Marketing Your Food Service Department
March 6, 2007, 12:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: MELG Building, Lansing
Basics of displaying food and working with personnel and equipment. Learn techniques in training staff, and evaluating customer needs and wants. Also learn to work with school boards and chief financial officers.

Suspensions Aren't Working? Here's A Better Way!
March 6, 2007, 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
Location: LCC West, Lansing
Do you want to improve students' behavior and reduce your reliance on suspensions? Learn how Michigan schools are using "Restorative Conferences" to cut suspensions by 70% or more, improve student respect and accountability, address the needs of victims, engage even difficult parents into constructive problem-solving and free administrative time for curriculum and teacher improvement.

WEBINAR: Recruiting, Hiring, Retention Of Employees
March 8, 2007, 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Watch at your desk or check online for available sites.
You can't find good people? Once you do hire someone they don't stay? Many districts are faced with retiring administrators or school personnel with no job pool to replace these workers. How do we recruit young people to make them want to work in a school district? Learn how to find and hire the right people to fit the job.

WEBINAR: Pathway To Prison: THe 70% Factor & Its Effect
March 12, 2007, 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Watch at your desk.
There are at least 25,000 children of incarcerated parents in your schools. These and other at risk students face a probable life calamity absent early intervention. The 70% factor affects classroom environments and professional development needs of the education community. Learn about the risk factors and interventions that have potential impact on school safety and achievement levels of subgroups.

Suspensions Aren't Working? Part 2
March 12, 2007, 8:45 am – 4:00 pm
Location: LCC West, Lansing
The second day of the REAL Justice Facilitator's Training is designed to fully prepare school personnel for facilitating restorative conferences in response to disciplinary referrals. Instruction occurs through lecture and video and by participating in role plays, receiving feedback, processing in groups and asking questions. It is appropriate for people who have attended the first day of the workshop, which is designed as an orientation. If you attended January 23 or March 6, you must attend this one!

WEBINAR: Bargaining
March 13, 2007, 2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Location: Changed from all-day program. Now watch at your desk!
This practical workshop will help school board members, superintendents, business managers and labor negotiators share information and all get on the same page. Since it is vital that board members and administrators share a common understanding when negotiating, we strongly encourage a team to attend.

Working With The Architect
March 14, 2007, 8:30 am – 12 noon
Location: This will be held at the MACUL Conference, Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan
The nuts and bolts of what technology managers need to know about the logistics of bringing technology into a school building will be covered. Topics covered include the basics of reading a blueprint, working with an architect when planning a new building, retrofitting an existing building and understanding the roles and relationships of people working on technology projects.

Team Leadership
March 20, 2007, 8:45 am – noon
Location: LCC West, Lansing
Explore the components of leadership and the methods and challenges of managing people including recruiting, training, motivating and evaluating your staff.

Coaching Your Team Members To Make Richer Decisions
March 20, 2007, 12:45 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: LCC West, Lansing
This workshop will assist you in the discovery of your personality and how personality interacts with a positive decision making model to either limit or assist in rich decisions. What is a good decision making model? Do you know how our personalities affect our decisions? Learn how to identify personalities and make the best decisions to have your staff join in and carry out those decisions.

WEBINAR: Basic Finance For Superintendents
March 21, 2007
Location: Watch at your desk or check online for available sites.
This is part three of a four-part series. School finance and issues related to budget are critical in the operation of a school district. This is also an area that a superintendent will want to understand and know in order to more clearly communicate with the business official who represents his or her district. David Martell and Tom White from the Michigan School Business Officials will guide participants through the essentials of what a superintendent wants and needs to know in a practical, clear and helpful manner.

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