Professional Learning

Click on the individual conference titles below for more information and registration links.

CCOSA Summer Leadership Conference

The CCOSA Summer Conference is the premier conference for Oklahoma school administrators at all levels. The CCOSA Conference encompasses all public school administrators from each association under the CCOSA organization (OASA, OAESP, OASSP, OMLEA and ODSS).

Women in School Leadership Forum

How do you define who you are as a woman is school leadership? Have you really ever given it much thought? CCOSA's Women in School Leadership Conference will give you the chance to reflect on your own career and define your path for the future.

OASSP/OMLEA Leadership & Learning Conference

Come join us at the OASSP & OMLEA combined Leadership & Learning Conference in February! This two-day event is organized with two full days of breakouts and keynote speakers focused on both secondary leadership and classroom practice, specifically on middle school best practices! Education leaders and teachers will leave with with valuable insights, inspiring ideas, and connections with peers and corporate partners from across Oklahoma.

OASA Legislative Conference

Come join Oklahoma's education leaders as they promote the CCOSA Legislative Agenda for the upcoming legislative session. Members of the Oklahoma Legislature will participate in panel discussions covering education policy and funding.

OAESP Mid-Winter Conference

Become the leader, you know you can be by attending this OAESP premiere event. The annual one day conference supports building level principals, assistant principals, leadership teams and elementary education directors by providing pertinent information on current issues impacting elementary education.

The 2021 OAESP Mid-Winter Conference will be held February 10, 2022 at the Edmond Conference Center.  Registration will open in September.

ODSS Best Practices Conference 

Special education is a complex and difficult area, with frequent changes in information, materials and interpretation. Learn about these issues at the ODSS Best Practices Conference. 

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Boot Camp 1: Basic School Finance

Focuses on projecting state aid revenue, critical sections of the Estimate of Needs, changes coming to the EON document, and Ad Valorem taxes.

Two dates available:
September 2, 2021 in OKC
September 9, 2021 in Owasso

Boot Camp 2: Advanced School Finance

Focuses on fund balance management, monitoring state revenues, other funds (bond, sinking, child nutrition, and building).

Offered October 7, 2021 in OKC

State Revenue & the State Budgeting Process
Learn how the State Board of Equalization projects state budget income for FY18; understand state funds and how revenue shortfalls occur; what are appropriated funds versus non-appropriated funds (apportioned) and the legislative challenges around these differences.

Offered January 18, 2022 at the CCOSA office

Treasurers & Encumbrance Clerks
Presented by CCOSA & OSAC
Learn about the laws, roles, and responsibilities of the School Treasurer and Encumbrance Clerk, along with preparation for your reports and more.

Offered July 15, 2021 in Sulphur
Note: We will be adding more dates soon. 

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Early Career Superintendent Deep Dive
This meeting targets second - fifth year superintendents. The format is a collaborative zoom utilizing three breakout sessions. The session topics will be led by an OASA staff person or experienced school leader. This is a DISCUSSION workshop not a presentation. Staff will give ideas, but this is a chance to hear from your peers. You may participate in any or all of the breakouts.

Offered November 12, 2021 in OKC

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New Principals Academy Program
The New Principals Assistance Program format provides you with a “support group” in these early critical years of your career.  This is an outstanding program that provides solutions to the frustration and the conflicts that develop in the principalship effectively bridging the theoretical/practical gap.

The New Principal Academy meets five times:
September 16, 2021
October 8, 2021
November 18, 2021
December 9, 2021
March 30, 2022 (Advocacy Day)

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Principal & Superintendent Certification Exam Preparation 
Workshop provides participants with an overview of the COEE OSAT's for the school administration areas. In addition to dissecting and analyzing the subject area study guide, close attention will be given to the tests' required writing assignments. 

Offered:
August 17, 2021
September 1, 2021
October 13, 2021
January 11, 2022
April 5, 2022

Principal Coaching and Mentoring: Sustaining and Supporting School Principals *NEW*
Designed to provide tools for individuals that supervise principals or individuals that mentor other principals.  This training will give participants tools to use when mentoring other leaders to provide thoughtful guidance.

This new training meets three times in the Fall semester:
September 9, 2021
October 5, 2021
November 9, 2021

ODSS First-Year Directors
Presented by CCOSA & the Oklahoma State Department of Education
New first-year special education directors are eligible to participate in the First-Year Special Education Directors Project, a joint effort of ODSS/CCOSA and the State Department of Education, Special Education Services section. The purpose of the Project is to help support first-year directors as they learn the requirements of their new job.

Emerging Leaders Academy

Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma

School leaders and teachers are invited to this two-day training of understanding trauma and developing strategies for stronger classroom and learning environments for trauma-exposed students with Dr. Barb Sorrels.

This two-day training will be offered:
July 26-27, 2021 (This event has been cancelled due to low registration.  Please consider registering for one of the other dates listed below.)
September 29-30, 2021
October 11-12, 2021
April 7-8, 2022

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Creating Uplifting Classrooms:  Providing Support for Early-Career Teachers 
The primary goal of this training is to give beginning teachers just enough in an organized model so that they can begin teaching with practical research based tools and activities to be successful.  Each scheduled workshop location contains two days of initial training and a third day of training, at a later date, with the teacher's administrator. 

This 3-day training will be offered:
July 28-29, 2021 and September 8, 2021 (K20 Center) (This event has been cancelled due to low registration.  Please consider one of the other dates available)
August 3-4, 2021 and September 10, 2021 (Bartlesville)
August 5-6, 2021 and October 4, 2021 (Ardmore)
October 26-27, 2021 and December 7, 2021 (K20 Center)
January 12-13, 2022 and March 8, 2022 (K20 Center)

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First Year Superintendents

CCOSA in partnership with the Oklahoma State Department of Education provides all of the professional development/required activities for first year superintendents. 

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OASA Legislative Conference

Come join Oklahoma's education leaders as they promote the CCOSA Legislative Agenda for the upcoming legislative session. Members of the Oklahoma Legislature will participate in panel discussions covering education policy and funding.

ODSS Summer Bootcamp

Learn more here. 

School Law for Administrators

CCOSA offers a Fall Law Day and Spring Law Day each year with information ranging from superintendent contracts to new laws and how they are implemented at the district and school level. 

Summer Law Day

This summer law workshop will cover information about many of the new requirements from the 2021 Legislative Session with CCOSA General Counsel/ODSS Executive Director Andrea Kunkel and Rosenstein, Fist, & Ringold Attorney Bo Rainey.

June 21, 2021

10:00am-12:00pm

This workshop is offered in a hybrid format (in-person at the CCOSA office or via Zoom).

Free for District Level Service Members.
$75 Member Price
$150 Non- Members

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Tulsa Model Re-Certification

Virtual Training      or       In-Person Training    or           Career Tech ReCertification
Presented by CCOSA & Barlow Education Management Services
This 1/2 day of training fulfills the requirements for Oklahoma TLE programs recertification training for all administrators in their chosen model two years after their initial training. Recent research in teacher evaluation has demonstrated that continued training is necessary in order to improve the reliability and validity of all evaluation systems. 

Offered:

Tulsa Model New Administrator Training

Virtual Training     or            In-Person Training
Presented by CCOSA & Barlow Education Management Services
This two-day training will cover both Process Training and Calibration Training. Upon completion of the training, and passing the test, participants will be certified in Tulsa Model Process and Calibration Training.
Offered:
 

McREL Re-Certification
This NEW McRel Recertification has been designed to include SREB findings that school administrators can benefit from more in-depth support in the areas of time-management, calibration, and managing hard conversations in the Teacher Leader Evaluation process.

Offered:
September 16, 2021-Virtual
January 4, 2022 - Virtual

McREL New Administrator Training
Measure what matters most, this two-day training is being offered for new administrators. Upon completion of the training, attendees will be certified to evaluate administrators.

This 2-day training will be offered on the following dates: (Note:  Day 1 is in-person and Day 2 is virtual)  
July 26, 2021 and September 7, 2021 
September 15, 2021 and October 1, 2021
January 12, 2022 and February 3, 2022

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Federal Programs Boot Camp 

A series of six hands-on workshops to learn more about managing federal programs for your district. 

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CCOSA offers many workshops and trainings throughout the year with many high quality professional development speakers. 

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