ND September 17, 2024

Session 1 – September 17, 2024
Quora Education Center
Participant List 
Facilitators: Melanie Kray, Holle Spessard, Malai Turnbull

8:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00
Warm Welcome and Check-in
Melanie Kray, Executive Director of Special Services, Southwest Metro

9:00-10:15
Understanding how your Personality Impacts Your Leadership
Holle Spessard, Director, Special Education Services, South Central Service Cooperative
    What Color is Your Personality - Carol Ritberger
    Managing People . . . . What’s Personality Got to Do with It? - Carol Ritberger

10:15-10:30
Connect and Break

10:30-12:00
Effective Team Meetings
Nicole Woodward, Executive Director, SCRED
Infrastructure of Partnership
    Meeting Makover
Death by Meeting
GIF MoodMeters
    
12:00-12:30
Lunch and Learn

12:30-1:00
Effective Meetings - what are you doing that’s working/where’s the struggle?
Holle, Melanie and Malai

1:00-2:30
Leadership Lessons Learned
Heidi Nistler, Assistant Superintendent of Specialized Services, St Paul Public Schools

2:30-2:45
Connect and Break

2:45-3:30
So You Wanted to be a District Level Leader?
Malai Turnbull, Special Education Services Supervisor, Eastern Carver County and 
Lori Zimmerman, Director of Professional Learning, MASA and MASE

3:30-4:00
White Board Agenda or Scenarios
Whole Group 
Melanie and Malai