Time

Activity – Title – Presenter

8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Plenary

Welcome to Eugene
Honorable Kitty Piercy, Mayor
City of Eugene

Welcome to Symposium
Peggy Cvach, CADRE Project Officer
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs

IEP Facilitation: The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken
Marshall Peter, Director, CADRE

9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session #1

#1

“Moving Upstream: Facilitating the IEP Life-Cycle”
Greg Abell, Sound Options Group 

#2

“IEP Internal Facilitative Leader v. External Facilitator”
Julie Gentili Armbrust, Mediation Northwest

#3

“Empowering Progress: Developing a Shared Agenda for Research in IEP Facilitation”
Robert McKelvain, Abilene Christian University

#4

“How to Think (and Act) Like a Mediator/Facilitator as a Special Education Director Designee”
Michael Maday, Harrison School District (Colorado Springs, CO)

#5

“Using Conflict Resolution to Empower Educators, Empower Parents, Guarantee Due Process, Address Discrimination and Achieve Educational Goals”
Tonya Sampson-Canepa, Synergy Resolutions

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Buffet Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session #2

#1

“Improving the Life of Special Education Through the IEP Process”
Stacey Kaim, Sally Earnest Thrash & Cindi Jensen, 4GL School Solutions (Formerly JDL & Associates)

#2

“IEP Game: IEP/IFSP Participation Training”
Brenda Rogers & Linda Simpson, Access Center for Education

#3

“Statewide Parent/School Initiative to Promote School Cultural Change”
Claire Thorsen, Blumberg Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Indiana State University

#4

“Augmenting Face-to-Face Communication: Using Technology to Build Relationships, Create Individualized Education Programs and Resolve Disputes”
Jim Melamed, CADRE & Mediate.com

#5

“The IEP Team: Moving Beyond Mandated Collaboration”
Margaret Reed, SPOKE Collaborative

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Reception

5:30 p.m.

Dinner on Your Own

Time

Activity -Title - Presenter

8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Keynote Plenary

Introduction of Assistant Superintendent Latini
John Reiman, Mediation Specialist

Welcome to Oregon
Nancy Latini, Assistant Superintendent
Student Learning & Partnerships
Oregon Department of Education

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Philip Moses, Symposium Chair, Assistant Director, CADRE

Keynote Address: “Facilitating Dangerously, The Frontiers of Conflict Resolution”
Kenneth Cloke, Acclaimed Mediator, Trainer, Author and Director,
Center for Dispute Resolution

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Concurrent Session #3

#1

“Parent Participation in Wisconsin Facilitated IEPs”
Jan Serak, Nelsinia Ramos Rojas, Don Rosin & Charlotte Price, Wisconsin FACETS; and Patricia Williams, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

#2

“Lessons Learned: Pennsylvania’s Sometimes Rocky Entrance into IEP Facilitation”
Kerry Voss Smith & Dixie Rider, Pennsylvania Office for Dispute Resolution

#3

“Leveling the Playing Field: IEP Facilitation as Equalizer”
Diana MTK Autin, Region 1 Parent Training and Information Center/New Jersey Statewide Parent Advocacy Network

#4

“Expanding the Conflict Resolution Continuum: The Design and Delivery of an Effective IEP Meeting Facilitation System”
Kathy Wian, University of Delaware, Conflict Resolution Program

#5

“Address the Conflict, THEN Facilitate the IEP”
James Rosenfeld, Seattle University School of Law & Donna Chewning

#6

"Student Leadership in IEP Planning"
Laurie Powers, Portland State University,
Alex Berlin Bentley-Freeman, My Life Participant

Banquet Lunch

2005 Keys to Access Presentation
Recipient ~ Floyd Weatherspoon, Professor of Law
Capital University Law School

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session #4

#1

“5 Years of IEP Facilitation – The Good, the Bad, and the Not so Ugly”
Fran Fletcher, University of Delaware, Conflict Resolution Program; Martha Toomey, Delaware Department of Education; Marie-Anne Aghazadian, Parent Information Center & Elizabeth Siemanowski, POLYTECH School District

#2

“Taking the Third Side via RESPECT: Building the Skills to be Facilitative Participants in IEP Team Meetings”
Greg Buntz, Conflict Resolution Center of Iowa; Dee Ann Wilson, Bureau of Children, Family and Community Services, Iowa Department of Education; Linda Appleby and Dedie Thompson, Parent Educators Connection Program

#3

“Independent Special Education Advocates and IEP Facilitation: Challenges and Opportunities”
Candace Cortiella, The Advocacy Institute, Jamie Ruppmann, TASH & Diane Willcutts, DLK Consulting

#4

“Improved Strategies for IFSP/IEP Facilitation and Promotion of Parent Advocacy”
Raui Gregory, Dawn Williams, T/TA ACF Region 10; Liz Twombley, University of Oregon; Carol Snead, Head Start of Lane County; and Sabrina Mauer Halpren, Parent

#5

"Into the Heart of Conflict: Ten Paths to Transformation and Transcendence"
Kenneth Cloke, Center for Dispute Resolution

"IDEA, NCLB and IEP: How Does It All Fit Together?"
Cynthia Bryant, OSEP

2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Closing Plenary

“Ask The Student, We Know What We Want”
Amelia Abel, Self Advocate

Closing Remarks
Philip Moses, CADRE