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2010

February 1, 2010
National High School Center Advisory Board Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC

2009

December 9, 2009
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
November 17-18, 2009
“Looking at Your Data”
2009 Building Effective Practices in Dropout Prevention: A Summit for State and Local Education Agencies
Baltimore, MD
Presenter: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
November 2009
"Building Early Warning Systems"
Building Effective Practices in Dropout Prevention: A Summit for State and Local Education Agencies
Baltimore, Maryland
Presenters: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaisons, and Lindsay Fryer, Research Associate, National High School Center
October 2009
"Building Early Warning Systems to Identify 9th Grade Students At-Risk of Dropping Out"
21st Annual National Dropout Prevention Network Conference
San Antonio, Texas
Presenter: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
September 16, 2009
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
September 14, 2009
“Early Warning Systems for Students who are At-Risk of Dropping Out of High School”
North Dakota Governor’s Indian Student Drop Out Prevention Committee Meeting
Presenter: Susan Bowles Therriault, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
September 2009
"Qualitative Research Methodologies in Program Evaluation"
OEDG Principal Investigators’ Meeting
Washington, DC
Presenter: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
July 2009
"Building Early Warning Systems to Identify Students At-risk for Dropping Out of High School: Recently Validated Indicators for Students with Disabilities"
2009 OSEP Project Directors’ Conference
Washington, DC
Presenters: Joseph R. Harris, Director, and Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
June 24, 2009
"Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities"
2009 NDTAC (National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center) National Conference
Washington, DC
Presenter: Ayse Ikilzler, National High School Center
June 22-23, 2009
"Tiered Intervention at the High School level"
California Collaborative on District Reform
Los Angeles, CA
Presenter: Helen Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
June 21, 2009
"The Role of Student Assessment Data in Dropout Prevention: Two States’ Efforts to Identify Risk Factors"
2009 National Conference on Student Assessment (The Council of Chief State School Officers)
Los Angeles, CA
Presenters: Louise Kennelly, Director of Product Development, National High School Center
May 14, 2009
Webinar: "Effectively Educating English Language Learners at the High School Level: What Research and Practice Tell Us"
National High School Center
Washington, DC
Presenters: Ana Diaz-Booz, Principal, School of International Business (San Diego, CA); Neal Finkelstein, Senior Research Scientist, WestEd & Libia S. Gil, Senior Research Fellow, American Institutes for Research and Senior Advisor, National High School Center
View more information about this archived Webinar here.
May 13, 2009
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
March 24, 2009
"The C's of Collaboration"
Office of Special Education Programs Levaraging Conference
Washington, DC
Presenters: Joseph R. Harris, Director, National High School Center
April 1-3, 2009
"Powered up: Alignment and Renewal of High Schools"
Southwest RCC’s Annual High School Reform Summit
Presenter: Helen Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
April 2009
"Designing Dropout Prevention Strategies and Using Readily Available Data to Promote Retention of Students with Disabilities” and “Meeting the Educational Needs of Delinquent Youth in Transition"
Council for Exceptional Children Annual Convention and Expo
Seattle, WA
Presenters: Mindee O’Cummings and Jenny Scala, Technical Assistance Liaisons, National High School Center
February 11, 2009
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
February 9, 2009
National High School Center Advisory Board Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
January 28, 2009
"Identifying Students At-Risk for Dropping Out of High School: Overview of a Tool for Developing Early Warning Systems"
National High School Center
Washington, DC
Presenters: Jessica Heppen, Mindee O'Cummings and Susan Therriault

2008

December 10-11, 2008
Smaller Learning Communities Program (SLCP)
"An Overview of the National High School Center, Early Warning Systems Tool"
U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Phoenix, AZ
Presenter: Jessica Heppen, National High School Center
December 9, 2008
Webinar: "An Overview of the National High School Center, Early Warning Systems Tool"
Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center Advisory Board Meeting
Charleston, WV
Presenter: Susan Therriault, National High School Center
December 3, 2008
Friends of the National High School Center Call
National High School Center
Washington, DC
November 14, 2008
Webinar: Developing Early Warning Systems to Identify Potential Dropouts
National High School Center
Washington, DC
Presenters: Jessica Heppen, Mindee O’Cummings, Susan Therriault
October 31, 2008
A Comprehensive Approach for High School Redesign: Sytems Thinking
Tennessee High School Redesign Conference
Nashville, Tennessee
Presenters: Todd Flaherty, CCSSO, David Rutenberg, National High School Center & Jenny Scala, National High School Center
October 21-22, 2008
Smaller Learning Communities Program (SLCP)
"An Overview of the National High School Center, Early Warning Systems Tool"
U.S. Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Baltimore, MD
Presenter: Jessica Heppen, National High School Center
September 29, 2008
“National Perspective on Adolescent Literacy”
MC3 Teleconference
Presenter: Helen Duffy, National High School Center
September 23, 2008
Fall 2008 Content Center's Director's Conference
New Orleans, LA
Presenter: Joseph R. Harris, Director, National High School Center
September 10, 2008
Friends of the National High School Center Call
National High School Center
Washington, DC
July 28, 2008
2008 OSEP Project Directors’ Conference
Poster Presentation: "Drop Out Prevention for Students with Disabilities"
Washington, DC
Presenters: Jessica Heppen, Deputy Director, National High School Center; Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center; Ayse Ikizler, Research Assistant, National High School Center
July 24, 2008
Strengthening Transition Partnerships: Building Federal TA Capacity Meeting
Paper Presentation: "Improving Graduation Rates and Decreasing Drop-Out Rates Panel"
Washington, DC
Presenters: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center; Loujeania Bost, Director, National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities; Joan Willis, Senior Policy Fellow, Institution for Educational Leadership
July 23, 2008
2008 OSEP Project Directors’ Conference
Paper Presentation: "Tiered Intervention: Considerations on the High School Level"
Washington, DC
Presenters: Joeseph Harris, Director, National High School Center; Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
June 25, 2008
National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk (NDTAC)
Webinar Presentation: "Developing Ninth Grade Early Warning Systems to Identify Students At-Risk for Dropping Out of High School"
Washington, DC
Presenters: Jessica Heppen, Deputy Director, National High School Center; Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
June 18-20, 2008
National High School Center's 2008 Summer Institute
National High School Center
Washington, DC
http://www.betterhighschools.org/SI08/agenda.asp
May 17 - 19, 2008
Deputies Leadership Commission Spring Academy: Redesigning our Nation’s Secondary Schools
Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
St. Louis, Missouri
Presenter: Joe Harris, Director, National High School Center
May 7 - 9, 2008
Secondary Transition State Planning Institute: Building for the Future
National Post-School Outcomes Center, National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC), and The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD)
Charlotte, North Carolina
Presenters: Joe Harris, Director, National High School Center and Margaret Monrad, Research Associate, National High School Center
http://www.nsttac.org/Default.aspx?FileName=institute_description
April 23, 2008
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
April 2 - 5, 2008
Council for Exceptional Children’s 2008 Convention & Expo
Strand: Dropout Prevention for Students with Disabilities
Strand Co-Leaders: Joe Harris, Director, National High School Center; and Loujeania Bost, Director, National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities
Sessions: Early Warning Systems for All Students; Best Practices Shared by Proven Dropout Prevention Programs; and State Initiatives Focused on Dropout Prevention
Session Leaders: Joe Harris, Director, National High School Center; Louise Kennelly, Director of Tools and Products, National High School Center; and Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/
ConventionExpo/default.htm
April 2 - 4, 2008
Regional High School Summit
Southwest Comprehensive Center
Session: Plenary Dialogue II: Integrating Approaches to Tiered Intervention Into High School Redesign Initiatives
Presenter: Helen Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Session: Jigsaw Dialogue: How States Can Utilize Adolescent Literacy Approaches to Support High School Redesign Goals
Facilitator: Helen Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
www.swcompcenter.org/
March 31, 2008
Kansas Department of Education
Event: Conference, "Multi-Tiered Systems of Support at the Secondary Level: A National Perspective"
Presenter: Helen M. Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Topeka, Kansas
February 13, 2008
Leveraging Resources: 3rd Annual Joint Meeting of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Comprehensive and Equity Assistance Centers & the Office of Special Education Programs Technical Assistance and Dissemination Projects
Poster Session
Academy for Educational Development
Washington, DC
http://www.rrfcnetwork.org/content/view/513/450/
January 30, 2008
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC
January 28, 2008
National High School Center Advisory Board Meeting
National High School Center
Washington, DC

2007

November 5 - 6, 2007
The North Dakota Curriculum Initiative
Event: Conference, "North Dakota Curriculum Initiative Conference on Tiered Intervention at the Secondary Level"
Presenter: Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Bismarck, North Dakota
October 17, 2007, 9:30 to 11:00am (PDT)
Organization: Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
Event: Webinar, "RTI Learning Community: Meeting the Needs of Significantly Struggling Learners in High Schools"
Speaker: Helen M. Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
http://www.nwrel.org/nwrcc/rti-webinar/
October 15, 2007
Organization: Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Event: RTI Community of Practice Call
Speakers: Helen M. Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center, and Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
September 20, 2007
Organization: National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center For the Education of Children and Youth Who are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk (NDTAC)
Event: 2007 National Meeting Poster Session
Location: Washington, DC
August 29, 2007
Friends of the National High School Center Meeting
July 10 - 11, 2007
Organizations: Hawai‘i Department of Education, the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa College of Education (UHCOE), and Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL).
Event: Pacific Educational Conference (PEC 2007)
Sessions: Developing systems of support for transitions into high school; Developing systems for early identification: Dropout prevention; and Linking High School Reform and Maximum Student Attainment: A Call to Action
Speakers: Joseph R. Harris, Interim Director, National High School Center, and Helen M. Duffy, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
http://www.prel.org/pec2007/
June 11 - 13, 2007
National High School Center's 2007 Summer Institute, Advancing High School Student Success: Building Systems of Support
Archived information and all presentations are available here.
April 3, 2007
Organizations: Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Centers
Event: SEA Leadership Forum for the Middle Grades to High School Transition 2007
Session: Preventing High School Dropout: Understanding the Research and Useful Strategies to Address the Problem
Speakers: Becky Powell, Director of Outreach, National High School Center, and Mindee O’Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center

2006

March 24, 2006, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organizations: Center for Education at the National Academies, Education Sector, National Education Knowledge Industry Association
Event: Policy Forum: High School Reform - How Can Evidence Guide Policy and Practice?
Speaker: Becky Smerdon, Co-Director, National High School Center
Location: Washington, D.C.
See the Agenda.
April 20, 2006, 9:30 AM - 10:25 AM
Organizations: Mid-Atlantic Comprehensive Center (MACC), Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), Appalachia Regional Comprehensive Center (ARCC)
Event: Middle Grades to High School Transition: Research to Practice Forum
Session: Voices From Successful Transition Programs: Identifying the Policies, Resources and Flexibility Needed to Address Transition Issues
Speakers: Becky Smerdon, Co-Director of the National High School Center, Corinne Herlihy, MDRC
Location: Richmond, Virginia
http://www.macc.ceee.gwu.edu/MACCevents/MHSForum06
April 28, 2006, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
National High School Center Webinar: "Leading the Way to a Smooth Ninth Grade Transition"
Archived Webinar
August 1, 2006, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Organization: Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
Event: 2006 Project Directors' Conference Program
Session: Poster Presentation: High School Reform: What Are the Implications for Special Education?
Speaker: Mindee O'Cummings, Technical Assistance Liaison, National High School Center
Location: Washington, D.C.
November 6 - Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Organization: Grantmakers for Education
Event: Grantmaking Strategies for Student Success
Speakers: Rob Ivry, Communications Specialist, National High School Center, and Becky Smerdon, The Urban Institute
Location: San Francisco, California
http://www.edfunders.org/programs/conference/index.asp
December 13, 2006, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
National High School Center Webinar: "Preventing High School Dropout"
Archived Webinar

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