MESPA Institute 2019

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MESPA Institute 2019

Join us for the professional development event of the year! On February 6-8, 2019, you will be joined by 450+ of your colleagues for an incredible experience. With presentations from EIGHT incredible thought leaders, more than 25 sessions rooted in mental health, innovation, education equity, and leadership development, MESPA Speaks performances by your own colleagues, a Makerspace Showcase, an Unconference in which you guide your own learning, and 80+ education-based exhibits, how could you go wrong?

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8:00am

MESPA Board Meeting Edina Room

10:00am

Preconference Session: Hacking Early Learning TBA Preconference Session: Supporting Social-Emotional Learning Through Literacy TBA

10:30am

Legislative & EPAC Committee Meeting TBA

11:00am

Early Bird Exhibit Viewing Exhibitor's Hall Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer

11:15am

Educational Advisory Committee Meeting Atrium 8

11:45am

Networking Luncheon Grand Ballroom

1:00pm

Todd Nesloney: Building a Powerful School Culture Grand Ballroom

2:30pm

Exhibit viewing & dessert - Invite your PTA! Exhibitor's Hall Makerspace Showcase - Open Viewing! Veranda Room

3:00pm

Institute Orientation & Reception: How to DO Institute! TBA

3:15pm

RPM Meeting and Social Plaza 3

3:45pm

"All Students" means ALL STUDENTS! #closingtheopportunitygap TBA BELIEVE: Strategies for Building a Positive School Community TBA Culture, Connections, and Color: How to Make Houses Happen in your 'Hood TBA Flipping Behavior Upside Down to Support All Students, Staff, and Families TBA Ghosts in the Classroom: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their Impact on Children TBA Tech Tools for Administrators TBA What All Principals Need to Know about Closing the Reading Proficiency Gap TBA Why you Need to Understand the Child Brain Before you Reform your School TBA

5:00pm

MESPA Welcome Reception Garden Court, Poolside

6:00pm

Networking & Social Poolside

7:00am

Breakfast on your own Varies

7:30am

Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer

8:00am

Dr. Clay Cook: Going Beyond Why Awareness of Trauma is Important: Focusing on the What and How of Integrating Trauma-Informed Practices Grand Ballroom

9:30am

Unconference Intro & Board Building Grand Ballroom Exhibits Open! Exhibitor's Hall

10:10am

#LeadingAllLearners: Asset Based Approaches to Multicultural Family & Youth Engagement TBA Assessing your School's Systemic Equity: Where are your Growth Areas? TBA Going Digital to Support Social Skills Instruction TBA Got Stress? Get SMART: An Introduction to Stress Management and Resiliency Training TBA Leading and Teaching Human Beings: Empowered to Breathe and BE TBA Principals in Action 2.0 TBA Taking the Long View: A Systemic Approach to Student Success in K-5 Reading TBA Trauma-Informed Tier 1 Practices for All: Evidence-Based Practices TBA

11:15am

Exhibit Viewing - Invite your PTA! Exhibitor's Hall

12:15pm

Luncheon & MESPA Candidate Presentations Grand Ballroom

1:20pm

UNCONFERENCE BREAKOUT BLOCK #1 Varies

2:05pm

Exhibit Viewing & Dessert Exhibitor's Hall

2:30pm

Exhibits Close! Exhibitor's Hall

2:35pm

UNCONFERENCE BREAKOUT BLOCK #2 Varies

3:30pm

Creating Access and Opportunity for Historically Underserved Students in Gifted Education TBA Data Rounds + Interventions = Student Success! TBA Join the Ranks of MN School of Excellence TBA Suicide Prevention: What You Need to Know TBA The Art of Negotiation TBA TRA Retirement Session TBA UNSTOPPABLE: Wonder Woman Style TBA What DOES the 'Research' Say? Six Research Studies in Sixty Minutes! TBA

5:30pm

The MESPYs: Reception Grand Ballroom

6:00pm

The MESPYs! Grand Ballroom

7:00am

Breakthrough Breakfast Grand Ballroom

7:30am

School Spirit Day: Wear your school pride on Friday! Grand Ballroom

8:00am

MESPA Annual Meeting - All are welcome! Grand Ballroom

9:15am

MESPA Speaks Grand Ballroom

10:10am

Whose Keynote is it Anyway?! Grand Ballroom

11:45am

Wrap up - cash and prizes drawing! Grand Ballroom