Date: February 15–17, 2012 Location: Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite
Registration
Early Bird
Conference Cost (includes meals from Wednesday night—Friday noon)
| ► One Person to a Room |
$511 |
| ► Two People to a Room |
$394 |
| ► Three People to a Room |
$356 |
| ► Four People to a Room |
$336 |
Highlights
Online Registration
General Session Keynotes
Three Informative Seminar Sessions
Schedule
Map to Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp at Yosemite
Colored Brochure of Conference Information
Free Wi Fi for Conference Attendees (Sponsored by Sevenstar)
More Than 30 Exhibits
The 28th Annual ACSI Administrators Golf Tournament
Excellent Dining
Winter Activities
Terrific Christian Fellowship
Great Networking Opportunities
Encouragement
Worried about Snow? Snow Shuttle
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2012 Keynote Speakers
Ray Pennings, MA
www.cardus.ca
►Topic: How are North American Christian Schools Fairing?
Do Christian schools deliver on their promises? Cardus reports on the largest-ever sample of Christian school graduates and administrators in North America, focusing on students' spiritual formation, cultural engagement, and academic development.
Ray Pennings is Senior Fellow and Director of Research at Cardus, working out of the Calgary office. Cardus is a think tank dedicated to the renewal of North American social architecture. Drawing on more than 2000 years of Christian social thought, the group works to enrich and challenge public debate through research, events and publications, for the common good.
Cardus conducts independent and original research in four key areas of North American public life. These include:
1. Cities
2. Civic Core
3. Education and Culture
4. Work and Economics
Bio—
Ray brings a host of skills to Cardus, being one of Canada's top authorities in industrial relations, as well as public policy, political activism and political affairs generally. He has headed several of Cardus' largest research projects over the years, including the his most recent, Cardus Education Survey (2011). Pennings is the Founding President of Worldwide Christian Schools; Chair of Board of Governors, Redeemer University College; and Director of Founding Board of Paidea Center for Public Theology.
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Mark Beadle, EdD
www.sevenstaracademy.org
►Topic: The Christian School in the Year 2025
During Dr. Beadle's presentation, multiple sources of projections and predictions will be presented in order to provide a framework for discussing the Christian school of the future. Audience members will contribute and interact using electronic polls and discussions. Implications for schools will be presented, along with case studies of schools making the transitions that will lead to their not only surviving but thriving. Since technology, including online courses, will obviously be a driving force, the session will include strategies to lead schools to be innovators, as well as wise users of electronic tools and options.
Bio—
Prior to his conceptualizing Sevenstar, Dr. Mark Beadle was the elementary principal of Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy, a school that won national awards and grew to 1400 students (K–12) in the 16 years he served there. He is recognized nationally as a Christian school leader and an expert in the use of educational technology.
Dr. Beadle has taught all levels of students (elementary, middle school, high school, and college) and in public, international, missionary, and Christian schools. Mark holds degrees from Taylor University and Purdue University. His doctorate is from the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Beadle has assisted the Gates Foundation and the Ohio Department of Education on technology projects. Additionally, he has assisted on projects for: the Association of Christian Schools International (the largest Christian school consortium, with more than 5300 schools in 100 countries, serving 1.2 million students); the Council for the Advancement of Private Education (an association of all private schools); and the US Department of Education. He also remains involved with home schoolers, universities, and international schools.
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Julie Adams
www.effectiveteachingpd.com
►Topic: Instructional Leadership: The Components that Make a Difference
This fast-paced keynote will focus on the brain-based research regarding student comprehension and retention, discuss the effective instructional practices all teachers should be utilizing, identify strategic conversations to have with the four types of teachers, and share a coaching model that increases collaboration and instructional effectiveness.
Julie Adams, a Nationally Board Certified teacher and educational consultant, coaches administrators world-wide in developing instructional leadership capacity and designs Response to Intervention and Professional Learning Community structures for both public and private schools. She also partners with the National High School Association and the California League of Schools to provide content area reading and writing trainings to teachers that boost student comprehension of non-fiction texts. She has authored four books, Teaching Academic Vocabulary Effectively, Parts I-III and PDP Cornell Notes—A Systematic Strategy to Aid Comprehension.
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Ann Salerno
www.changecycle.com/
►Topic: Change Moves Us
Change has always been a necessary aspect of life and work, and our world is changing more rapidly than ever. Nowhere are these changes more prevalent than in the field of education. As school leaders, we are constantly bombarded with a variety of changes. Our success and fulfillment depend on how well we adapt to change.
Dealing with organizational change is about getting through the emotion and commotion with minimal damage to our blood pressure, life calling, and relationships. In Change Cycle™, Ann Salerno equips attendees with six predictable and sequential stages of change—loss, doubt, discomfort, discovery, understanding, and integration—and offers examples, tools, and success strategies to enable us to move resourcefully through each stage.
This 3-hour training provides processes and skills by utilizing The Change Cycle™ as the guide for recognizing inherent land mines in the change experience. This will equip school leaders to know how to use the right strategy at the right time. Being able to identify where each person is in the Change Cycle™ provides the leader with the information necessary to lead effectively, increase productivity and minimize change anxiety... .Yes!
Bio—
Ann Salerno, co-creator, with Lillie Brock, of The Change Cycle Series, an educational training services and product line designed to assist individuals and organizations to deal resourcefully, pragmatically, and effectively with change. In 2008, Ann and Lillie published their work in a book entitled, The Change Cycle…A Practical Guide to Navigating the 6 Stages of Change. The series is available via CCMC Inc., an international training and development company based in Washington, D.C. and Durban, South Africa.
2012 Conference Seminars Confirmed to Date
► Administration
Public Law, Christian Schools, and Special Education—Julie Lane
Administrator Traits that Teachers Appreciate—Cecil Swetland
For What Are We Aiming? Spiritual, Academic, and Cultural Outcomes of Christian Education—Ray Pennings
► Assessment
ACSI and CTB/McGraw-Hill: A New Partnership for a New Era in Testing for ACSI Schools—David Smitherman
Enhanced Scoring Services of ACSI’s New Achievement Testing Program—David Smitherman
► Development/Marketing
Annual Fund Vs. Capital Campaign: The Two are Apples and Oranges Opposites—John Corfield
The Feasibility Study? How, When, What, Where, and Why?—John Corfield
► Early Education
Early Education Directors Roundtable Discussion—Leanne Leak
Evaluating Preschool Programs: Looking at it All!—Angie Colclasure
► Finance/Business Operations
Managing the 360 Degrees of Private School Risk (ISM)—Martin Kelly
How to Strengthen Your Christian School—Michael Dobreski
Multiply Your Resources of Time and Money—Robin Riley
California Workers' Compensation: Premiums, Preventions, and Predictions—Travis Tjepkema
► Instructional Leadership
Christian School Leadership, Vision and Purpose for Special Needs Programming—Julie Lane
Why Leadership Matters: A High School Student Leadership Program—Julie Georggin
Pre-During-Post Instructional Strategies that Make a Difference—Julie Adams
California Common Core & You—Cecil Swetland
► Technology Integration
Administrators and Technology: What to Do with That Electronic Box—Jeff Hoogeveen
How to Expand Your School's Online Reach Using Facebook, Blogs, and Twitter—Debbi Jama
Technology Trends and Statistics for 2012: Why Teachers Will Save the Country—Ernie Delgado
Understanding the BTE Technology Integration Model: Proper Technology Planning Will Save Your School—Ernie Delgado
Golf Tournament
Sierra Meadows is one of the most picturesque golf courses in the central valley. Sierra Meadows also provides a full-length practice range, a large scale putting green, a fully stocked golf shop, and the Four Tears Café.
Plan to join us for our twenty-eighth tournament!
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