The 2010 New England Regional Forum promises to be better than ever! Thanks to member feedback, we’re excited to offer a variety of program enhancements, including:
- Tailored sessions, specific to your professional focus
- More panel discussions, offering a variety of perspectives on key topics
- More opportunities to network, both with peers and cross-sector colleagues
All Sessions
Sunday, Feb. 7, 2010
2:00–5:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION
Monday, Feb. 8, 2010
7:00 a.m.–5:45 p.m.
REGISTRATION
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
8:45-10:45 a.m.
OPENING SESSION: Common Core State Standards: Politics, Policy, and Process
10:30–11:45 a.m.
A1 Guidance and Admission Assembly
A2 Assessment in the Community College
A3 Content Enhancement: a Research-based Model to Improve Literacy in Adolescent ELL Students
A4 Creating an Academic Culture: What Makes a Curriculum Rigorous?
A5 Doing More with Less: Making Difficult Decisions in an Era of
Decreasing Resources
A6 Encouraging the Resilient and Talented: How Educators Can Support the Postsecondary Goals of Youth in Care
A7 Massachusetts Colleges Online (MCO): A Model for Collaboration
A8 New Media in Financial Aid Overview
A9 Online Calculator Update
Student 911
12:00–1:30 p.m.
Luncheon with Featured Keynote Speaker Deborah Jewell Sherman, Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
1:45–3:00 p.m.
B1 Financial Aid Assembly
B2 AP in the 21st Century: New Developments and Future Direction
B3 Behavior Intervention Counselor / Assistant Principal
B4 Boston’s AP Science Explosion: The nuts, the bolts and the teacher leaders.
B5 College Board Advocacy: Turning Reports into Public Policy
B6 Current Issues in International Student Recruitment
B7 NACAC Report on Uses of Standardized Testing in Undergraduate Admissions
B8 SAT As State Test (Maine)
B9 State Transfer Programs
B10 The Changing Faces and Ages of the Community College Population
B11 The Generation Gap and its Impact on Teaching and Learning
3:45–5:00 p.m.
C1 Academic Assembly
C2 Community College Convocation
C3 Generation Next
C4 Senior Enrollment Management Roundtable
C5 "Everything is Free": Considerations for Counseling Refugees and
Their Families
C6 Developing a Financial Aid Lesson Plan for Counselors
C7 First Generation Student Panel
C8 Fostering Aspirations through Campus/Community Partnerships
C9 PROFILE Goes Global!
C10 Talking with Families — Moving the Conversation from Financial Aid to Educational Financing
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Reception and New England AP Studio Art Exhibition
Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
7:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
REGISTRATION
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00-9:30 a.m.
Annual Meeting of the New England Members of the College Board
9:45-11:00 a.m.
D1 A Dream Unrealized: Higher Education and the Undocumented Student
D2 Best Practices on Giving an SAT Presentation
D3 Fostering the Conversation: Wikis and Blogs in the AP English Language and AP Literature Classroom
D4 Information, Policies, and Procedures for AP Coordinators
D5 Judicial Affairs Issues at the Community College
D6 Professional Development Program for Adjunct Educators
D7 "Raise the Bar…Close the Gap: A Call to Action for School Counselors in an Urban School District
D8 Restoring Educational Values to An Educational Process
D9 Student Loans: What has Changed and Where are we Heading?
D10 "These Numbers Don’t Add Up! Building Total Income and Assets for Families When Expenses Exceed Income and Assets
D11 Use and Impact of Early Assessment with ACCUPLACER on College and Career Readiness
11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
E1 Developmental Education at the Community College
E2 Budgeting, Forecasting and Metrics
E3 College Board Program Updates-Operational Matters/Score Choice
E4 Determinants of the Post-Secondary Access and Retention of High School Graduates with Disabilities: A New Method for Tracking Educational Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
E5 Federal Stimulus and State Efforts: Competition, Collaboration and the Race for Funding
E6 Financial Aid on the Fringes
E7 Financial Literacy for First Year Community College Students
E8 Global Competence For All Students
E9 Got Career Planning?
E10 Real Conversations with Students on the Use of Technology in Recruitment
E11 Seeking the Right Fit: Making the Most of Your Recruiting Resources
E12 Starting or Improving Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships: Tempering Policy with Experience
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Conference Attendees
The following is a partial list of 2009 New England Regional Forum attendees:
- Guidance counselors
- College counselors and advisers
- Deans/directors/associate directors of admissions
- Deans/directors/associate directors of financial aid
- Directors of college counseling or guidance
- Principals
- Vice presidents of enrollment management
- Professors
- Deans of enrollment
- Deans of students
- Presidents
- Teachers