JULY 10 - 12 | SPOKANE, WA
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Baruti Kafele
Ruby Payne
Dan Heath
Preparing for the Role of School Leader
An interactive learning format designed specifically for assistant principals. You’ll participate in deep dive discussions with NAESP Center for Innovative Leadership Fellows Dr. Andy Jacks and Hamish Brewer, covering multiple topics: student discipline, relationship building, building a collaborative relationship with your principal, motivating students and adults, and effective time management. Attendees will walk away with an expanded professional network and ideas to immediately improve their leadership practice.
Best Practices in Social Emotional Learning
It is important for early career principals to develop strong social emotional competencies (SEC) to prevent emotional exhaustion and burnout. Attendees will examine the stress and challenges early career principals face and learn coping strategies by exploring the components of SECs. Come away with a better awareness of how your emotions function and the important role they play in leading, teaching and learning.
Kids Deserve It – Building Culture, Telling Your Story, and Growing Leaders
Push the boundaries and challenge conventional thinking with Todd Nesloney and Adam Dovico. Veteran principals have a wealth of knowledge but still have many things to learn. Todd and Adam will share ideas on how you can build the culture of your school with immediate takeaways. You won’t want to miss this high energy, engaging, and practical day of learning!
Charles Best
Dr. Andy Jacks
Hamish Brewer
Beth Houf
Jessica Cabeen
Todd Nesloney
Adam Dovico
Dr. Lee Jenkins
Lee Jenkins is an author, speaker and recognized authority in improving educational outcomes. He proves that implementing a growth mindset and celebrating progress are the keys to helping students learn more and retain their enthusiasm for school. He blends the teaching of W. Edwards Deming, Carol Dweck and John Hattie in very practical ways. He has authored three books, including Permission to Forget: And Nine Other Root Causes of American’s Frustration with Education, Optimize Your School: It’s all about the Strategy, and From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action which offer powerful, practical suggestions for every aspect of education. Lee’s speaking career has taken him to across the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. In addition, he teaches online courses to educators from more than 25 countries.
In this highly-engaging, high-energy keynote address, Principal Kafele will make the case that there are so many variables that factor into a youngsters chances and opportunities for success, but it is the presence of that purpose-driven, mission-oriented, visionary elementary principal that can completely alter the trajectory of an entire school community!
Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D. is the founder of aha! Process and an author, speaker, publisher, and career educator. Recognized internationally for her work, Dr. Ruby Payne has helped students and adults of all economic backgrounds achieve academic, professional, and personal success.
Dr. Payne will present an eye-opening keynote on schools trying to address emotional issues with discipline strategies, and it is not working. Social and emotional learning programs are critical for addressing emotional challenges, but we must also rethink our discipline procedures and policies. Her keynote address will be based on her new book Emotional Poverty in All Demographics, exploring the concepts and provide understanding, tools, and strategies that are more effective that those currently in use in most classrooms.
The co-author of four New York Times best-selling books on business, Dan Heath offers a breadth of expertise to teach audiences at any level how to utilize the power of moments to manage and lead successful change, make communication stickier, and improve their decision-making skills. Known for combining an entertaining style with useful and articulate insights, Dan Heath weaves together research-based tools, fascinating stories, and a liberal dose of humor. Co-author to four New York Times best-sellers with his brother, Dan will be releasing his breakout book, Upstream, in Spring 2020. Dedicated to the prevention of crises before they happen, Upstream features intensive case studies that will give any audience the tools to become unconventional problem solvers and revolutionize their approach to achieving professional and personal goals. Co-authored books include: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments, which explores why certain brief experiences can jolt, elevate and change us—and how we can learn to create these extraordinary moments in our life and work. The Heaths’ emphasis on practicality has given them a broad-ranging audience and their books have been praised by sources ranging from the Harvard Business Review and the U.S. Army, to People magazine. Dan is a Senior Fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs who fight for social good. An entrepreneur himself, in 1997, Dan co-founded Thinkwell, an innovative publishing company that produces a radically reinvented line of college textbooks. A graduate of the Harvard Business School, Dan was named to the Thinkers 50, a ranking of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers in 2013 and has also been featured on Fast Company magazine’s list of the Most Creative People in Business. He has spoken to teachers, police chiefs, U.S. senators, interior designers, Navy admirals, health care leaders, marketers, ministers, and countless executive teams, across 26 countries on 6 continents. (He’s still waiting for that invitation from Antarctica!)
Charles Best is the CEO and founder of DonorsChoose, the leading platform for giving to public schools. He launched the organization twenty years ago out of a Bronx public high school where he taught history for five years. Teachers across America use the site to create projects requesting resources their students need, and donors of all sizes give to the projects that inspire them. To date, teachers at 83% of all the public schools in America have created classroom project requests, and over 4 million supporters have given $900 million to those projects. As a former educator and the pioneer of crowdfunding, Charles has a wealth of knowledge on the power of connecting donors to classrooms in need, creating movements, scaling an organization, and working with school districts. Charles made the cover of Fast Company as one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies in the World,” the first time a charity has received such recognition.
Andy Jacks is the Principal of Ashland ES #AshlandSOAR-@AutismNOVA, Board of Directors-VA Tech, Doctoral Student-@DadsAsPrincipal Co-Founder-Nationally Distinguished Principal 2018. Twitter: @_AndyJacks
Hamish Brewer is an award winning educator - NAESP 2017 Nationally Distinguished Principal and his school was named the 2017 Nationally Distinguished Title 1 School. Hamish is currently completing his doctoral studies in Educational Leadership at Virginia Tech. Hamish was named the VAESP School Bell award winner and the ASCD Virginia Impact Award winner for educational excellence. Mr. Brewer's story and achievements have been show cased on National TV with NBC's Lester Holt and by Fox DC news as the Hometown hero! You can follow Hamish on Twitter at @brewerhm and on his Facebook page - Relentless Learning.
Beth Houf is the proud principal of Fulton Middle School in central Missouri. She is the Co-Author of Lead Like a PIRATE: Make School Amazing for Your Students and Staff. Beth also serves as a facilitator for the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Leadership Academy, providing monthly training to state educational leaders. Beth was named a Missouri Exemplary New Principal in 2011, the Missouri NAESP National Distinguished Principal for 2016, the 2019 NASSP Digital Principal of the Year and the 2019 EdDive Principal of the Year. Fulton Middle School was named a Missouri Exemplary Professional Learning Community and a Solution Tree Model Professional Learning Community in 2019.
Jessica Cabeen currently serves as the principal of Ellis Middle School in Austin, Minnesota. Prior to this role she was the Principal of the "Happiest Place in Southeastern Minnesota", the Woodson Kindergarten Center. She has been an assistant middle school principal, a special education supervisor, and special education teacher. She started her career as a Music Therapist and worked with adults with disabilities and adolescents in residential settings in Iowa and Illinois. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Music Therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, a Masters in Special Education from the University of Saint Thomas, and her administrative licenses from Hamline University. Jessica was awarded the NAESP/VINCI Digital Leader of Early Learning Award in 2016 and in 2017 was named the Minnesota National Distinguished Principal. She has written four books: Hacking Early Learning, co-authored Balance Like a Pirate, Lead with Grace and Unconventional Leadership. She has been the principal facilitator for the Minnesota PreK-3 Principal Leadership Series for the past four years and is a facilitator of the Minnesota Principal Academy. She speaks at regional and national conferences on topics such as family engagement, early learning, and unconventional leadership.
Director of Culture and Strategic Leadership Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association
Teacher, Principal, Author Greensboro, NC
In this highly-engaging, high-energy keynote address, Principal Kafele will make the case that there are so many variables that factor into a youngsters chances and opportunities for success, but it is the preasence of that purpose-driven, mission-oriented, visionary elementary principal that can completely alter the trajectory of an entire school community!