MASC/MASS Conference: 2016 Exhibitors

MASC/MASS 2016: Conference Schedule

The following is a partial schedule for the 2016 MASC/MASS Joint Conference and is subject to change. To view the latest schedule information, detailed session descriptions, speaker information and create your own customized schedule, get the new MASC Events app for Apple and Android devices.

Note: The  icon next to a session indicates that a ticket is required to attend. This is typically in the case of the lunch and dinner programs.

Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Wednesday, November 2

11:00am

Conference Registration Opens

MASC Delegate Registration

12:30pm - 1:40pm: Panel Session I

Small Rural and Regional Districts: Fiscal and Enrollment Challenges (Cape Cod)

SEL: Moving from Compliance to Cultural Implementation (Hyannisport West)

Planning for Success: DESE Multiyear Improvement/Annual Action Plan (Hyannisport East)

MassKids: Implementing the New Safe Child Standards (Barnstable 1)

Virtual Learning: Creating Regional Capacity to Expand Opportunities for All (Barnstable 3)

Interest Based Bargaining (Centerville)

Social/Emotional Learning: A Priority Through the Education Pipeline (Centerville)

Universal Design for Learning (Orleans)

Working Together for Student Success (Ballroom)

1:50pm - 3:00pm: Panel Session II

Innovative Practices to Social-Emotional Learning (Hyannisport West)

New Superintendent Induction Program: Ensuring a Smooth Transition (Hyannisport East)

DESE: Report from the Civic Learning and Engagement Task Force (Barnstable 1)

Planning for Continous Improvement (Barnstable 3)

Foreign Exchange Students: Challenges and Benefits (Centerville)

Improve Outcomes with Student Survey Feedback (Cape Cod)

Budget Development (Orleans)

Policies You Need (Bass River Alcove)

2:45pm - 3:10pm

MASC Resolutions Clinic (Ballroom)

3:00pm - 7:00pm

Exhibit Hall Open

3:15pm

MASC Delegate Assembly (Ballroom)

3:25pm - 4:00pm: Partner Presentations

Using Analytics to Change Public Perception and Win Support (Cape Cod)

3:25pm - 4:30pm: Panel Session III

What Educational Collaboratives Can Do for You (Cape Cod)

Innovations in Global STEM Programming (Barnstable 1)

Engaging Community Stakeholders in Emergency Operations Planning (Barnstable 3)

Candidate Performance Assessment: Impact on Mentoring, Hiring Evaluation and Preparation Processes (Centerville)

4:30pm - 5:00pm

MASS Business Meeting (Hyannisport West)

5:00pm - 6:30pm

Reception with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)

Sponsored By: Mirick O'Connell

7:00pm: Dinner ProgramTicket Required

Wednesday Keynote Dinner (Bass River)

Greetings: Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts Commissioner of Education
Keynote Address: Rev. Liz Walker, Former TV Journalist & Humanitarian
"Getting Unstuck: What I Have Learned About Poverty and Education", Teaching resilience to urban children and combating trauma in their lives and communities.
Special Presentation: of the Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Award to Michael Cavanaugh of the Pathfinder Regional Vocational School Committee Sponsored By: Scholastic

9:00pm - 12:00pm

Meet Your Colleagues Social (Bogey's)

Musical Guest: The Cape Cod Slackers

Thursday, November 3

7:30am - 11:30am

Registration Open

7:30am - 3:00pm

Exhibit Hall Open

7:50am - 8:40am: Partner Presentations

Working with your Community and the MSBA to Achieve a School Building Solution(Orleans)

Independent Reading and the Whole Child: Creating Pathways for Literacy at School, Home, and in the Community (Barnstable 3)

8:00am - 8:40am: Partner Presentations

The Redesigned SAT, Khan Academy, and AP Program Updates (Barnstable 1)

7:30am - 9:30am

Continental Breakfast with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)

Sponsored By: Sodexo

8:45am -10:00am: Panel Session IV

Strategies for Children: Implementing Pre-K Programs and Building Capacity (Cape Cod)

Vocational Technical/Agricultural Education: Best and Emerging Practices (Bass River)

Building Blocks for Learning: Connection Between Social/Emotional Health and Academic Achievement (Hyannisport West)

Families in Crisis: Addressing Social and Emotional Needs of Students and Families (Hyannisport East)

Code of Conduct: Establishing a Positive Behavioral Intervention Support Model (Barnstable 1)

Charter School Reform Update (Barnstable 3)

NEASC Accreditation Process: A New and Improved Model (Centerville)

MCAS 2.0: An Update (Ballroom)

10:00am - 10:45am

Coffee with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)

10:00am - 10:35am: MASC Division Meetings

Division VIII (Bass River Alcove)

Division IX and Minority Caucus (Hyannisport East)

10:45am - 12:00pm: General Session

SEL and the Mental Health Needs of Children, In and Out of the Classroom (Ballroom)

Guest Speakers: Dr. Nicholas Covino, Nadja Reilly, Shella Dennery

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Thursday Lunch Program Ticket Required

Networking Luncheon (Bass River)

Sponsored By: Colliers International

1:00pm - 2:30pm

Ice Cream Social with Exhibitors (Exhibit Hall)

1:15pm - 2:15pm: Partner Presentations

Social Emotional Learning: How Threats Shared on Social Media Impacts Time on Task and Everyday Learning (Centerville)

Measuring Social and Emotional Learning (Barnstable 1)

Community Eligibility Program: A Boost for Students AND School Budgets (Barnstable 3)

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Registration Open

2:30pm - 3:45pm: Panel Session V

Special Education Transportation: Cost-Savings Strategies (Cape Cod)

School Building Authority Update (Hyannisport West)

School Law 101 (Hyannisport East)

Social/Emotional Learning: Educational Collaborative Initiatives (Barnstable 1)

Advocacy and Media Strategies (Barnstable 3)

Superintendent Contracting: Do's and Don't's (Orleans)

Best Practices in the Boardroom (Centerville)

Supporting Transgender Students: Laws, Policies and Best Practices (Ballroom)

4:00pm - 5:15pm: Panel Session VI

Recovery High Schools: Best Practices (Cape Cod)

Special Education Issues Update (Barnstable 1)

School Law 201 (Hyannisport West)

Budget Oversight: It's Your Responsibility! (Hyannisport East)

OPEB (Other Post-Employment Benefits): What Every District Needs to Know (Centerville)

Virtual Education: Family Engagement for Student Achievement at MA Virtual Academy (Orleans)

Evaluating the Superintendent (Barnstable 3)

Chapter 70: What It Is, How It Works, 21st Century Challenges (Ballroom)

5:30pm - 6:30pm

Presidents' Reception (Lobby Lounge)

6:30pm: Thursday Dinner ProgramTicket Required

Thursday Night Banquet (Bass River)

Sponsored By: Social Sentinel Guest Speaker: Comedian Jimmy Tingle, Comedian, Harvard graduate, occasional presidential candidate
"Jimmy Tingle for President"

Friday, November 4

7:30am - 11:30am

Registration Open

7:30am - 9:30am

Continental Breakfast (Ballroom Foyer)

Sponsored By: BoardDocs

9:00am - 3:00pm

COSCAP Workshop Registration Required (Cape Cod)

View Agenda

9:00am - 10:15am: Featured Panel

Between a Rock and a Calm Place - Behavioral Intervention Strategies (Ballroom)

Guest Speaker: Jessica Minahan

9:00am - 10:15am: Panel Session VII

MIAA: New Initiatives (Barnstable 1)

Creating a New Path for Assessments (Barnstable 3)

L.E.A.P. Program (Centerville)

Addressing Violence in Our Schools: From Bullying to Dating Violence (Orleans)

Transparency in Budget Presentation (Osterville)

10:30am - 11:45am: General Session

Questions School Committees can Ask in Pursuit of Excellence with Equity and some Common Answers (Ballroom)

Guest Speaker: Ron Ferguson, Author, Economist and Senior Lecturer in Education and Public Policy at Harvard University

12:00pm: Friday Lunch Program Ticket Required

Leadership Luncheon (Bass River)

Guest Speaker: Mo Cunningham, Associate Professor of Political Science, UMASS Boston and Co-Founder and Contributor to WGBH's MassPoliticsProf blog

1:45pm - 2:30pm: MASC Division Meetings

Divisions I & II (Hyannisport East)

Division III (Hyannisport West)

Division IV (Barnstable 1)

Division V (Barnstable 3)

Division VI (Centerville)

Division VII (Bass River Alcove)

2:30pm - 3:45pm: Panel Session VIII

School Committee Self-Evaluation (Hyannisport East)

Small District Issues (Barnstable 3)

ESSA and the Arts (Barnstable 1)

Parliamentary Procedures (Orleans)

Sustaining Strong School Committee/Superintendent Relationships (Osterville A)

Legislative Update (Ballroom)

Family Engagement (Hyannisport West)

Courageous, Compassionate Leadership (Centerville)

New Member Orientation: Part I (2:30pm - 5:00pm) (Grand Ballroom)

Multigenerational Communications (2:30pm - 5:00pm) (Osterville B)

4:00pm - 5:15pm: Panel Session IX

Social Media: How to Use it Effectively (Osterville B)

Edward M. Kennedy Institute - Senate Immersion Model (Barnstable 1)

Student Activity/Revolving Funds: Audit Guidelines (Orleans)

Promoting a Maker Mindset (Barnstable 3)

What the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Means for Your District (Ballroom)

5:00pm - 5:45pm

Past Presidents' Council Meeting (Room 104)

6:00pm - 7:00pm

MASC Life Member/Award Recipient Reception (Lobby Lounge)

7:00pm: Thursday Dinner Program Ticket Required

MASC Leadership Awards & Life Member Banquet (Bass River)

Saturday, November 5

9:00am - 10:15am

Students and Social Media (Cape Cod)

Learning Beyond the Classroom - Student Internships (Hyannisport West)

Focus on Students: Dual Enrollment Opportunities (Barnstable 1)

Roles (and Responsibilities) of the Chair (Bass River Alcove)

New Member Orientation (Part II)(Hyannisport East)

Mindfulness in the Classroom (Barnstable 3)

10:30am - 11:45am

Hot Topic! Early Start Times for Schools (Hyannisport West)

Students Mentoring Students (Barnstable 3)

Looking for a Leader: Superintendent Searching (Bass River Alcove)

Students in Poverty (Cape Cod)

Have You Done Your Homework Yet?? (Barnstable 1)

12:00pm - 1:00pm: Saturday Lunch Program Ticket Required

Student Voices Luncheon (Bass River)

MASC/MASS 2016: Speakers - Rev. Liz Walker

Liz Walker is a minister, award winning journalist and activist for community healing and cross cultural and interfaith dialogue. Hers is a powerful voice of healing and hope. She is in demand as a keynote speaker around the world.

Reverend Walker is currently Pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church, a dynamic faith community with a 130 plus year history of making a difference in one of Boston's most challenging neighborhoods. RPC under Reverend Walker's leadership is home to the Cory Johnson Trauma Project, an innovative program that addresses the epidemic of post-traumatic stress in a low income African American community too often overrun by violence. The Trauma Education Project works to increase community awareness of PTSD as well as improving access to mental health services, and empowering community members with the skills to cope with and respond to PTSD.

Reverend Walker's calling as a minister is the latest and highest reach of a life journey which includes 11 years of humanitarian work in one of Africa's most troubled countries and 21 years as Boston's first African American Television News Anchor on WBZ TV.

In the summer of 2001, Reverend Walker traveled to Sudan as a reporter on a fact-finding mission on the controversial slave trade there. It was a life changing experience. Sudan is the scene of the worst human rights atrocities in the world. So outraged by what she witnessed in the sub Saharan, Reverend Walker co-founded the humanitarian organization "My Sister's Keeper" which focuses on economic and educational initiatives for Sudanese women and girls. In 2007 "My Sister's Keeper" built a Girls' school in the village of Akon, Sudan, the first of its kind in that region. On the first day of school, 1000 girls enrolled. Despite persistent violent conflicts and political upheaval in the region, the school continues to operate today.

While in Sudan, Reverend Walker facilitated healing conversations among women from competing tribes and ethnicities in war torn regions that have never known peace. She helped found the Sisterhood for Peace Initiative which supports the growth of a network of diverse Sudanese women committed to collaborating across race, religion, ethnicity and geography to promote peace and justice.

Reverend Walker shot her own video and produced a number of television reports about Sudan and a documentary called "A Glory from the God" which profiles the work of " My Sister's Keeper". Her 31-year television news career resulted in two Emmy's and an Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in her field.

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Reverend Walker has long been actively involved in many community service organizations and projects. She helped found the Jane Doe Safety Fund, a multi-million dollar statewide anti-violence initiative that works on policy and supports domestic abuse shelters and safe houses around the Commonwealth.

Reverend Walker is a member of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and serves on the Board for the New England Chapter of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. She has also served on the Board of Trustees for Andover Newton Theological Seminary, the Tufts Health Foundation and Board of Overseers for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She has been awarded honorary degrees from numerous institutions including University of Massachusetts in Dartmouth, Boston College, Simmons College, Salem State University and Bridgewater State University.

Liz Walker's is one of the world's most healing voices. From her poignant words after the Boston Marathon Bombing to her Sunday sermons at RPC, her daily radio show on WROL 950AM, to her inspirational and motivational speeches before audiences around the globe, Liz Walker offers vitally important instruction on hopeful living in challenging times.

For more information visit www.lizwalker.tv

MASC/MASS 2016: Speakers - Jimmy Tingle

In 2010, Jimmy Tingle was chosen to give the Commencement address in front of thousands of people at Harvard. He’d just received his Masters Degree in Public Administration. Being that he was in the midst of many great academic minds, Tingle felt he should explain himself.

“I’m a comedian by profession and have traveled all over the world performing stand-up comedy,” he said. “I don’t want to brag, but two years ago I performed in Europe. I’d just like to say ‘excellent country!’”He punctuated it with an enthusiastic thumbs-up gesture.

As the students, families and faculty erupted with laughter, Tingle went on to explain, “People asked me all year why would a comedian want to go to The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. I told them: ‘the same reason all of you wanted to go to Harvard... We got in!’”

Yes, there was that. But also, as a political humorist he wanted to dive deeper into those murky waters of politics.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts born Tingle has a career spanning three decades, as a comedian, writer, actor, activist and entrepreneur. He rose up from the Boston comedy boom of the ‘80s, the scene that spawned Denis Leary, Bobcat Goldthwait and Paula Poundstone.

He did two seasons of 60 Minutes II on CBS in the “Andy Rooney” spot. Tingle was less curmudgeonly journalist and more exasperated, wry comic. “Some cities are using money from parking tickets to fund the schools,”Tingle told viewers. “Why is the quality of a child’s education being influenced by their parent’s inability to park? ‘Dad, the school needs a computer! ‘Don’t worry, son, I’ll leave the car in front of the hydrant.’”

Tingle also worked as a contributor and satirist for MSNBC and has appeared on The Tonight Show, CNN, Larry King’s Weekend, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The American Comedy Awards, as well as his own HBO half-hour comedy special. He has also been a guest on NPR’s “Fresh Air with Terry Gross” and appeared regularly on “Heat” with John Hockenberry.

Tingle grew up working class. That perspective – coupled to his Catholic background, particularly the social justice side of the faith – continues to be a major influence in Tingle’s life, politics and worldview.Tingle’s father owned and drove taxicabs in his hometown. “As kids,” Tingle says, “the cab was our family car and we went everywhere in it. One time my father took us hunting in the cab. We looked pretty funny pulling up to the forest in a big yellow cab. Bears were looking out of the forest completely dumfounded: ‘Somebody call a cab?’”

Tingle has produced several comedic and theatrical productions including Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense at the storied Hasty Pudding Theater at Harvard, which became the longest running one person show in that theater’s history.

He also wrote, produced and starred in his first documentary film Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream which aired on over 60 PBS affiliates. Other film credits include small roles in Larry David’s Clear History, Chris Rock’s Head of State, Next Stop, Wonderland and Boondock Saints. He played himself in the International Emmy Award-winning documentary on arts censorship Dammed in the USA.

Theatrical credits include writing and starring and producing four one-person shows, all of which were directed by Larry Arrick: Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense; The Promised Land; Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream and Jimmy Tingle for President: The Funniest Campaign in History. (The latter two shows are available DVD).

Tingle has the rare distinction of winning Boston magazine’s “Best of Boston” awards in two different categories. He won as a performer in the “stand-up comedy” category and then the venue he founded in 2002, Jimmy Tingle’s OFF BROADWAY, was named “best alternative theater.” Tingle was artistic director-producer at the Somerville, Mass. theater through 2007.

His newest stand up comedy show “Making Comic Sense of 2013” was recorded as a one hour radio special and is available at PRX.org.

For more information visit www.jimmytingle.com