2021-22 Annual Principals Conference

April 24, 2022 | Main Conference Day 1 and Welcome Reception
April 25, 2022 | Main Conference Day 2 

This conference is being planned as a face-to-face, in-person event.  Participants must be fully vaccinated and show proof of vaccination (with card or on phone).  Masks are optional when not eating or drinking on site. Please know that our top priority is your health.

The COSA Annual Principals Conference is designed to support principals, assistant principals, and your leadership teams.  We are looking forward to welcoming you and your teams to this year's principals conference in-person in Bend, Oregon.  

Breakout Sessions/Materials:

• Breaking Down Readability Barriers in Mathematics
• Community Circles - Connecting at the Speed of Soul
• COSA Legislative Updates - Equity and Education Policies
• Creating A Culture of Clarity, Competence and Consistency
• Getting it Right: Building Diverse In-home & Classroom Libraries and Accelerating Students with SEL
• Have you asked your students yet?  Promoting Student Voice and Building Strategies for Shared Culture
• Leading with Purpose
• Leveraging Leadership and Instructional Moves from Remote and Hybrid Learning to Transform Learning (no materials)
• Menstrual Dignity for Students: Program and Toolkit (#2)
• ODE Graduation Requirements (Senate Bill 744) Input Session
• OEA Choice Trust: Inspiring Schools to Create Healthy Workplaces for Staff
• Oregon Math Project: Engineering a System of Meaningful Math for All Students
• OSAA Updates
• Pause: Mindfulness-Based Resilience Training
• Re-Engagement Options to Ensure Equitable Access to Graduation
• Science of Reading: Why now?
• Seven Secrets to Transform Learning: From a Culture of Ambiguity and Student Compliance to a Culture of Learning
• Supporting Rural Students in Oregon in High School and Beyond: A Study of College Enrollment, Persistence, Transfer, and Completion Outcomes (#2)
• Technology for Change (#2)
• The AVID College and Career Readiness Framework
• Toward Equitable Grading Practices (#2) (#3)
• Walk Straight at Barking Dogs: Leading for Emotionally Healthy Schools

Featured Speakers:
         

• Thomas Murray, Director of Innovation, Future Ready SchoolsⓇ - Bio
  • Click here for Tom's sessions.
• Michael Haggen, Senior V.P. & General Manager, Scholastic - Bio
  • Click here for Michael's session.
• Colt Gill, Director, Oregon Department of Education - Bio
• Katherine Holden, Ashland SD (National Assistant Principal of the Year)

Award Recipients:
         

• LaShawanta Spears, David Douglas SD (Assistant Principal of the Year)
• Amy Skirvin, Lincoln County SD (Middle School Principal of the Year)
• Erik Jespersen, Salem-Keizer SD (High School Principal of the Year)
• Kate Barker, David Douglas SD (National Distinguished Principal of the Year)

OASSA Presidents:
      

• President, Ryan Gerry, Principal, Grant Union Jr/Sr High School
• President-Elect, John George, Principal, Dexter McCarty Middle School
• Past President, Majalise Tolan, Secondary Teaching and Learning Administrator, Lincoln County SD

OESPA Presidents:
      

• President, Heidi Brown, Superintendent/Principal, Crow-Applegate-Lorane SD
• President-Elect, Barb Keeton, Principal, Oak Creek Elementary
• Past President, Gerry Flock, Principal, Lone Pine Elementary

Sponsors:

Exhibitors:

• Achieve 3000
• California Casualty
• Cambridge Educational Services
• Center for High School Success
• CharacterStrong
• Cognia
• Curriculum Associates
• DreamBox Learning
• Great Minds
• Horace Mann Insurance
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• ImagineLearning
• iTutor
• Kiddom
• McGraw-Hill School Education
• OEA Choice Trust
• Oregon Charter Academy
• Pause
• Pearson Virtual Schools
• Reading Horizons
• Savvas (formerly known as Pearson)
• Scholastic
• Sibme
• Sourcewell Technology
• Virco Furniture Mfg/Planscape
• Winsor Learning