Conferences & Seminars

August 2017

MASSP Professional Development Committee

August 8, 2017, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

MASSP Assistant Principal Leadership Seminar

August 15, 2017, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
TIES Conference Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

The Assistant Principal Leadership Seminar is designed for anyone currently working as an assistant principal/dean of students. Topics will focus on personal growth and operational competencies including decision making skills, recognizing bias, embedding research in the school culture, strategies for building relationships and discussion of key legal guidelines inherent in the AP role.

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MASSP Division Presidents Meeting

August 17, 2017

September 2017

Emerging Leaders Workshop

Designed for administrators with 3 years or less experience.

September 26-27, 2017
TIES Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota

This workshop is designed to meet the needs of building administrators who are in their first three years of leadership. This two-day workshop is designed to enhance practitioner and leadership skills (day one) and sensitize and inform on legal responsibilities, student discipline and legal issues faced by building leaders (day two).

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Student Discipline Workshop

September 27, 2017
TIES Conference Center, St. Paul, Minnesota

Roger Aronson, MASSP Attorney/Lobbyist is one of the most highly regarded experts in school law in the State of Minnesota. This workshop will explore legal implications and the administrator's role including provisions you may not know about. Find out what is new for school administrators in multiple areas of student discipline. Information is practical and may offer guidelines for policy development.

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October 2017

School Law Seminars

MASSP Attorney/Lobbyist Roger Aronson is conducting one-day seminars throughout the state presenting the most up to date information on school law. Roger is one of the most highly regarded experts in school law in the State of Minnesota. Find out what is new in school law, have your legal questions answered and gain valuable insight.

October 3, 2017
Mankato – Mankato City Center Hotel

October 4, 2017
Rochester – Northrup Community Center

October 10, 2017
Carlton – Black Bear Casino

October 17, 2017
Mahnomen – Shooting Star Casino

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January 2018

MASSP Winter Pre-Conference Sessions

January 17, 2018
Double Tree by Hilton, Bloomington, MN

School Law Seminar — Roger Aronson

Roger is one of the most highly regarded experts in school law in the State of Minnesota. Find out what is new in school law, have your legal questions answered and gain valuable insight.

Participate & Create a Digital Breakout — TIES

Find valuable resources as you navigate through a digital breakout session. Plus, learn how to create your own digital breakout session to engage your faculty and teachers in your next staff meeting. You will also discover free and fabulous resources for all content areas along with a variety of tools to engage students along the way!

Promoting Positive School Climates — Minnesota Department of Education

Promoting positive school climates is increasingly being recognized as a key to school success and reducing bullying, harassment, and excessive disciplinary problems. What works to reduce aggressive student behavior is not implementing a specific program but consistently using a few key evidence-based strategies such as Restorative Practices and Social Emotional Learning. This interactive session will help participants begin to develop an approach that not only reduces aggressive student behaviors such as bullying and harassment but also teaches students proactive skills and cultivates a positive school climate. Participants will leave with tools to review their current policies and procedures, best practice guidance for handling bullying and harassment complaints, gain a better understanding of school climate improvement best practices, and an awareness of school safety resources.

Reducing Conflict & Working with Difficult Employees — Jeff Elstad

Conflict and dealing with difficult people and employees takes up too much valuable leadership time and resources. This session will demonstrate strategies and resources that are currently used to reduce organizational conflict and make working with difficult and resistant people easier. Participants will benefit from a greater understanding of current applied research, macro- and micro-techniques that are quick, effective and easy to use. Actual cases will be presented with an emphasis on the reduction of conflict with difficult & resistant employees. Examples of all research results, assessment tools and management strategies will be handed out to participants.

MASSP Winter Conference

January 17-19, 2018
Double Tree by Hilton, Bloomington, MN

This year’s conference has been designed to meet the daily challenges of practitioners and also support a vision of personal and professional development that will strengthen our organization. Our ongoing focus of Achieving Balance is not just a personal challenge that will lead to self growth and reflection; it is also a development strategy for MASSP that will allow us to better share our intellectual capital as we create new initiatives based on the needs of our learners.

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Schedule at a Glance

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January 2017

MASSP Winter Conference

January 18-20, 2017 – Double Tree by Hilton, Bloomington

The Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals invites you to join us at the our 2017 Winter Conference, which will be held January 18-20, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel – Bloomington. This year’s conference has been designed to meet the daily challenges of practitioners and also support a vision of personal and professional development that will strengthen our organization. Our ongoing focus of Achieving Balance is not just a personal challenge that will lead to self-growth and reflection; it is also a development strategy for MASSP that will allow us to better share our intellectual capital as we create new initiatives based on the needs of our learners.

Pre-Conference Sessions, Wednesday, January 18, 2017

School Law Seminar – Roger Aronson

Roger is one of the most highly regarded experts in school law in the State of Minnesota. Find out what is new in school law, have your legal questions answered and gain valuable insight.

Moving from Traditional to Successful Flipped Professional Development – TIES

Traditional PD is becoming a thing of the past as Flipped Professional Development is taking over. Traditional PD spends too much time covering new technology or curriculum, resulting in people answering questions on their own or giving up and seeing it as another thing on their plate. With Flipped PD, the time is shifted to learning the new ideas/tools on their own in their own way, while face-to-face time is now spent discussing and collaborating. This personalized learning approach has been successful in many Minnesota schools, will yours be next?

Build your School’s Brand with Social Media – TIES

Join us for a hands-on workshop on how to utilize social media at your school. Cyndy from TIES will demonstrate how to utilize Twitter, Instagram and YouTube to brand your school effectively. Plus, Tara Cegla and Coley Fehringer, district communication specialists, will share how Spring Lake Park Schools is using social media tools in their district. BYOD for collaborative work time to develop your own social media plan! This session is designed for all levels, but primarily beginner and intermediate social media users.

Why Some Principals (and leaders in many occupations) Thrive & Succeed: The “Secret Sauce” – Bruce Miles

If we are not careful, we can focus too much on operational and management issues as Principals. This session will demonstrate strategies and resources that are currently used by effective Principals, Superintendents, and leaders in other sectors to strategically develop themselves, their successes, their careers, and reduce the effect of problems and crises on the job.

April 2017

5th Annual Symposium of Women Educational Leaders

Please join women educational leaders from around the state of Minnesota for the 5th annual Symposium of Women Educational Leaders. This event is designed to connect women educational leaders with one another. Attendees will still have the opportunity to engage in what makes the Symposium unique, such as networking with one another, enjoying powerful keynote speakers, and bringing a guest who demonstrates potential for leadership.

Event Date and Location:

Tuesday, April 25, 2017
8:00 - 8:30 AM – Registration and Networking
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM – Symposium

TIES Building
1667 Snelling Avenue North
St. Paul, MN

Registration:

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June 2017

MASSP Summer Conference

June 13-16, 2017 – Breezy Point Resort, Breezy Point

The Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals invites you to join us at our 2017 Summer Conference, which will be held June 13-16, 2017, at Breezy Point Resort. This year’s theme, “Achieving Balance” reflects the past year of focus on research review and personal engagement by all members to create a stronger learning organization. This year’s conference is hosted by Western Division and will feature traditional keynote speakers and concurrent sessions as well as an opportunity to share information with colleagues through the use of Learning Tables.

Click here for details about this year's Golf Tournament!

MASSP Professional Development Committee

MASSP Assistant Principal Leadership Seminar

MASSP Division Presidents Meeting

Emerging Leaders Workshop

Student Discipline Workshop

School Law Seminars

School Law Seminars

MASSP Winter Pre-Conference Sessions

MASSP Winter Conference

Symposium of Women Educational Leaders

MASSP Summer Conference

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MASSP Winter Conference

Pre-Conference Sessions, Wednesday, January 18, 2017

5th Annual Symposium of Women Educational Leaders

MASSP Summer Conference