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CAS Annual Conference 2025
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Friday, March 28
 

9:20am PDT

Shifting Minds and Changing Lives: EL/ML Data Through A Storytelling Lens LIMITED
Friday March 28, 2025 9:20am - 10:35am PDT
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Participants will be able to look at data through a storytelling lens and formulate 3 key questions to identify what barriers they would need to remove to improve the data. For the purpose of this session we will focus on how one district created a culture of inclusion and belonging which led to improved student academic growth. The audience will learn how the district decided to take a different approach to looking at data to successfully identify the barriers that were keeping them from improving. This led to how they developed structures and put systems in place to implement them and saw how their targeted efforts delivered results almost immediately! 
Speakers
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Luz Rivera

MLL Coordinator, Norwich Public Schools
Luz was four years old when her parents moved to the US from Puerto Rico. As a multilingual learner, she experienced the challenges faced by the MLL population when access and inclusion are not prioritized in our mainstream classrooms. She became an educator by calling. She holds... Read More →
Friday March 28, 2025 9:20am - 10:35am PDT
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10:45am PDT

Cultivating a Culture of Care: How Leaders "Make or Break" School Culture FULL
Friday March 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
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In this presentation, attendees will explore essential ingredients necessary to foster a safe, inclusive, and positive environment. We will explore leadership habits that promote vibrancy as well as leadership characteristics that are detrimental. The session will highlight the importance of relationships centered on trust, transparency, collaboration, and care. Anecdotal evidence and survey data will be shared as indicators of success. The presentation will be interactive with questions, role-plays, and simulations to elicit relevant dialogue and discussion.
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Tim Salem

Principal, Scotts Ridge Middle School, Ridgefield
Tim Salem is currently in his 15th year as Principal of Scotts Ridge Middle School. Prior to his current role, Tim served as an Assistant Principal and social studies teacher at Danbury High School. As a classroom teacher Tim taught classes centered on multiculturalism and human rights... Read More →
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Janine Johnson

Library Media Specialist, Scotts Ridge Middle School
Janine Johnson is the library media specialist at Scotts Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield, Connecticut. In 2018 she was awarded the American Association of School Librarians Collaborative School Library Award and the Connecticut Association of School Librarians’ Carlton W.H. Erikson... Read More →
Friday March 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
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10:45am PDT

Supporting the Whole Child: Strengthening Systems for Sustainable Change FILLING
Friday March 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
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We all believe in supporting the whole child – academically, socially, emotionally, physically, and behaviorally – but how can we strengthen our systems to promote more coordinated and integrated practices? One approach is to leverage the CDC’s Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model as an organizing framework. In this workshop, attendees will develop a foundational understanding of the WSCC model; consider opportunities to strengthen teaming structures, goal setting, and data collection; and identify the next steps for whole child strategic planning in their setting. This workshop will feature a panel discussion with administrators from the Colchester Public Schools and East Hartford Public Schools to share key lessons learned from using the WSCC model to strengthen their school and district practices.
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Kathleen M. Williamson

Project Coordinator of the Connecticut WSCC Partnership, UCONN Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child Initiative
Kathleen Williamson is an Assistant Research Professor in the University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education. She is a nationally certified school psychologist and serves as Project Coordinator of the Connecticut WSCC Partnership.
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Marlene B. Schwartz

Director, UConn’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health
Marlene Schwartz is Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Health and Professor of Human Development and Family Sciences at the University of Connecticut.
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Meghan Amado

Assistant Principal, Colchester Elementary
Meghan Amado is the assistant principal at Colchester Elementary School (Colchester). She previously taught at the elementary level in Woodstock and Stonington.
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Melissa Cyr

Assistant Principal, Bacon Academy
Melissa Cyr has been an assistant principal at Bacon Academy (Colchester) since 2016. She previously served as principal of Natchaug Elementary School in Willimantic.
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Angela Hewins

Principal, Mayberry Elementary School
Angela Hewins, a former special education teacher and special education supervisor, is the principal of Mayberry Elementary School in East Hartford.
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Michelle Marion

Principal, Connecticut IB Academy
Michelle Marion has over 25 years of experience in the East Hartford Public Schools. She was named principal of the Connecticut IB Academy (East Hartford) in 2023.
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Tracy Stefano

K-12 Supervisor of Health & PE, East Hartford District
Tracy Stefano is the K-12 Supervisor of Health & Physical Education in East Hartford. She is an adjunct professor at Southern Connecticut State University and President-Elect of the Connecticut Association of Administrators of Health and Physical Education.
Friday March 28, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm PDT
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12:45pm PDT

The Law and Student Cell Phones -- Best Practices for Administrators in the Digital Age LIMITED
Friday March 28, 2025 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
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For better or worse cell phones have revolutionized daily life and schools are no exception.  The use of cell phone by students both in the school setting and beyond it poses a host of unique legal issues that the courts and legislators are still catching up with.

In this session our presenters will review the latest case law addressing cell phone search and seizure, student First Amendment rights, sexting/mandated reporting, use of cell phone data at disciplinary hearings, district bans on cell phones during the school day as well as other issues.  By examining real cases in detail administrators will gain a practical understanding of the "do's and dont's" of student cell phones along with a sneak preview of emerging areas in the law.
Speakers
avatar for Zachary Schurin, Attorney

Zachary Schurin, Attorney

Attorney, Pullman and Comley
Zachary Schurin represents local and regional boards of education, charter schools, and municipalities in a wide-array of labor, employment, and education law matters. Zach is a past-president of the Connecticut Council of School Attorneys, former Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s... Read More →
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Stephen Sedor

Attorney, Pullman and Comley
Stephen Sedor has more than twenty years of experience representing boards of education and is well versed in school matters such as student issues and collective bargaining and is often called upon to represent school districts in student expulsion hearings, residency hearings and... Read More →
Friday March 28, 2025 12:45pm - 2:00pm PDT
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