Sunday, January 22  

Montana Principals Conference 2023 Day 1

 Opening Keynote: Practical Strategies for Reducing Anxiety and Challenging Behavior in the Classroom

Dr. Jessica Minahan

With up to one in four children struggling with anxiety in this country, overwhelmed adults are in need of a new approach as well as an effective and easy-to-implement toolkit of strategies that work.

Through the use of case studies, humorous stories, and examples of common challenging situations, participants will learn easy-to-implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions for reducing anxiety, increasing self-regulation, accurate thinking, and self-monitoring in students.

Dr. Jessica Minahan's Personal Bio

Presentation Materials 

There will be no video recording available for this presentation 

How to Best Influence Legislators - Jen Silva, Director, External Relations NASSP 

Hear the latest on national and federal policy updates from NASSP, key priorities, and strategies and tactics on how to turn your school leader influence into active advocacy. 

Jen Silva's Personal Bio

How to Best Influence Legislators Presentation 

It's Winter Benchmark Time!  How to Analyze and Reflect on Your School's Data to Build a Culture of Data-Driven Instruction - Sue Sweeney 

Have you completed your winter benchmarking?  The most important facet of the process is not the data itself, but what we are able to do for our students BECAUSE we have this data.  Please join Sue Sweeney as she discusses ways to successfully share data, ways to ensure your staff, students and families understand data literacy and how to dig deeper than the "what" in data collecting.  Please feel free to bring your winter benchmark results and we will work on an action plan to improve student outcomes and build a culture of data-driven instruction.

Sue Sweeney's Personal Bio

 Winter Benchmark Presentation 

Kids who Challenge Us: Increasing Work Engagement and Reducing Oppositional Behavior in Students -
Jessica Minahan

Among the many reasons new teachers leave the field within their first five years, disruptive students are on the top of the list. Without intervention, these children are at risk for poor performance, diminished learning, and social/behavior problems in school. Overwhelming, negative, and inaccurate thoughts can contribute to student disengagement. When this is the case, traditional suggestions such as incentives, offering breaks, graphic organizers, or even checklists will not help the student initiate an activity. As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to easily implement preventive tools, strategies, and interventions for reducing oppositional behavior, increasing work engagement, initiation, persistence, and self-monitoring.

Dr. Jessica Minahan's Personal Bio

Presentation Materials

 There will be no video recording available for this presentation 

Using Your Elevator Pitch -

Jen Silva, Director, External Relations NASSP 

Developing and using your elevator pitch to advocate for highest policy and funding priority issues. Share best practices, challenges and solutions with school leaders. 

Jen Silva's Personal Bio

Using Your Elevator Pitch Presentation