National experts will speak on:  implementing a prevention-based bullying prevention program in your school, cyber bullying, school bus bullying, bullying and students with disabilities, bullying and homophobia, the relationship between bullying and suicide prevention, -- and other forms of relational aggression, such as dating violence. It will focus on what research has shown to be best practices in addressing these issues and will provide practical tools and strategies that will be helpful to educational professionals in their daily work.

Agenda for March 5, 2012

• 8 a.m., Registration opens
• 8:30, Welcome

Jim Steinhagen, Hazelden Center for Youth and Families
P. Fred Storti, Executive Director, MESPA
Joann Knuth, Executive Director, MASSP

• 8:45, MN Bullying Prevention Task Force
  

• 9:05, Implementing a School-wide Bullying Prevention Program -- Marlene Snyder, Ph.D., Clemson University

• 10:05, Putting It Into Action: What Proactive School and Districtwide Programs Can Accomplish --  Curt Carpenter, principal, Clear Springs Elementary, Minnetonka

• 10:30, Break

• 10:45, Breakout 1, Bullying and Students with Disabilities -- Jody Manning, PACER Parent Training Coordinator, PACER, National Center for Bullying Prevention

• 10:45, Breakout 2, Teen Dating: What's healthy, what's not, and what to do when it's not -- Marjorie Gilberg, Executive Director Break the Cycle

• 10:45, Breakout 3, Bullying and Homophibia -- Leigh Combs, Director, GLBTW Kids Intervention Program for The Family Partnership

• 11:30, Lunch, with special message from Senator Al Franken (invited)

• 12:15 p.m., Suicide Programs, The importance of implementing and training on suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention -- Judith Springer, Psy.D., Program Director of the Ceceilyn Miller Institute for Leadership and Diversity

• 1:00, State of Violence in Minnesota Schools -- Nancy Riestenberg, School Climate Specialist, MN Department of Education

• 1:45, Cyber Bullying: Practical tips for implementing and writing a cyber bullying prevention policy at the school district level -- Marlene Snyder, Ph.D.

• 2:30, Town Hall Panel: Implementing an evidence-based bullying prevention program in your school. Listen to what other districts have learned about implementing a comprehensive violence/bullying prevention program -- moderated by Tom Weber, MN Public Radio; panelists include Bonnie Johnson (certified Olweus trainer), Joe Thimm (principal, Chisago Lakes); Carolyn Latady (principal, Forest Lake), David Adney (principal, Minnetonka), Marlene Snyder, Ph.D. (Clemson  University)