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 NASSP’s 2001 Convention showcases valuable, informative sessions that cover the entire scope of education issues and reflect the expressed interests of school administrators. The broad range of topics parallel those that surfaced in Breaking Ranks: Changing an American Institution, a critical report on revitalizing the American high school for the 21st century prepared by NASSP in partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Sessions also speak to the middle level issues outlined in Turning Points: Preparing Adolescents for the 21st Century, published by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. As such, middle level attendees can choose from a full range of programs that respond to their special needs and interests in addition to the common interests they share with their high school colleagues. The sessions that follow represent a broad sample of the wealth of education sessions scheduled. Topics noted may be subject to change based on speaker availability and scheduling constraints.
NOTE: All program topics offer both high school and middle level applications except those marked in color:
" High School ONLY
" Middle Level ONLY
Assessment & Accountability High School
- 20 Brain-Based Tools for Boosting Test Scores
- Accountability: Count Us In!
- Criterion Process Management: The Model for Ensuring School Performance
- Making Assessment Meaningful for Post-Secondary Planning
- National Alliances Session—Lessons Learned from the Field: How Principals Are Using ‘Baldridge’ To Meet the Challenges of Accountability
- Quality Pay for Quality Educators
- Standards and Assessment: How Can We Win the War Without Losing Our Souls?
- Successful Test-Taking Strategies for Underachievers
- Taming the Tiger: Authentic Assessment of the Principal
Middle Level
- Advantages and Disadvantages of Portfolio Assessment: Lessons from Higher Education
- Assessment Reform and Traditional Grading: A Disconnect!
- Dancing the Two-Step to an Eight-Step Process: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Academic Performance
- Implementing Test Preparation Programs Designed To Meet Standards, Raise Test Scores, and Teach SAT/ACT/PSAT Testing Points Alongside the Curriculum
- Principal Performance Review—A Document for Evaluating Principals
- Quality Pay for Quality Educators
- Standards-Based State Testing Programs: Cognitive Challenges and Effective Strategies
- Teacher Evaluation Through Rubrics and Professional Growth
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Curriculum and Instructional Strategies High School
- A Cocurricular Model that Can Enhance School Culture and Ensure Success in Your School
- Assuring a Successful Transition to High School
- Career Life Planning
- "Designing Down" Breaking Ranks Into a 21st Century School
- Expanding Instruction to Improve Student Engagement
- How To Start and Implement a Standards-Driven Career Academy/Institute
- Middle School Improv: Social Awareness Through Drama
- Redesigning Chicago High Schools. Can It Really Be Done?
- Secondary Technical Education: The Potential for Success
- Strategies for Implementing a High School Service-Learning Program: A State and National Model
- Succeeding in School Reform Forum— One Size Does Not Fit All: Urban Students and College Attainment
- The Portfolio: Your Passport to HIRE Education
- We CAN Get There from Here: Principal Leadership in Adolescent Literacy
Middle Level
- AP/IB: A Collaboration of Educational Excellence
- Assuring Quality and Consistency Through the Use of End-of-Course Exams
- Brain-Based Learning: Making Connections for Classroom Applications
- Ensuring Effective Teaching and Learning to Reach Higher Standards and Accountability
- Four Schools Break Geographic Boundaries To Unite Students in Learning
- How Can Every Teacher Be a Reading Teacher? Reading Is Not My Job!
- Making Meaningful Connections Through Brain-Based Education
- Middle Level General Assembly—Turning Points a Decade Later: Lessons and Challenges for Middle Grades Principals
- Preparation and Remediation Strategies for High Stakes Testing—What Is a Principal To Do?
- Recommitting to Middle Level Principles: Beyond the Looking Glass
- Saving Potential Dropouts with the Carbo Reading Styles Program
- The Academy of Health & Wellness: A Comprehensive Wellness Program at Work
- Write for Power: Simple, Effective Strategies That Raise Test Scores
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Diversity High School
- A Quality Mathematics Education: "Every" Student’s Right?
- Catch the Spirit: The Portrayal of African Americans from Past to Present
- Layered Curriculum
Middle Level
- Brain Compatible Learning: Practical Strategies for Teachers of Students at Risk
- Teachers Teaching Teachers: Examining Basic Moral Issues
- Turning the Tide—Changes in UK Education
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Leadership/Governance High School
- Asian & Hispanic Forum—Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling Successfully: Navigating Barriers
- Being Proactive in a Reactive Environment
- Beyond Susan: Solving Political Educational Problems Practically
- Creating Strategic Systems in Education
- Critical Issues of the Principalship: Its Changing Role
- Data-Driven Improvement in Learning and Achievement
- Expectations for Teachers’ Classroom Performance: An Instructional Leadership Model for Principals
- From Vision to ACTION—The Principal’s Role in a School Counseling Program
- Improving Teacher Performance: Perform, Improve, or Get Out
- Peer Educator Programs—Tapping Into an Unused Resource
- School Effectiveness: It’s a Matter of Visionary Leadership
- Students Can (DO) Make a Difference
- The Role of Student Leadership in the Development of a Collaborative School Culture
- The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching
Middle Level
- Alternative Education: More Than a Change of Placement
- Creating and Maintaining Systemic Change at the Middle School
- EnVISIONing Student Success
- Five Essential Imperatives for Effective Principals
- Leadership 101: The Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Leadership
- “Meeting” the Future Collaboratively
- Principle-Based Facilitation for Site-Based Decision Making
- SEMORE: The Seven-Minute Observational Record
- Survival Skills for the Principalship—
- Mastering the New Three R’s: Resiliency, Renewal, and Reflection
- The School of the Future: An International Vision
- Transformational Leadership. It Works!
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Organization and Time High School
- A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Name: The Freshman Academy
- The 4 x 4 Block Schedule: Engagement of Students Is the Key to Success
- New Frontier—School-Within-a-School Program for At-Risk 9th and 10th Graders
- Processes for Measuring How Block Scheduling Impacts Instruction, Achievement, and School Climate
Middle Level
- A Guide to Promotion Standards and an Alternative to Retention
- From the Top of the Heap to the Bottom of the Barrel: Designing Programs To Ease Student
- Transition into and out of the Middle School
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Professional Development High School
- 2001—An Investor’s Odyssey
- A Legal and Positive Approach to Employee Discipline: Memos, Warnings, and Reprimands
- A New Approach to Training the Next Generation of School Leaders
- Critical Friends Groups for Principals
- First Year Teacher Perceptions and the Principal Relationship
- Got a Minute?
- Mentoring Leadership by Example: A Process That Works
- (Re) Building a System of High Quality Professional Development
- Reducing Staff Conflict in Schools and Working with Difficult Teachers
Middle Level
- Building Leadership Capacity Through Professional Conversation
- Experienced Nationally Board Certified Teachers and First-Year Urban Teachers Speak Their Minds About Administrators
- Getting What You Can Keep…Keeping What You’ve Got—or, How To Retire on a Million Dollars
- Implementing Best Practices in Professional Development
- Professional Growth Model of Supervision and Evaluation
- Teaching to Change Lives
- Threats at School—An Interactive Role Play
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Relationships/Partnerships High School
- Building and Enhancing Staff Morale
- Creating Links to Parents and the Community
- Dreamers, Movers, and Shakers!
- Ninth Grade: Desert to Oasis
- School and Community: Ready, Set, Connect—for Student Success
- The Anguish and Adventure of Being Married to a Principal
- Valued Youth for a Brighter Future (A Closer Look at How Corporate Support Can Best Meet the Needs of Students and Schools)
Middle Level
- Creating Family-Friendly Schools with Technology
- It’s Not Paranoia! Middle Schools Want To Be “Schools to Watch”
- Putting It Together: Growing a Learning Community with Your Library
- What Leaders Dream Of—Eliminating Stress! Now THAT’S Funny!!!
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School Environment High School
- Behavior Standards — Which Comes First the Community’s or the School’s?
- Building a Dream: The Ultimate Alternative High School Program
- Building Student Support Systems in a Professional Learning Community
- Can We Ever Know Enough About School Safety and Security?
- Close the Digital Divide — Building a Bridge by Building An Online Community in Your School
- Conscious Classroom Management: Bringing Out the Best in Students and Teachers
- Discipline Without Anger
- Drug Proofing Your School: Lessons Learned from 12 Years of Evaluating Adolescent Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use
- How To Personalize the Learning Environment in a Large School
- IDEA and NASSP: What Do Experienced Principals Think?
- Implementing an Inclusive Philosophy in a Suburban Public High School
- Issues and Answers: Bay Shore High School Awareness Weekend
- Joining Leadership with Scholarship in African American Males
- Renaissance — Climate Control for Your School
- Square Peg in a Round Hole: Dynamic and Effective Educational Programs for Multicultural/Multi-Class Secondary School Populations
- Talking with Hostile Adults in School Settings
Middle Level
- Assessing the Impact of a Statewide School Violence Prevention Initiative
- Bullying—Not in My School
- Classroom Discipline: Helping Your Staff Establish both Respect and Responsibility in the Classroom
- Creating a Caring Environment for All Students
- Discipline Without Stress, Rewards, or Punishments and Raise Responsibility
- Instructional Approaches of Superior Teachers
- Living Through School Crises
- Random Drug Testing for Athletes and Students Involved in Cocurricular Activities
- Responding to Catastrophic Events: The First Crucial Hour
- Safe School Protocols and Schoolwide Discipline Programs Create Safe, Productive School Environments
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Ties to Higher Education High School
- Building Diversity and Achievement Through Secondary School/University Partnerships
- Fridays at the College—A School/College Collaboration
- Guiding Students Toward Successful Futures: A Strategy Session To Help Educators Lead the Way
- Fifth-Year Program—A Chance for Advanced Study
- NCAA Initial-Eligibility Update
- Things Are Seldom What They Seem: 13 Ways of Looking at College Attainment
- What Happens When They Leave High School: The Need for Secondary/Post Secondary Collaboration
Middle Level
- Preparing Principals in the Field: Lessons Learned from an Innovative Pilot Program
- PSSAS Forum I—International School Connections
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Technology High School
- Breaking Ranks Revisited—Online Professional Development
- Going Cold Turkey with Technology: A High School Without Books
- Online Learning: Opportunity or Threat? Current Fad or Paradigm Shift?
- T3—A Formula for Technology Success (Teaching Technology for Tomorrow)
- Technology, Leadership, and Learning for the 21st Century
- What the Wizard Didn’t Tell You About Streaming Video!
Middle Level
- Connecting Your School Through Education Portals
- Instrumentation for School Improvement at the Middle Level
- Powerful Partnerships: Principals and Media Specialists Leading Change
- Making Technology Work: The 2001 Technology Excellence Award Winners
- Why Use the Internet? Projects That Are Worth the Trouble
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