Join Us for Lunch!

Monday, March 12
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Plan to meet your colleagues for lunch and at the same time enjoy lively, thought-provoking presentations.

Tickets are required to attend each luncheon program—the cost is $30.00/person. Tickets may be ordered by using the Registration and Ticketed Events Payment Form.

Assistant Principals Luncheon
Take This Job and Love It!
Alan R. Zimmerman

The changing pressures of the 90’s and beyond show no sign of lessening. Almost everyone is besieged with multiple priorities. Never before has stress been more prevalent, burnout more likely, or balance more difficult. Even science has come to recognize these pressures as a major contributing factor in almost all illness.

Instead of feeling helpless, you can increase your energy and enthusiasm. You can balance the needs of your body, mind, and spirit. You can apply strategies that reduce work-related stress and solidify personal relationships.

Quite simply, you don’t have to go to work exhausted. You don’t have to go home from work exhausted. Join in this lively lunch presentation by Alan R. Zimmerman, president, Zimmerman Communi-Care Network—offering unique ways to “take this job and LOVE it.”

Smaller Secondary Schools Luncheon
A Common-Sense Approach with Section 504 and IDEA
Tom E. C. Smith

Had enough with federal laws? Would you like to throw Section 504 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) out the window? Well, these laws are basically good laws, and they are not going away. That means we must determine easier ways to comply with these two key pieces of legislation. In this presentation, Tom E. C. Smith, professor of special education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock will look at both of these laws from the perspective of doing what is right for children with disabilities, but doing so using a simple, common-sense approach. Let’s do it right, but let’s do it as simply as possible.

Urban and Larger Secondary Schools Luncheon
From Youth at Risk to KIDS AT HOPE
Rick Miller

A powerful, poignant, humorous, and exciting presentation about ourselves, our students, our institutions, and most importantly our futures. KIDS AT HOPE, is a remarkable initiative that Rick Miller, founder and president, KIDS AT HOPE explains refocuses our expectations about America’s youth by reexamining concepts such as success, hope, and optimism.

Middle Level Schools Luncheon
Administrators—The Key to Successful Schools!
Neila Connors

Neila Connors, founder and president of Positive Connections, offers “key” ideas for today’s school administrators eager to keep their schools successful. In a lively exchange and interaction with her audience, Neila will emphasize the importance of administrators in planning, designing, and implementing promising practices. According to Neila Connors, the most successful administrators believe “if you don’t feed the teachers, they eat the students.” Come hear more!

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