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 Saturday, February 22

 7:00 am

• 101. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

 11:00 am

• 102. Spouse Session Power Entertaining with Wine and Food
• 103. Unity Within Diversity
• 104. Making Accountability Work for You and Your School
• 105. Safe, Supportive and Effective Schools
• 106. Leading the Implementation of Breaking Ranks in Your School: Current Practices, Future DirectionHosted by The NASSP High School Task Force
• 107. An External Look: Using Outside Eyes When Labeled “Underperforming”Hosted by the Association of California School Administrators
• 108. Safe Schools for All: The Scope and Impact of Anti-Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Harassment and Violence in Schools
• 109. High School Exit Exams: Coming to Your State or a State Near You
• 110. No Child Left Behind: What This Means to You, the Principal
• 111. Confronting Middle Schools’ Most Contentious Issues: Lessons in Leadership
• 112. Remediation, Grade Level and Beyond: Using Accurate Evidence (Achievement Profiles) to Target Instruction and Improve Student Achievement
• 113. Implementing Student-Led Conferencing in Your School
• 114. Growing Your Own Principals: One District's Answer to the Principal ShortageHosted by The Colorado Association of School Executives
• 115. Contracts, Benefits, and Working Conditions for PrincipalsHosted by The Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators' Association
• 116. Parents: Still “The Teacher of the Year” For Most Teens
• 117. Create a Climate of CollaborationHosted by Arizona School Administrators
• 118. Using Block Scheduling and Career Pathways to Generate Dramatic Improvement in Student Achievement
• 119. Renaissance: Your Key to Academic Achievement
• 120. Ninth Grade: Surf’s Up!

 1:00 pm

• 121. Walking the Walk of Comprehensive School Reform: Expected Challenges and Real Solutions
• 122. Expectations and Realities: Making Your School’s Publication Program Everything You Want It To Be
• 123. Tools for Navigating Comprehensive School ChangeHosted by Bulletin
• 124. Challenges that Face the New Principal: A Panel Discussion
• 125. On the Road: In Search of Excellence in Middle Level EducationHosted by The Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals
• 126. Hot National Policy Issues
• 127. Creating a Data-Driven School: Using What We Have Learned So We Can Get Better
• 128. Our Schools: Teaching Factories or Learning Communities?
• 129. Leader Preparation in Critical Times
• 130. The Wind Beneath My Wings: Policy, Aspiration and Performance
• 131. Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Creating Smaller Learning Communities
• 132. The Power of Business School Partnerships
• 133. Data Warehousing: Making a Difference in School Improvement
• 134. Approaches to Ethical Athletic ProgramsHosted by The Kansas Association of Secondary School Principals
• 135. Success: Nothing Less! Why Our Freshmen Are Extraordinary!
• 136. Managing and Leading: You Can (and Must) Do BothHosted by the Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals
• 137. Online Learning: Using Technology to Help Students Meet High Expectations, Recover Credits, and Graduate
• 138. Talk It Out...Work It Out
• 139. Middle Level General Assembly & Ice Cream Social (Sponsored by Lifetouch)Keeping Staff Motivated in a Standards Era

 3:00 pm

• 140. The Principal’s Office Does Not Have to be the “Panic Room”
• 141. Reading Across the Curriculum: Everyone’s a Reading Teacher
• 142. Leadership for Literacy
• 143. Threatening Speech? Free Speech? The View from the Schools and the CourtHosted by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals
• 144. Reading Through the Power of Music
• 145. Tough Decisions For Your Retirement Investments
• 146. Accountability: School Counselors Impacting Measurable Indicators of Student’s Academic Success
• 147. Ensuring Effective Teaching and Assessment
• 148. Block Scheduling Revisited
• 150. Rhodes Map: A Guide to Full Inclusion in an Urban Setting
• 151. Professional Learning Communities: How to Raise Test ScoresHosted by Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals
• 152. The Healthy Schools Initiative: Taking Action for Children’s Nutrition and Fitness
• 153. Implementing a High School Service-Learning Program: Lessons from a State and National Model School
• 154. Effective Transition Practices from Middle School into High School Smaller Learning Communities
• 155. Systematic Performance-Based Principal Leadership Development in Washington StateHosted by Association of Washington School Principals
• 156. Linwood Integration of Technology Training for Teachers (LIT3): From Vision to the Classroom and Beyond
• 157. What Every Principal Needs to Know About Assistive Technology
• Implementing Customized Test Preparation Programs Designed to Meet Standards, Raise Test Scores, and Teach SAT/ACT/PSAT/PLAN/EXPLORE Testing Points Alongside the Curriculum
• What Every Principal Needs to Know About Closing the Achievement Gap: Research-Based Strategies for Instructional Effectiveness in Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science Classrooms

 3:30 pm

• 159. Annual Women in Leadership Forum (Sponsored by MetLife Resources)Tongue Fu!® Deal with Difficult Individuals Without Becoming One Yourself

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