October 16 – 17, 2015

One ConferenceDoubleTree by Hilton Chicago – Oak Brook

1909 Spring Road, Oakbrook

Friday, October 16, 2015Registration: 3:00Dinner: Times to be announced

ESP Early Bird Sessions 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.Connecting Your Association with Your CommunityExcel BasicsPresident & Vice President Leadership Training- Charting A

Course Towards Local Association SuccessCreating a Local Association WebsiteIntroduction to Sign LanguageESPs & Legal Issues

Interest Session I 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Bargaining (double Session)Grievance (double session)Build & Retain MembershipIEA Goals and DirectionsLeadership CompetenciesNEA Member BenefitsStress ManagementTechnologyUnionism & Labor HistoryTrue ColorsDrowning in Student Debt? Degrees Not Debt May Be Able

To Help

Interest Session II 6:15 – 7:15 p.m.

ESP Job Classification ForumsPara Educators (Spec Ed), MS & HSCustodians/ MaintenancePresidents/Vice PresidentsSecretaries/ClericalTransportationTechnology/LibrariansFood ServicePara-Educators, (Spec Ed, EC/Elem) Healthcare

Para-Educators, (Spec Ed, EC/Elem)Bargaining – Contd.Grievance – Contd.Getting Ready to Retire – SURSReturn to Work (Or Not!) LawSocial Media In & Out of the ClassroomUpdate on Employment: Strategies from OhioCuba Comes to America

Saturday, October 17, 2015Registration: 8:00 – 9:00 (Tentative)Breakfast: 7:45 – 8:45 (Tentative)

Interest Session I 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.Bargaining (double session)Endorse & ElectIEA Goals and DirectionWorkers Compensation for the School EmployeeIntroduction to Sign Language (double session)Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism Spectrum DisorderESP Job Descriptions and EvaluationsFight for $15 Campaign for a Living WageTips, Tricks and Modifications

Interest Session I – contd.

Choosing Education Friendly LegislatorsCoordinated Bargaining for AdjunctsBuilding Union Power Through Labor-Community Coalition

BuildingTRS and Transitioning to MedicareNEA Member Benefits – Finance WorkshopAround the Web in 80 ClicksFilms of Robin Williams (Part 1)

DOUBLE SESSIONS 9 - 11:15 a.m.Introduction to American Sign LanguageSupport Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in General

Education Classroom

Interest Session II 10:15 - 11:15 a.m.Bargaining – Contd.Grievance 1(double session)Political ActionSocial Media Update – Dos and Don’ts in the WorkplaceUnionism & Labor HistoryAssociation Rep Training Building Blocks – Part IHow to Research Elected Officials: The Good, the Bad and the

Clearly CorruptOrganizing Around TIFs—How They Hurt Public Education

and What You Can Do About it (Part 1)The Workings of IEA & NEA Rep Assemblies – Navigating

Your WayFilms of Robin Williams (Part 2)Legislative Update on Retirement IssuesStress Management – Chair Zumba

DOUBLE SESSIONS 10:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.ESPs Preparing for Retirement Seminar: If I Knew Then What I

Know NowAdvanced Excel

Interest Session III 11:30 – 12:30 p.m.Build & Retain MembershipNational & State LandscapeStress Management – How to Cope with StressWorker’s Comp for the Injured School EmployeeGrievance – Contd.Supreme Court Decision on Pension LawsuitAssociation Reps as “First Responders” (Part 2)ESP & Legal IssuesIMRF – Legislative & Benefit UpdateLove & Logic for ESPs in the ClassroomHow to Run an Organizing CampaignPromoting Student Voter RegistrationOrganizing Around TIFs—How They Hurt Public Education

and What You Can Do About it (Part 2)Identity Theft - What to do to Protect YourselfEleanor Roosevelt

Lunch and Keynote.... 12:45 - 2:15 p.m.

2:30 – 3:30 – Higher Ed Strategies

Entertainment: Music by CD – DJ’s 8:30 – 11:30 p.m.

One Conference Session Schedule*Color Code Key for Sessions: Violet – ESP; Teal - Higher Ed; Blue—Retired; Black—General or Joint Sessions