Register for SAW 2016!
Join us on July 28th at the Historic Hotel Bethlehem
For full Summer Administrative Workshop details, please visit www.ciu20.org/saw
Check out our schedule of sessions below!
OPENING KEYNOTE
“Leadership Under Fire: Lessons Learned from the White House”
Presented by: Dr. Mike McHugh, Leadership Consultant
Few leadership roles offer the enormous challenges and opportunities faced daily by the President of the United States. This keynote examines the personal and professional dispositions, the broad leadership styles, and many of the specific decision-making strategies used by those who have served as President. Both successes and failures are studied to demonstrate the fascinating efficacy that presidential thoughts and actions hold for contemporary organizational leaders.
MORNING BREAKOUT SESSIONS
“Re-Discover Your Personal Leadership Style”
Presented by: Dr. Mike McHugh, Leadership Consultant
The relationship between personal leadership, team participation, and organizational enhancement is the core theme of this breakout. Participants are challenged to look at three critical attributes of how individuals lead themselves. These include their time-management strategies, how they engage in interpersonal relationships, and how they take care of themselves. This breakout is designed for those seeking to expand and refine their current level of personal leadership.
“Supporting Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students.”
Presented by: Dr. Slesaransky-Poe, Professor and Founding Dean of the School of Education at Arcadia University, Expert on Transgender Issues
What are our responsibilities as administrators to support gender nonconforming and transgender students? What unique challenges do LGBTQ students and families face? Does legislation exist to protect these students? In this workshop, participants will learn how schools and families have responded to these questions and will gain practical understanding and concrete tools for creating safe and welcoming school communities for all students.
“Uniform Guidance for Federal Awards: An Overview of What Has Changed”
Presented by: Craig E. Witmer, CPA, CGFM,
Smith Elliott Kearns & Company, LLC and Cindy Rhoads, Regional Coordinator, Federal Programs Division, PA Department of Education
This session will explore the new federal guidance covering administrative requirements, cost principles, audit requirements and what areas your LEA should be focusing on now. This will also include a description of PDE subrecipient monitoring activities and available resources.
“Using Digital Tools for Formative Assessment”
Presented by: Mr. Chris McCaffrey, Technology Integration, Wilson School District, West Lawn, PA, Google for Education Certified Trainer
This session will focus on how to ensure that your formative assessment tools make student learning visible, enabling real time instructional shifts.
“Overcoming Intergroup Conflict”
Dr. Steve Simms, Family Therapist/Psychologist, Senior Faculty Member, The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center.
Unresolved team conflict negatively impacts instruction, drives wedges in teacher-administrator partnerships, and taints the school’s spirit. This workshop will guide administrators to deal with intergroup conflict in ways that secure sustainable partnerships to promote long-term positive team work.
AFTERNOON BREAKOUT SESSIONS
“Leadership in Motion: Engaging Stakeholders”
Presented by: Dr. Chris Manno, Superintendent of Schools, Burlington County Special Services School District and Institutes of Technology,
Master’s and Doctoral Instructor, The College of New Jersey, Delaware Valley University, and Rutgers University.
Dr. Manno will share his experiences on how to be an effective leader to the school staff, students, board members and community.
“How HOPE Changed a School Culture”
Presented by: Dr. Meghan Feliciani, English Teacher and HOPE Advisor, Pleasant Valley High School and Elizabeth Gesualdi, English Teacher
Learn about a grassroots effort from students and teachers that lead to a district-wide culture of positivity and acceptance.
“Joint Employership”
Presented by: Keely J. Collins, Esq., King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul LLC
This session will provide up-to-date information on the elements of the “joint employer” relationship and practical solutions for working with staffing companies to minimize legal liability. Following the National Labor Relations Board’s recent Browning-Ferris decision, the exclusivity of the employment relationship between staffing companies and their employees has been increasingly called into question and more intensely scrutinized. Now more than ever, it is possible for the client of a staffing company to be considered a “joint employer,” subject to the same burdens of employment as the staffing company itself.
“Practical Theories for Supporting Flipped / Blending Learning in the Classroom”
Presented by: Mr. Chris McCaffrey, Technology Integration, Wilson School District, West Lawn, PA, Google for Education Certified Trainer
Blended and flipped learning theories / tools that can support student creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking.
“How to Turn Conflict into Collaboration When Creating Solutions for Child Mental Health Strategies”
Presented by: Dr. Steve Simms, Family Therapist/Psychologist, Senior Faculty Member, The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center.
This workshop will help administrators develop a protocol for helping educators turn conflict into collaboration when creating solutions for worrisome child mental health challenges. The protocol has embedded flexibility and relies on three principles: Principle 1: see severe symptoms as embedded in an interpersonal pattern. Principle 2: understand how a “new” pattern helps the child master adaptive strategies for coping with an underlying tragedy or trauma. Principle 3: respond in ways that blocks the “old” pattern and fosters a tenuous “new” pattern.
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE
Ms. Carole Geary,
Superintendent, Pleasant Valley SD, 2016 SAW Committee ChairPresented by: