Friday, July 17

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10:30 am

Early log-in recommended
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82391552712

11-11:50 am

Meaning, Models, and Moxy: Exhibiting Cultural Competency in Art Education
Mary Conage and Libya Doman

12-12:50 pm

Breakout Sessions Block A

1-1:50 pm

Breakout Sessions Block B

2-3:00 pm

Lunch Break | A Conversation With Davis Publications: Online Art Education Resources
Kristi Oliver and Julian Wade
Sponsored by Davis Publications
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82391552712

3-3:50 pm

Breakout Sessions Block C

4-4:50 pm

Breakout Sessions Block D

5-7:00 pm

Regional Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session Descriptions

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Association Health

Association Health Check-up
Melanie Dixon

Board leadership comes with BIG responsibilities! Ensuring your association has the organizational structure, documentation, and processes in place is paramount to leading legally and effectively. Join your colleagues to review the key documents each association MUST have in place legally and to discuss best practices that can be implemented to support sound organizational health. Come ready to share your bylaws, best practices, policies, and questions!

Volunteer Leadership, Recruitment and Support

Creative Leadership Strategies
Jacqueline Henson-Dacey

The world is changing, and creative leadership strategies will provide an innovative structure for the next generation of organizational leaders. Building skills to advance art educators as leaders begins with differentiation that is deeply rooted in self-identity, self-efficacy, and value systems. Allowing emerging leaders to identify their own vulnerabilities through improvisational techniques that link language arts, drama, and movement create reflective clarity with their individual creative potential, establishing a stage for joyful engagement with leadership development.

Shaping the Future: NAEA Strategic Visioning Session
Thom Knab, Mario R. Rossero

Make your mark on the future of NAEA! Engage in this feedback session and add your voice to the 2021–2025 Strategic Vision process for our vibrant professional community.

Hosting a Successful State Conference

Revamping Tradition: Preserving the Past While Ushering in the New
Hester Menier, Kim Powell

Dwindling attendance at our almost 30-year-old Fall Conference prompted a team of teachers to look at ways to preserve what kept longtime attendees coming, but also at what was not attracting new members to participate. The state conference is uniquely located at a “rustic” central Missouri state park group camping facility. While this event had a long tradition of being a hands-on experience in a casual environment, we found the “rustic” facility was not immediately as valued as it once was by the newest members to the teaching profession, or by many of our members. Our mission became to show members how to find the joys of learning, making, and meeting face-to-face in the great outdoors. We knew from experience that once they attended, they would return! Learn how our team helped attract members with revamped activities, encouraged them to engage in all parts of the conference, and tried to make “rustic” more accommodating—all while maintaining the original casual feel and community bonding that the conference was loved for. The results have been worth the work. Maybe they can work for you!

Plan A Killer Conference! Win a New Car!
Vanessa Hayes-Quintana

Are you looking for an edge to make your conference a truly fantastic experience for all of yourmembers? Do you wonder how to get all of those new teachers excited about attending conferences? Are you hoping to generate revenue for your state organization? Do you need ideas for recruiting engaging keynotes? Are you wondering how to keep track of all the money? Are you tired of reinventing the planning wheel year after year? Colorado is an averagesized state. We hold a mailing list of about 1,800 people and a membership of about 500 people, and we host a yearly fall conference that nets an average profit of $45,000 per year. Learn about how we generate excitement and income while managing the tedious details of an amazingly successful event that brings us together year after year. See you there!

Creating a Vision to the Future

All Aboard! Mapping an Ambitious Future
Nick Hostert, Michael Skura

The Illinois Art Education Association is currently implementing our strategic plan to establish our association as the premier professional development provider for visual art, design, and media education in the state. Learn how and why we developed specific organizational goals, what strategies we used to address these goals, and how we set realistic yet ambitious targets in the service of our vision. We realized members perceived our organization as not progressive and not serving all Illinois educators equally, based on feedback sessions at our annual conference and anonymous surveys. In collaborative board work sessions, we identified the most pressing needs, then developed work groups to develop specific strategies for each category as part of our strategic plan. As our work progressed, we maintained shared documentation of ongoing personal and group goals, while also establishing online meetings among the groups for regular face-to-face discussions. This system of small groups overseeing subgoals of our plan has proven effective, and we’re happy to share our process with you.

Roadmap to the Future… With a Couple of Twists and Turns
Carrie Barnett, Matt Young

Strategic planning is a key part to the success of the Ohio Art Education Association (OAEA). We review our entire mission statement every 2 years to make sure that we are meeting the current needs of our membership, ensuring that the plan holds to the core values of OAEA. Strategic planning is also a time to reflect on items within the plan that are no longer relevant and can be combined, removed, or updated. Additionally, we bring in outside sources to review our plan with fresh eyes to point out strengths and challenges within the organization that we may not see. With all of this review and planning, it allows for new leaders to share in the process as people transition in and out of the organization and provides a road map for the future—with some twists and turns.

Engaging Members: Communication Strategies for Growth and Retention

A Multifaceted Approach to Engaging and Retaining Membership
Leslie Grace, Jes Noel, Lisbeth Bucci

Pennsylvania is a large state, with many rural areas as well as densely urban cities. To tackle issues of growth and retention, our state is divided into 12 regions served by representatives who are active members on our board. They help keep members connected through monthly email newsletters and social media, and lead or facilitate at least one regional event yearly. As an organization, we have implemented member programs offering state-mandated professional development to use toward maintaining certification—a virtual book club and monthly webinars, which we refer to as WebinARTs. We strategically foster member engagement through a blog (written and maintained by members), social media, and our website. Additionally, regional representatives actively engage with their respective populations post-conference, and that has been vital in retaining and growing our membership. We are very proud and excited about the community we have created and are honored to showcase our accomplishments and growth.

Enhance Your State’s Membership Benefits Through the NAEA Webinar Series
Debra Pylypiw, Rebecca Stone-Danahy

Join the moderators of the NAEA Virtual Art Educators Webinar Series to learn how art educators in your state can personalize their professional development or learning community work by using NAEA webinars in conjunction with your state conference resources. Dive into the wealth of free NAEA resources available to share with educators in your state as a membership benefit and more!