Time is running out to register for ACSA’s 2009 Leadership Summit, to be held Nov. 5-7 in Sacramento.
Take advantage of ACSA’s premier professional development event by registering online using a Visa or MasterCard. Registrations are also accepted via mail, fax, telephone and on site.
The association’s annual gathering of educators at all levels of administration is a celebration of the profession. The Leadership Summit provides opportunities for invaluable networking and offers professional development on current critical leadership and educational issues.
The theme of this year’s event is “Leadership in a Changing World. Explore. Innovate. Create.” The goal is to inspire school leaders to look ahead to big picture ideas and challenges faced by educators in this new century and to plan proactively for them.
One of the highlights this year is the slate of informative luncheons. Presented by world-renowned experts and practicing educators, the luncheons provide collegiality and learning in an informal setting. There is an additional $37 fee for each luncheon, which includes the meal.
On Thursday, Nov. 5, one such luncheon is designed especially for elementary and middle grades educators. Hosted by Bob Price, superintendent of Empire USD, the luncheon will show leaders how to use video clips to get their message across during presentations and meetings.
“Leading With Movies” will show how video clips from movies, commercials and other presentations can be a powerful tool for sparking a growing collection of video vignettes used by current educational leaders to help make their presentations more dynamic.
Attendees will gain access to hundreds of free video clips that can be used for anything from ice breakers to full stand alone professional development activities. Best of all, everyone who attends will receive a “video vault” DVD with video clips and links to video resources for professional development.
This lively and entertaining luncheon is co-sponsored by the ACSA Elementary and Middle Grades Education councils.
Another Thursday luncheon is hosted by Ako Kambon, president of Visionary Leaders Institute. A dynamic, versatile motivational speaker and trainer, Kambon is nationally recognized as a leader in the fields of educational consulting and designing and conducting leadership seminars for public and private educational institutions.
Appointed by an Ohio gubernatorial commission, Kambon served as executive administrator of the Ohio Commission on African American Males. He created a school for African American males who were at risk of entering the Ohio penal system. The school received tremendous recognition for its creative approach to reaching and teaching young men who were at risk of falling through the cracks.
Philosophically, Kambon is a great believer in the efficacy of public-private partnerships, and is a profound believer in self-help. When it comes to community issues, he believes government should be a catalyst and supporter of local initiatives, but must not attempt to apply generic solutions to specific problems and situations. Similarly, Kambon is a strong advocate for the establishment of policies, programs, and procedures that engage parents in the education of their children.
Luncheons held on Friday, Nov. 6 include a presentation by Eugene García, vice president, Education Partnerships, Curriculum and Instruction, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, Arizona State University. García has published extensively in the area of language teaching and bilingual development.
He served as a senior officer and director of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs in the U.S. Department of Education from 1993-95. He is currently chairing the National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics, funded by the Foundation for Child Development and the Mailman Family Foundation.
García is conducting research in the areas of effective schooling for linguistically and culturally diverse student populations, funded by the National Science Foundation. This luncheon is sponsored by ACSA’s Equity, Achievement and Diversity for Success Committee.
Another Friday luncheon is hosted by author and educator Lynell Burmark. “They Snooze, You Lose” will show how to transform potentially boring slideshows into compelling, indelible instruction. Burmark will allow attendees to experience an exemplary multimedia presentation, full of replicable strategies, and the ability to apply the research on use of visuals to their own presentations and curriculum.
The presentation will provide links to banks of gorgeous, free images, resource-packed handouts and über cool freebies. Attendees will learn innovative uses of LCD projectors, and discover why YouTube and SchoolTube might just be their new best friends.
Burmark, an award-winning teacher and administrator, is author of “Visual Literacy: Learn to See, See to Learn,” a widely adopted textbook for teacher education and instructional technology programs, which won the Book of the Year award for publisher ASCD.
She will encourage commitment to setting a higher standard, recognizing that presentations must be more than information dumps. They must also expand the mind, uplift the spirit, and equip the audience to take action and change for the better.
This luncheon is sponsored by ACSA’s Curriculum, Instruction and Accountability Council.
Also on Friday, a luncheon will be presented by Ted Smith, chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of the MIND Research Institute. Smith has been in the technology industry since 1960.
After founding FileNet Corp. in 1982, he led the company until 1998 and continued as a director until the company was acquired by IBM in 2006.
Prior to founding FileNet, Smith was president and chief executive officer of Basic Four Corp., a small business computer manufacturer, and executive vice president and a director of Sycor Inc., the first manufacturer of intelligent terminals. The Institute of American Entrepreneurs named Smith Entrepreneur of the Year for Southern California in 1987.
Until recently he was chair of the UC Irvine Foundation and is currently chair of its nominating committee. He was also formerly chairman of the Chief Executive Roundtable at UC Irvine.
Smith is currently at the forefront of leading MIND’s National Math Initiative Project, a public-private partnership designed to impact math achievement, particularly in low-performing schools. In 2009-10 MIND will fund grants supporting more than 125,000 students across the country with the vision of extending that to more than 500,000 students in the next three years.
Also presenting is Andrew Coulson, president of the MIND Research Institute’s Education Division. Coulson is responsible for the day-to-day operations of all matters related to expansion and implementation in schools, marketing/public relations and staff management. He brings 15 years of experience in operations, quality, and management of engineering and high tech business, transferring technology from research and development to production.
Coulson also brings experience as the education program officer for a major Orange County foundation. He serves on the boards of Project Tomorrow and the Charter Development Alliance. He was awarded bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics from UCLA.
This luncheon is sponsored by ACSA’s Secondary Education Council.
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