MASS & MCASE Fall Conference

September 19-20, 2016Bozeman, Montana

Collaboration & Advocacy: Joining Voices to Support

Public Education

Monday, September 19 7:15 - 8:15 Hot Breakfast & Registration Lobby Sponsored by Presence Learning

8:15 - 8:30 Welcome, Introductions & Program Overview Larkspur Ballroom Laurie Barron, President, MASS & Dave Means, President-Elect, MCASE

8:30 - 10:15 Leadership in Supporting Behavior Needs in Districts Larkspur Ballroom Shawna Heiser

10:15 - 10:30 Break & Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom Sponsored by Ameresco

10:30 - 11:30 Higher Education’s Role in PreK-12 Public Education Larkspur Ballroom Dr. Waded Cruzado, MSU President 11:30 - 11:45 Break & Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom Sponsored by Pearson 11:45 - 1:15 MASS Luncheon/Awards Larkspur Ballroom Recognizing Regional Superintendents of the Year Recipients

MCASE - Lunch On Your Own

1:15 - 1:30 Break & Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 Understanding and Advocating for Larkspur Ballroom Montana’s Public Schools MT-PEC Panel (MASBO, MEA-MFT, MQEC, MREA, MTSBA & SAM)

3:30 - 3:45 Break & Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom

3:45 - 4:45 Update from OPI and SAM Larkspur Ballroom Denise Juneau and Kirk Miller

4:45 - 5:00 Closing Remarks Larkspur Ballroom Laurie Barron, President, MASS & Dave Means, President-Elect, MCASE

6:00 Monday Night Football Reception Breakout Room A Sponsored by: MSU Education Department and DADavidson & Co.

MASS & MCASE Fall Conference - Hilton Garden

MASS Fall Conference - Hilton Garden

Tuesday, September 20

7:00 - 8:00 Hot Breakfast & Networking Lobby

8:00 - 8:45 MASS Business Meeting Larkspur Ballroom Presiding - MASS President, Laurie Barron

1. Consideration of MASS Business Meeting DRAFT Minutes 3-15-16

2. AASA National Conference on Education March 2-4, 2017 in New Orleans, LA 3. Incentive Award Tobin Novasio, MASS President-Elect 4. AASA Governing Board/Executive Committee Report Jule Walker, Ron Whitmoyer & Leland Stocker 5. AASA Federal Relations Report Dennis Gerke, MASS Federal Relations Coordinator 6. SAM Delegate Assembly Steering Committee Report Rick Duncan, DA Steering Committee Chair & MASS Representative 7. SAM Update Kirk Miller, SAM Executive Director

8. Other Business - For the Good of the Order

8:45 - 9:00 Break & Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom

9:00 - 10:30 School Size Caucus AA Schools -- Facilitated by Robert Watson, Bozeman A Schools -- Facilitated by Ross Farber, Dawson County B Schools -- Facilitated by Rick Duncan, Powell County C Schools -- Facilitated by Brad Moore, Big Sandy K-8 Schools -- Facilitated by Corey Austin, Target Range Native American School Leaders -- Facilitated by Jim Baldwin, Poplar

10:30 – 10:45 Break and Visit with Exhibitors Larkspur Ballroom

10:45 – 12:00 Communities for Schools Larkspur Ballroom Alton Frailey, President, AASA“Public education has been on the receiving end of a plethora of well-intended reform efforts. Yet, most of these ef-forts have struggled to truly improve schools in any sustainable way. Why is this? I propose that external reforms, structural changes and purchased programs are not enough. I look forward to telling you why I believe this to be true. I will share with you what has proven to work in high performing public and private schools alike.”

12:00 Closing Remarks Larkspur Ballroom Laurie Barron, President, MASS

MCASE Fall Conference - Holiday Inn

Tuesday, September 20

7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast & Networking Gallatin/Jefferson

8:00 - 8:45 Pre-Employment Transition Services (PETS) Gallatin/Jefferson Mark Mahnke, CRC, Voc. Rehab & Blind Services

8:45 - 9:00 BREAK

9:00 - 10:30 OPI Special Education Division Presenters Frank Podobnik, State Special Education Director & Staff

BREAK AS YOU NEED

10:30 – 12:00 MCASE Business Meeting Presiding, MCASE President-Elect, Dave Means Strategic Plan and Goals for 2016-17

Budget Summary

Membership

MCASE Recruitment Enrollment Project Recomendations for 2016-17

Delegate Assembly/SPED Resolutions Chris Rice, Tim Miller and Kirk Miller

MCASE & MCEL Panel of MCASE Members Across AA, A, B, C Districts & Co-ops with OPI

Other

12:00 Sack Lunch To Go!

Keynote Speakers

Shawna HeiserTwenty years ago Shawna began her business, Special Learning 1-ON-1 LLC, which has expanded to service children, adolescents, and a few adults with a wide variety of special needs. Shawna’s specialty involves working with families of children and adolescents with behavior, communication, and developmental disabilities rang-ing from Autism to Attention Deficit Disorder. She currently consults with several different school districts, early childhood intervention programs across the state, and continues a private behavioral coun-seling practice. In private practice she shares office space with a Speech and Language Therapist and Occupational Therapist. In 2009, she became the 4th person in the state to receive a nationally recognized certification through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board. She was trained by five of the top researchers in the field of Autism and is recognized as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in the state of Montana. She has background and specialized trainings: ABA intensive training, L.E.A.P project, Greenspan/Floortime, Pivotal Response Training, and ABA; C-BAM scales of assessment. Af-ter establishing her business, Shawna returned to the University in 2002 to share the experience and knowledge she has gathered since graduation with her Montana State University-Bozeman Psychol-ogy students as a Senior Lecturer. She teaches a variety of junior and senior level courses including Behavior Modification, Psychology of Learning, Advanced Behavior Analysis and Field Practicum/In-ternship. Her motto in servicing children is “Every Child Deserves an Opportunity for Independence”.

President Waded Cruzado

Waded Cruzado serves as the 12th President of Montana State Uni-versity. An inspirational speaker on the role of land-grant universities, she has become a well-known champion of the land-grant’s tripartite mission of education, research and public outreach.

President Cruzado received the 2011 Michael P. Malone Educator of the Year by the Montana Ambassadors for outstanding accomplishment, excellence and leadership in the field of education. In 2012, President Barack Obama appointed Dr. Cruzado to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), a seven member advisory council to USAID, whose primary role is to advise on agriculture, rural development and nutrition issues related to global food insecurity and the eradication of hunger in the world. She currently serves on the boards of the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), as well as the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

Shawna and Kim Peek (Rain Man) in 2008

Congratulations to the 2016 Regional Superintendent of the Year Award Recipients!

Northeast Region -- Bob Connors, GlasgowWestern Region -- Loyd Rennaker, Darby

North Central Region -- DK Brooks, Dutton/BradySouth Central Region -- Tobin Novasio, Lockwood

Central Region -- Annette Hart, Judith Gap4 Rivers Region -- Robert DoBell, Three ForksNorthwest Region -- Cal Ketchum, West Valley

Southeast Region -- Jim Hansen, BroadusHi-Line Region -- Brad Moore, Big Sandy

Keynote Speakers

Alton Frailey, currently President of the American Association of School Admin-istrators, is a 33 - year veteran educator.

Frailey is the recently retired superintendent of the nearly 74,000-student Katy Independent School District, near Houston, Texas. He has served as superin-tendent of the DeSoto Independent School District near Dallas, Texas and as Superintendent of Schools for Cincinnati Public Schools in Cincinnati, Ohio.

A classroom veteran, Frailey began his career working with special needs and elementary aged students in Baytown, Texas. He served as a building princi-pal and in various central office positions in the Spring Branch Independent School District in Houston, Texas.

Frailey has held numerous professional elected leadership positions including President of the Texas As-sociation of School Administrators (TASA), President of the Urban Superintendents Association of America (USAA), and Texas Association of Suburban/Mid-Urban Schools TAS-MUS).

Frailey has served on numerous civic boards and in 1999 was elected to the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District Board of Trustees, which was selected as the 2002 Texas Honor Board.

Texas Governor Gregg Abbot recently appointed Frailey to the Stephen F. Austin State University Board of Regents.

Alton and his wife Anissa are the proud parents of three beautiful adult children-two of which are college graduates and gainfully employed. The youngest started college this fall on the Alton & Anissa Frailey four-year scholarship plan.

Alton Frailey

2016-17 MASS Board of Directors

PRESIDENTLaurie Barron, Supt.Evergreen Schools

PRESIDENT ELECTTobin Novasio, Supt.

Lockwood Schools

WESTERN PRESIDENT Mike Perry, Supt.

Hot Springs Schools

NORTHWEST PRESIDENT Cal Ketchum, Supt.West Valley Schools

NORTHCENTRAL PRESIDENTLoren Dunk, Supt.

Power Schools

SOUTHEAST PRESIDENTRoss Farber, Supt. Glendive School

NORTHEAST PRESIDENTTiffani Anderson, Supt.Medicine Lake Schools

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORKirk Miller

School Administrators of Montana

PAST PRESIDENTRandy Cline, Supt.

Frenchtown Schools

HI LINE PRESIDENTBart Hawkins, Supt.North Star Schools

4 RIVERS PRESIDENTRobert DoBell, Supt.Three Forks School

SOUTH CENTRAL PRESIDENTTeri Harris, Supt. Fromberg Schools

CENTRAL PRESIDENTDenise Chrest, Supt.

Moore Schools

FEDERAL RELATIONSDennis Gerke, Supt.

Hardin Public Schools

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORPat Audet

School Administrators of Montana

We Look Forward to a Great 2016-17 School Year.

Thanks for All You Do!

2016-17 MCASE Board of Directors

PRESIDENTChris Bilant, Federal Projects Director

Kalispell Schools

PRESIDENT ELECTDave Means, Special Services Director

Whitefish School District

SECRETARY Karen Underwood, Director

Yellowstone West Carbon County Co-op

REGION IDebra Linn, Coordinator

Prairie View Special Services

REGION IIIChris Rice, Director

Central Montana Learning Resource Center

REGION VDave Means, Special Services Director

Whitefish School District

ASSOCIATE DIRECTORPat Audet

School Administrators of Montana

PAST PRESIDENTJenifer Cline, Student Services Coordinator

Great Falls Public Schools

CEC REPRESENTATIVE Laurie Salo, Student Services Director

Belgrade Schools

REGION IILisa Von Bergen, Coordinator Student Sevices

Great Falls Public Schools

REGION IVMichelle Halberg

Gallatin/Madison Special Education Co-op

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORKirk Miller

School Administrators of Montana

Future Events -- Save the Dates2016

October 19-21 MCEL Billings Convention Center 2017 January 25-27 MAEMSP Winter Conference Great Falls/Holiday Inn February 15 MCEC Conference Missoula March 2-4 AASA Convention New Orleans March 13 MT-PEC Day of Advocacy Helena/Great Northern Hotel March 14 MASS Spring Conference Helena/Great Northern Hotel March 14-15 METAtechED Conference Helena/Great Northern Hotel April 6-7 MASSP Spring Conference Helena/Great Northern Hotel June 15-16 SAM Delegate Assembly Helena/SAM Office

July 31 - Aug 3 SAM Administrators Institute Helena/Radisson Colonial

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Infinite Campus4321 109th Avenue NEBlaine, MN 55449763-458-1752Stephanie Sondrolstephanie.sondrol@infinitecampus.comThe most trusted name in student information

Montana Schools Property & Liability Insurance Plan1108 Livingston Ave.Helena, MT 59601888-442-8013Dave Pillatzkedpillatzke@paynewest.comProperty & Liability Insurance carrier servicing Montana’s public schools

MUST725 N. MontanaHelena, MT 59601406-457-4400Marcia Ellermeyermellermeyer@ms-sf.orgHealth Benefits for Montana Schools

NCCE-Northwest Council for Computer Education1031 N. Academic Way, Ste. 242Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814360-899-8704Eric Chambersechambers@ncce.org NCCE provides full service E-Rate support for schools and libraries in the Northwest

Pine Cove2135 Charlotte St. Ste. 2Bozeman, MT 59718Brendan Bassett406-294-5478bbassett@pinecc.comTechnology Solutions & Services for Schools

Silverback Learning Solutions408 E. Parkcenter Boulevard Suite 300Boise, ID 83706208-413-2020Joy Rappjrapp@silverbacklearning.comWe deliver solutions focused on increasing student achievement

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VALIC430 Ryman Street Suite 102Missoula, MT 59802406-329-5500Roxy Watkinsroxanne.watkins@valic.comFinancial and retirement planning

Vision Net1309 NW BypassGreat Falls, MT 59404406-750-4379Doug Nicolsdoug.nichols@vision.netUnleash the Power of Human Collaboration

A Special Thank You to Our Supporters!A & E Architects608 N 29th StreetBillings, MT 59101406-248-2633Dusty Eatondeaton@aearchitects.comWe don’t just design buildings, We design the process of creat-ing buildings.

Amplify55 WashingtonBrooklyn, NY 11201435-655-1731Robert McCartyrmccarty@amplify.comAmplify is reimagining the way teachers teach and students learn. Groundbreaking digital ELA/Science Curriculum and Lieteracy Assessment/Intervention

Center for the Collaborative Classroom1001 Marina Village Pkway, Ste 110Alameda, CA 94501800-666-7270Melissa TovaasedsolutionsMT@gmail.comCollaborative Literacy - Integrating rigorous literacy work with social skills development.

D.A. Davidson & Co.402 East Main StreetBozeman, MT 59715406-556-6965Bridget Ekstrombekstrom@dadco.comBond Financing Services for Montana Schools

EducationSuperHighway433 California, Suite. 433San Francisco, CA 94133415-967-7454Elle PattersonElle@educationsuperhighway.orgNational nonprofit organization working to improve Internet access to K-12 schools

Elliotts Dough260 Ice Center LaneBozeman, MT 59715406-799-4876Lyndee Elliottlyndeeelliott@gmail.comMontana’s best fundraising

First Call Computer Solution2436 West Central Ave.Missoula, MT 59801406-721-6462Conor Smithconor.smith@firstsolution.comFirst Call provides outsourced IT, IT projects and Services for Montana Schools

GoalbookP.O. Box 1289San Mateo, CA 94401650-284-0432Oscar Avitesoscara@goalbookapp.comWeb-based instructional software for teacher planning & IEP Development

Hallr, LLCP.O. Box 340Oakley, UT 84055435-503-6227Eric Carlsonecarlson@hallr.comSchool communicationapp that keeps teachers, students and parents connected

McKinstry228 West MainMissoula, MT 59802406-544-2815Daniel McGeedanmc@mckinstry.comDesign Build / Energy Services Company

Montana Independent Living Project825 Great Northern Blvd. Ste. 105Helena, MT 59601406-442-5755Catlyn Blodgetcblodget@milp.usMedicaid reimbursement for O & M Instruction

Montana No Kid Hungry2401 Colonial Drive 3rd FloorHelena, MT 59601406-444-3925Linda Cleatuslcleatus@mt.govIncreasing student engagement and reducing disruptive be-haviors through feeding students.

Please make sure to visit with our Business Partners & Exhibitors who have made it to the Conference. It is through their help and contributions that we are

able to make events like this happpen every year.

Montana Schools Recruitment Project3005 Ottawa StreetButte, MT 59701406-494-2624Lori Ruffierlruffier@bresnan.netMontana Schools Recruitment Project recruits highly quali-fied special education personnel

Montana Youth Challenge Academy790 E. Cornell StreetDillon, MT 59725406-683-7533Chelsey Hutchisonchelsey.hutchison@umwestern.eduAcademic opportunities available for at-risk youth in Montana

MonTECH52 Corbin Hall - UofMMissoula, MT 59812406-243-5769Anna-Margaret Goldmananna-margaret.goldman@mso.umt.eduMonTECH provides technology, support, and services that improve the quality of life for Montanans with disabilities.

Pearson1543 E. Feather View Dr.Eagle, ID 83616208-252-0863Jeffrey Englebertjeff.engelbert@pearson.comCore Curriculum as well as Intervention Programs for all Learners

PresenceLearning580 Market Street, 6th FloorSan Fransisco, CA 94104415-512-9000Jon Castillojon@presencelearning.comLive Online Special Education Services for Speech, OT and Behavioral Mental Health

RESA4U404 West Main StreetBozeman, MT 59715888-442-8013Bruce Grubbsbgrubbs@swmss.coopSimple, web-based login system to maximize medicaid reimbursements for schools

Special Olympics Montana710 1st Ave. NorthGreat Falls, MT 59401406-216-5327LeAnna Dolly-Powelllpowell@somt.orgSOMT supports schools in promoting inclusive sport opportu-nities & inclusive school climates

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MASS & MCASE

Fall Conference 2016