coverage our mobile and web-based products and solutions Booth: 118 enhance communication, spark collaboration and boost 29800 Agoura Road #200 student achievement. Agoura Hills, CA 91301 www.schoolwires.com School Device Coverage offers affordable insurance for school devices issued to students during the school SearchSoft Solutions Inc. year. We cover damage, loss and theft. Booth: 646 www.schooldevicecoverage.com 47 S. Meridian St., Suite 307 Indianapolis, IN 46204 SearchSoft provides HR software solutions that save districts time and money. Key products include: Applicant Tracking, Electronic Onboarding, and Teacher and Principal Evaluation Solutions. www.searchsoft.net
78 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE Selective Service System Source4Teachers/MissionOne Booth: 803 Booth: 531 1515 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 500 800 Kings Highway North, Suite 405/410 Arlington, VA 22209 Cherry Hill, NJ 08034 www.sss.gov Source4Teachers and MissionOne are leading educational management firms specializing in full- Seton Hall University service, cost-effective management of substitute Booth: 228 teachers, paraprofessionals and support personnel for 400 S. Orange Avenue, Jubilee Hall, Room 422 school districts. South Orange, NJ 07079 www.source4teachers.com Intensive two-year program; weekends and summer sessions. National reputation. Extensive networking SRC Solutions, Inc. and professional development. Cohort community Booth: 546 supporting advancement during and after the program. 4647 Saucon Creek Road, Suite 100 Center Valley, PA 18034 Silverback Learning Solutions SRC Solutions Registration Gateway, a District Booth: 705 Administrator Top 100 Award for 2014, automates your 408 E. Parkcenter Boulevard, Suite 300 student enrollment and document management. Visit Boise, ID 83706 us at Booth 546. Silverback Learning’s Mileposts, in collaboration with www.src-solutions.com Gooru, bring together resources for personalized learning. Analyze data, create custom plans and/or RtI SSC Service Solutions interventions, and access teaching and learning content Booth: 301 linked to Common Core Standards and all-in-one cloud- 1845 Midpark Road, Suite 201 based tool. Knoxville, TN 37921 www.silverbacklearning.com SSC partners with educational institutions nationwide to provide quality integrated facilities programs including custodial, maintenance and grounds services. www.sscserv.com SK SOLAR Booth: 132 Standard for Success 2658 Griffith Park Boulevard Booth: 333 Los Angeles, CA 90039 10741 S. County Road 850 East SK Solar is a Los Angeles-based company with vast Cloverdale, IN 46120 experience in commercial solar and school projects. Educators with an understanding of the evaluation HGAC pre-approved for fast turnaround! process created Standard for Success’s cloud-based www.sksolar-usa.com system for employee evaluation and management. SFS has 100% client retention. SkoolLive, LLC www.standardforsuccess.com Booth: 106 285 Marquette Avenue STEDI.org — Substitute Teaching Division San Marcos, CA 92078 Booth: 510 SkoolLive is a technology and media company that 429 S. Main works with schools in order to provide revenue Logan, UT 84321 ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR opportunities through brand sponsorships on our 58” STEDI.org provides college-level substitute teacher interactive kiosk. training in classroom management, teaching strategies, www.skoollive.com and professionalism. Licensed by Utah State University, STEDI.org is the premier trainer of substitute teachers. Skyline Technology Solutions stedi.org Booth: 746 6956 Aviation Boulevard, Suite F The STEM Academy, Inc. Glen Burnie, MD 21061 Booth: 432 8322 W. Cantera Skyward, Inc. Peoria, AZ 85383 Booth: 504 The STEM Academy, Inc. is a national non-profit 5233 Coye Drive organization dedicated to advancing economic Stevens Point, WI 54481 development by improving STEM literacy for all K–16 Skyward’s School Management System represents an students. integrated student and financial management software www.stem101.org system designed to keep administrators, educators and families connected. STEMfinity www.skyward.com Booth: 806 5465 E. Terra Linda Way #105 Nampa, ID 83687
79 Stop Summer Learning Loss TenMarks Education, an Amazon Company Booth: 645 Booth: 233 7721 Wadsworth Boulevard 1633 Bayshore Highway Arvada, CO 80003 Burlingame, CA 94010 www.stopsummerlearningloss.com Tetra Analytix Studies Weekly Booth: 126 Booth: 220 196 S 100 W 1922 W200 N Logan, UT 84321 Lindon, UT 84042 Tetra Analytix, LLC is a specialized company focusing Studies Weekly is a simple and cost-effective way to on innovative data collection and reporting technology teach social studies and science to your K–6 students. systems for schools, governments and other www.studiesweekly.com organizations.
TalentEd Thesys International Booth: 519 Booth: 525 3520 West 75th Street, Suite 300 1575 W. Mable Street Prairie Village, KS 66208 Anaheim, CA 92802 Providing intuitive software for recruiting, hiring, www.thesysintl.com developing, and retaining the best teachers and school leaders to districts and institutions (public, charter and TIAA-CREF private) nationwide. Booth: 714 www.netchemia.com 730 Third Avenue New York, NY 10017 TeacherMatch TIAA-CREF is a full-service financial services company EXHIBITOR LISTING BY ALPHA Booth: 643 serving the needs of those working in the academic, 4611 N. Ravenswood, Suite 201 research, medical, cultural, religious and governmental Chicago, IL 60640 fields. www.teachermatch.org www.tiaa-cref.org
Teacher’s Discovery Trapeze Software Group Booth: 629 Booth: 825 2741 Paldan Drive 1100 Superior Avenue E, Suite 1290 Auburn Hills, MI 48326 Cleveland, OH 44114 www.teachersdiscovery.com www.trapezegroup.com
Teachers-Teachers.com Booth: 619 Tremco Roofing P.O. Box 2519 Booth: 625 Columbia, MD 21045 3735 Green Road Teachers-Teachers offers school systems the most user- Beachwood, OH 44122 friendly and cost-effective web-based application for Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance is committed recruitment and applicant tracking needs. With over to providing education facilities with roofing and 350,000 certified teachers, we can help you find the weatherproofing solutions on time, on budget and with right fit for any position! minimal class disruption. www.Teachers-Teachers.com www.tremcoroofing.com
TekVisions UpSlope Solutions LLC Booth: 804 Booth: 606 40970 Anza Road P.O. Box 10683 Temecula, CA 92592 Glendale, AZ 85023 www.tekvisions.com UpSlope provides onsite researched-supported Employee Behavior Modification Leadership Staff Templeton Demographics Development, Employee and Student Code of Conduct Booth: 305 design, and desktop Investigative Rubric Software. 556 Silicon Drive #101 www.upslopesolutions.com Southlake, TX 76092 Templeton Demographics is a consulting firm VALIC specializing in demographic studies, attendance zone Booth: 604 planning, enrollment forecasting and G.I.S. mapping 2929 Allen Parkway that helps school districts establish enrollment Houston, TX 77019 projections, make recommendations for new For more than half a century, VALIC has served as schools, establish attendance boundary changes and a leading retirement plan provider for K–12 schools accommodate growth at existing schools. and school districts, as well as other not-for-profit www.tdemographics.com institutions. www.valic.com
80 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE VH1 Save The Music Foundation Worth Ave. Group Booth: 503 Booth: 328 1515 Broadway, 20th Floor 1337 S. Western Road New York, NY 10036 Stillwater, OK 74074 We believe complete education includes music Worth Ave. Group specializes in providing electronic education. We partner with public schools to give device protection for educational institutions, children the tools to excel in academics and in life. businesses and individuals offering unlimited claims. www.vh1savethemusic.org Licensed in all 50 states and the U.S. territories. www.worthavegroup.com Vista Learning, NFP Booth: 327 Working Education 2705 McDonough Street Booth: 640 Joliet, IL 60436 2312 Park Avenue, Suite 450 EvaluWise is a customizable web-based teacher Tustin, CA 92782 evaluation management tool that saves administrators Connect your student metrics with financials. 2–3 hours per evaluation regardless of the evaluation Standardize your data for maximum interoperability. model (including CSTP-based models). Turnkey education data management organization providing plug-and-play reporting solutions. www.workingeducation.com Voya Financial WRiTE BRAiN World Booth: 702 Booth: 433 One Orange Way 554 N. Laramont Boulevard Windsor, CT 06095 Los Angeles, CA 90004 Voya Financial (formerly ING U.S.) is composed of WRiTE BRAiN books is a new and innovative project- premier retirement, investment and insurance companies based learning program. WRiTE BRAiN books are richly- serving the financial needs of approximately 13 million illustrated, textless books that inspire kids of all ages to individual and institutional customers in the U.S. write, igniting self-expression and inventive storytelling voya.com while developing necessary 21st-century skills. www.writebrainworld.com
Waterford Institute YouthTruth Student Survey Booth: 632 Booth: 219 1590 East 9400 South 100 Montgomery Street, Suite 1700 Sandy, UT 84093 San Francisco, CA 94104 Waterford Institute is a nonprofit research center that YouthTruth is a national nonprofit that harnesses creates personalized, cloud-based instruction for student perceptions to help educators accelerate their children age PreK to 2nd grade. K–12 school improvement and teacher development initiatives. www.waterford.org www.youthtruthsurvey.org
WestEd Z-Medica Booth: 332 Booth: 720 730 Harrison Street 4 Fairfield Boulevard ALPHA BY LISTING EXHIBITOR San Francisco, CA 94107 Wallingford, CT 06492 WestEd, a nonprofit research and development agency, works at national, state and local levels to improve ZOLL Medical Corporation education and other important outcomes for all Booth: 704 learners. 269 Mill Road www.wested.org Chelmsford, MA 01824 ZOLL Medical Corporation, a leader in medical devices Wilson Language Training Corporation and software solutions, provides AED and CPR Booth: 119 solutions for schools, fitness centers, corporations, 47 Old Webster Road churches and other organizations that accommodate Oxford, MA 01540 or serve the public. Our clinically advanced, easy-to- The WILSON Reading System®, WILSON Just Words® use products help lay rescuers and professionals alike WILSON Fundations® and WILSON Fluency® are respond quickly and effectively to sudden cardiac multisensory, structured reading and spelling curricula arrest. Real CPR Help® technology in ZOLL’s AEDs to address prevention, intervention and intensive provides real-time feedback on CPR quality, while See- instructional needs. Thru CPR® provides a view of the patient’s underlying www.wilsonlanguage.com ECG rhythm. www.zoll.com
81 Exhibitor Listing by Booth 101...... Dasbotics 234...... American Heart Association 102...... National Peanut Board 236...... Safe Defend, LLC 105...... Communities In Schools 301...... SSC Service Solutions 106...... SkoolLive, LLC 302...... Chartwells School Dining Services 109...... Grand Canyon University 305...... Templeton Demographics 113...... Mentoring Minds, L.P. 307...... ASCD 114...... OverDrive 308...... Knowledge Delivery Systems 116...... Learning Sciences International 309...... Brenthaven 117...... Education Logistics, Inc. 310...... School Innovations & Achievement 118...... School Device Coverage 313...... National Network of Digital Schools 119...... Wilson Language Training Corporation 314...... Sanford Harmony Program 120...... Hewlett Packard 315...... CareFlow Electronic Student Health Records 121...... LearningAisle 316...... Arizona State University 123...... Rave Mobile Safety 320...... Hapara, Inc. EXHIBITOR LISTING BY BOOTH 125...... Istation 322...... Bright White Paper Co 126...... Tetra Analytix 325...... Ellingsen & Associate Online Speech Therapy 128...... The Gordian Group 326...... Responsive Classroom 129...... The OrganWise Guys, Inc. 327...... Vista Learning, NFP 130...... G.R.E.A.T. Program 328...... Worth Ave. Group 132...... SK SOLAR 329...... ECRA Group, Inc. & HYA Executive Search 133...... ELERTS 332...... WestEd 134...... Read To Them 333...... Standard for Success 136...... American Heart Association 335...... Panorama Education 135...... ALICE Training Institute 402...... ActPoint KPI 201...... Peachjar 404...... MAXIMUS K-12 Education 202...... Questeq Inc. 407...... The Interlocal Purchasing System (TIPS) 204...... The Leadership Program 408...... Hobsons 206...... Hellas Sports Construction 409...... SafeGuard/IMMI 210...... National Joint Powers Alliance 413...... School Improvement Network 213...... Response Technologies 414...... First Student, Inc. 214...... Association of Educational Purchasing Agencies 415...... District Administration Magazine 215...... National University Sanford Education Center 419...... BrightBytes 216...... Forrest T. Jones & Co., Inc. 420...... Schoology 217...... Background Investigation Bureau 421...... Heery International 219...... YouthTruth Student Survey 422...... Outdoor Aluminum, Inc. 220...... Studies Weekly 425...... SchoolMessenger 221...... Buck Institute for Education 426...... American Fidelity Assurance Co. 225...... Darkness to Light 428...... National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) 226...... Graduate Follow-Up by LifeTrack Services 431...... Executive Ed.D. in K-12 Administration College of 227...... Cyber High Business Development 432...... The STEM Academy, Inc. 228...... Seton Hall University 433...... WRiTE BRAiN World 229...... Lea(r)n, Inc. 434...... LifeLoc Technologies 230...... Educate Online Inc. 436...... Proximity Learning Inc. 231...... Government Finance Officers Association 233...... TenMarks Education, an Amazon Company
82 AASA’S 150TH ANNIVERSARY | WWW.AASA.ORG/NCE 501...... Horace Mann 636...... Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation 502...... The Gilder Lehrman Institute 639...... Colonial Life 503...... VH1 Save The Music Foundation 640...... Working Education 504...... Skyward, Inc. 641...... GoalBook 510...... STEDI.org-Substitute Teaching Division 643...... TeacherMatch 513...... Graduation Alliance 645...... Stop Summer Learning Loss 514...... Renaissance Learning 646...... SearchSoft Solutions Inc. 519...... TalentEd 701...... Heartland School Solutions 520...... National School Public Relations Association 702...... Voya Financial 521...... Knovation 703...... OraSure Technologies 522...... Blackboard Inc. 704...... ZOLL Medical Corporation 525...... Thesys International 705...... Silverback Learning Solutions 526...... Forecast5 Analytics 706...... Anchor Audio Portable Sound Systems 527...... International Baccalaureate 708...... Frontline Technologies, Inc. Americas Global Centre 709...... HMS 528...... PMA Financial Network, Inc. 710...... Frontline Technologies (AppliTrack) 530...... Audio Enhancement Inc. 712...... Raa Wee Inc. 531...... Source4Teachers/MissionOne 713...... Imagine Learning Inc. 532...... Schoolwires 714...... TIAA-CREF 533...... School Check IN 716...... Mid-Career Doctoral 534...... Pride Surveys Program in Education Leadership 535...... Right At School 720...... Z-Medica 536...... ParentLink 722...... AXA 540...... Davis Demographics & Planning 726...... Education Networks of America 542...... K12 Insight, Inc. 728...... Connor Sport Court International 544...... JASON Learning 730...... Energy For Schools 546...... SRC Solutions Inc. 731...... Quantum Learning Education 601...... Aramark K-12 Education 732...... Great Expectations 602...... LearnSprout 733...... National Institute of Justice 604...... VALIC 734...... Pepperdine University 605...... Achievement Loop Graduate School of Education 606...... UpSlope Solutions LLC. 735...... Creative Learning Systems 609...... Boardworks Education 736...... Education Week EXHIBITOR LISTING BY BOOTH BY LISTING EXHIBITOR 610...... Paxton/Patterson LLC 739...... Infinite Trading Inc. 613...... Durham School Services 740...... Cambridge International Examinations 614...... Follett 745...... Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) 617...... ISTE 746...... Skyline Technology Solutions 619...... Teachers-Teachers.com 803...... Selective Service System 620...... GCA Education Services 801...... ABMM Financial 621...... My Learning Plan, Inc. 802...... Overcoming Obstacles — Life Skills Education 625...... Tremco Roofing 803...... Selective Service System 626...... Microsoft Corporation 804...... TekVisions 627...... Keystone Purchasing Network (KPN) 805...... Drexel University — School of Education 629...... Teacher’s Discovery 806...... STEMfinity 631...... Fortinet 822...... Anonymous Alerts & K12 Alerts 632...... Waterford Institute 824...... Edupoint Educational Systems 633...... Apollo After School 825...... Trapeze Software Group 635...... Pitsco Education 826...... Champions 827...... Engineer Your World — The University of Texas
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26 4:30 – 5:30pm
7 – 9am CoSN/AASA Empowered Superintendent Initiative Laguna, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina ACA Meeting Marina Ballroom D, San Diego Marriott Marquis & 4:30 – 6:30pm Marina Northwest Reception In 2014, a group of Oklahoma school administrators Marina Ballroom E, San Diego Marriott Marquis & formed the Association of Christian Administrators Marina (ACA). The mission of this organization is “to positively support Christian leaders in public 5 – 6pm schools.” During its brief existence, the organization CAPSS CT Cocktail Reception has attracted the attention of school leaders from Vista, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina across the country. The purpose of this meeting is to determine if there is enough interest to create a 5 – 7pm national organization. David Pennington, President of AASA and a member of ACA, leads the discussion. Southwestern States Reception Coronado Terrace, San Diego Marriott Marquis & 12 – 2pm Marina
Century Club Luncheon 5 – 7pm Catalina, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina CEHD Reception 5:30 – 7pm Newport Beach, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina Kentucky and Missouri Reception Roy’s Restaurant San Diego Waterfront 5 – 8pm 8:30 – 10:30pm CASE 2015 Colorado Superintendent of the Year Celebration (by invitation only) NEASS Cocktail Reception Eddie V’s, 789 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA Cardiff/Carlsbad, San Diego Marriott Marquis & 92101 Marina 5 – 9pm FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 SUPES Cocktail Reception 7 – 8:30am Marina Ballroom D, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina USAA Member Breakfast Presidio, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina 5:30 – 7pm MEETINGS AND FUNCTIONS INDEX 7 – 9am North Carolina Welcome Reception Oceanside, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina Indiana Breakfast Point Loma, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina 5:30 – 7pm
7:30 – 8:30am ALAS Recognition Reception FIESTA Marina Ballroom F, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Missouri Breakfast Marina Marina Ballroom F, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina 5:30 – 7pm
11:45am – 1:45pm Illinois Reception Honoring the 2015 Superintendent of the Year Horace Mann League Annual Luncheon and Meeting Petco Park (home of the San Diego Padres) Marina Ballroom D, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina 5:30 – 7:30pm
3 – 4pm Pennsylvania Reception Torrey Pines 3, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina USAA Executive Committee Meeting Encinitas, San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina
85 ...... Speaker Index Alford, Aaron...... 8, 37 Fink, Stephen...... 26, 52 Agovino, Frank...... 55 Finnan, Leslie...... 30, 41, 51 Amoroso, Gary...... 50 Follett, Britten...... 41 Arfstrom, Kari...... 64 Foose, Renee...... 37 Austin, Sandra...... 26 Fowler, Charles...... 52 Avossa, Robert...... 34 Franco, Carmella...... 35 Bagin, Rich...... 55 Frazier, Dan...... 9, 57, 62 Barnwall, Shailey...... 53 Fritchtnitch, Jeff...... 56 Beckwith, Kelly...... 58 Fuini-Hetten, Lynn...... 36 Belcher, Mike...... 48 Gaines, Chris...... 9, 32, 38, 57 Benham, Michelle...... 31 Gentzel, Tom...... 9, 58 Benigni, Mark...... 36 Giard, Thomas...... 36 Blankstein, Alan...... 26, 43 Gibb, Bryan...... 62 Bloom, Todd...... 51 Gifford, Nancy...... 56 Boasberg, Tom...... 54, 55 Giles, Wayne...... 30 Boozer, Leslie...... 54 Goldman, Jay...... 56 Borkowski, John...... 38 Gooden, Benny...... 8, 30 Breeden, Terri...... 37 Greenhill, Valerie...... 56 Brenner, Dan...... 62 Grier, Terry...... 50, 53 Brown, Luvelle...... 42 Grove, Michael...... 36 Buckman, Joel...... 38 Guertin, Jon...... 32 Bushman, Adam...... 63 Hackett, Julie...... 50 Capolupo, James...... 55 Hajek, Mike...... 38 SPEAKER INDEX Cardinali, Dan...... 63 Halperin, Howie...... 32 Carnes, Meg...... 63 Hancock, Marsali...... 56 Carvalho, Alberto...... 34 Hanzer, Elanie...... 38 Chambers, HD...... 42 Haro, Sid...... 31 Cheser, Karen...... 49 Harvey, James...... 52 Chiang, Eva Myrick ...... 61 Haugen, Jay...... 50 Chirichello, Michael...... 33 Heath, Dan...... 48 Clark, Fred...... 39 Heatherly, Teresa...... 31 Clark, William...... 58 Hensley, Shanna...... 50 Cloninger, Karen...... 26 Hill, Darryl...... 33 Cochran, Robin...... 33 Hill, Teresa...... 31 Collins, Randy...... 57 Hochman, Jere...... 54 Contreras, Sharon...... 34 Holcombe, Amy...... 62 Conway, Lydia...... 41 Hoverman, Dan...... 51 Copeland, Robert...... 40 Hull, Kari...... 32 Cruz, Rick...... 50 Hurley, Kathy...... 31 D’Orio, Wayne...... 62 Ikemoto, Gina...... 61 Daggett, Bill...... 43 Jackson, Kayla...... 58 Dale, Jack...... 37 Jacobs, Patches...... 38 Daley, Ben...... 62 Jacobson, Thomas...... 36 Dance, Dallas...... 32, 39, 49, 62 Jeffreys, Deann...... 42 Davidson, Hall...... 9, 44, 52, 57 Jensen, Julie...... 49 Davis, Jacquelyn...... 61 Jerde, Susanne...... 52 Delisle, Deb...... 54 Jimenez, Elizabeth...... 31 Dickerson, Mychael...... 55 Joel, Steve...... 41 Dickinson, Gail...... 41 Johns, Christine...... 52 Domenech, Dan...... 9, 44, 58, 63 Johnson, Donna...... 51 Duffy, Francesca...... 8, 9, 33, 57 Jones, Chris...... 39 Duke, Daniel...... 8, 37 Kalbfliesh, Dan...... 61 Edwards, Mark...... 33, 41 Kane, Deborah...... 35 Elia, MaryEllen...... 49 Kavanaugh, Shayne...... 56 Ellerson, Noelle...... 8, 9, 30, 40, 51, 54 Kay, Ken...... 31, 37 Enfield, Susan...... 52 Keen, Mark...... 42 Fagen, Elizabeth...... 37, 56 Kenedy, Linda...... 32 Farooqui, Suhail...... 42 Kerns, Gene...... 40
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Kickbusch, Consuelo...... 64 Polyak, Nicholas...... 8, 33 Kliman, Carolyn Trager...... 37 Pope, Michaelle...... 32 Knox, Raina...... 32 Porterfield, Kitty...... 63 Kussmaul, Don...... 32 Potter, Bruce...... 61 Lambert, Amy...... 42 Ray, Gary...... 32 Lathan, Grenita...... 53 Ray, Ryan...... 40 Leahy, Thomas...... 51 Reardon, Mark...... 27, 52 Leboff, Russell...... 39 Regur, Steve...... 32 Lenker, Ethan...... 42 Reily, Jamie...... 56 Levine, Elliott...... 48 Riley, Richard...... 44 Litzsinger, Todd...... 41 Ripken, Jr., Cal...... 44 Lockard, Steve...... 31, 56 Robinson, Clinton...... 38 Lubelfeld, Michael...... 8, 33 Robles, Darline...... 35 Macias, Linda...... 42 Rose, Jeff...... 56 Maldonado, Raul...... 31 Roth, Michael...... 36 Marten, Cindy...... 62 Sanders, Tony...... 37 Martin, Phil...... 31 Sanfelippo, Joe...... 62 Martin, Robert...... 52 Saron, Brad...... 62 Martinez, Richard...... 55 Schlomann, Don...... 56 Marx, Gary...... 40 Schonfeld, David...... 9, 49 Marzano, Robert...... 58 Schuler, David...... 8, 40, 64 May, Steven...... 57 Scott, Darrell...... 58 McCann, Nathan...... 35 Shannon, Paula...... 41 McCord, Robert...... 34 Sherman, Mort...... 8, 37, 42, 54 McDonald, Trevor...... 31 Sichel, Amy...... 8, 40, 50 McGowan, Kyle...... 32 Singh, Candace...... 9, 57 McGuire, Stacy...... 42 Skretta, John...... 32 Medina, Enrique...... 55 Slagle, Mike...... 43 Melenas, Theresa...... 42 Slayman, Agnes...... 35 Merrill, James...... 33 Sloan McCombs, Jennifer...... 34, 36 Mextorf, Richard...... 58 Smalley, Eleanor...... 8, 37, 42 Mik, Donna Adduci...... 36 Sneed, Maree...... 34, 37, 40, 51 Miklus, Corey...... 38 Spurgeron, Joseph...... 57 Miles, Mike...... 57, 61 Starr, Joshua...... 51, 56 Minasyan, Gayane...... 8, 9, 33, 57 Taliaferro, Lori...... 61 Minichello, Jimmy...... 56 Torres, Jose...... 37 Miyashiro, David...... 32 Truesdale, Valerie...... 37 Montgomery, Matthew...... 42 Turner, Vera...... 41 Moore, David...... 41 Urick, Mia...... 50 SPEAKER INDEX Morada, Dianne...... 38 Vargas, Bolgen...... 34, 36 Morgan, Nicholas...... 33 Voltz, Richard...... 51 Murphy, Patrick...... 51, 62 Votruba, James...... 33 Nagel, Dave...... 61 Wade, Ron...... 41 Neihof, James...... 33 Warren, Kyle...... 8, 34 Nekritz, Mike...... 36 Wilbanks, Alvin...... 61 Nemko, Barbara...... 57 Wilson, Antwan...... 34, 36 Nicole, Dwanna...... 32 Wilson, Jamie...... 51 Noguera, Pedro...... 26, 39, 43 Wilson, Margaret...... 41 Norris, Laurie...... 50 Wolf, Lora...... 40 O’Connell, Bridget...... 62 Wright, Donna...... 41 Oppelt, Kim...... 9, 53 Yan, Bo...... 43 Osborne, Nick...... 56 Yoo, Daniel...... 42 Ott, Maria...... 35 Zabilka, Gary...... 56 Pennington, David...... 8, 37, 40, 44 Ziegenfuss, Randy...... 36 Perera, Katrise...... 8, 33 Zundel, Michelle...... 49 Perondi, Larry...... 27, 52 Phillips, Rick...... 62 Picos, Sonia...... 42 Pines, Steve...... 31 Pitcock, Sarah...... 34, 36 Pletnick, Gail...... 31 Poe, Randy...... 33 Poling, Stephen...... 31
87 Advertiser Index ADVERTISER INDEX
Blackboard...... 45
Communities in Schools...... 23
Horace Mann...... Back Cover
Knoxvation...... Inside Front Cover Lifetouch Photography for Project Success...... Inside Back Cover
Scholastic...... 65
SchoolMessenger...... 89
Seaton Hall...... 11
Skoollive...... 59
Source4Teachers/MissionOne...... 11
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