Separate Registration Workshops

In conjunction with the main conference, we offer two intensive highly focused workshops and an Executive Briefing, providing IEP team members with the opportunity to focus in greater depth on topics that are determined by the National Advisory Board to be of critical importance. 

The Workshops and the Executive Briefing require a registration fee separate from the conference. You may attend only the program for which you register. Here are descriptions of the Workshop sessions followed by program details.

WORKSHOP A  (two 4-hour segments) Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9)

GETTING THE BOSS "ON BOARD":

Planning, Proposing, Presenting                    

William R Hoosty,

WRH Consulting Group

This session is offered in 2 segments, with an optional "help session."

Segment 1, Saturday, March 8, 8 am to Noon; help session, 3 to 5 pm

Segment 2, Sunday, March 9, 8 am to Noon

Session details will be available in October.

WORKSHOP B

CHILD SAFETY SEATING:               8 am to 5 pm, Sunday, March 9

NHTSA's 2008 Revised Curriculum

As up-to-date as you can get on child safety seating on the school bus!  NHTSA's 8-hour curriculum has been revised and updated to coincide with this workshop. This definitive hands on and instructional clinic enables you to learn from the best in the nation -- the very instructors who have consulted with NHTSA on the curriculum and on its revision. Join with Child Passenger Safety Technicians from school systems, the American Academy of Pediatrics and industry to learn this national curriculum on best practices.

As our instructors present it, look for new material and more best practice information on on vests and other non-safety-seat securements.

The first part of the 8-hour session is devoted to classroom instruction and, following lunch at Noon the afternoon session is exclusively hands-on learning with school bus bench seats, and child securement systems of virtually all types.

Instruction Team Leaders: Charley Kennington, Texas Dept. of Public Safety; Sue Shutrump, OTR/L, Trumbull County OH ESC; Kathy Strotmeyer, American Academy of Pediatrics; Cheryl Wolf , Lafayette IN School Corp.; and Jean Zimmerman , PT, Palm Beach County FL Schools

Certificates of Attendance will be given to those who complete these eight hours of instruction and hands on training.  You must be present during the entire workshop to earn a certificate.  Even veterans will learn in this class, which will cover refinements that are being made to the curriculum.  Our instructors are members of the team that worked with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to create the curriculum and continue to work with NHTSA on fine-tuning it.