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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Early Bird Academies
10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Registration Open
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
New Superintendent Mentoring Meetings
3 – 4 p.m.
ISBE Session - Focus on Success
4:30 – 5:45 p.m.
Opening Ceremony/First General Session
Keynote Speaker: Hall Davidson
Leading, Learning, Achieving: The Realities of
the Digital Age for Administrators
6 – 7:30 p.m.
IASA Welcoming Reception
Thursday, October 9, 2014
6:45 a.m.
IASA 2
nd
Annual ‘Super’ 5K Fun Run/ Walk
7 – 9 a.m.
Continental Breakfast for all Attendees
7 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Registration Open
8:15 – 9 a.m.
New Superintendent's Roundtable
Breakout Sessions
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Open
Lunch available inside the Exhibit Hall
9:15 – 11 a.m.
Second General Session
Keynote Speaker: Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus: Drive Your School District with
Optimism, Passion, and Purpose
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch available inside the Exhibit Hall
11:15 - 11:45 a.m.
ISAL Informational Session
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
What to do and (more importantly) what not to
do in your first year as superintendent:
lessons we learned on the job (so you won’t
have to)
Breakout Sessions
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Third General Session
Keynote Speaker: Suhail Farooqui
If We Don’t Stand Up for Public Schools, Who
Will?
3 – 4 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
4 to 5 p.m.
High School District Organization Meeting
(HSDO)
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.
(doors open at 4 p.m.)
Special Session
Gubernatorial Candidate Forum
4:30 – 6 p.m.
Association of Illinois Rural and Small
Schools
Meeting (AIRSS)
5 - 7:30 p.m.
Southern Illinois University Reception
5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
ISAL I and II Alumni Reunion
6:15 p.m.
Hospitality Suites Open
9 – 11 p.m.
IASA President’s Reception
– Hosted by
President Scott Kuffel, Superintendent of
Geneseo Comm Unit #228
Friday, October 10, 2014
7 – 11:30 a.m.
Registration Open
8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Breakout Sessions
IASA Past Presidents Meeting
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Closing General Session, IASA Annual
Meeting and Vision 20/20 update (Brunch
Buffet)
Keynote Speaker: Rafe Esquith
Real Talk for
Real Educators
11:45 a.m.
Adjournment
Annual Conference Agenda
