2020 Concurrent Session Request for Proposals

Dates: January 12, 2021 ~ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

January 19, 2021 ~ 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

January 26, 2021 ~ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Location: Virtually

The Maine Principals’ Association invites you to submit a proposal for a presentation at the Fall Conference. Take advantage of this opportunity to tell your colleagues about what is working in your school and to share your expertise, network, and enhance your professional growth. We believe the best professional development for principals and assistant principals is building administrators working with building administrators. Thus, we invite you and teachers from your schools to present.

In keeping with current topics of interest, we are soliciting proposals in the following areas:

* Poverty	* Proficiency-based Education
* Effective Communication	* Supervision/Evaluation of Staff
* Data-driven Decision-making	* Technology: Implications and Practices
* Professional Learning Communities	* Wellness for Administrators
* Leading and Sustaining Change	* School Culture and Climate
* Trauma	* Other Hot and Timely Topics
* Proficiency-based Reporting

Essentials for all Proposals:

Presentations should be planned for 45 minutes, not including 15 minutes for questions/answers, for a total of 60 minutes.
Please type all the information.
Please do not send supplemental materials.

Selection Criteria for Proposals — Your proposal will be judged on these criteria:

Potential to attract, stimulate, and engage the conference attenders in active learning
Relevance to the principalship and/or teaching/learning process
Timeliness of topic
Well-defined focus of topic
Practical application of information

Program Proposal Form

Primary Speaker/Contact Person (All correspondence will be sent to the primary speaker/contact person listed in this section, and it will be that person’s responsibility to contact additional speakers, if any. It is also the primary speaker/contact person’s responsibility to confirm any additional speakers prior to submitting this proposal.)

Primary Speaker/Contact Person (one name only):

First Name Last Name

Title:

School/Organization:

Address

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

City State / Province

Postal / Zip Code

Office Telephone:

Area Code Phone Number

Fax:

Email

example@example.com

MPA Member?

Yes No

If this proposal does not come from a Maine school/district, which best describes your organization:

college/university private, non-profit (501, C3) for profit Other (Please Describe Below)

Other (Please Describe):

Names of Co-presenters:

I. Title of Session:

II. Description of Session: Provide a clear and concise description of the presentation. This description will be used to judge the proposal (see the selection criteria for proposals).

If this proposal is accepted, the description will be included in the conference program. If this proposal has a school and/or district focus, check the level of implementation:

Initial Intermediate Advanced

III. Intended Audience (Check ONE Only):

Elementary Middle Level High School K-12

IV. Presentation Format (Check ONE Only):

Presentation followed by questions and answers Panel Discussion Interactive Session Other (please describe below.)

Description of Other Presentation Format:

V. Have you made this presentation before?

Yes No

If yes, where/when?

Do you prefer to pre-record your session or would you prefer to present live? *

Pre-recorded Live

Deadline to sumbit this proposal is by Monday, December 7, 2020.

If you have any questions, please contact Holly Couturier at (207) 622-0217, Ext. 126 or e-mail hcouturier@mpa.cc.