Central Office Administrators Conference
The MASA Central Office Administrators Conference will be on November 9-11, 2014 at Camden On The Lake Resort Spa and Yacht Club on the Lake of the Ozarks. (see conference flyer at this link: (COA Conference Flyer)
The theme for this year's conference is “All for One and One for All”. The conference open to all central office administrators.
The Opening General Session, Sunday afternoon November 9th, will feature Dr. Matthew Peterson, MIND Research Institute Co-founder and CEO. Dr. Peterson struggled with dyslexia growing up and created Spatial Temporal Math which enables students to learn math through a non-language-based visual approach.
Following Dr. Peterson will be “round table discussions” covering the following topics: Federal Programs, ELL, Migrant, Homeless; Special Education; Human Resources; Technology; Curriculum and Instruction; Transportation; Finance; Teacher Evaluation.
After breakfast on Monday the first of four rounds of outstanding breakout sessions will begin. Two rounds in the morning and two more rounds in the afternoon. Several of the breakouts will be offered more than once.
Breakout session topics include: Missouri Educator Evaluation System; Proficiency-Base Learning Update; Standards Based Grading; School Safety; Literacy Across the Curriculum; Early Childhood; Reinventing Special Education; An EPIC Journey: Reimagining Education; Using Technology to Predict Student Achievement; 1:1-A Focus on Instruction; Monroe Cities Student Success Center; Legal Hot Topics; “Turning Negative Heat Into Positive Energy”.
The Second General Session, noon Monday, features Dr. John Draper, National Consultant for NSPRA. Dr. Draper, a keynoter speaker at a recent MASA Spring Conference, comes to us with a brand new presentation entitled ”Paddling Upstream in a Public School Canoe”. You won’t want to miss this presentation.
Tuesday morning, November 11, will feature a presentation by Roger Kurtz, MASA Executive Director and MASA’s Legislative Advocacy Director Mike Lodewegen.
A registration form is available at this link: http://goo.gl/2cDlZw.