AHEAD Start & OUT OF THE BOX II
Coordinated, Comprehensive Conference Programs for New and Seasoned Professionals
Building on last year’s successful OUT OF THE BOX! Program, AHEAD’s Board and Standing Committee on Professional Development are excited to offer two tracks of conference sessions this year:
AHEAD Start:
Foundational information for the new professional
OUT OF THE BOX II:
Provocative conversations to challenge seasoned professionals and push our thinking beyond the status quo
Both strands are designed to encourage in-depth discussions and consideration of the issues that shape postsecondary disability services in today’s changing climate. Through lecture, discussion, resource sharing and relationship development, this coordinated program of professional development will expose and reacquaint you with the ways in which social justice and civil rights legislation inform the practical realities of providing disability service and consultation in higher education.
Two-day preconferences (register for one of two options)
Setting the Landscape for the New Professional (PC4; Audience: Novice)
A Fresh Focus for the Continuing Professional (PC5; Audience: Intermediate to Advanced)
Comprehensive Concurrent Sessions Throughout The Week
AHEAD Start
Documentation & Student Interview (1.2)
Disability Services & Studies (2.2)
Design-Ubiquitous & Essential (3.2)
Campus Outreach (4.2)
Power & Privilege in Service Delivery (5.2)
ABCs of DS Office Administration (6.2)
Disability Law–An Art Form (7.2)
Refocusing Service Delivery (8.2)
How It All Fits (9.2)
OUT OF THE BOX II
Positive Disability Stereotypes (1.3)
Managing Change as a DS Leader (2.3)
Letters of Accommodation (3.3)
Student Mental Health (4.3)
Students with Intellectual Disabilities (5.3)
Fostering Faculty Relationships (6.3)
DS Practices–Parasitic or Mutualistic? (7.3)
What’s in a Name? (8.3)
How It All Fits (9.2)
Professional Certificate
Attend a preconference and at least 6 of the concurrent sessions in either track to earn a certificate to document 25+ contact hours of professional development
$100 Overall Registration Savings!
Register for the full program (preconference and 6 concurrents sessions) and we will reimburse $100 of your overall conference registration fee (checks distributed at Conference check-in)
