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| SUNDAY FEB. 2, 2025 - TENTATIVE SCHEDULE | |
| 7:00a-5:30p | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00a-12:30p | OPTIONAL TRAINING: Effective Documentation Training of Teachers (with Zach Hobbs and includes lunch.) If it’s not written down, it didn’t happen. An effective documentation process is crucial for improving employee performance and making informed personnel decisions. This interactive presentation will guide participants through the ED311 EX Documentation Handbook: Appraisal, Nonrenewal, Termination. Focus will be on developing documentation to support appraisal, nonrenewal, and termination decisions. |
| 1:00p-2:00p | OPENING GENERAL SESSION: Student Success? It's as Easy as T.L.C. (with Sean Buchanan) This keynote (which shares its title with his book) centers around providing tangible, principle based, strategies that adults within the education process have at their disposal to increase student motivation, and by extension, student success. It proves what we can do with what we currently have to improve education outcomes for our students. It will also underscore the impact of relationships (and how to create them) in the education process and why T.L.C. is the glue that keeps it all together! |
| 2:15p-3:15p | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 1 • Sean Buchanan: Classroom Management? Just Say NO! A common concern of today's educator is how much time and attention is dedicated to discipline. Many have been told all that is needed to improve the quality of their building or district is better classroom management. What can be done to increase student/parent engagement in the light of the reality of COVID - 19? How can educators reduce the defiance and suspensions that plague many campuses today? Request this humorous and informative session to find out! • Dr. Herb Cox: Building a Positive School Culture This session will provide several ideas that you can take back to your campus tomorrow and implement immediately. No programs to buy, no books to purchase. Just some good old-fashioned common-sense ideas on how to become a more effective administrator. • Dr. Courtney Gober: How to Score the Most Assists as an Assistant Principal This presentation will outline the day-to-day duties of an assistant principal and provide practical strategies to move your daily schedule from being reactive to proactive while spending more time as an instructional leader. Learning how to manage the “chaos” of what lands on the AP desk while effectively serving your staff and students is the key to scoring the most assists as an AP. • Sean Cain: TBD |
| 3:30p-4:30p | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 2 (See above - Repeat from Set 1) • Sean Buchanan: Classroom Management? Just Say NO! • Dr. Herb Cox: Building a Positive School Culture • Dr. Courtney Gober: How to Score the Most Assists as an Assistant Principal • Sean Cain: TBD |
| MONDAY FEB. 3, 2025 | |
| 7:30a-8:30a | COFFEE SERVICE |
| 8:30a-9:30a | OPENING GENERAL SESSION: Today's Significant School Leader (with Andrew Marotta) Want to be a better leader? Want to be a more effective school administrator? Feel that sometimes you are just surviving more than thriving? Wish you were a better speaker/storyteller? Meet Andrew Marotta! In this interactive keynote, Andrew will invigorate you, challenge you, and inspire you. He will share stories, tips, hacks, and experiences from his 20 years as a building Principal in the great small city of Port Jervis, NY. This high-energy, enthusiastic presentation will be interactive, reflective, and purposeful to you, to help you in your role as a school leader. No one promised you that the job would be easy; but Andrew will help you make it more manageable, enjoyable, and rewarding. In this transformative and impactful session about putting yourself in the best position to lead, Andrew will focus on: the power of storytelling, having more energy & enthusiasm, supporting yourself and others, and becoming SIGNIFICANT in the lives of those we serve. |
| 9:45a-10:45a | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 3 • Andrew Marotta: The Partnership: Surviving and Thriving Want to have better, stronger relationships with your stakeholders? Tired of getting/feeling ‘beat-up?’ Want to improve your public speaking and communication skills? Have people coming at you way too hard and not sure how to handle it and want some effective strategies? Feel like you are being too reactive instead of more proactive in your relationships? Come join Andrew Marotta and be part of the fun, interactive, and thought-provoking workshop The Partnership: Surviving & Thriving: Building better relationships through proactive and intentional actions. In this energy-filled workshop, Andrew will lead you through a variety of strategies, techniques, tips, and hacks that will help improve your overall communication and interactions with your stakeholders: staff, students, and parents. The goal of this workshop is that you feel more confident, comfortable, and prepared to handle the many complex and challenging social situations that are rapidly coming at school leaders in today’s world. • Dr. Ruby Payne: Do You Have Students Who Are Disengaged, Not Learning, or Disrupting Learning? (Set 3 only) This session will focus on ways the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) impacts student responses and provides understanding from neurobiology. Strategies will be given to help move students into higher levels of learning and engagement. • Dr. Joe Coleman: Are You An Above the Line or Below the Line Administrator? The presenter will use the book, "The Oz Principle" by Roger Connors, Craig Hickman, and Tom Smith as a guide to discuss issues related to personal and organizational accountability. In addition, the presenter will discuss a variety of personal and job-related examples that will help future administrators to determine whether their behaviors and actions lead to failure or to the continuous improvement and success of the organization. • Todd Bloomer: From the Interview to the First Thirty Days on the Job - The Blueprint to Landing the Job and Thriving in Your Job In this session, learn how to prepare actual questions, and then how to develop your 30-day entry plan. This session will be practical and relevant. • Lowman Education: You Don't Teach to Mastery; You Spiral to Mastery Do you know the importance of continuous review but struggle to develop a simple and practical plan? This session aims to give participants a simple and systematic structure that can be easily implemented and pay huge dividends to student performance. Come hear how Alan Lowman implemented this plan with his students and ended up with phenomenal results, six years in a row of TEA Distinctions at an economically disadvantaged campus! |
| 11:00a-12:00p | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 4 (See above - Repeat of Set 3) • Andrew Marotta: The Partnership: Surviving and Thriving • Dr. Ruby Payne: What is the Process of Moving from Disengagement to Engagement? (Set 4 only) Understandings and tools will be provided. It is important to note that as students begin to move back into engagement, they often become irritable and fight again as they move up the hierarchy of the ANS. If the process is understood, there can be more success. • Dr. Joe Coleman: Are You An Above the Line or Below the Line Administrator? • Todd Bloomer: From the Interview to the First Thirty Days on the Job - The Blueprint to Landing the Job and Thriving in Your Job |
| 12:00p-1:15p | LUNCH PROVIDED |
| 1:15p-2:10p | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 5 • Dr. Todd Whitaker: Have you Shifted Your Monkey Today? (Set 5 only) Do the best staff members do too much and the worst employees too little? Are there people in your school who work at avoiding doing work? Do you know anyone who whines, pouts, or complains endlessly? This session is just what you need. Based on the book "Shifting the Monkey," this session will help everyone lead their schools more effectively. Come and join the fun as you learn how to shift the monkey! • Dr. Ruby Payne: Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness, Instability, and Disengagement • Sean Cain: TBA • Dr. Eric Cupp: Touching Hearts, Changing Minds • Lori Grey: Horace Mann (Set 5 only) |
| 2:20p-3:15p | BREAKOUT SESSIONS SET 6 • Dr. Todd Whitaker: How to Get All Teachers to Become Like the Best Teachers (Set 6 only) There are dramatic differences in the quality of teachers in every school. If all teachers could be more like the best teachers, then we would have significant improvement in every school. Every building has special teachers who connect with all students and consistently engage them in learning. This session focuses on what educational leaders can do to get all of the teachers to be like their best teachers. • Dr. Ruby Payne: Educating Students Experiencing Homelessness, Instability, and Disengagement • Sean Cain: TBA • Dr. Eric Cupp: Touching Hearts, Changing Minds • David Waldherr: Cambridge Learning TBA |
| 3:30p-4:30p | GENERAL SESSION: What Great Educators Do Differently (with Dr. Todd Whitaker) What are the specific qualities and practices of great educational leaders that elevate them above the rest? This session reveals what the most effective leaders do differently than their colleagues. Participants will focus on what the most successful leaders do . . . that others do not. Everyone will leave knowing what great leaders do differently, why these things make them more effective, and learn how to immediately implement each of these into your own schools. |
| TUESDAY FEB. 4, 2025 | |
| 7:45a-8:30a | COFFEE AND BREAKFAST |
| 8:30a-11:30a | LEGAL ISSUES FOR THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL 2025 (with Jim Walsh: The Law Dawg) This session will cover student discipline, special education, 504, liability and other concerns that are practical and relevant to AP’s. This session will emphasize the practical and leave plenty of time for Q and A. |