Sunday, November 16
Conference Schedule
(Subject to change)
7:15 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Special Session
- Quality in Education 101 (NQ01)
Jay Marino, Associate Superintendent; Becky Martin, Continuous Improvement Facilitator, Cedar Rapids Community School District, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration/Bookstore Open
7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Exhibits Open
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast and Networking Discussion
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Welcome/Introduction of Education Team Excellence Award
Keynote Speaker: Terry Holliday, Superintendent, Iredell-Statesville School, Statesville, NC
Can We Meet 21st Century Challenges or Will We Be Left Behind?
One school system addressed the 21st century skills of organization, communication, problem solving, creativity, and teamwork. The solutions focus on low-cost and technology approaches that are utilized from the classroom to the boardroom. NQEC attendees will have access to free downloads of classroom tools that impact 21st century skills for students, teachers, and administrators.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Refreshment Break With Sponsors/Exhibitors
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (S01-S06)
- The Baldrige Education Criteria: A Tool for Innovation (S01)
Sandra Byrne, Ph.D., Education Specialist, Baldrige National Quality Program, Gaithersburg, MD
- Growing Your System to Meet the Needs of a Growing District (S02)
This session has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
- Continuous Improvement in the Middle School – Structured Flexibility! (S03)
Paul Hayes, Middle School Counselor/Continuous Improvement Trainer, Becky Martin, Continuous Improvement Facilitator, and Ann Buckley and Steph Stulken, Continuous Improvement Trainers, Cedar Rapids Community School District, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Implementing Continuous Improvement: From Add-on to the Way We Do Business (S04)
Judy Crates, Director of Organizational Effectiveness and Cindy Lundberg, Teacher on Special Assignment, Mountain View Whisman School District, Mountain View, CA
- Professional Learning Communities That Really Work! (S05)
Denise Holliday, Instructional Facilitator Coach, Elementary; Amanda Sauer, Instructional Facilitator Coach, Secondary; Marty Moore, Executive Director of I-SS Leadership Academy; and Mathew Fail, Chief Quality Officer, Iredell-Statesville Schools, Statesville, NC
- Change, the American Way (S06)
Deborah Hopen, Editor, The Journal for Quality and Participation, Federal Way, WA, and Janet Jacobsen, Associate Editor, The Journal for Quality and Participation, Cedar Rapids, IA
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Networking Lunch / Introductory Comments sponsored by Follett
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (S07-S12)
- Using Questions to Increase Critical Thinking (S07)
Bob Hoglund, President, Bob Hoglund, Inc., Tempe, AZ, and Cindy McClung, Coordinator, Quality and Instructional Processes, The School District of Lee County, Fort Myers, FL
- A System's Perspective in Growing Mathematics and Science Achievement (S08)
Shan Glandon, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Jenks Public Schools,
Jenks, OK
- Achieving the Big Goals—Ethics, Critical Thinking, and Problem Solving (S09)
Michele Brinn, VP Workforce Development, Director of Carolina First Center for Excellence, Greater Greenville Chamber of Commerce, Greenville, SC, and Tami Miller, Manager, Carolina First Center for Excellence, Greenville Chamber Foundation, Greenville, SC
- Beyond the Dot: Creating a Classroom Culture for Putting Quality into Students’ Hands (S10)
Lori Bratcher, Elementary Teacher, Curtis Elementary School and Paula Mower, Director, Assessment and Organizational Development, Weatherford Independent School District, Weatherford, TX
- Bridging the Accountability Gap Through Collaboration (S11)
M. Gene May, Principal, Scotts Elementary and Jonathan Ribbeck, Assistant Principal/Instructional Facilitator, Scotts Elementary, Iredell-Statesville Schools, Statesville, NC
- Placing the Data in the Right Hands—Hot off the Press into the Teacher’s (S12)
Silvia Girod, Manager, Corporate Planning Office and Board-Wide Standards, Toronto District School Board, Organizational Development Department, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Refreshment Break With Sponsors/Exhibitors
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions (S13-S18)
- Value-Driven Instruction (S13)
This session has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts.
- A Decade of Academic and Operational Growth Utilizing a Quality Improvement Model: One K-12 District's Story (S14)
Robert Hassler, Superintendent and Dave Decker, Manager of Quality, Research, and Program Assessment, North Penn School District, Lansdale, PA
- Continuous Improvement in School Climate Through a Data-Driven Discipline Program (S15)
Will Black, Principal and Laura Walker, Assistant Principal, Metropolis Elementary School, Metropolis, IL
- Quality for Dummies (S16)
Angela Broussard, Pre-Kindergarten Teacher and Paige Doucet, Kindergarten Teacher, Frasch Elementary, Calcasieu Parish School Board, Sulphur, LA
- Success With Vocabulary Due to Building-Wide SMART Goal Alignment (S17)
Val Dolezal, Principal, Jona Seifert, Title I Reading Teacher, Deb Becker, First Grade Teacher, Denise Ellis, Kindergarten Teacher, and Laurie Wenger, First Grade Teacher, Cedar Rapids Community School District, Cedar Rapids, IA; and Donna Claflin, Speech Language Pathologist, Grant Wood Area Education Agency, Cedar Rapids Community School District, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Delivering on the Promise: It's Not About Us, It's About the Kids (S18)
Jo Clem, Member, Board of Directors, Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, Wasilla, AK, Patrick Russo, Secretary, Board of Directors, Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, Hampton, VA, and Dr. Michael Copeland, President, Board of Directors, Re-Inventing Schools Coalition Commerce, TX
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Networking Reception with Sponsors/Exhibitors
