Daily Conference Highlights - Saturday

The conference is winding down in Nashville, but keep learning online with these latest highlights.

Check the Conference News page for more blog posts, session summaries, and more.

Blog Posts

• Be an Instructional Leader in 3 Easy Steps
  Sean Cain shows principals three easy steps to becoming an expert in instruction, writes blogger Adam Drummond.

• Leaders & Introverts: Supporting Our Team Members
  Kathy Melton shares how two conference speakers helped her see teacher leadership in a new light.

Photo of the Day

Combating is bullying is Peter Yarrow's current passion. As president and cofounder of Operation Respect, the former Peter, Paul, and Mary star continues his lifelong pursuit of peace by bringing an anti-bullying campaign to schools. 

In his presentation Saturday at the 2014 NAESP Annual Conference, Yarrow challenged principals to focus on encouraging love in schools. He also invited principals to sing with him (pictured at left).

"Love is far more important than high-stakes testing will ever be to the future of our great country," he said.

Photo and description by Catherine Prentis, retired principal from Franklin, Tennessee.

The Wrap: Session Summaries

• Building Dynamic School Culture
  Todd Whitaker and Beth Whitaker

• Engaging Parents and Teachers with Flipped Communication
  Peter DeWitt

• iCivics
  Sandra Day O'Connor

• The Innovative Administrator
  James Richardson

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  Susan Cain

• Implementing Creative Models of Professional Learning Within the School Day
  Sandra Trach and Rebecca Brogadir

• Living Outside the Box: Developing Solutions for Closing the Mathematics Achievement Gap
  Dana McCauley and Sandy Atkins

Tweet Like a Pirate

Best-selling author Dave Burgess dropped in (virtually) to the Social Media Lounge for part two of NAESP's summer principal book study on Teach Like a PIRATE. Read the highlights in this Storify wrap-up.

Daily Survey:

Attendees, don't forget to take a quick survey and share your thoughts on each days' sessions:

• Thursday, July 10, 2014: www.research.net/s/NAESPThursday
• Friday, July 11, 2014: www.research.net/s/NAESPFriday
• Saturday, July 12. 2014: www.research.net/s/NAESPSaturday