10:15 AM
to 11:45 AM
Beyond Bricks & Mortar: Knowing Your Buildings and Keeping Them Healthy and Productive, Presented by SchoolDude.com
15 Attendees
Location
Holiday Inn: Davidson
Louis J. Pepe, RSBA, School Business Administrator/ Board Secretary, Summit Board of Education; Michael Wozny, AIA, LEED AP, Director, Educational Projects, EI Associates; Joseph Donnelly, MS, M.Ed., Director, K-12 Educational Programs, EI Associates
The current state of school funding has all but eliminated focus and concern for aging school facilities. Now, more than ever, it is imperative that school leaders develop proactive strategies to assess and maintain healthy and productive school facilities to ensure that students and teachers achieve maximum potential in healthy, safe and comfortable learning environments that support current and future program goals. This session will enable participants to develop strategies to look beyond the focus on bricks and mortar of traditional long range facility planning and implement a comprehensive, holistic process that links educational facilities and program goals. It will also present straegies to to finance capital projects without relying on state funding. Presented by SchoolDude.com
Limited Capacity Max 60 attendees
Website www.schooldude.com
3:45 PM
to 5:15 PM
Building Relationships and Communicating with Parents 2010
18 Attendees
Location
Holiday Inn: Davidson
Thomas Greco, Math Teacher, Kinnelon High School
Teachers are the primary contact between schools and parents and are the ambassadors for any school district. But most teachers haven't had sufficient training to establish collaborative relationships with parents. Some seek to minimize parent contact, and as a result the communications are parent-initiated and frequently negative. Discover how your district can benefit when teachers build a professional, pro-active, information-rich relationship with parents, and how technology can facilitate teacher/parent communications.
Limited Capacity Max 60 attendees
10:30 AM
to 12:00 PM
Leveraging Voluntary Benefits; a 403(b) Case Study
4 Attendees
Location
Holiday Inn: Davidson
Type Group Session, Pensions
Bruce Linger, LFA Planner, Lincoln Financial Group
Increase the value of your 403(b) plan. Learn the tricks and tools to take control of this benefit while putting the work / cost on 403(b) vendors. Start with the first key: Move vendors from selling to a retirement education and planning forum. Visit this session for details on this and more inside secrets…
Limited Capacity Max 60 attendees
2:45 PM
to 4:15 PM
The Role of Place in Shaping Curriculum
6 Attendees
Location
Holiday Inn: Davidson
Type Group Session, Curriculum
Jay Perantoni, AIA, NCARB, Principal, SSP Architectural Group; Dr. Timothy Frederiks, Superintendent, Allamuchy Township School District; Paul Qvale, Director of Sustainable Services, Hillman Group
The Mountain Villa Primary School is one of our State's most unique examples of collaboration with the community and the state to achieve outstanding facility results. A remarkable series of events transpired to bring this project to fruition, including acquisition by the NJDEP Green Acres program of a portion of the site concurrent with a community referendum campaign for its funding, as plans advanced through the NJ Highlands preservation area standards required for construction. The goal for the primary school was always the use of the site for environmental education for all ages, which is now being realized in its occupancy by students and use by the community.
Limited Capacity Max 60 attendees
