Conference Briefings
101 – Greetings & Salad Dressing
Debbie Wade, CEOE
Mix it up with a fun approach to work. Learn how to add new ingredients to your work day and guarantee less stress and more zest in your life and in the life of your customers. Come ready to have fun!!
102 – Emotional Wellbeing (R)
103 – Making A Difference (R)
Carrie Johnson
If you have ever felt burnt out, overwhelmed, or undervalued in your role as an office professional, this session is for you! During this interactive and collaborative presentation, you will learn effective ways to make a difference in your schools and community. Through story-telling, reflection, and authentic connection you will find purpose and know how the work you do positively impacts people and changes lives.
104 – Take a Break - Stretching and Meditation for Your Everyday
Baihly Birdseye
Take a break and find five minutes in your day to stretch, breathe and meditate to re-center and re-charge.
Kimberlie Rew
Emotional wellbeing is essential to our overall health and allows us to realize our full potential. It helps us cope with the stressors of life, work more productively, and connect with others. At the conclusion of this class, the participant will know their current perceived stress number, what causes their stress and how they cope with it. They will understand mindfulness and how it is connected to managing stress.
105 – Become a Gatekeeper: Learn Strategies and Techniques to Support Suicide Prevention (R)
Kaye Poulton-Timm
Suicide touches everyone. Through this training you will become a gatekeeper to help prevent suicides. This training will provide information about warning signs, techniques, and resources that can be used in your professional or personal life to help save a life.
201 – Greetings & Salad Dressing
Debbie Wade, CEOE
Mix it up with a fun approach to work. Learn how to add new ingredients to your work day and guarantee less stress and more zest in your life and in the life of your customers. Come ready to have fun!!
202 – Emotional Wellbeing
Kimberlie Rew
Emotional wellbeing is essential to our overall health and allows us to realize our full potential. It helps us cope with the stressors of life, work more productively, and connect with others. At the conclusion of this class, the participant will know their current perceived stress number, what causes their stress and how they cope with it. They will understand mindfulness and how it is connected to managing stress.
203 – Building a Website to Fit Your Brand
Jennifer Hedrick, CEOE
When you look at a website, what are the things that attract you? Creating a brand is setting the tone and creating the overall picture on your website. We will explore the elements of brand with tangible concepts.
204 – Take a Break - Stretching and Meditation for Your Everyday
Baihly Birdseye
Take a break and find five minutes in your day to stretch, breathe and meditate to re-center and re-charge.
205 – Making A Difference
Carrie Johnson
If you have ever felt burnt out, overwhelmed, or undervalued in your role as an office professional, this session is for you! During this interactive and collaborative presentation, you will learn effective ways to make a difference in your schools and community. Through story-telling, reflection, and authentic connection you will find purpose and know how the work you do positively impacts people and changes lives.
301 – Put Your Best Foot Forward and Shake It All About
Debbie Wade, CEOE
Step out and have fun as we learn how important teamwork, attitude, communication, networking, and laughter are in maintaining a positive, professional image in the workplace. Just doing our best is not always good enough so we must learn to put our best foot forward AND shake it all about!! Be prepared for some high-stepping fun!!
302– Slide on Over
Beth Heyden, CEOE
As an office professional odds are you’ve been asked to create flyers, social media posts, presentations, postcards, brochures, or anything else that others might have dreamed up for you. If you’ve ever wondered how to do those within Google then slide on over to Google Slides! With some manipulation and a lot of imagination, you can turn your slide show into a number of other things that can help you with those extra assignments of creativity you’re given. You may want to bring a laptop to get hands-on experience.
303 – Choosing Civility - No Stereotyping (R)
Audra Mead
Are you seeking ways to experience a world that is supportive and nurturing? Are you exhausted from the lack of mutual cooperation and respect you see around you? In this session, you will be provided tools to help you see yourself and others through the eyes of civility. Groundwork will be provided to facilitate your ability to create a world where civility can thrive.
304 – R.A.P. 101 (Reflect/Reinvent/Refocus and Recover After the Pandemic)
Georgette Council, CEOE,
The impact of the pandemic on the way we conduct business has made us all pivot and do things differently. There is no shortage of lessons to be learned. The challenge is ensuring that you learn to R.A.P. - Reflect/Reinvent/Refocus and Recover After the Pandemic. The challenges are not over yet, but if we remain positive, pay attention and stay focused on what’s really important, we will survive and emerge better personally and professionally.
305 – Become a Gatekeeper: Learn Strategies and Techniques to Support Suicide Prevention (R)
Kaye Poulton-Timm
Suicide touches everyone. Through this training you will become a gatekeeper to help prevent suicides. This training will provide information about warning signs, techniques, and resources that can be used in your professional or personal life to help save a life.
401 – Put Your Best Foot Forward and Shake It All About
Debbie Wade, CEOE
Step out and have fun as we learn how important teamwork, attitude, communication, networking, and laughter are in maintaining a positive, professional image in the workplace. Just doing our best is not always good enough so we must learn to put our best foot forward AND shake it all about!! Be prepared for some high-stepping fun!!
402 – The 12 Points of School Readiness
Jeff Johnson
A Duty to Protect Schools: Since Jefferson founded public education for the citizens of the United States, schools have been charged with the safety of children in their care - a duty to protect. Teachers, administrators, and staff have a responsibility to anticipate potential dangers and to take precautions to protect their students from those dangers. Let’s discuss Best Practices to keep our children safe.
403 – Establishing and Sustaining Associations
404 – Presenting Like A Pro
405 – Creating Culturally Relevant Environments (R)
NAEOP Board Members
Join this interactive discussion to explore ways to start an association and keep it going. You will learn the basics of how to establish an association and affiliate with NAEOP. We will brainstorm ideas to strengthen our associations and share our experiences and successes. Topics to be discussed include how to offer outstanding professional development at a low cost, strategic planning, networking, fundraising, member retention, and more. Bring your questions and ideas to get the information you will want to take back to your local and/or state associations.
Lola Young, CEOE
You will leave this briefing with a better understanding of things to consider prior to delivering a presentation, speaking at a meeting, or speaking in public. We will touch on first impressions, judgements, loss of meaning, nonverbals, attitude, laughter, and gratitude.
Michelle A Love-Day
Participants will explore ways to create a culturally safe space for students to learn. Office staff are charged with welcoming students and families. In this session participants will be encouraged to celebrate and integrate culture in all that they do within the office and school. Session activities will include creating their own cultural bag, identifying personal biases, and developing their cultural competence to work effectively with diverse students and families.
501 – The ABCs of Team Building
502 – The 12 Points of School Readiness
503 – Slide on Over
504 – Presenting Like A Pro
Cathy Eberle
This very interactive and fun presentation will help all of us be better team members - when it comes to working with others. We’ll discover the importance of listening, cooperating and sharing what we all possess - the ability to get along as a team.
Jeff Johnson
A Duty to Protect Schools: Since Jefferson founded public education for the citizens of the United States, schools have been charged with the safety of children in their care - a duty to protect. Teachers and administrators have a responsibility to anticipate potential dangers and to take precautions to protect their students from those dangers. Let’s discuss Best Practices to keep our children safe.
Beth Heyden, CEOE
As an office professional odds are you’ve been asked to create flyers, social media posts, presentations, postcards, brochures, or anything else that others might have dreamed up for you. If you’ve ever wondered how to do those within Google then slide on over to Google Slides! With some manipulation and a lot of imagination, you can turn your slide show into a number of other things that can help you with those extra assignments of creativity you’re given. You may want to bring a laptop to get hands-on experience.
Lola Young, CEOE
You will leave this briefing with a better understanding of things to consider prior to delivering a presentation, speaking at a meeting, or speaking in public. We will touch on first impressions, judgements, loss of meaning, nonverbals, attitude, laughter, and gratitude.
505 – R.A.P. 101 (Reflect/Reinvent/Refocus and Recover After the Pandemic)
601 – Adobe Express
602 – Choosing Civility - No Stereotyping
603 – The Changing Face of Retirement
Georgette Council, CEOE,
The impact of the pandemic on the way we conduct business has made us all pivot and do things differently. There is no shortage of lessons to be learned. The challenge is ensuring that you learn to R.A.P. - Reflect/Reinvent/Refocus and Recover After the Pandemic. The challenges are not over yet, but if we remain positive, pay attention and stay focused on what’s really important, we will survive and emerge better personally and professionally.
Cherie Anderson &
Tricia Fenton
In this class, those who bring their own devices will create an Adobe account, and learn to make flyers, posters and quick videos, to showcase and highlight school events.
Audra Mead
Are you seeking ways to experience a world that is supportive and nurturing? Are you exhausted from the lack of mutual cooperation and respect you see around you? In this session, you will be provided tools to help you see yourself and others through the eyes of civility. Groundwork will be provided to facilitate your ability to create a world where civility can thrive.
Alan Ormsby
Retirement is a rapidly changing concept. Complex considerations such as financial readiness, transition to meaningful work, and health care must be addressed. In this session, Alan Ormsby will present the latest research and trends impacting retirement. Attendees will assess their own readiness for retirement and understand the roles of meaningful work, their own savings, and Social Security.
701 – Adobe Express
702 – Building a Website to Fit Your Brand
703 – The Changing Face of Retirement
704 – Creating Culturally Relevant Environments
Cherie Anderson & Tricia Fenton
In this class, those who bring their own devices will create an Adobe account, and learn to make flyers, posters and quick videos, to showcase and highlight school events.
Jennifer Hedrick, CEOE
When you look at a website, what are the things that attract you? Creating a brand is setting the tone and creating the overall picture on your website. We will explore the elements of brand with tangible concepts.
Alan Ormsby
Retirement is a rapidly changing concept. Complex considerations such as financial readiness, transition to meaningful work, and health care must be addressed. In this session, Alan Ormsby will present the latest research and trends impacting retirement. Attendees will assess their own readiness for retirement and understand the roles of meaningful work, their own savings, and Social Security.
Michelle A Love-Day
Participants will explore ways to create a culturally safe space for students to learn. Office staff are charged with welcoming students and families. In this session participants will be encouraged to celebrate and integrate culture in all that they do within the office and school. Session activities will include creating their own cultural bag, identifying personal biases, and developing their cultural competence to work effectively with diverse students and families.