Conference Handouts

Monday, November 13, 2006
9 a.m. Learning track sessions

• Revitalizing schools through Appreciative Inquiry pdf
• Boardmanship 101 pdf
• Implementing block scheduling in a career-technical setting pdf
• Connecting with the community with an advisory council
• The lost art of customer service pdf
• Construction delivery systems — what’s in it for the school? pdf
• Choosing financial stability — a conversation about choices
• Effectively responding to employee absenteeism pdf
• Teacher leaders pdf
• Handling student discipline hearings pdf
• The state superintendent wants to hear from you
• Are you ready? — automatic external defibrillators
• Ohio’s model acceleration policy — strategies for success pdf
• Developing a sense of belonging through leadership and service pdf
• Schools are leveraging IP video surveillance pdf

9 a.m. Other session

• Electricity purchasing workshop

• Updating Ohio’s operating standards for schools
• Improving board decision-making pdf
• Can you hear (and see) me now? The power of podcasting pdf
• Getting everyone aboard a survival boat, not the Titanic
• The effective and efficient delivery of related services pdf
• Money matters pdf
• House Bill 251 — how the new energy standards will impact schools
• Buyouts — money-savers or just fool’s gold? pdf
• Our journey to higher student achievement pdf
• Student behavior on MySpace and other networking Web sites pdf
• ‘Best practice’ in leadership — there’s not just one
• Columbiana County — every child safe, healthy and achieving pdf
• Using value-added information for school improvement pdf
• Kids vote with their feet — how to make extended day work pdf
• Using technology to streamline the LPDC process pdf

2 p.m. Other sessions

• Consumer-driven health care workshop
• Electronic board governance workshop
• Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding meeting

• Lake County superintendents working together for reform
• Ohio ethics law and school board members pdf
• Alternative high schools pdf
• Reconnecting schools and community
• Cost-effective autism services pdf
• Preventing and mitigating construction budget-busters
• Jean and Penny’s top-10 list for coping with fiscal emergency pdf
• Managing collective bargaining in a challenging bargaining era pdf
• D3A2 — Data-driven decisions for academic achievement
• 2006 special education update pdf
• Parents, schools and boards — building successful partnerships pdf
• When push comes to shove — bullying in the schools pdf
• Raising your report card for all students pdf
• Hazing in high schools — implications for district policy pdf
• Technology success stories from a fourth-grade classroom

3:30 p.m. Other sessions

• School insurance workshop
• Risk management workshop

• Management by asking why pdf
• Breaking the cycle of organizational mediocrity pdf
• GATEWAY — an innovative dropout recovery program pdf
• We want a Red Dot!
• Court, schools collaborate on school suspension alternative pdf
• Sensible strategies, real results — an energy conservation case study
• The ‘growing mills levy’ — how does it work and will it help? pdf
• 2007 negotiations outlook pdf
• A standards-based, districtwide model to improve instruction pdf
• Preparing students for success — grant-makers share their views
• Lethal violence in schools — the study of an adolescent shooter pdf
• How to KRA-L — Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy pdf
• Freshman Focus pdf
• Interactive Whiteboards in middle school language arts

9 a.m. Other session

• Electricity purchasing workshop

10:30 a.m. School Law Workshop: Case law update — important education decisions pdf
11:15 a.m. School Law Workshop: Ethics for board members and school attorneys pdf
2 p.m. School Law Workshop: Noncertificated employees — contracts, liability, termination pdf
2 p.m. Learning track sessions

• Ohio’s new educator standards — potential uses at the local level pdf
• The power of one force
• Analyzing election data to plan a successful levy campaign pdf
• Using community research effectively pdf
• CIP in action — planning for success in a rural elementary pdf
• If we only had a crystal ball
• Making fiscal emergency work for your school district pdf
• State health care pooling update pdf
• Pioneering education in math classroom instruction pdf
• When will Ohio’s egregious school-funding problem be resolved? pdf
• Revisiting your safety plan pdf
• Sing, dance, create — how the arts raise student achievement pdf
• Going to districtwide uniforms without any casualties pdf
• Hold on to your students with the Virtual Learning Academy

2 p.m. Other sessions

• Risk management workshop
• School insurance workshop

2 p.m. Spotlight session:

• School finance 101 — the basics pdf

3:30 p.m. School Law Workshop: Revenue resources — What’s old? What’s new? pdf
3:30 p.m. Learning track sessions

• Women administrators — we’ve come a long way …maybe! pdf
• Essential policies for 2007 pdf
• Effective discipline — live the dream pdf
• Community outreach ‘potpourri’
• Maximizing purchasing power in a world of shrinking resources pdf
• Quality comes with the contract
• Facing the challenges of HB 66
• Moving beyond win-win pdf
• Therapy dogs — making a difference in our schools pdf
• School funding — prospects for a long-range solution
• Be safe, stay on the job — best practices for Ohio schools
• Increasing student achievement pdf
• Beyond the report card — variables that tell key stories
• Enhance planning accuracy, efficiency with new technology pdf

Other sessions

• Electronic board governance workshop
• Consumer-driven health care workshop

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
9 a.m. Learning track sessions

• Principal leadership programs that work pdf
• Boil, toil & trouble — public records 2006 pdf
• Students learning 24/7
• Under one roof — collaborating to create a community center
• Owner’s advisor offers alternative to a typical building program pdf
• Creating a customer-focused school treasurer’s office pdf
• The Ohio High School Transformation Initiative (OHSTI) pdf
• Child abuse reporting — do your employees know their obligation? pdf
• Risk management skills and their applicability pdf
• Out of the ashes — transforming a district to raise achievement pdf
• Vouchers — present problems, future challenges pdf