The Conference will be held July 24-26, 2023  in-person at the Best Western Premier Helena Great Northern Hotel in Helena.  This event will focus on the importance of resilient leadership in creating and maintaining strong and successful schools.

The Conference will include three days of outstanding information and Focus Zones around:

• Leadership
• Behavioral Health
• Curriculum and Assessment

We have a lineup of outstanding speakers including

• Pete Hall, author of  Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation: Trauma-Invested Practices for Fostering Resilient Learners, who will be providing the pre-conference workshop hosted by MTASCD that will focus on instructional planning as a team. This would be a great opportunity to bring your instructional team for some collaborative time together! Pete Hall will also provide the opening conference keynote presentation as well as breakout presentations.
• James Bailey, co-author of The Daily SEL Leader, will deliver a keynote presentation, Keeping our Teachers: Two Primary Strategies Leaders Can Use to Increase Retention:  Educator retention is on the mind of many leaders like yourself. This keynote will take a brief look at exploring the problem of educator turnover and two strategies leaders can use to increase retention in their district or schools.  Also join keynote speaker James Bailey in an interactive breakout session as he explores the nature of leaders’ social and emotional skills, their impact on teachers, and how leaders can develop a practice plan for the upcoming school year.

The pre-conference kicks off with Pete Hall on Monday, July 24 at 8:00am with the full conference beginning at 12:00pm .  You can expect additional keynote presentations and many breakout sessions focused on Leadership, Behavioral Health, Curriculum and Assessment throughout the conference.  There is something for everyone including:

• School culture and climate
• The Science of Reading
• Best practices in school-based behavioral health
• ChatGPT - technology advances in AI
• Instructional planning and assessment
• The Graduate Profile and Accreditation

SAM Administrators Institute 2023 will wrap up around 1:00pm on Wednesday, July 26.  

Hotel Information:  The Conference will be held July 24-26, 2023  in-person at the Best Western Premier Helena Great Northern Hotel in Helena.  Please contact the hotels directly at 406-457-5500 to reserve a room under the 2023 SAM AI room block

• Great Northern Hotel:  406-457-5500
• Delta Colonial, 406-443-2100
• New room block:  Comfort Suites Helena (Room block closes July 1), click HERE to reserve a room. 

Full Conference Schedule is available on the SAM Administrators Insitute 2023 Conference Landing Page.