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MESPA Institute 2019

MESPA Institute is still on despite the weather! Travel safely and we will see you there! 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 and Therapy Dog Showcase, an Unconference in which you guide your own learning, and 80+ education-based exhibits, how could you go wrong?

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Evaluate Institute 2019: The evaluation is now live: Click here to complete the MESPA 2019 General Evaluation for your CEUs (17).
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8:00am CST

MESPA Board Meeting Edina Room

9:00am CST

MESPA Book Fair Opens! Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

10:00am CST

Preconference Session: Hacking Early Learning Atrium 7Jessica Cabeen Preconference Session: Supporting Social-Emotional Learning Through Literacy Bloomington RoomDr. Steven Geis • Curtis Slater

10:30am CST

Legislative & EPAC Committee Meeting Atrium 3

11:00am CST

Exhibits Open - Invite your PTA! Exhibit Hall Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer Makerspace Showcase Opens! Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

11:15am CST

Educational Advisory Committee Meeting Atrium 8

11:45am CST

Networking Luncheon Grand Ballroom

1:00pm CST

Todd Nesloney: Building a Powerful School Culture Grand BallroomTodd Nesloney

2:30pm CST

Todd Nesloney Book Sale & Signing! Ballroom MESPA Book Fair Shopping Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall Exhibit viewing & dessert - Invite your PTA! Exhibit Hall Makerspace Showcase - Open Viewing! Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

2:40pm CST

PE Meets the Playground Edina RoomFlagship Recreation + Landscape Structures Using Renaissance Programs like myON and Star to Help Students and Educators with Dyslexia Bloomington RoommyON by Renaissance

3:00pm CST

Institute Orientation & Reception: How to DO Institute! Atrium 7

3:05pm CST

Help Students Become Proficient Readers with Core 5! Atrium 1Lexia Learning

3:15pm CST

RPM Meeting and Social Plaza 1

3:45pm CST

"All Students" means ALL STUDENTS! #closingtheopportunitygap Atrium 7Billy Chan • Stephanie Draayer • Joy Fredrickson • Sandy Jonason • Sarah Schmidt BELIEVE: Strategies for Building a Positive School Community Atrium 6Jason Luksik Culture, Connections, and Color: How to Make Houses Happen in your 'Hood Atrium 4Taber Akin • Kelly Kunze • Doug Mohr • Hilary Moorlach • Scott Sherman • Jessica Suby • Alanna Ulmen Flipping Behavior Upside Down to Support All Students, Staff, and Families Bloomington RoomCurtis Slater Ghosts in the Classroom: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their Impact on Children Atrium 1Luke Spiegelhoff Tech Tools for Administrators Edina RoomTodd Nesloney What All Principals Need to Know about Closing the Reading Proficiency Gap Atrium 2Pamela Kling Peroutky Why you Need to Understand the Child Brain Before you Reform your School Atrium 3Jessica Anderson • Kelly Arrington

5:00pm CST

MESPA Book Fair Closes Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall MESPA Welcome Reception Garden Court, Poolside

6:00pm CST

Division Meetings: See Description Varies Networking & Social Poolside

7:00am CST

Breakfast on your own Varies Division Meetings: See description Varies

7:30am CST

Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer

8:00am CST

DASH for CASH Service Project Collection Ballroom Dr. Clay Cook: Going Beyond WHY Awareness of Trauma is Important by Focusing on WHAT Schools Can Do to Address the Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Needs of All Students Grand BallroomClay Cook MESPA Book Fair Opens! Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

9:30am CST

Unconference Intro & Board Building Grand Ballroom Exhibits Open! Exhibit Hall

10:10am CST

#LeadingAllLearners: Asset Based Approaches to Multicultural Family & Youth Engagement Atrium 3Justin Kiel • Amy Young Assessing your School's Systemic Equity: Where are your Growth Areas? Atrium 7Jean Lubke • Paula O'Loughlin • Regina Seabrook Comprehensive Tier 1 Supports for All Edina RoomClay Cook Going Digital to Support Social Skills Instruction Atrium 2John Beach Got Stress? Get SMART: An Introduction to Stress Management and Resiliency Training Atrium 6Ann Clark • Ariana Wright Leading and Teaching Human Beings: Empowered to Breathe and BE Atrium 4Kathy Flaminio • Lynn Hernandez Principals in Action 2.0 Bloomington RoomMark French • J Kapuchuck Taking the Long View: A Systemic Approach to Student Success in K-5 Reading Atrium 1Kristin Burger • Mona Perkins

11:15am CST

MESPA Book Fair Shopping Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall Exhibit Viewing - Invite your PTA! Exhibit Hall mesPAW Therapy Dog Showcase Block 1 Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

11:20am CST

Leader in Me: Assessing Impact Atrium 2Leader In Me Learning Through Play: Strategies for Increased Executive Functioning and SEL Skills in Elementary Education Atrium 1PLAYWORKS

11:50am CST

Principal-Led Crowdfunding the Right Way Bloomington RoomHorace Mann Companies Reinvigorating SEL with a Mindsets-Based approach and Proven Methodology for Effectiveness Edina Room7 Mindsets

12:15pm CST

Luncheon & MESPA Candidate Presentations Grand Ballroom

1:20pm CST

UNCONFERENCE BREAKOUT BLOCK #1 Varies mesPAW Therapy Dog Showcase Block 2 Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

2:05pm CST

Exhibit Viewing, Prize Pickup, and Dessert Exhibit Hall

2:30pm CST

Exhibits Close! Exhibit Hall mesPAW Therapy Dog Showcase ends! Veranda Room in Exhibit Hall

2:35pm CST

UNCONFERENCE BREAKOUT BLOCK #2 Varies

3:30pm CST

MESPA Book Fair Closes "Paycheck of the Future" & "Planning for Retirement" Mini Sessions: SEE DESCRIPTION! Atrium 1MN TRA Creating Access and Opportunity for Historically Underserved Students in Gifted Education Atrium 7Laura Steabner • Lisa Willman • David Wolff Data Rounds + Interventions = Student Success! Atrium 6Jody Seppala Join the Ranks of MN School of Excellence Atrium 3Andrew Vollmuth • Lisa Pikop • Sam Richardson Suicide Prevention: What You Need to Know Atrium 4Liz Hommerding • Stephanie Ochocki The Art of Negotiation Edina RoomRoger Aronson UNSTOPPABLE: Wonder Woman Style Atrium 2Toni Baartman What DOES the 'Research' Say? Six Research Studies in Sixty Minutes! Bloomington RoomKim Gibbons • Katie Pekel

5:30pm CST

The MESPYs: Reception Grand Ballroom

6:00pm CST

The MESPYs! Grand Ballroom

7:30am CST

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

8:00am CST

MESPA Annual Meeting & Legal and Legislative Update - All are welcome! Grand BallroomRoger Aronson

9:15am CST

MESPA Speaks Grand BallroomMark French • Cordelro Maddox • Josh Smith

10:10am CST

Whose Keynote is it Anyway?! Grand BallroomJessica Cabeen • Jimmy Casas • Linda Cliatt-Wayman • Brad Gustafson • Joe Sanfelippo • Salome Thomas-El

11:40am CST

Wrap up - cash drawing! Grand Ballroom Whose Keynote Meet & Greet and Book Sale Grand Ballroom