1:00-2:00pm

Early Bird workshops
• Basics of School Committee Policy
• Effective Meetings

1:00-2:30pm

Early Bird workshops
• Basics of School Finance and Chapter 70

2:00-3:30pm

2:00-6:30pm

Exhibit Floor open

2:00-3:00pm

Delegate Registration

3:00pm

• MASS Business Meeting
• MASC Delegate Assembly

5:00-6:30pm

Reception with Exhibitors

7:00pm

Keynote Dinner
• Guest speaker: Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester
• Presentation of Skills USA Gold Medal awards

9:00pm

Cracker Barrel with the Commissioner

Exhibit floor open/Continental breakfast with exhibitors

8:45-10:00am

General Session I
Future of Education in the Commonwealth
Speakers: Governor Deval Patrick (invited); Education Secretary Paul Reville; Education Commissioners;

10:00-10:30

10:30-11:45am

Panel Session I
• MIAA Issues
• Vocational Education Issues
• School Law 101
• Controlling & Managing Special Education Costs
• Post Election-Day Analysis
• Early Childhood Issues
• Closing the Achievement Gap

Noon-1:15pm

1:15-5:00pm

Conference registration open

1:15-2:30pm

Ice cream/Dessert Social with Exhibitors

2:30-3:45pm

Panel Session II
• Collaboratives and Economies of Scale
• School Finance
• Getting Data, Using Data, and Improving Student Achievement
• Analyzing and Managing Health Care Costs
• Technology in the Classroom
• Cultural Proficiency: Supporting the Whole Child
• Family Success and Partnership

4:00-5:15pm

Panel Session III
• Team Building
• Small and Rural Schools and Inter-local Compacts
• School Law 201
• MSBA Regulations: Putting new Practices to Work
• Maintenance & Management Practices
• Superintendents and Chairs: Working Together
• Gifted and Talented: What is Your District Doing?
• Teaching Excellence

5:15-6:00pm

MASC Division VIII and Division IX meetings

7:00pm

MASC Leadership Awards Banquet

Conference registration open

7:30-9:30am

Continental breakfast with sponsor

8:00-8:45am

MASC Divisions I-VII Meetings

9:00-10:15am

General Session II
Speaker: Willard Daggett

10:30am-3:00pm

School Committee Secretaries/Administrative Assistants Program

10:30-11:45am

Panel Session IV
• General Session Follow-Up
• Regional Schools Issues
• Superintendent Evaluation
• Succession Planning: Growing Your Own Leadership
• Communications & Media
• MSBA & Green Schools
• MASCD and the Whole Child Campaign
• School Scheduling/Start Times

Noon-1:45pm

MASC “Whole Child” Lunch
Guest Speaker: Attorney General Martha Coakley (invited)

2:00-5:00pm

Conference registration open

2:00-3:15pm

Panel Session V
• Difficult People and How to Work With Them (part I)
• Virtual High School
• Strategic Planning
• Standards-based Assessment
• Obesity/Fitness and MCAS
• Longer School Day and Year

3:30-4:45pm

Panel Session VI
• Difficult People and How to Work With Them (part II)
• School Foundations and Fund Raising
• Past Presidents Council
• Cyber-bullying
• Autism Update
• Nutrition Policies and Practices

5:00-6:00pm

MASC Life Member Reception

7:00pm

MASC Leadership/Life Member Dinner
Guest Speaker: Emmy-award winning humorist Jack Gallagher

8:30-11:45am

• New Member Workshop
• Parliamentary Procedures Boot Camp