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Summer Board Conference 2015

July 17-19, 2015

Bend - Riverhouse on the Deschutes - 3075 N Business 97, Bend, OR 97701 - 866-453-4480
Map/Directions

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Friday, July 17 –

Pre-Conference:

"A MATTER OF TRUST - To Honor or Lose Forever Your School Trust Lands", Margaret Bird, CLASS Chief Executive Officer, Children's Land Alliance Supporting Schools (CLASS) 

"Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure", Ann Macfarlane, Professional Registered Parliamentarian, Jurassic Parliament

Or, Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Workshop

Friday, July 17 – 

Networking Reception: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. No Host Bar and Hor d'oeuvres; Guest welcome
 

Saturday, July 18 –

Registration desk: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

General Session begins 8:00 a.m. with keynote presenter Mike Weber, Southwestern Consulting, on "Breaking the Unwritten Rules"

Workshop highlights 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.:

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Board Governance through Policy
  • Patterns of Communication
  • Ethics
  • Common Core/Smarter Balanced
  • The "Tell Survey"
  • Public Meetings
  • Legislative Process
  • Education Reform
  • Hot Topics
  • Region Roundtables

Sunday, July 19 –

Registration desk: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Workshop highlights - 8:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.:

  • Roles and Responsibilities (repeat)
  • School Finance
  • School Law
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Assessment Literacy
  • Student Achievement
  • Educational Equity
  • Board Chair Responsibilities
  • Superintendent Evaluation
  • Effective Communication
  • Marijuana in Schools

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OSBA Leadership Institute

Earn credits toward the level you want to achieve by attending these workshops.  Find more information at www.osba.org/li

Bronze  

  • Saturday – Roles and Responsibilities
  • Saturday – Ethics
  • Saturday – Public Meetings
  • Sunday – School Finance
  • Sunday – A System’s Approach to Student Achievement
  • Sunday – Roles and Responsibilities

Silver

  • Friday – Legislative Advocacy
  • Saturday – Board Governance through Policy
  • Saturday – Legislative Advocacy
  • Sunday – School Law for Board Members
  • Sunday – Educational Equity
  • Sunday - Labor Relations and Bargaining
  • Sunday – Superintendent Evaluation

Gold

  • Friday – Effective Meetings
  • Saturday – Conflict Management
  • Saturday – Student Achievement
  • Saturday – School Climate
  • Sunday – Leadership  
  • Sunday – Effective Meetings
  • Sunday – Media Relations

** Download Leadership Institute course credit information for Summer Board Conference here.
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Agenda

Highlight of workshops available at summer board conference designed for veteran and new board members and administrators.

Preconference day (Cascade E/F Rooms)

 

Friday, July 17

8:00  am Registration
8:15 am Welcome and Introductions (Cascade E/F Rooms)
8:30 am Margaret Bird - "A Matter of Trust: To Honor or Lose Forever Your School Trust Lands"
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Margaret Bird, cont'd
12:00 pm Lunch (Cascade B Room)
1:00 pm

Ann Macfarlane - "Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure"
2:15 pm Break
2:30 pm  Ann Macfarlane, cont'd
4:00 pm  Networking Reception - No Host Bar and hors d'oeuvres; Guest welcome (Cascade A/B Rooms)

Download Pre-conference agenda - (14 KB)

Summer board conference agenda

Friday, July 17

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm 

 Networking Reception - No Host Bar and hors d'oeuvres; Guest welcome (Cascade A/B Rooms)

 

Saturday, July 18

7:30 am

Registration
8:00 am Welcome
8:15 am Keynote: "Breaking the Unwritten Rules" - Mike Weber, Southwestern Consulting (Cascade A Room)
9:15 am Break
9:30 am

Workshops

  • Roles and Responsibilities - Steve Kelley, OSBA (Cascade E/F Rooms) 
  • Board Governance through Policy - Peggy Holstedt, OSBA (Cascade G Room) 
  • Filtering the Static: Discovering New Patterns of Communication - Mike Weber, Southwestern Consulting (Cascade H Room)
10:45 am      

Break
11:00 am Workshops
  • Ethics - Ron Bersin, OR Government Ethics Commission (Cascade E/F Rooms) 
  • Common Core/Smarter Balanced - Jon Wiens, Oregon Dept of Ed (Cascade G Room) 
  • The TELL Oregon Survey - Hilda Rosselli, OR Education Investment Board (OEIB); Colleen Mileham, OR Education Association (OEA) (Cascade H Room)
12:15 pm Lunch (Cascade A Room)
12:45 pm

Legislative Update - Jim Green, OSBA
1:30 pm Workshops
  • Public Meetings - Lisa Freiley, OSBA (Cascade E/F Rooms) 
  • Nuts and Bolts of the Legislative Process - Jim Green, Morgan Allen and Lori Sattenspiel, OSBA (Cascade G Room) 
  • Education Reform and YOU - Betty Reynolds, West-Linn Wilsonville School District; Hilda Rosselli, OEIB; Colleen Mileham, OR Education Association (OEA) (Cascade H Room)
2:45 pm

Break
3:00 pm **Hot Topics (Cascade A Room)
4:30 pm Region Roundtables (Cascade A Room)

 

** Download list of Hot Topic tables - (9 KB)

Sunday, July 19

8:00 am 

Workshops

  • School Finance - Spencer Lewis, OSBA (Cascade A Room)
  • School Law, Part 1 - Haley Percell and John Stellwagen, OSBA (Cascade B Room)
  • Collective Bargaining - Peggy Stock, OSBA (Cascade C/D Rooms)
  • Assessment Literacy - Peter Tromba and Nancy Golden, OEIB (Cascade E/F Rooms)
9:15 am Break
9:30 am

Workshops

  • A Systems Approach to Student Achievement - Renee Sessler, OSBA  (Cascade A Room)
  • School Law, Part 2 - Haley Percell and John Stellwagen, OSBA (Cascade B Room)
  • Education Equity - Kendra Hughes, Education Northwest (Cascade C/D Rooms)
  • Board Chair Responsibilities - Betsy Miller-Jones, OSBA (Cascade E/F Rooms)
10:45 am Break
11:00 am 

Workshops

  • Roles and Responsibilities (Repeat) - Steve Kelley, OSBA (Cascade A Room)
  • Superintendent Evaluation - Renee Sessler, OSBA (Cascade B Room)
  • Making the Most of a Media Moment - Abby Spegman, The Bulletin, Bend; Samantha Steele, Central Point SD, superintendent; Moderator, Alex Pulaski, OSBA (Cascade C/D Rooms)
  • Up in Smoke: Marijuana in Schools and other current issues - Spencer Lewis and Peggy Stock, OSBA (Cascade E/F Rooms)
12:15 pm Adjourn

Download Summer Board Conference agenda - (19KB)

Download workshop descriptions - (14KB)

Download Leadership Institute information - (26 KB)

Download Summer Board conference menus - (36KB)

Register online

Friday, July 17 – Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Workshop
(Cascade C/D Rooms)

Registration at 8:00 a.m.; Workshop 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

Agenda

8:00 am Registration
8:30 am

Welcome and Introductions (Cascade C/D Rooms)
8:45 am

Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure - Ann Macfarlane, Jurassic Parliament
10:00 am    Break
10:15 am Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure, cont'd
12:00 pm Lunch (Cascade B Room)
1:00 pm

Care and Feeding of the Board, a.k.a. "What drives you nuts!" - Steve Kelley, OSBA
2:15 pm  Break
2:30 pm 

Hot Topics

  • Executive Session - Haley Percell, OSBA
  • Conducting a Board Hearing - John Stellwagen, OSBA
  • Social Media - Rachel Fleenor, OSBA
  • Measure 91 & Schools - Spencer Lewis, OSBA
  • Interdistrict Transfer- Morgan Allen, OSBA
  • Policy Update - Leslie Fisher, OSBA
4:00 pm  Networking Reception - No Host Bar and Hor d'oeuvres; Guest welcome (Cascade A/B Room)

Download Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Agenda - (14KB)

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Registration

To register for summer board conference online, select Summer Board conference from the online registration link. To access Friday preconference workshops, you must first register for Summer Board Conference then select either the preconference workshop or Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Workshop.

Friday pre-conference workshop and Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Workshop: The pre-conference workshop and Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Workshop require separate registration. The cost is $125 per person. Registration Includes lunch, conference materials and networking reception.

Saturday and Sunday Summer Board Conference: The cost is $185 per person. Registration includes networking reception, Saturday lunch and conference materials.

Cancellation: There is a $50 fee for each cancellation received after July 9. No-shows will be billed the full registration fee.

Meals: A breakfast is provided each day at the hotel as part of your guest room reservation.

Register online

Download Summer Board conference menus - (36KB)

Friday, July 17

Administrative Professionals' (Board Secretaries') Day

           Hot Topic Table Handouts

Pre-conference

Saturday, July 18

Keynote:

Workshops:

            Hot Topic Table Handouts

Sunday, July 19

Workshops:

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A select-group of OSBA Business Partners will be available throughout the conference to provide expert insight on a variety of topics.

Networking opportunities
Date Time Location Opportunity
Fri, July 17      

4:00-
5:30 pm

 Cascade

Networking reception with complimentary appetizers and a no host bar. (Attendees may bring a guest)
Sat, July 18 9:15-9:30 am Lobby Refreshment break
Sat, July 18 10:45-
11 am		 Lobby Refreshment break
Sat, July 18 2:45-
3 pm		 Lobby Refreshment break  
Sun, July 19

9:15-
9:30 am

 Lobby Refreshment break
Sun, July 19 10:45-
11 am		 Lobby Refreshment break

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Pre-Conference Keynote Addresses:

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Margaret Bird, CLASS Chief Executive Officer, Children's Land Alliance Supporting Schools (CLASS)

Oregon schools were granted lands at statehood and now are poised on a precipice--ready to lose 93,000 acres of the most productive timber lands in the world. This school forest,which grows over 100 million board feet annually, is treated as state lands.  These lands used to provide over $40 million annually to schools and have built a permanent School Fund over $1 billion. The Elliott Forest, belonging to the children of Oregon, has lost millions annually for the last 3 years--the first time that has happened with school trust lands in any state in 127 years. The silence from the education community is heartbreaking.

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"Running Great Meetings Using Parliamentary Procedure"

Ann Macfarlane, Professional Registered Parliamentarian, Jurassic Parliament

Learn to debate, discuss, and disagree on issues without crippling arguments. This workshop provides tools for healthy disagreement, giving voice to all board members while maintaining the focus on issues and ideas. Personalities and politics need not dominate your board meetings.

Conference Keynote Address:

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Mike Weber, Southwestern Consulting

All social interactions take place according to rules, both written and unwritten.  Unwritten rules are the habits, assumptions and attitudes of individuals and groups that define how they will interact with each other.  They are the rules everybody knows about, nobody talks about, but have the power to shape our behavior on a daily basis.

Hotel Reservations

Make hotel reservations directly with The Riverhouse in Bend, Oregon. Call the hotel at 800-547-3928 and specify that you are attending the OSBA conference. Hotel rates are: standard-$120-single/double; riverview-$130-single/double; and $149 for a suite single/double (limited availability), plus 14% tax and fees. After June 26, 2015 hotel reservations at the group rate will be accepted only on a space- and rate-available basis. Rooms reserved through this process require a 72-hour cancellation notice to avoid penalties.

Information about The Riverhouse's room types and the amenities associated with your room reservation is available from the hotel website or by calling 541-389-3111 or toll free 866-453-4480. 

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