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Board members and superintendents
Count on OSBA's "Brighten Your Board" conference to shine light on the most-desired skills and information for new and experienced board members and board secretaries. Sign up your board and board secretary today and, come July, grab your sundresses, your Hawaiian-print shirts and khakis, and your flip-flops and soak up these special sessions. Summer duds only at this conference! Our style will be "chillin'" and our sessions HOT.
| July 12 - Board members/superintendents |
| 8-9 a.m. |
Registration and refreshments |
| 9 a.m. |
Keynote session:
Short on time, long on tasks: Streamline your board meeting
Paul Krohne, executive director of the South Carolina School Boards Association, returns to Oregon to deliver a keynote that will make your board meetings hum instead of sputter and lurch. Krohne urges board leadership teams - board members and superintendents - to learn to make meetings efficient and effective. He'll provide tips that will pay dividends throughout your board life. |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Morning refreshments |
| 11 a.m. |
Short on time, long on
tasks, Part II |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch:
Prioritizing public education: OSBA and the Legislature
Tricia Yates, OSBA Legislative and Public Affairs director; David Williams
and Lori Sattenspiel, OSBA Legislative and Public Affairs specialists |
| 2-3:15 p.m. |
Workshops - Choose one: |
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How policy soothes meeting monsters
Peggy Holstedt, OSBA Policy Services specialist; Betsy
Miller-Jones, OSBA Leadership Services associate director |
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Everything you always wanted to know about ethics but were afraid to ask: New ethics laws
Lori Sattenspiel, OSBA Legislative & Public Affairs Specialist,
Rebekah Cook, OSBA attorney |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Afternoon refreshments |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Workshops - Choose one:
How and why public servants must be leaders
Greg McKenzie, OSBA Leadership Services director |
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The blunder-free way to obey public meetings law
David Turner, Multnomah ESD general counsel |
| 4:45 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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| July 13 - Board members/superintendents |
| 7:30-8 a.m. |
Buffet breakfast |
| 8-9 a.m. |
Hot Topics Tables |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Workshops - Choose one: |
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Construction excise tax pointers
David Williams, OSBA Legislative & Public Affairs specialist |
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School finance facts of life
Angie Peterman, OSBA Administrative & Support Services director, Oregon Association of School Business Officials executive director |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Morning refreshments |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Workshops - Choose one: |
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You're on the team; here's the game plan: your role and responsibility as a board member
Greg McKenzie, OSBA Leadership Services director, Steve Lamb, OSBA Leadership Services specialist |
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Public record-keeping & requests: not just spinning a disk
David Turner, Multnomah ESD general counsel |
| Noon |
Adjourn |
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New! Board secretaries summer session
Come for the fun - and we promise you'll leave more effective and more efficient.
Friday, July 11 - Board secretaries
You play an extremely important role for your board and school community - so, we've put together a powerful program for you. |
| 8-9 a.m. |
Registration and refreshments |
| 9 a.m. |
Keynote:
Excellence under pressure
Robin Rose, trainer/consultant and former school counselor, will help you deal with stressed-out co-workers and clients, think more clearly under pressure, communicate more effectively, and live with less stress. Rose translates the latest brain research into skills you can use and presents them with expertise, energy and humor. |
| 11 a.m |
Shaping agendas that sing, minutes to rely on
Betsy Miller-Jones, OSBA Leadership Services associate director |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch:
Prioritizing public education: OSBA and the Legislature
Tricia Yates, OSBA Legislative and Public Affairs director |
| 1:45 p.m. |
When "other duties as assigned" means you work in personnel
Lisa Freiley, OSBA Human Resource Development director |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Preventing pandemonium in your policy world
Peggy Holstedt, OSBA Policy Services specialist |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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Registration information
To register, contact your board secretary or superintendent/president, or contact OSBA at 800-578-6722. If you are a board secretary -
register attendees online here or fax us a registration
form (24k  ).
The cost for the board secretaries workshop is $75 for members and $175 for
non-members, and includes lunch.
For the board-member conference, members pay $130 per person for the first three attendees and $100 per additional person. For non-members, the fee is $230 per person.
Registration includes one lunch, one breakfast, refreshments and all conference materials.
There is a $25 fee for each cancellation received after July 3. No-shows will be billed the full registration fee.
Make your hotel reservations directly with the Holiday Inn,
Wilsonville. Hotel reservations can be made on-line or call 800-465-4329 or 503-682-2211. Indicate you are attending the OSBA Summer Board Conference to get our special room rate of $89/single or double plus 10% room tax. After June 20, reservations will only be accepted on a space available basis.
For information on OSBA's other conferences
and workshops, see our calendar of events.
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