9:00-11:30

Registration (Second Floor Lobby)

9:45

AASA Board Meeting

11:30-1:15

Luncheon Session

• Recognition of 2018 Superintendent of the Year
• AAEA Membership Recognition
• RAVE Panic Button -- Ted Mullenix 
• ESSA Update -- Johnny Key, ADE Education Commissioner

1:30-4:15

General Sessions

• “Current Reality of Arkansas Public Education”
  Dr. Richard Abernathy, AAEA Executive Director, and Mike Mertens, AAEA Assistant Executive Director

• “Current Reality of Oklahoma Public Education and Implications for Arkansas”
  Pam Deering, Executive Director for the Cooperative Council for Oklahoma School Administration (CCOSA)

• “Retirement, Reflections and Resolve”
  Dr. Benny Gooden, Executive Director of Institutional Relations, Arkansas Colleges of Health Education

7:45-9:15

Breakfast Session

• “What Teachers want School Administrators to Know and Ask”
  Courtney Cochran, 2017 Arkansas Teacher of the Year
  
• "Lessons Learned in Navigating an Arkansas Legislative Session”
  Shane Broadway - ASU Vice President for University Relations, Bill Stovall – Executive Director of Arkansas Community Colleges, and Dr. Tom Kimbrell, former AAEA Executive Director and Arkansas Commissioner of Education

9:15-9:30

Break/Refreshments

9:30-11:00

General Sessions

• "Strategic Planning Session for the 2019 Legislative Session”
  AASA Board of Directors

Adjournment