Programs & Events

• AASA Summer Leadership Institute  (July 29 - Aug. 1, 2010, Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC)
  
  AASA’s Summer Leadership Institute offers high-level, interactive discussions of relevant, system-building issues. Highlights also include examples of success and professional career standard updates. Driven by content, it features presentations for veteran superintendents, cabinet members and school system teams.
  
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• AASA Legislative Advocacy Conference (Sept. 22-24, 2010, Ritz Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, Va.)
  
  Make Your Voice Heard in Washington: AASA’s Legislative Advocacy Conference is an annual opportunity for America’s public school leaders to influence the debate on Capitol Hill. Conference attendees hear about hot topics in education policy, including reauthorization of the ESEA and IDEA, advocate for high-quality public education while meeting with their Senators and Representatives, and get the inside scoop on federal education funding. Check back shortly for more information regarding this exciting conference!
  
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• AASA Women In School Leadership Forum (Nov. 11-13, 2010, Ritz Carlton Pentagon City, Arlington, Va.)
  
  The AASA Women in School Leadership Forum is a networking and educational experience designed to engage, enlighten and empower women leaders from across the country. Focused on leadership excellence, this forum helps attendees build their skills, share solutions, strengthen their professional networks and sharpen their career planning. Check back shortly for more information regarding this exciting conference!
  
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• AASA's National Conference on Education
  For nearly 140 years AASA's National Conference on Education is where America's school leaders go for a vision of the future in public education — to explore new thinking, new products, new services and new technologies. It is the largest annual meeting of school superintendents in the United States. For many school leaders, it is THE professional development and networking event of the year.
  
  Future National Conference on Education Dates and Locations:
  
  

  Year	City	Conference Dates
  2011	Denver	Feb. 17-19, 2011
  2012	Houston	Feb. 16-18, 2012
  2013	Los Angeles	Feb. 14-16, 2013
  2014	Nashville	Feb. 20-22, 2014

Past Events:

• POWERFUL Coaching for Powerful Results(Nov. 4-6, 2009, Boulder, Colo.)
  POWERful Coaching for Powerful Results is a fast-track professional coaching skills training program for school and business leaders who want to learn a coaching approach to achieving change and reaching extraordinary goals for their organization. Based on International Coach Federation’s Professional Coaching Core Competencies, participants will learn and practice the essential skills, techniques and processes used by professional coaches. They will learn how to empower the people they lead, how to bring out the best in staff and how to establish successful coaching relationships and programs.
  
  
• Leading Bold Change Workshop (Nov. 17-18, 2009, AASA Headquarters, Arlington, Va.)
  Create organizational change NOW in your school system! Learn how to develop strategies for instilling a new culture in school systems based on the 8-step organizational change process in John Kotter's book, Our Iceberg is Melting! Kotter is the recognized expert on this topic for public education. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since 1972, and is the author of 11 award-winning titles.
  
  
• Webinar: Preventing the Spread of H1N1 in Your School (Nov. 30, 2009, 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EDT)
  This free webinar, designed for families, educators and administrators, will offer tips, suggestions and information on how to prevent the spread of H1N1/swine flu in schools. Drs. Meg Fisher and Peter Wenger will provide expert advice. This is an opportunity that you do not want to miss! Brought to you by AASA and education.com.