• Monday-Tuesday, June 16-17, 2008

The Breakthrough Coach, two day seminar
Day 1 for administrators
Day 2 for administrators and their secretaries/administrative assistants
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Wednesday-Saturday, July 23-26

NAESP State Leader's Conference
Washington, D.C.

• Thursday-Friday, July 24-25

Educational Secretaries Workshop
A workshop for secretaries to principals
St. Cloud, sponsored by MASP

• Monday-Tuesday, August 11-12

RtI Data Retreat
"Energize Strategic Principal and Team Leadership:
delivering achievement for all students"
Co-sponsored by MESPA, TIES Education Technology Collaborative, and MNResponse to Intervention Center
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Wednesday, August 13

Legal Issues Seminar
Holiday Inn, St. Cloud

• Sunday-Monday, September 21-22

MESPA Fall Leadership Conference
A conference for all MESPA division leaders and standing committee representatives
Breezy Point Conference Center, Breezy Point

• Sunday-Monday, September 21-22

Board of Directors Meetings
Breezy Point Conference Center, Breezy Point

• Monday, October 29

Legal Issues Seminar
Proctor Area Community Center, Proctor

• Thursday, October 9

Surviving and Thriving in the Principalship
A seminar for new principals
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Friday, October 10

Three-Minute Walkthrough Seminar
Brimhall Elementary School, Roseville

• Thursday-Friday, October 16-17

NDP Recognition and Celebration
Capitol Hilton, Washington, D.C.

• Monday, October 13
  

Legal Issues Seminar
Holiday Inn Downtown, Mankato

• Friday, October 24
  

Legal Issues Seminar
Shooting Star Event Center, Mahnomen

• Monday, November 3

School of Excellence Celebration Planning
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• TBD

Executive Committee Meeting
TIES Education Center, St. Paul
(Joint meeting with MASA and MASSP)

• Tuesday, November 11
  

• Tuesday, November 18
  

• Friday, December 5
  

Board of Directors Meeting
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Tuesday, January 15, 2009
  

  Executive Committee Meeting
  (Executive Committee members
  of the MESPA Board of Directors)
  TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Tuesday, February 3
  

  NDP Selection Committee
  Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

• Wednesday-Friday, February 4-6

54th annual MESPA Institute (statewide convention)
"Shaping Great Minds"
Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN

• Wednesday, February 4
  

  Board of Directors Meeting
  Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

• Friday, February 6
  

  MESPA Annual Meeting
  Sheraton Bloomington Hotel

• Thursday, March 26

Emerging K-12 Education Leaders Conference
(Collaboration among MESPA, MASA, and MASSP for:
education administrators interested in moving to another administration level; and for individuals interested in entering the elementary or secondary principalship, or superintendency)
TIES Education Center, St. Paul, MN

• Friday-Tuesday, April 2-6

"Leadership is Key"
88th annual NASEP Convention
Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA

• Friday, May 1

Board of Directors Meeting
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Friday, May 1

NDP Selection Committee
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Thursday, June 12

Institute 2010 Planning
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Monday-Tuesday, June 15-16

The Breakthrough Coach
Learn how to work less, play more,
get the job done in a normal week, and
be re-energized as an instructional leader!
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Tuesday, June 16

The Breakthrough Coach
Day-Two Review
TIES Education Center, St. Paul

• Wednesday-Friday, June 17-19

MESPA/NAESP PALS Leadership Immersion Institute
Learn the art and science of principal-to-principal mentoring.
TIES Education Center, St. Paul