Media Advisory

2010 AWSP/WASA Summer Conference

OLYMPIA—Representatives from the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP) and the Washington Association of School Administrators (WASA) will co-host their annual Summer Conference for school principals, superintendents and school district administrators Sunday, June 27 through Tuesday, June 29 at the Spokane Convention Center.

WHAT:     2010 AWSP/WASA Summer Conference      

WHEN:     Sunday, June 27 – Tuesday, June 29, 2010

WHERE:   Spokane Convention Center
               334 W Spokane Falls Blvd, Spokane, WA 99201
               509.353.6500
               www.spokanecenter.com 

WHO:      AWSP and WASA
This year’s keynote sessions (open to conference attendees only) include:

• Sunday, June 27, 6:15 p.m. – 8 p.m. — Writer/Leadership Expert John Zenger
  John H. “Jack” Zenger is the cofounder and CEO of Zenger Folkman, which provides leadership development programs for organizational effectiveness.
• Monday, June 28, 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. — Poverty Expert Donna Beegle
  An expert on students in poverty, Dr. Donna Beegle went from being a homeless, single mother of two to earning an Ed.D. in educational leadership.
• Tuesday, June 29, 10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. — Writer/Poet Sapphire
  Sapphire is the author of The New York Times bestseller Push, recently adapted for the Academy Award–winning film, Precious. She has taught at the State University of New York at Purchase, Trinity College and the Writer’s Voice in New York City.

Also featured this year will be a breakout session (Monday, June 28, 1:45 – 4:30 p.m.) on a new resource for middle-school leadership teams and teachers: Success at the Core: Equipping Leadership Teams to Guide Instructional Improvement. Success at the Core was created by the Education Development Center (EDC) and Vulcan Productions, a Seattle-based award-winning film company, with help from Washington state teachers and administrators. The web-based toolkit includes 47 documentary style videos and materials designed to help leadership teams promote quality instruction in the classroom to improve student outcomes.

For more information about this conference or its guest speakers, contact Jennifer Fellinger /AWSP at 800.562.6100 or 360.915.4118 (cell on site), or visit www.awsp.org/summerconference. 

 
About the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP)
The Association of Washington School Principals is a professional association serving principals, assistant principals and principals in training. Formed in 1972, the Association now includes more than 3,400 members from public and private elementary, middle and high schools statewide. It is governed by a board of practicing principals composed of members drawn from three grade-specific boards representing the elementary, middle and high school levels. The mission of AWSP is to support principals and assistant principals and the principalship in the education of all students. For more information on the Association, visit the AWSP Web site at www.awsp.org.

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