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Be Direct With Respect Online Class
Taking the Labor Out of Labor Relations
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The Year Begins with Useful Workshops and Programs

We rang in the New Year just three weeks ago. Many of us celebrated with toasts to a new year and made our list of resolutions. I recommend adding to your list investing in your personal growth by making the commitment to learn new skills, get up to speed on the latest issues in education, or obtain your MIEM School Administrative Professional Certification (SAPC) or Michigan School Business Officials (MSBO) certification.

MIEM provides detailed workshops and programs that help you grow on a personal level, as well as provides information that you can take back to your school district and share with your colleagues. Most courses cover major points about respective topics, offer an opportunity for questions and discussion, and provide resource information for future use. Our programs also provide the opportunity for you to network with peers and talk about challenges and solutions to the many issues you may face in your school district.

There are some great events slated over the next few months. Take a look at our Calendar of Events and sign up today.

Make it work in 2011!

Dan Pappas, Executive Director
MIEM

The following classes offer practical information that will help school business officials succeed and excel in their employment. Check to see if any of these classes are required for your certification track:

Technology in the Classroom - February 10, 2011
Presenter: Sherry McVay, Dewitt Public Schools
8:45 am-4:00 pm • MELG Building, 1001 Centennial Way • Lansing, MI
Cost: $140 member and $200 nonmember
Review the use of technology in the classroom; purchasing classroom software, including demonstrations and discussions of commonly used products; integration and standardization issues; and understanding curriculum, Michigan’s Standards & Benchmarks and Curriculum Framework. Required for all School Technology Management. Elective for all other certification programs.

Time Management • February 17, 2011 * Webinar (online seminar)
Presenter: John Thompson, Fraser Public Schools and Southeast Michigan
Facility Management, LLC (SEMFM)
8:45 am-noon
Cost: $70 member/$100 nonmember
Become a more effective manager by budgeting your time, identifying and assigning priorities, and establishing and achieving daily goals. Required for all Operations Director. Elective for all other certification programs.

Register with MIEM at www.gomiem.org

Be Direct With Respect Online Class

Gaining a common understanding of negotiations, and getting administrators and board members on the same page for strategies and responses, is key to success at the bargaining table.

To help our members have the latest information on all negotiation topics—from basic bargaining concepts to understanding impasse procedures— MASA, MSBO and MASB are offering a one-day workshop on Taking the LABOR Out of Labor Relations, Feb.11, 2011 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.

Topics to be covered include:

• Building and Rebuilding Relationships With Your Staff
• Negotiating Evaluation and Merit Pay - What Happened and What's Happening?
• Review of Recent MERC Cases and Fact-finding Reports
• Communications with Your Staff and Community During Negotiations
• Pressure Tactics: Identify, Prepare and Respond
• The Basics of the Law and Practice of Labor Negotiations
• A Review on the Latest Settlements
• Preparing for and Presenting a Fact-finding Case
• Impasse Procedures and Implementation of a Final Offer

Preparation is the first step to any district's success in negotiations. Bring a team and join your colleagues in preparing together and learning from the experts and one another.

To register, go to http://emerge.masb.org/source/Events/Event.cfm?Event=LR_11.

Pre-Conference Workshops (Tuesday, 2/22/11)
Registration for the pre-conference workshops must be received by February 4, 2011. Space is limited and if space requirements are not met, the workshops may be cancelled.)

All Day Workshop–Workshop A: Surveying Your Constituents: Parents, Teachers, and
Presenter: Dr. Jerome Johnston, Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
9:30am - 4:00pm

All Day Workshop–Workshop B: The Power of Formative Assessments: Assessment for Learning
Presenter: Kimberly Young, MDE
9:30am-4:00pm

Morning Half Day Only–Workshop C: Common Assessments – Building and Using Assessments to Inform
Ed Roeber, MSU & Ellen Vorenkamp and Bruce Fay
9:30am - 12:45pm

Afternoon Half Day Only–Workshop D: OEAA Training for New and “Almost” New Leaders
Presenters: James Griffiths, Sandra Spencer, and Kate Cermak, MDE
1:15pm - 4:30pm

Register online.

Breakout session information & registration form.

Be Direct With Respect Online Class
February 1-28
Express yourself in a concise and respectful manner to become stronger at being direct and truthful. Build mutually beneficial relationships with co-workers. Reclaim productive time by transforming energy-draining employee negativity into positive energy; problem solve real situations to improve your work environment. Expectations of the class: Online courses run for four weeks. You are required to report in at least once a week to complete assignments. You are also required to complete a final project before receiving credit for the class.

Technology in the Classroom
February 10; 8:45 am-4:00 pm
Location: MELG Building, Lansing
This class will include: a review of the use of technology in the classroom; purchasing classroom software, including demonstrations and discussions of commonly used products; integration and standardization issues; and understanding curriculum, Michigan’s Standards & Benchmarks and Curriculum Framework.

Courageous & Intentional Conversations
February 16; 8:30 am-3:45 pm
Location: Macomb ISD
This highly interactive seminar will highlight the importance of leaders summoning the courage and skill to address difficult, messy, and easy-to-avoid conversations with supervisors, colleagues, faculty, staff, students and community members. A connection between building a trusting culture and dealing fairly, equitably and firmly with issues of professional performance, conflict, effort and results will be stressed.

Time Management WEBINAR
February 17; 8:45 am-noon
Location: At your desk
Become a more effective manager by budgeting your time, identifying and assigning priorities, and establishing and achieving daily goals.

Michigan School Testing Conference
February 22-24
Location: Kensington Court Hotel, Ann Arbor

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE

SB-CEUs
SB-CEUs will be offered pending approval. In order to receive credit, you must be on time, stay until the end of the program, and complete an online evaluation through the Secure Central Registry (SCR). MIEM pays all fees on the Secure Central Registry.

Michigan School Improvement Workshop for ISDs, RESAs, and Educational Organizations
March 7, 2011
Location: Kellogg Center, East Lansing
(Registration is not available yet for this event)

MDE/AdvancED Michigan NCA Spring School Improvement Conference
April 14, 2011
Location: Lansing Center, Lansing
(Registration is not available yet for this event)