The conference organizer for the the 21st National Conference on Transporting Students with Disabilities and Preschoolers announced that the best registration rates are available now through Oct. 29.
Roseann Schwaderer, president of Edupro Group and the conference sponsor, said the 2012 show is titled “Ready to Learn” and is scheduled for March 9-14 in Orlando Fla. The conference offers more than 40 hours of training on special needs, Head Start, and preschool transportation practices in a series of breakouts and general sessions Three separate registration workshops offered during the conference add another eight to nine hours of opportunities to learn from the best practitioners in the nation.
In two half-day segments, this year’s nine-hour Executive Briefing (Workshop C) drills in on “Lessons Plans for Changing Times: Legal and HR issues You Never Thought You’d Confront.” Attorney Peggy Burns and Adams 12 School District HR Chief Mark Hinson (both consultants with Education Compliance Group) promise “in-depth explorations of key topic areas and a fast-paced ‘lightning’ round that will surprise you with the variety of new subjects you’ve got to juggle.”
For preschool and Head Start transporters, the conference offers Workshop A, Skill Sets for Successful Operations, in two half-day segments. Workshop B is Child Safety Restraint Systems – NHTSA’s school-bus-specific eight-hour curriculum.
General sessions will focus on Compliance versus Excellence; Medications on the School Bus; Protocols for Establishing Custody and Control; and even Couples Therapy (to help build and strengthen relationships between transportation and special ed departments). The opening general session will look ahead at what recent certain regulatory changes and initiatives in special education could mean for transportation – changes related to infants and toddlers with disabilities; maintenance of effort; and seclusion and restraint, among other things.
For the second year in a row, registrants will have the opportunity to complete the core curriculum for the NAPT Special Needs Transportation Endorsement.
“Come ‘ready to learn’ – and enthusiastically participate in classroom, hands-on and networking activities from Friday through Wednesday. We’ll send you home with a busload of smart ideas,” said Schwaderer.
The 15th National Special Needs Team Safety Roadeo is March 9-11, and includes a number of free conference sessions for team contestants.
