2010 MASA/MASE Spring Conference!

Thursday - Friday, March 18-19 at the Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park, MN

This year's conference will feature leaders linking current research and best practices.  Join us and learn from our speakers and one another as we explore how leadership makes a world of difference!  Our presenters include...

Tony Wagner has worked for more than thirty-five years in the field of school improvement, and he is a frequent keynote speaker and widely published author on education and society. Prior to assuming his current position at Harvard, Tony was a high school teacher for twelve years; a school principal; a university professor in teacher education; co-founder and first executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility; project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York; and President and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. He earned his a Masters of Arts in Teaching and Doctorate in Education at Harvard University.  Tony's latest book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need - and What We Can do About It has just been published by Basic Books.

William Damon is Director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence and Professor of Education at Stanford University.  Damon's current research explores how young people develop purpose in their work, family, and community relationships. He examines how people can learn to approach their careers with a focus on purpose, imagination, and high standards of excellence. Damon also has written widely about how to educate for moral and ethical understanding. Damon's work is being used in professional training programs in the fields of journalism, law, and business, as well as in character education programs at the pre-collegiate level.  Damon's most recent book is The Path to Purpose: Helping Our Children Find Their Calling in Life (2008).

Reality check!  How does what we are learning at this conference translate into "real life" back at he district?  How can we bridge research to practice given the climate in which we currently work?  Join Greg Vandal as he sets the stage for our afternoon discussion groups.

How does Public Participation contribute to innovative practice in our schools?  What is the difference between Public Participation and Community Relations? How are leaders using processes of Public Participation to bolster student success?  Our Public Participation Guide will be Deb Gurke, Governance Consultant for the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.  Deb has has over 15 years of experience in public education in Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin including service on the Stillwater, MN board of education. She has a Ph.D. In Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison where she studied school organizations, specifically the role the community plays in policy decisions.

Each year, Time Magazine names the "50 Best Inventions" of the year.  In 2009, for the first time, Time honored a public school initiative with this distinction.  Join us and hear about how New York City's School of One is teaching in a way that no traditional classroom can, because it tailors each lesson to a student’s strengths, challenges, interests, and progress, using technology and a unique and flexible learning environment.

Registration coming in January!

New Leader's Training 2009-2010

• Session 5 • Friday, January 22

9 am - 3 pm • The MASE Offices

• Topics will include: Developing Relationships with Business

Managers; Financial Decision-Making; and Developing a

Budget

• Session 6 • Wednesday, March 17

(The day before the MASE/MASA Spring Conference)

9 am - 3 pm • Northland Inn, Brooklyn Park

This session includes lunch.

For a map and directions: http://www.northlandinn.com/Our_

Location/Our_Location.asp

• Topics will include: Legal Issues

• Session 7 • Wednesday, May 5

(The 2010 MASE Best Practices Conference will begin Wednesday

evening at Madden’s.)

9 am - 3 pm • Madden’s Lodge, Brainerd

• Topics will include: Participants’ Choices, such as Legislative

Update, Due Process, Paraprofessionals and “Panel of Sages”

For Registration Materials Click Here
Contact: Mary Law mrlaw@mnasa.org / 651•645•6272