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Registration open |
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Early Bird Workshops
- Role of the Chair 1:00-2:00pm (*)
How effective your committee is has much to do with the leadership skills of the chair. Learn how effective chairs not only lead, but also help colleagues become leaders.
- Using the New MASC Website 1:00-2:00pm
Get a hands-on "sneak preview" to MASC's new, data-driven, user-friendly website, which will be formally rolled out in December.
- School Finance update 1:00-2:45pm (*)
Learn how ARRA funds can support Chapter 70 spending, in addition to competitive stimulus funds, and how school districts can sustain this spending and avoid the "funding cliff.
- Green Schools 2:00-3:00pm
An introduction and guidelines for school leaders who are seeking to build and maintain environmentally friendly school buildings.
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| 2:00-2:30pm |
Meet the Candidates |
| 2:30-3:00pm |
Resolutions Clinic |
| 2:00-6:30pm |
Exhibit Hall open |
| 2:00-3:00pm |
Delegate Registration |
| 3:00pm |
- MASS Business Meeting
- MASC Delegate Assembly
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| 5:00-6:30pm |
Reception with Exhibitors |
| 7:00pm |
Keynote Dinner
- Speakers: Rep. Charles Murphy, Chair, House Ways & Means Education Secretary Paul Reville, DESE Commissioner Mitchell Chester and
- Presentation of Skills USA Gold Medal awards
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| 9:00pm |
Cracker Barrel with Paul Reville and Commissioner Mitchell Chester |
7:30-11:30am
2:00-5:00pm |
Conference registration open |
| 7:30am-3:00pm |
Exhibit floor open |
| 7:30-9:30am |
Continental breakfast with exhibitors |
| 8:45-10:00am |
Panel Session I
- Hot, Flat & Crowded: Implications for Education in the 21st Century (Bass River)
Preview the emerging trends and strategies for getting schools ready for the 21st century.
- Best Practices in Energy Cost Savings (Cape Cod)
Learn how school districts are taking the lead to save on energy costs, including a presentation on the pros and cons of energy contracts. Come away with ideas and strategies to apply in your district.
- The Economy and Chapter 70: What's Next? (Hyannisport West) (*)
A panel of the state's foremost economic experts will give an update on federal funding and Chapter 70 and discuss projections for education's economic future.
- Regional School Issues (Hyannisport East)
More than six decades later, "regionalization" has returned to the forefront of the administration and legislature's educational agenda. Cutting through the rhetoric, what will make a real difference to benefit students: governance? collaboration? fully funding previous promises? And will the incentives help or harm regions?
- Batter Up and Other Sports Issues (Barnstable 1)
Join members of the MASC Athletic Advisory Committee and MIAA officials for an update on current developments for school athletics.
- Healthy Students: Developing a School-Based Health Center (Centerville)
Fitchburg High School is in the process of developing a school-based health center in conjunction with Community Health Connections, Family Health Centers. This session will present information on what's involved in planning and implementing a new school-based health center, including who's on the team and what the timeframe looks like.
- Winning your Override Elections (Orleans)
Even in these challenging economic times, some communities are still approving overrides to support schools. Learn how they did it and why, what tactics workedâ€â€as well as what didn't!
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| 10:00-10:45am |
Coffee with Exhibitors |
| 10:45-noon |
General Session
Speaker: David Urion, MD, Director, Learning Disabilities Program, Children's Hospital, Boston Topic: The Impact of Special Education on Education Reform |
| 12:15-1:30pm |
MASC/MASS Network Lunch |
| 1:00-2:30pm |
Ice cream/Dessert Social with Exhibitors/BINGO DRAWING |
| 2:30-3:45pm |
Panel Session II
- Winning Characteristics of School Boards (Cape Cod) (*)
Learn what the most effective school committees look like and how they work successfully to promote student achievement.
- School District Restructuring/ Regionalization (Hyannisport West)
As school officials consider proposals to expand or consolidate school districts, this session brings critical issues to light and delivers the latest update on state policy and the response to it.
- School Law 101 (Hyannisport East) (*)
Everything you need to know about open meeting, conflict of interest and public records laws, including recent changes to these and the ethics laws.
Presenters: Naomi Stonberg, Esq.; Kelli Gunagan Esq., Attorney General's Office;
- Census 2010 and What it Means for Your District (Barnstable 1)
The 2010 Census will be critical for the commonwealth's funding and political future. Learn how you and your students can help the Census be successful and how it can help you access an important learning tool.
- Student Health: Moving Vision Care beyond Screening to Health Improvement (Centerville)
The impact of impaired sight on learning is significant. This session will address the full range of activities that need to occur to augment screening with comprehensive eye exams and treatment to meet the needs of students with impaired vision.
- Special Education and Ethical Dilemmas (Orleans) (*)
The system that provides special education is broken. It has outlived its historic purpose to provide access for students with disabilities and morphed into a bureaucratic and adversarial system with many unintended negative consequences. Join the discussion on facing the facts and discuss steps to fix the system.
- Readiness Schools (Ballroom)
This panel will discuss, from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, the planning and development of a K-5 Readiness Advantage School. Panelists will discuss the excitement and challenges involved with the development of a school with strong teacher leadership, highly engaged parents and autonomies granted in the areas of budget, governance, curriculum and hiring. They will also discuss their goal of increasing student achievement through the use of a performance contract.
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| 4:00-5:15pm |
Panel Session III
- Vocational School Developments (Cape Cod)
This session will attempt to dispel some of the myths surrounding vocational technical education. Topics will include: fiscal matters; access and admission issues; and accountability and assessment.
- School Committee/Superintendent Relationships (Hyannisport West) (*)
School committee and superintendent relationships are a critical connection that stands at the apex of the organizational pyramid in education. Ideas about dominant patterns of interaction between superintendents and school committees, and the underlying values revealed through these actions will be discussed, as well as strategies to strengthen the partnership.
- School Law 201 (Hyannisport East) (*)
MASC and MASS General Counsels will discuss important legal and arbitration cases in Massachusetts and Washington over the past year.
Presenters: Ellen Furtado, MASC Past President, Swansea School Committee (moderator); Stephen Finnegan, Esq., MASC Legal Counsel; Michael Long, Esq., MASS Legal Counsel
- Serving Children with Autism: Public/ Private Collaborations (Barnstable I)
Learn about components related to assessing, planning, and providing services in a successful public-private classroom collaboration that can offer substantial benefits to both.
- Student Health: Student Reproductive Health and Safety (Centerville)
Teen pregnancy is the single biggest cause of students dropping out of school. School committee members and a school superintendent will talk about their districts' experiences in offering birth control on-site at the school-based health center.
- Strategies for Special Education Cost Savings (Orleans)
The panel discussion will provide attendees with a clearer understanding of special education and how it fits within the fiscal and educational areas of a district. Panel members, made up of superintendents and special education directors, will share how their respective districts improved special education delivery and cost structures and how those solutions might apply to other districts.
- Collective Bargaining in Difficult Times (Ballroom) (*)
If districts are to survive the economic crisis, part of the successful strategy will be played out at the bargaining table. Learn how districts are addressing union demands and the realities of the financial meltdown.
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| 5:15-5:45pm |
- MASC Vocational Technical Division (VIII) Meeting
- MASC Urban Division (IX) Meeting
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| 6:00pm |
MASC Leadership Awards Banquet
Presentation: MASC Lifetime Achievement and 2009 All-State School Committee Awards |
| 8:30pm |
Cracker barrel: Issues Update |
| 7:30-11:30 |
Conference registration open |
| 7:30-9:30am |
Continental breakfast |
| 8:00-8:45am |
MASC Divisions I-VII Meetings |
| 9:00-10:15am |
Panel Session IV
- Making the Most of Your Collaboratives (Hyannisport West)
The Southeast Collaborative Regional Organization (SCRO) is a network of nine educational collaboratives and their school districts in southeastern MA focused on helping to meet the individual needs of local districts through a model of regionally based, high quality, cost effective programs and services. The purpose of the SCRO is to operationalize an alternative approach to regionalization that involves the leveraging of the educational collaboratives for the execution and promotion of 3 types of activities: 1.) Collaboration (sharing resources, personnel and services); 2.) Consolidation (to take advantage of economies of scale); and 3.) Coordination (of DESE regional initiatives) throughout the region. Participants will benefit from a discussion about a project that serves as a model for other areas of the state as well as DESE initiatives.
- Superintendent Evaluation Process (Hyannisport West) (*)
The evaluation of the superintendent is an important way for the school committee and superintendent to focus on success. Learn about the various models and strategies for evaluating your chief executive officer.
- School Building Authority Update (Hyannisport East)
An update on school building issues from members of the School Building Authority.
- Basics of School Policy (Centerville) (*)
Policy is Job #1 for school committee members. Presenters will discuss the fine line between policy making and school administration and the best models for school committees and superintendents to follow.
- Arts Learning in 21st Century Education (Orleans)
The importance of the arts in student achievement in an era of high stakes testing and economic troubles. The discussion will focus on the influence of the arts on the development of the whole child, and how school officials can not only support quality arts programs but help them grow.
- Facing Up to Facebook (Osterville A)
Learn about the fast-growing implications of social networking for students, teachers and school committee members.
- Building District Capacity for Special Education Students (Osterville B) (*)
This session will focus on evaluating current programs, developing innovative models, cost efficiencies, and promoting a positive culture that supports all students, staff and parents.
- Health Insurance/Cost Management (Grand)
Health insurance remains a budget buster and questions abound about the best strategies, value of the GIC, and other means to hold down costs.
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| 9:00am-4:00pm |
School Secretaries Council Program |
| 10:30-11:45am |
General Session
Speaker: Clayton Christenson, Professor, Harvard Business School
Topic: Disrupting Class: Why Schools and Students Struggle |
| Noon-1:45pm |
Leadership Lunch
Sponsored by: Equal Exchange
Guest Speakers: Chris Nowinski, President, Sports Legacy Institute and Dr. Neal McGrath, Boston University School of Medicine |
| 2:00-3:15pm |
Panel Session V
- Advocacy and Lobbying (Barnstable I)
Advocacy in the community and lobbying at the state and federal level have never been as important as they are today. Learn about strategies and tactics to get your message heard and influence public policy.
- Sports Concussion Crisis: Scope and Solutions (Hyannisport East)
Hear from the medical and sports professionals about the explosion of head injuries in high school sports and what practices districts can implement to maintain the safety of student athletes.
- Reducing Bullying: Improving School Climate and Achievement (Centerville)
Harassment, electronic aggression, bullying and violence prevent effective teaching and learning. This workshop presents an effective, student-centered program, which is already operating in secondary schools in Holyoke, that improves school climate and safety. Learn how to engage, equip and empower diverse student leaders with nonviolent communication skills to prevent and stop bullying and violence, leading to safer, high-performing schools.
- Data Warehousing (Orleans)
Learn how districts gather, protect and use their student data to ensure privacy and good information to promote student achievement.
- H1N1: Fear vs. Planning & Maintenance (Osterville A)
Learn how an H1N1 response plan can and should be part of your district's proactive, fiscally responsible monitoring and management program.
- Virtual High School (Osterville B)
Virtual learning has enjoyed some success, but some proponents envision a much wider role. Learn about expanded opportunities in this online learning concept.
- Budgeting Beyond the Stimulus: 2011 and 2012 (Ballroom) (*)
Veterans of school budgeting lead a discussion on another impending financial crisis: what happens to school budgets a year from now when the stimulus dollars are gone.
2:00-4:45pm
- New Member Topics: Part I (Grand) (*)
This double session, along with Saturday's follow-up and other sessions offer new members the chance to fulfill their new member orientation requirements.
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| 3:30-4:45pm |
Panel Session VI
- District and School Accountability and Assistance: DESE Initiatives (Hyannisport East)
Learn about DESE's year-long redesign of its Accountability and Assistance Framework and launch of its regional District and School Assistance Centers (DSACs). The six newly launched Centers represent an opportunity for districts and schools to access professional development and other assistance to support their efforts to improve instruction and implement more effective school and district practices.
- Educating the Whole Child (Centerville)
Whole Child Education means drawing out and building on all the capacities and talents of our children. Using a slideshow, panel, student presentation and audience discussion, presenters will show how this model works in practice.
- MASC Past Presidents Council Meeting (MASC Suite-Room 104)
Annual meeting of the Past Presidents Council
• Standards-Based Reporting (Osterville A)
This session will focus on three areas: why change from a traditional report card to a standards-based reporting system; what process was used to develop this system; how will it be implemented.
- Using Technology for Student Success (Osterville B)
What are the instructional technologies that really impact students? How can schools capitalize on 21st century skills for student lifelong learning? How will the classroom evolve over the next 5-10 years? How can we as school districts prepare to meet these needs?
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| 5:00-6:00pm |
MASC Life Member Reception |
| 6:00pm |
Leadership/Life Member Dinner
Presentation of Life Member awards and Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. award
Musical guests: Amesbury High School Jazz Ensemble |
| 7:30-9:00am Registration open |
| 9:00-10:15am |
- Parliamentary Procedures
This intensive review of parliamentary procedure includes strategies for making meetings more effective and dealing with difficult people.
- Educational Foundations & Other Revenue Sources
Information on educational foundations and strategies for other revenue sources will be discussed.
- Empowering Parents
Empowering parents and the school council orientation session that follows this one will help parents and school committees learn about how to engage in school advocacy and school policy
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| 10:30-11:45am |
- Race to the Top (Cape Cod) (*)
What you need to know about the stimulus funding requirements and an update on Race to the Top (RTTP) dollars.
- Effective Meetings (Hyannisport West)
How to make your meetings more effective and efficient and guidelines for dealing with difficult peopleâ€â€on the committee and in the audience.
- School Councils: Basics & Opportunities (Hyannisport East)
See "Empowering Parents" above
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| 9:00-11:45am |
- New member topics: Part II (*)
A key session for new and veteran members will focus on the open meeting law, conflict of interest and public records, including changes to the laws this year.
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| Noon-1:30pm |
Cost Containment: Best Practices Brown Bag Lunch |
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