AESA 26th
Annual Conference 2011
Round-Up
Rethink, Redesign, Recreate:
ESAs ... A
Cornerstone of Education Reform
November 30 -
December 3, 2011
The Broadmoor Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Conference Presentations:
Adora Svitak -
Closing General Session
New
Presented by Adora Svitak
AESD Accreditation: Status Report 2002-2011
New
http://www.aesd-wa.org/Accreditation/AESD%20accreditation%20PPT%20spring%202011%20%5BRead-Only%5D.pdf
Presented by Rick Anthony: ESD 113, Barbara Peterson: PSESD, Larry
MacGuffie: NCESD, Kathy Shoop: NWESD 189, Helene Paroff: NEWESD 101
Alaska STEPP: How to Rethink,
Redesign, and Recreate the Improvement Planning Cycle
New
Presented by Jerry Schoenberger and Gerry Briscoe, Alaska Comprehensive
Center.
Are You On The Right
Track? How to Know Your Programs & Services are Effective!
New
Presented by Sandra Nolan, Education Service Center Region 12 TX.
Assabet Valley Collaborative
Peer Review Initiative
New
Presented by Cathy Cummins, Assabet Valley Collaborative, MA and Melissa
Maguire, Shrewsbury Public Schools, Shrewsbury, MA
Breaking the Space Time Continuum: Making Achievement the Constant
New
Presented by Dr. Julie Mathiesen, Technology & Innovation in Education
Center for Autism Spectrum and
Developmental Disorders
New
Presented by Craig Edmondson, Donn Sottolano, James Hoko, Area
Cooperative Educational Services, CT.
Collaborating
Across the Country Implementing the National Education Technology Plan
New
Presented by Joan Wade, Dan Hanrahan, Doreen Marvin, and Antonio Pagán,
collaborative.org.
Common Core State Standards & AR
Service Cooperatives
New
Presented by Phoebe Bailey, Southwest AR Education Cooperative.
Creating Strategic Alliances that Work: Bucks, Lancaster-Lebanon and
Montgomery Counties
New
Presented by Gail Kennedy, Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 23 PA,
Paul Billy, Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 PA, Mark Hoffman, Bucks County
Intermediate Unit #22 PA, Jerry W. Shiveley, Montgomery County
Intermediate Unit 23 PA, Cynthia Burkhart, Lancaster-Lebanon IU 13 PA,
Barry J. Galasso, Bucks County Intermediate Unit 22 PA
Distrtict Leadership that Works:
RESA Support that Matters
New
Presented by Chris Wigent, Wayne Regional Educational Service Agency,
Jim Eck, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), and
Suzanne Klein, Grosse Pointe Public School System, Grosse Pointe, MI.
EZ Goal Tracker: A Strategic
Goal Alignment Solution
New
Presented by Gail M. Kennedy, Montgomery County Intermediate Unit, PA.
Federal Education Update
New
Presented by Noelle Ellerson, American Association of School Administrators.
Leadership Coaching in
Action: Coaching Leaders, Improving Student Achievement
New
Presented by Jay Speck, Solano County Superintendent of Schools.
Making a
Difference in Central Ohio: Removing Barriers to the Academic Success of
Foster Children
New
Presented by Bart Anderson and Tom Goodney, ESC of Central Ohio.
Making Lemons
into Lemonade: How to Leverage Existing Resources Using Systems Design
New
Presented by Susan Leddick, Doreen Marvin, and Antonio Pagán,
collaborative.org.
Mecosta Osceola Personnel
Cooperative: “Sit Down vs. Drive Through”
New
Presented by Curtis Finch, Ron Bongard, Hope Shaw, Larry Sredersas, and
Sheri Thompson, MOISD.
NAMTC Presents...Partnerships for Internationally Connected Learning
New
Presented by Amiena Mahsoob, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh,
Gregory Palmer, MAGPI, Timothy Devlin, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
3.
A New Paradigm in Medicaid
Billing: ESA Programs and Services that Make a Difference to LEAs
New
Presented by High Plains Regional Education Cooperative and CompuClaim,
Inc.
Planning Your Strategic Compensation Package
New
Presented by Jeffrey Tuneberg, Mercer County Educational Service Center.
Project Based
Learning: 21st Century Programs to Reinvent Learning and Achievement
New
Presented by John McCarthy, Wayne RESA, Susan Hardin, Macomb ISD &
MACUL, Chris Wigent, Wayne RESA, John Larmer, Buck Institute for
Education.
Reinventing
Oregon ESDs
New
Presented by Barbara Jorgensen, Multnomah ESD, Gary Peterson, Columbia
Gorge ESD, Pat Evenson-Brady, Willamette ESD, Milt Dennison, Clackamas
ESD, Jim Mabbott, Oregon Association of ESDs.
Rethink, Redesign,
Recreate
New
Presented by Abby Dolliver, Norwich Public Schools, Susan Leddick, PKR,
Inc., Doreen Marvin, LEARN.
Rethinking ESA
Sustainability:New Strategy for Serving Rural School Districts and
Communities
New
Presented by Mary Colf, Seneca Highlands Intermediate Unit Nine and
Hobart Harmon.
Show me the
money! Setting up a multi-faceted statewide cooperative purchasing
program to save LEAs time and money
New
Presented by Cara Hart, Capitol Region Education Council.
Status of Online
Professional Development in Educational Service Agencies of the United
States
New
Presented by Hobart Harmon and Pamela Jacobs, American Institutes for
Research.
Strategic Cooperatives: How to
Select and Make the Most of Cooperating Purchasing Programs
New
Presented by Brad Stefanoni and Katrina Brunette, AEPA.
Unlocking Potential: Engage. Empower. Inspire
New
Presented by Insittute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.
You Have a Friend
Request
New
Presented by Jennifer Woodley, Great Prairie AEA IA.
Program Book
Browse the breakout sessions. Concurrent
sessions were presented in four topic areas: Improving education through technology;
Shared services that work; Effective board leadership strategies; and
ESA programs and services that make a difference to LEAs.
Keynote Speakers
Michael Fullan is professor emeritus at the
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
Recognized as an international authority on organizational change, he is
engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating change projects around
the world. He is the author of The Six Secrets of Change and the
bestselling books Leading in a Culture of Change and Turnaround
Leadership. Two of his most current books include: Change Leader:
Learning to Do What Matters Most, 2011 and All Systems Go: The Change
Imperative for Whole System Reform, 2010. Join him on Thursday to glean
from his expertise on strategic change for today’s world.
David
A. Sousa, an international consultant in educational neuroscience, has
conducted hundreds of workshops on brain research and education
at the PreK-12 and university levels. He has served as a high school
science teacher, a K–12 director of science, a supervisor of
instruction, and a district superintendent in New Jersey schools. A past
president of the National Staff Development Council (now Learning
Forward), he has edited science books and published numerous articles on
staff development, science education, and brain research. His latest
book is the Corwin bestseller, How the Brain Learns, now in its fourth
edition. He will speak to us on Friday morning.
Adora Svitak Since age 7, Adora
Svitak has been drumming up excitement about reading and writing. Diane
Sawyer called her “a tiny literary giant” on Good Morning America. Now
13, Adora has authored three books and taught over 400 schools and
classrooms worldwide, via video conferencing and in-person visits. In
February 2011, she received the NEA Foundation’s Award for Outstanding
Service to Public Education.
As a passionate advocate for youth
voice, particularly in education, Adora’s audience includes teachers and
adults as well as students; she shares her “kid’s eye view” on numerous
issues as a guest blogger for the Huffington Post and speaker at
education conferences worldwide. In February 2010, Adora presented at
TED—becoming the youngest ever person to do so. Adora champions a wide
variety of causes, including literacy, student voice, and fighting world
hunger (as a Youth Representative for the United Nations’ World Food
Programme). Years of writing, teaching, and giving speeches might seem
like enough for anyone, but Adora has maintained that she doesn’t plan
on retiring soon. She will be our speaker on Saturday morning.
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