Institute 2009: Shaping Great Minds

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Institute 2009: Shaping Great Minds -- schedule at a glance

Wednesday, February 4
11 a.m. – 5 p.m.   Registration and Exhibits
11 a.m. – 5 p.m    Internet Café – sponsored by TIES
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.   Lunch
12:30   Welcome
1-2:15 A Funny Thing Happened Leaving No Child Behind
   with Wavelength (theatre) -- sponsored by VIRCO
2:30 Dessert and tour Exhibits area
3 25-Year Club social
3 MN School of Excellence meeting: schools in process
3 Institute Orientation: first-time Institute participants
3:15 New Principal meeting: Oct. 9 seminar follow-up
3:30-5 Three concurrent feature sessions
   Top Legal/Legislative Concerns of Principals
               with Roger Aronson,
               MESPA Legal and Legislative Counsel
     Youth Frontiers’ 3 Core Elements©
               with Lea Favor, Youth Frontiers
     School Safety in Action: Climate, Planning, Policy,
               and Facility, with Sheri Boyer-Jacobs
               Minnesota School Safety Center
5-6 Hors d’oeuvres reception -- sponsored by Herff Jones
      Photography and Horace Mann Companies
6

Institute co-chairs Jerry Hanson and Renee Case Evenson

Evening on your own

Thursday, February 5
7:30-8:45 a.m. Breakfast on your own
8-10:30 Registration open
8-3 Internet Café (sponsored by TIES) and Exhibits
8:45-9:15 MESPA Candidate Introductions
9:15-10:30 Building Professional Learning Communities: A Tool
    for Shaping Culture and Shaping Great Minds, with Rob
    Bocchino, Heart of Change founder
10:30-11 Break to tour Exhibits
11-Noon Eight concurrent focus sessions
Noon-1 p.m. Buffet Lunch
     Door prize winners announced
1-2:15 Discussion with MN Rep. Margaret Anderson
     Kelliher, moderated by Roger Aronson
2:15-3   Dessert and tour Exhibits area
3:15-4:15 Eight concurrent focus sessions
4:30-5:15 MESPA Division meetings
5:45-6:45 Gala Reception -- sponsored by Lifetouch Inc.
6:45 Awards and Banquet
    Special guests: Commissioner Alice Seagren,
    Minnesota Department of Education;
    Dr. Eric Jolly, President, Science Museum of Minnesota

Friday, February 6
8-9 a.m. Breakfast buffet
8:15-9:45 Annual MESPA Business Meeting
10-11:30 Sparks: How Schools and Families Can Ignite the
    Hidden Strengths of Children, Dr. Peter Benson,
    Search Institute president
11:30 MESPA Institute Cash Card prizes
    EPAC prize drawing
    Institute evaluation and CEU certificate presentation
Noon Institute 2009 adjourns

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