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Announcing the 2010 Partnerships for Education Conference
Save the Date : Saturday, May 15, in Concord
The Parent Information Center is organizing its third annual NH Partnerships for Education Conference for May 15, 2010. The event will be held at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord.
The conference will explore the power of family-school-community partnerships to improve outcomes for NH students. The conference will offer workshops aimed at parents, teachers, students, administrators, business leaders, community- and faith-based organizations.
Tentative workshop topics include: Bullying, Early Childhood and IEP Referral, Extended Learning Opportunities in NH Schools, Financial Aid 101, Reducing & Resolving Special Education Disputes, Getting Smart about Children and Social Media, Parent Involvement in Middle and High School, Partnership Teams for Success in Special Education, Preparing for 21st Century Careers, Promoting Effective School-Business Partnerships, Supporting Language and Literacy for Children Birth-5, Strategies for Increasing Father Involvement, 4-Year Planning for Transition to College and Career, Transition to Kindergarten, Competency-based Report Cards, and others.
A conference flyer can be downloaded at www.picnh.org/p4e2010. Registration details will be available at the same web page after March 1. For additional information, call the Parent Information Center at 800 924-7005.
2009 P4E Conference a Success!
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On March 21, 2009, over 180 people attended the second annual Partnerships for Education Conference at Southern NH University. Participants were nearly unanimous in their praise for the keynote address of Dr. Steven Constantino of Family Friendly Schools. Dr. Constantino shared from his personal experience as principal of one of the lowest-performing high schools in Virginia, and with humorous anecdotes told the story of how he helped turn the school around through a vigorous program of reaching out to families.
Following the keynote, Dr. Constantino offered more details on family engagement in his breakout session, “Family Engagement in Middle and High School: A Proven Path to Achievement for All.” Other breakout sessions that day included:
- Moving from High Schools to Learning Communities: New Hampshire’s Vision for Educational Redesign
- Supporting English Language Learners: Increasing and Sustaining Family Involvement in Ethnic Communities
- Partnerships for Student Success (P4SS): A Practical Guide to Partnerships in Action - including Special Education
- Creating Agreement: Effectively Solving Problems in Special Education
- Why Homework? New Perspectives...Getting it Right!!
- Fatherhood and Education: The Missing Link
- How Family-Friendly is Your School? A Review of Accessible Tools for Data-Driven Decision-Making
- Caring for Ourselves While Caring for Others: The College Degree as the First Step
- Life After High School: Successfully Navigating the Secondary Transition
- Let’s Read Together: Supporting Language and Literacy Every Day
- Bringing Policies to Life! The “Parent Involvement Policy” and More
- Towards a Statewide System of Support for Family Engagement
The conference program can be downloaded here.
Participants generally expressed enthusiasm for the conference. Here is a sampling of comments:
- I feel that the conference gave information and materials that I can take to my school and use
- Wonderful that the cost is so reasonable! Thank you for the fresh fruit! Plentiful food. Good chance to connect w/a variety of people. Great choice of key presenter!
- Useful resources and material to take away and share
Opening speaker was great - I should have listened to him all morning - I would love to hear him again and learn more. I should have brought money to buy his book- I loved Steve Contantino. He is absolutely inspiring, thank you for brining him to us!
- Important topics. Dynamic keynote speaker. Good resources and references. Needed more strategy - how to. I am cheerleading and marketing and reaching out and waiting for results.
- Keep this going. Let more public schools know about it.
- Great Job. Thank you
- What a fabulous conference! Is there a way to have handouts available to be accessed online so they can be accessed regarding the various workshops. There are so many great workshops, access to powerpoints of resources would be great
- Great conversations. Great location. Great food. Next time I am bringing more people. Keynote was terrific!!!
Being able to talk with folks from all areas of engagement and to share our mutual stories was wonderful. Hearing that my concerns are like that of others experiences and networking with person who can help my voice be heard for the benefit of all.- Excellent, entertaining, eye-opening
- I love the keynote speaker!
Videos of the conference will be available online and for purchase sometime in May. Handouts from the conference sessions will be available on this website soon.
We wish to thank our attendees, sponsors, advertisers, and presenters for your support in helping us reach our goals to bring together a diversity of stakeholders to further the cause of family engagement in education and strong family-school-community partnerships.
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