Upcoming Educator’s Forum
I’ve been asked to plan and organize the counselor’s sessions for the upcoming InterMountain Educator’s Forum June 11-13. Even though this event is a couple of months away, I’m excited about the sessions I’ve been able to pull together so far for the three days.
For starters, we’ve got Dr. James Mason from Oregon DHS coming to present to us on Monday morning. Dr. Mason has done extensive work applying cultural competency models to schools and other organizations. I heard him speak last year at the Violence Prevention Summer Institute in Corvallis, and was very impressed by the ideas he had to share with us. When I found out I was going to be organizing this gig, his was the first name on my list for guest speakers.
Also on the agenda, we have our school resource officer coming in to give us a presentation on drugs/gangs identification and awareness and issues in school safety. I’m also working on presenters for the following topics:
- Sexual predator issues for k-12 students
- Signs of child abuse/neglect at all age levels
- Grief counseling
- Student behavior management
- Experiential education
- School counseling and guidance curriculum
It should be a great three days. I will post more information as it gets closer to the date.
On a tech note, I’m experimenting with Google Docs to put the agenda and the flier together. That way, I have the same document to print out to give as a hard copy, as well as retrieved via the web. I’ll let you know how it works, but so far so good.
