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"Building Bridges for EL Student Success"
Pre-Conference - March 11, 2015
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Plan to join us at the annual OACOA/OASE conference January 29-31, 2015. Once again, we will bring together best practice and policy speakers to discuss important topics related to Oregon education reform.

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Pre-Conference Sessions – December 3, 2014
8:30 to 4:30 - Oregon School Law and Finance
1:00 to 4:00 - Student Rights and Discipline
1:00 to 4:00 - Back to Basics: Employee Discipline & Dismissal
1:00 to 4:00 - Nuts and Bolts: Special Education
The Oregon Association of Central Office Administrators has planned a series of three seminars during the 2014-15 school year. This seminar series is designed to provide timely professional development and networking support to central office administrators.
June 18, 2014 - Special Education Pre-Conference Sessions
Stephanie Legard, principal of Sue Buel Elementary School in McMinnville, has been named as the Oregon National Distinguished Principal (elementary principal of the year) for 2014. Legard was selected by COSA and the Oregon Elementary School Principals Association (OESPA).
Mary Ehrenworth is coauthor of Pathways to the Common Core (with Lucy Calkins and Christopher Lehman). She is Deputy Director of Middle Schools at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Columbia University. She studied history and literature at Harvard and then curriculum theory and adolescent literacy at Columbia, where she received her doctorate—and then has been lucky to work with three subjects she loves—books, children, and teachers.
The 40th Annual COSA Conference, June 18-20 in Seaside, will feature internationally-acclaimed keynote speakers Michael Fullan and Anthony Muhammad. Fullan is considered a worldwide expert on educational reform, while Muhammad is known for leadership in transforming student performance. The conferen