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IT’S BACK... USBA Health Fair Located in the Sinclair Room on the Main Level Free Services provided by Healthy Utah include: • Blood Pressure Check • Cholesterol • Blood Glucose Carolyn White Kristi Swett • Body Composition 1st Vice President 2nd Vice President • Health Consultation • And more. Sponsored by USBA and Public Employees Health Plans (PEHP) Peggy Jo Kennett President Check Out What’s New — • USBA Study Hall • Located in Uintah Room on the second level • Vision Screening • Located in Wasatch Room on the second level Mark Marsh Richard C. Stowell “We Got Your Diet Coke” Past President Executive Director Sponsored by USBA and Friends for Sight Welcome to the USBA 91st Annual Conference. We have planned this Conference with you in mind; thanks to your suggestions we have lined up some extraordinary speakers and outstanding presentations for the mini-sessions. We recognize and appreciate that you are making a significant contribu- Thanks to Our Exhibitors and Sponsors tion of your time to participate in this Conference. We are confident that Each year at the Conference, Exhibitors and Sponsors help support you will find it educational, and will return to your district inspired and equipped for today’s tough challenges. We hope that you will build new our overall program and provide a wealth of information to friendships with fellow Board Members from around the State, and get Conference attendees. USBA extends a big “Thank You” to our acquainted with the many Superintendents and Business Administrators Sponsors and Exhibitors. who attend and participate in the Conference. 1 2 Michael R. McGough David Pickler Associate Professor of Education, President, York College of Pennsylvania National School Boards Association Keynote Speaker Featured Speaker Dr. McGough will take you on a virtual tour of the battlefield at David Pickler was first elected to the NSBA Board of Directors in April Gettysburg and will examine “how the leadership strategies employed at 2008, serving as a Southern Region Director representing school board Gettysburg are relevant and closely tied to the contemporary complex members in 12 southern states. He became President of the National intricacies of interpersonal and organizational leadership.” School Boards Association in April 2013. The author of many articles focusing on education, he has also published For the last three decades, David has held many leadership positions in eight books, several of which focus on the Battle of Gettysburg and the Tennessee’s education system. A board member since his election to the lessons it can teach us today. “Few events in history provide a better Shelby County School Board in Memphis in 1998, David has also served setting for a study of organizational leadership than the Battle of as Chair. In 2007, he became a member of the Tennessee School Board Gettysburg. A study of this historic three-day engagement in July of 1863 Association and served as President in 2009. In July 2012, David was produces abundant examples of strikingly simple and highly intricate honored by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences with the leadership strategies. The stunning examples of successes and failures Educator’s Voice Award, qualifying him as a member of the Council of in the decision-making process serve as vivid illustrations of the Peers of this prestigious organization. consequences of effective and ineffective leadership initiatives.” David began his career in the investment business 28 years ago. He was He holds a BA in Education and secondary social studies from the admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1986 and admitted to practice before University of Pittsburgh, an MLA in liberal arts, a doctorate in Adult the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000. David is a Certified Financial Planner Education and Education Staff Development from Pennsylvania State and a Chartered Financial Consultant and is the President and CEO of University. Dr. McGough has experience as a teacher, coach, assistant Pickler Wealth Advisors in Collierville, Tennessee. principal, principal, assistant superintendent and senior program advisor. David is married and has two children, both of whom graduated from the Shelby County School District. Dr. McGough has been an Associate Professor of Education at York College of Pennsylvania from 2001 until the present. 3 4 BYU Young Ambassadors Stacey Bess Featured Entertainment Keynote Speaker The BYU Young Ambassadors are a group of singers, dancers, and musicians Stacey Bess is an award-winning educator with great insight into the who have gained a reputation for entertainment excellence through hearts of children in need. She believes that the way to most effectively energetic and heart-warming musical theater. The world-traveled Young teach children any subject is to treat them with love and kindness. Ambassadors perform widely both nationally and internationally. In Audiences around the nation have discovered the treasure of Stacey Bess the past decade, the group has toured thirteen states and fourteen and the magic she works with children. countries, including Australia, China, Korea, Brazil and Argentina. Bess chronicled the heart-wrenching, powerful, and often up-lifting Their perform-ances cross cultural bounds and are always enthusiastically stories of the unforgettable students at the School With No Name. After received. reviewing how far her students had come, she realized the children had Recent tours include performances in the Nordic countries in May 2009, taught her profound life-lessons. Bess shared what she learned when she two weeks entertaining thousands in Nauvoo, Illinois in June 2010, and published her book, Nobody Don’t Love Nobody. winter performances in Arizona. In 2012, the Young Ambassadors toured After Bess published her first book and gained the support of the Utah southern Africa, and recently returned from a tour of China in May 2013. community, people began to notice Bess and her unusual success with The Young Ambassadors first performed internationally at Expo ‘70 in “hopeless” children. She has won prestigious local and national awards, Osaka, Japan, and have since traveled throughout the United States and including the esteemed National Jefferson Award. Other honorees to 56 foreign countries. They were the first BYU performance group include First Lady Barbara Bush, Supreme Court Justice Harry to entertain in the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, India, Nepal, Blackman and Ambassador Walter Annenberg. Sri Lanka, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Bess and her husband Greg have six children. She earned her bachelor’s Randall Boothe has served as the group’s director since 1977. Previously, degree in Elementary Education from the University of Utah. Boothe was a director with Walt Disney Productions, Hawaii’s Polynesian Cultural Center, Showcase Hawaii, and the Polynesian Dance Ensemble. 5 6 USBA Annual Conference SECOND GENERAL SESSION Friday, January 10, 2014 “Why School Boards Matter” 8:00 A.M. Registration and Booth Exhibits FIRST GENERAL SESSION 8:30 A.M. Conducting . Kristi Swett, USBA 2nd Vice President Thursday, January 9, 2014 Reverence. Maresa Manzione, USBA Board of Directors 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Music. North Summit High School Drum Line Little America Ballroom Directed by Kathy Chappell Remarks . David Pickler, President 3:00 P.M. Registration . Foyer National School Boards Association 7:00 P.M. Conducting . Peggy Jo Kennett, USBA President Master Boards Award (MBA) . JoDee Sundberg, Chair, MBA Committee Reverence . Dean Rowley, USBA Board of Directors USBA Business Session Flag Ceremony . Taylorsville High School JROTC • Nominations for 2nd Vice President Directed by Master Sargent Konrad Wilson Carolyn White, USBA 1st Vice President Gettysburg Address . Morgan High School • USBA Financial Report National Anthem. Morgan High School Ovation Choir Kristi Swett, USBA 2nd Vice President • Bylaw Revisions Music . Morgan High School Choir Peggy Jo Kennett, USBA President Directed by Michael Mills • Divide into Regions to elect Board of Directors Keynote Speaker and Delegates at Large Dr. Michael R. McGough Mark Marsh, USBA Past President Region I – Sun Valley Room Region IX – Ballroom Leadership under Fire – Lessons from Cache, Logan, Rich Jordan Region II – Uintah Room Region X – Idaho Room the Battle of Gettysburg Box Elder, Morgan, Ogden Juab, North Sanpete, Piute, Sevier, Few events in history provide a better setting for a study of organiza- Region III – Ballroom South Sanpete, Tintic, Wayne tional leadership than the Battle of Gettysburg. A study of this historic Davis Region XI – Arizona Room 3-day engagement in July of 1863 produces abundant examples of Region IV – Flagstaff Room Beaver, Garfield, Iron, strikingly simple and highly intricate leadership strategies. The North Summit, South Summit, Kane, Millard successes and failures in the decision-making process serve as vivid Park City, Wasatch Region XII – Ballroom Alpine illustrations of the consequences of effective and ineffective leadership Region V – Ballroom Salt Lake City initiatives. Take a virtual tour of the battlefield and examine how the Region XIII – Ballroom Region VI – Ballroom Weber leadership strategies employed at Gettysburg are relevant and closely Granite Region XIV – Ballroom tied to the contemporary complex intricacies of interpersonal and Region VII – Snowbasin Room Nebo organizational leadership. Murray, Provo, Tooele Region XV – Ballroom Region VIII – Wyoming Room Washington Carbon, Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Region XVI – Ballroom Grand, San