MASC/MASS 2017: Program and Panel Sessions

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The following is a partial list of panel sessions to be presented at the 2017 MASC/MASS Joint Conference. More information and scheduling details will be added soon!


  • Creating Inclusive Schools that Foster Improved Student Outcomes
  • Implementing High Quality College/Career Pathways
  • Changing Culture and Practice for Student Success
  • Measuring School Quality: MA Consortium for Innovative Assessment
  • Virtual Learning Experiences for All
  • GeekSox: Beyond the Curriculum
  • Personalizing the System, not Just the Classroom
  • Challenges Faced by Urban Districts in Expanding Personalized Learning
  • Beyond Test Scores: Other Measures of Student Learning and Growth
  • Supporting Students’ Social and Emotional Needs: A Whole Community Conversation and Response
  • Expanding Support for Students: Developing and Sustaining Community Partnerships
  • School Budgets: Real vs. Alternative Facts
  • School Budget and Finance: Chapter 70 and Beyond
  • Ensuring that ALL Low-Income Students are Counted
  • Do You Know Where Your Student Activity Funds Are?
  • Award Winning Cost Strategies
  • Reducing Your SPED Transportation Costs
  • Foundation Budget Update
  • Anatomy of Negotiations
  • Globally Inclusive Schools
  • New Tools for Planning and Budgeting: Resource Allocation and District Action Reports (RADAR)
  • ASPIRE: A 21st Century Leadership Framework
  • NEASC: 2020 Design for Improvement
  • Understanding SEL: A Ubiquitous Approach Towards Implementation and Results
  • Charting Courses for College and Career Readiness
  • 25 Basics of Policy
  • Goal Setting
  • Parliamentary Procedures
  • How to Manage/Work With the Difficult People
  • Update on Accountability and Assessments
  • School committee/supt relationships
  • School Choice: The Impact on Small and Rural Districts
  • Superintendent Contracting
  • Small/Rural Distrist Issues
  • Emerging Issues in Federal Education: What’s New in Washington
  • Legislative Update
  • Regional Schools: Issues of Concern
  • Vocational Schools: No Longer a Secret Success Story
  • MIAA
  • Charting the Course: Part 1
  • Charting the Course: Part 2
  • School Law 101
  • School Law 201
  • Putting Students at the Center of Reform
  • Do Your School Policies Support Student Well-Being?
  • Be PAWSitive: Therapy Pets and Community Education
  • Collective Bargaining and IBB
  • Special Education 2.0
  • More to be announced!