2013 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
July 17-19 and July 22-23, 2013 COMBINED AGENDA
Policies and Practices that Promote Student Behavior and Learning: Directions for the Nation
DAY 1: Wednesday, July 17
DAY 2: Thursday, July 18
DAY 3: Friday, July 19
DAY 4: Monday, July 22
DAY 5: Tuesday, July 23
GWU School of Media & Public Affairs,
Room 310, 805 21st NW
GWU School of Media & Public Affairs,
Room 310, 805 21st NW
GWU School of Media & Public Affairs,
Room 310, 805 21st NW
GWU School of Media & Public Affairs, Room
310, 805 21st NW
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast
7:50 Arrive on Capitol Hill
8:00 Enter Building (All Group)
8:15-4:00 Field Trip to Capitol Hill (ALL)
8:00-8:15 Continental Breakfast on Capitol
Hill
8:15-3:00 Capitol Hill Experience
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast
7:30-8:30 Continental Breakfast
LOCATION: U.S. Capitol Visitors Center
(CVC). Congressional Meeting Room North,
room 268
SPECIAL SESSION: Preventing the
School to Prison Pipeline
Session Facilitated by:
Kelly Vaillancourt, NASP Director of
Government Relations
SPECIAL SESSION: Bully Proofing Our
Schools
Session Facilitated by:
Mary Beth Klotz, NASP Director of
Educational Practice
8:15-8:30 Introductions and Brief Overview of
the Hill Day (Kelly Vaillancourt)
8:30-9:30 The School Discipline
Consensus Project
8:30-10:10 View film: Bully
8:30-9:30 Legislative Hill Panel with Invited
Capitol Hill Staff
Nina Salomon
Policy Analyst, School Discipline
Justice Center, Council of State Gov.
10:20-11:00 Facilitated Group Discussion
of the Movie
Emily Morgan
Policy Analyst, School Discipline
Justice Center, Council of State Gov.
11:00am-12:30pm Connecting Policy and
Practice: Panel Discussion on Bully
Proofing Schools
8:30-9:30
Welcome & Introductions
Carol Kochhar-Bryant, Senior Associate
Dean, GSEHD
Sally Baas, 2013-14 NASP President
Overview of the Institute
Stacy Skalski, NASP
Pamela Leconte, GW
Kelly Vaillancourt, NASP
Allison Bollinger Miller, NASP
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Introductions of leaders and
instructors
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Class introductions
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Basic overview for the institute
9:30-10:30 FEATURED SESSION I:
Historical and Evolving Role in
Education: ESEA, NCLB, and Beyond
Michael Usdan, Senior Fellow and Past
President, Institute for Educational
Leadership
10:30-10:45 BREAK
8:30-9:30 FEATURED SESSION—
FEDERAL: Safe and Healthy Students
David Esquith
Director, Office of Safe and Healthy
Students
US Department of Education
9:30-10:35 FOUNDATIONS 3:
Demographics: Kids Count: The
Status of America’s Children Today
and Tomorrow
Florencia Gutierrez
National KIDS COUNT
Annie E. Casey Foundation
10:35-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15pm Preparing for the
Capitol Hill Experience
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Small group team planning for
Capitol Hill Visits
GW & NASP participants meet
together
Remaining questions about the Hill
day?
Michael Gamel-McCormick, Education Policy
Advisor, Senate HELP Committee Majority
Staff
Jacqueline Chevalier, Education Policy
Advisor, House Committee on Education and
the Workforce, Democratic Staff
Amanda Beaumont, Education Policy Advisor,
Senator Al Franken (MN)
9:30-3:00
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Capitol Hill visits
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Observe hearings
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Tour the Capitol
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Lunch on your own
3:00- 4:00 Capitol Hill Debriefing (ALL PPI
Participants)
Distribution of Certificates of Completion for 3Day PPI Participants
11:15-12:00: Lunch
LOCATION: Rayburn House Office Building,
2261 (2nd floor)
4:00-5:00 5-Day Participants.
Team Planning for Portfolios and Final
Presentations—Meet at Location
Determined by Your Team
July 15, 2013
9:30-10:30 Preventing the School to
Prison Pipeline: The Youth PROMISE
Act
Kevin Wozniak, Ph.D.
Congressional Fellow with the American
Political Science Association
Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03)
10:30-11:00 Break and Gallery Walk
Photography of the Critical Exposure
Project
11:00-12:00 Critical Exposure’s
Fellowship Project
Adam Levner, Executive Director
& Panel of Youth Fellows
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Fellows will discuss their
observations from examining
restorative justice programs,
10:10-10:20 Break
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Laura Kaloi, Vice President, Washington
Partners/NCLD
Shawn Gaylord, Director of Public
Policy, GLSEN
Joshua Deese, Trevor Project Youth
Advisory Councilmember
Meredith Norris, Special Education
Department Chair, Chantilly High
School, Fairfax County Public Schools,
VA
2013 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
July 17-19 and July 22-23, 2013 COMBINED AGENDA
Policies and Practices that Promote Student Behavior and Learning: Directions for the Nation
DAY 1: Wednesday, July 17
10:45-11:45 FEATURED SESSION 2:
Reflections on a Half-Century of School
Reform: Why Have We Fallen Short and
Where Do We Go From Here?
Michael Feuer, Dean of GSEHD
Introductory Remarks
Jack Jennings
Founder, Center on Education Policy
Maria Ferguson
Executive Director, Center on Education
Policy
11:45-12:15 GROUP DISCUSSIONS:
Participants will be assigned to small
groups and will discuss three topics
related to the PPI:
Topic 1: What is the appropriate federal
role in education?
Topic 2: How can schools respond to
student misconduct without contributing to
disproportionate representation and the
“school to prison pipeline?”
Topic 3: How can schools create positive
school climates and effectively respond to
bullying and harassment?
July 15, 2013
DAY 2: Thursday, July 18
12:00-1:30 FEATURED SESSION I:
Project ACHIEVE-Evidence-Based
School Improvement: Rethinking
Policy, Practice, Outcomes
DAY 3: Friday, July 19
DAY 4: Monday, July 22
meeting with principals at their
individual schools to discuss
implementing peer jury pilot
programs, and working to set up
conversations with the Chancellor
on Education and various D.C.
Council Members.
DAY 5: Tuesday, July 23
12:30-2:00 Working Lunch in Teams
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
Howie Knoff
President of Project ACHIEVE,
Director of the Arkansas State
Improvement Grant, and Past-President
of NASP
Matt Kamins, School Psychologist
Montgomery County Public Schools, MD
1:30-1:45 Break
1:00-2:00 When the ‘Street’ Meets the
‘Schoolhouse’: Reaching out to
Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth
Jenee Littrell, Assistant Principal,
Chaparral High School--Alternative
Grossmont Union High School District, CA
2:00-4:45 Sharing What We’ve Learned:
Team Presentations
2013 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
July 17-19 and July 22-23, 2013 COMBINED AGENDA
Policies and Practices that Promote Student Behavior and Learning: Directions for the Nation
DAY 1: Wednesday, July 17
DAY 2: Thursday, July 18
DAY 3: Friday, July 19
DAY 4: Monday, July 22
DAY 5: Tuesday, July 23
2:00-3:30 STATE AND DISTRICT
SPOTLIGHT:
Improving Secondary School Student
and School Outcomes in the Upper
Darby School District (PA)
4:45-5:00 WRAP UP and Evaluations
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 FOUNDATIONS 1: The 2013
Children’s Budget: How do our nation’s
children fare in the federal budget?
Jared Solomon
Senior Director of Budget Policy
First Focus
Washington, DC
1:45-2:45 FEATURED SESSIONFEDERAL: Behavior Support
Programs for Improved Student
Outcomes
Renee Bradley
Deputy Director
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education Programs
Dan McGarry, Asst. Superintendent
Brenda Kabler, School Psych Coordinator
Ed Roth, Assistant Principal, UDHS
2:00-2:15 Break
2:15—3:15 FOUNDATIONS 2: Powerful
Change: Building Communities of
Practice and Resources for Children
and Youth
Joanne Cashman
Director, IDEA Partnership
3:15-4:15 Overview of the Capitol Hill
Experience
Kelly Vaillancourt, NASP Director of
Government Relations;
Katie Eklund, NASP GPR Co-chair
Allison Bollinger Miller, Manager of
Professional Relations
GPR Committee
NASP Director of Government Relations
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Basics of grassroots advocacy
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Presentation of talking points
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Organization of hill teams
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Fishbowl experience
July 15, 2013
2:45-4:00 FEATURED SESSION II:
PBIS: Multi-Tiered Systems of Behavior
Support
George Sugai, Ph.D.
Carole J. Neag Endowed Professor,
Neag School of Education
University of Connecticut;
Co-director of the OSEP Technical
Assistance Center on Positive
Behavioral Interventions and Supports
4:00-5:00 GW Teamwork Session
3:30-5:00
Teamwork Session
2013 GW/NASP Public Policy Institute
July 17-19 and July 22-23, 2013 COMBINED AGENDA
Policies and Practices that Promote Student Behavior and Learning: Directions for the Nation
DAY 1: Wednesday, July 17
DAY 2: Thursday, July 18
4:15-5:30 Regional Networking and
Teamwork Session
4:00-7:00 NASP Breakout Session
Sponsored by the GPR Committee (3day Participants, School
Psychologists Only) DINNER
PROVIDED
Location: GWU School of Media &
Public Affairs, Room 310
GWU Credit Students: Syllabus Intro and
Course Expectations
NASP: Regional meetings
Presenters:
Stacy Skalski, NASP, Director of
Professional Policy and Practice
Kelly Vaillancourt, Director of
Government Relations
Kathy Cowan, NASP, Director of
Communications
Katie Eklund, GPR Co-Chair
Allison Bollinger Miller
NASP Manager of Professional
Relations
GPR Committee Members
5:45-8:00 NETWORKING RECEPTION:
All PPI Participants Invited
(Heavy appetizers and beverages
provided. Lots of good fun, laughter, and
conversation promised.)
LOCATION:
TONIC at Quigley’s Pharmacy
2036 G Street NW, Washington DC
July 15, 2013
DAY 3: Friday, July 19
DAY 4: Monday, July 22
DAY 5: Tuesday, July 23