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

9:00am

Institute Book Fair Opens! Veranda Room

10:00am

Preconference Session: Hacking Early Learning Atrium 7 Preconference Session: Supporting Social-Emotional Learning Through Literacy Bloomington Room

10:30am

Legislative & EPAC Committee Meeting Atrium 3

11:00am

Exhibits Open - Invite your PTA! Exhibitor's Hall Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer Makerspace Showcase Opens! Veranda Room

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

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

2:40pm

PE Meets the Playground Edina Room Using Renaissance Programs like myON and Star to Help Students and Educators with Dyslexia Bloomington Room

3:00pm

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

3:05pm

Help Students Become Proficient Readers with Core 5! Atrium 1

3:15pm

RPM Meeting and Social Plaza 1

3:45pm

"All Students" means ALL STUDENTS! #closingtheopportunitygap Atrium 7 BELIEVE: Strategies for Building a Positive School Community Atrium 3 Culture, Connections, and Color: How to Make Houses Happen in your 'Hood Atrium 4 Flipping Behavior Upside Down to Support All Students, Staff, and Families Bloomington Room Ghosts in the Classroom: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their Impact on Children Atrium 1 Tech Tools for Administrators Edina Room What All Principals Need to Know about Closing the Reading Proficiency Gap Atrium 2 Why you Need to Understand the Child Brain Before you Reform your School Atrium 6

5:00pm

Institute Book Fair Closes Veranda Room MESPA Welcome Reception Garden Court, Poolside

6:00pm

Division Meetings: Coming Soon! Varies Networking & Social Poolside

7:00am

Breakfast on your own Varies Division Meetings: Coming Soon! Varies

7:30am

Registration Opens! Bloomington Foyer

8:00am

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 Ballroom Institute Book Fair Opens! Veranda Room

9:30am

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

10:10am

#LeadingAllLearners: Asset Based Approaches to Multicultural Family & Youth Engagement Atrium 3 Assessing your School's Systemic Equity: Where are your Growth Areas? Atrium 7 Comprehensive Tier 1 Supports for All Edina Room Going Digital to Support Social Skills Instruction Atrium 2 Got Stress? Get SMART: An Introduction to Stress Management and Resiliency Training Atrium 6 Leading and Teaching Human Beings: Empowered to Breathe and BE Atrium 4 Principals in Action 2.0 Bloomington Room Taking the Long View: A Systemic Approach to Student Success in K-5 Reading Atrium 1

11:15am

Institute Book Fair Shopping Veranda Room Exhibit Viewing - Invite your PTA! Exhibitor's Hall mesPAW Therapy Dog Showcase Block 1 Veranda Room

11:20am

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

11:50am

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

12:15pm

Luncheon & MESPA Candidate Presentations Grand Ballroom

1:20pm

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

2:05pm

Exhibit Viewing, Prize Pickup, and Dessert Exhibitor's Hall

2:30pm

Exhibits Close! Exhibitor's Hall mesPAW Therapy Dog Showcase ends! Veranda Room

2:35pm

UNCONFERENCE BREAKOUT BLOCK #2 Varies

3:30pm

Institute Book Fair Closes Creating Access and Opportunity for Historically Underserved Students in Gifted Education Atrium 7 Data Rounds + Interventions = Student Success! Atrium 2 Join the Ranks of MN School of Excellence Atrium 3 Suicide Prevention: What You Need to Know Atrium 4 The Art of Negotiation Edina Room TRA Retirement Session Atrium 1 UNSTOPPABLE: Wonder Woman Style Atrium 6 What DOES the 'Research' Say? Six Research Studies in Sixty Minutes! Bloomington Room

5:30pm

The MESPYs: Reception Grand Ballroom

6:00pm

The MESPYs! Grand Ballroom

7:30am

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

8:00am

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

9:15am

MESPA Speaks Grand Ballroom

10:10am

Whose Keynote is it Anyway?! Grand Ballroom

11:40am

Wrap up - cash and prizes drawing! Grand Ballroom