2024 Best Practices Conference

Opening General Session: Fostering Hardiness in Educators Takes Some Heartiness
Jill Krautkremer & Kelly Wilson | Slides

May 16, 2024
Breakout Session 1

• The Management System of the Brain: How Understanding and Supporting Executive Function Can Improve Special Education Outcomes | Slides
• “Extra” about Extracurriculars: Special Education Students and Extracurriculars | Slides
• Innovative Strategies to Tackle Teacher Shortages | Slides
• Lessons Learned from MDE Complaints | Outline
• Creating a Positive, Nurturing and Predictable Environment for the ADULTS in the Building | No materials provided
• 3-step Plan: Using SpEd Forms to achieve IDEA compliance | Slides

May 16, 2024
Breakout Session 2

• Take a Deep Breath and Count to Ten: Reasonable Force, Discipline, and Responding to Special Education Student Conduct | Slides | Outline
• "Don't Stop Believin'": Creating Resilient Systems for Students in the New Normal | Slides
• Implementing Standard Response Protocol (SRP) with Exceptional Populations and Community Partners | Resources
• Attendance and Membership in ECSE, Show Me the Money | Slides | Handout
• Artificial Intelligence: A Tale of Two Special Education Administrators | Slides

May 16, 2024
Breakout Session 3

• Emerging Legal Issues in Special Education | Outline
• Post-Secondary Transition Goals Demystified! | Slides
• Reading: Lessons in Reading Struggles and Dyslexia | Outline | Slides
• You Can't Intervene Your Way Out of a Tier One Problem | Slides
• Developing an In-District MTSS Continuum to Support Student Mental Health | Slides
• Invitation for Engagement: the new Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families | Handout 1 | Handout 2 | Slides

May 16, 2024
Breakout Session 4

• Stuck in the Middle with FAPE: Exploring the Interactions Between the IDEA and Section 504 | Outline
• Present Like a Genius! | No materials provided
• A Plan to Increase Literacy Skills for Elementary Students on IEP’s | Slides
• AI to Build Special Education Capacity and Effectiveness: AI Workshop with Playground IEP and Hiawatha Academies | Slides
• From Nothing to Something:  One District's Process of Implementation for Non-Academic and Extracurricular Supports for Students with Disabilities | Slides | Handout
• Leading Yourself So You Can Lead Others | No materials provided

May 17, 2024
Breakout Session 5

• Recruiting International Talent to Fill Special Education Positions | Slides
• We're All In This Together: Tips for Collaborating with Parents and Avoiding Litigation | Outline
• Title IX for Special Educators | No materials provided
• Happy Caveman - The Power of Positivity | No materials provided
• Data Rich, Info Poor: Connecting IEP Decision to Behavioral Data | Materials