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Monday March 29th
11:00am –12:15pm
Advocacy/PR/Marketing
PR 101
Room 105
Basic tips on getting
your school’s positive message out to local news sources, including:
how to draft a press release, how and when to send it to various news
sources, writing letters to the editor and opinion editorials.
Understand how to select and train a school spokesperson, and refine key
school and charter school messages.
Presenter: Gary
Larson, Director of Media Relations, California Charter Schools
Association
Advocacy/PR/Marketing
How to
Help Parents Advocate for Charter Schools
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Learn what tools they need to make your job easier! Parents who
understand their power can change the quality of education, and telling
parents about solutions to their own concerns can turn them from a
passive herd into a stampeding force for change. With a little
leadership on your part, parents can help you advance the charter school
movement in California.
Jeanne Allen, President, Center for Education Reform
Authorization/Oversight
Navigating "No Child Left Behind"
– Compagno
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District-based charter
authorizers face unique challenges in implementing NCLB. As
part of a new national initiative to clarify and strengthen authorizers'
NCLB role, The National Association of Charter School
Authorizers (NACSA) is seeking authorizer input about how they
are handling new accountability mandates and what support
they need for sound oversight.
William Haft, NACSA,
National Association of Charter School Authorizers;
Nelson Smith,
New American Schools
Business
Operations
Forecasting
School Financials
Room 102
Forecasting your school's financials is critical for understanding where
you are now and where you are going from a financial perspective. Learn
the key revenue and expense items to monitor tips for developing useful
and accurate projections, including running scenarios, thinking outside
the box, and comparing your school with others.
Peter Gascoyne,
Eagle Peak Montessori School
Business
Operations
How to Write a
Technology Plan and e-rate
Room 103
An introduction to the
whys and hows of technology planning, emphasizing opportunities to
obtain significant additional funding for your school's technology
program. Understand the reasons for preparing a technology plan, the
range of opportunities this opens up (including but not limited to
E-Rate), and the process of creating your plan.
A Special Round Table Session that will follow the session
provides a hands-on opportunity to begin or continue work on your own
technology plan, using a suggested template that meets E-Rate and CDE
guidelines. Share your current technology program, the status of the
technology planning process.
Mark Miller,
Miller Institute for Technology
Facilities
Working
With Community Based Organizations, School Districts And Local
Government To Get Facilities
Room 304
Get
high-quality campuses by partnering with other community-based
organizations, school districts or other local governments. School
leaders and real estate professionals explain what makes these
partnerships work – and why they sometimes don’t. Learn how to be
successful the first time you partner, and get the campus your students
and community deserve.
Moderator: Frank
Gonzalez, California Charter Schools Association General Manager – Los
Angeles; Ana Ponce, Camino Nuevo Charter Academy; Mott Smith, Civic
Enterprise Associates; Jonathan Williams, the Accelerated School; Tim
O’Shea, Founder of New Community Schools Development & New
Community Schools Institute
Governance/Legal
Catch
the Vision - Enrolling Staff in Personal and Professional Growth
Room 302
Lead your staff
to bring out their best, avoid burnout, and recognize when intervention
is needed by connection of their individual purpose to the work of the
school. Learn strategies for developing a culture of commitment and
collaboration, and how to enroll others in the work of personal and
professional growth as it relates to defining or refining your school's
vision.
Janis Bucknor,
Culture and Language Academy of Success Charter School
Governance/Legal
Full
Steam Ahead: Board Development on a Shoestring
Room 318
How to select,
develop and sustain competent board members. What charter school boards
can ethically and legally do to sustain talent, while systematically
weeding incompetent or unaligned directors. Examine several ethical,
operational and legal strategies proven to rescue boards searching for
flesh blood and new leadership on limited budgets.
Ronald Arrington
and William A. Taylor, Consultants, Trainers, Coaches - The Business
Lawyers
Governance/Legal
School
Laws for Charter Schools 101: What Law’s Apply to You?
Room 316
Learn about the
most important state and federal laws that are applicable to charter
schools so you can audit your program and/or prioritize areas in need of
refinement. Tackle legal issues before they become legal issues.
Jim Young and
Paul Minney, SMY&M Law Office
Leadership
The
Trends and Events that will Influence the Future of California Charter
Schools – A Delphi Study
Room 314
Are charter
schools a powerful reform movement in education, a fad of the last
decade of the 20th century or the promise for the new
millennium? This interactive session will engage participants to examine
these questions by identifying the trends or events that will influence
the future of California charter schools.
David Alexander,
Children’s Community Charter School
Special
Education
You Are
Responsible!! Serving Your Special Ed and Section 504 Students
Room 315
Focus on the
division of responsibilities between the charter school and the district
as it relates to serving students with special needs under the
Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) and Section 504 of
the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504). Understand the form, content, and
negotiation of the various agreements necessary.
Lisa Corr, SMYM
Law Office
Special
Education
Critical
Issues and a National Perspective on Special Education
Room 319
State and
national solutions and practices to meet the critical issues facing
charters include: meeting the needs of special education students,
addressing the issues of quality service, budgeting for additional costs
and encroachment, traveling the labyrinth of LEA status, SELPAs and
being a school of your sponsoring district. How can individual charters
form coops and consortia to address their needs?
Moderator –
Don Shalvey, Aspire Public Schools; Panel Tom Scovill, Shasta SELPA.
Jennifer Faukner, California Department of Education, Special Education
Division, Deborah Herrmann, California Department of Education, Charter
Division
Student
Achievement
How Can The International Primary Curriculum (IPC) Help Your School Go
From Good To Great?
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The International School of Monterey charter school, using the
International Primary Curriculum’s (IPC) K-6 program, encourages
children to value their own cultural identity and helps them become
internationally minded. In just two years, using the IPC program, the
school became the 2nd highest scoring elementary school in the District.
Chrissie Jahn,
Executive Director, the International School of Monterey; Andrew Wigford
and Martin Skelton, International Primary Curriculum
Student
Achievement
Teaching
Alive: An Effective Pedagogy for Charter Schools
Room 101
A researched
based professional development approach that assists K-3 teachers in
reading instruction and other content areas. It is effective for all
students, especially those from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial,
geographic and economic backgrounds. Center for Research in
Education, Diversity and Excellence’s teaching strategies are
based on five basic principles found to be in all successful academic
programs.
Priscilla
Walton, Noni Reis, Center for Research in Education, Diversity and
Excellence (CREDE), University. Of California, Santa Cruz
Student
Achievement
Update
On New Responsibilities for Charter School Oversight for Districts and
Counties
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This session
addresses some of a district’s and counties' general oversight
responsibilities for charter schools.
Moderated by
Colin Miller, Director of Policy and Research, The California Charter
Schools Association
Student
Achievement
Quality
Assessment in a Standards Based System
Room 301
Learn to design
a comprehensive classroom assessment system. Participants will explore
innovative and holistic diagnostic, formative and summative assessment
methods aimed at engaging students, both informally and formally, in
meaningful activities that both teachers and students use in all content
areas to improve teaching and learning.
Michael Moody,
Insight Education Group, Inc.
Exhibitor
Presentation
Introducing
a New Technology for the Math Classroom - the Class Pad 300
Room 201
See what
our new handheld technology has to offer. Experience the ClassPad 300
and a new concept called an eActivity. eActivities can be
designed to inspire all students to explore mathematics, learn at their
own pace and at their own level. The audience will participate in
hands-on activities that can be used in Algebra, Geometry, and beyond.
Each participant will receive a sample software for their PC for
supplementing a lecture, and is also useful in preparing materials for
your class.
Presenter: Diane Whitfield, Casio, Inc.
Exhibitor Presentation
Empowering Language Learners and Parents for Successful
Integration in the Classroom and the Community
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This hands-on presentation will focus on research based
instructional strategies for accelerated development of academic and
social, second language and reading skills in the classroom, through
structured content-based immersion. It will also train participants in
equipping parents and other adults who are helping children with their
language acquisition, with the necessary tools to participate in the
process that promises positive outcome in the literacy realm.
Presenter: Hilary Rayvis-Randall, Santillana USA
Exhibitor Presentation
Technology and Project-Based Learning: From Theory to Practice
Room 307
Participants will be introduced to the essential elements of, and
theories supporting project-based learning. This House Divided: The
U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, a standards-driven project, which
immerses students in history of the Civil War and its aftermath, will be
presented. Participants will learn how Questia, the world's
largest online library, can support this and all your research needs.
The project and a 90-day subscription to Questia are free.
Presenters: John Ferro and Jennifer Park, Questia
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