Register For The Event

Assistant principals play a central role in school leadership—connecting instruction, student support, and school culture. The Vermont Assistant Principals Conference offers a focused, one-day opportunity to build your leadership practice alongside colleagues from across the state who understand the demands of the role. The day also includes targeted workshops and time to connect with peers during a welcome session and lunch. Whether you are new to the role or bring years of experience, you will leave with practical tools, fresh perspective, and a stronger professional network.

• Who: The target audience is any school employees focused on supporting student behavior, especially assistant principals and their work-base partners such as social workers, athletic directors, school counselors, and principals. This is also a great opportunity for aspiring school leaders.
• When: Wednesday, January 27th, 8:30am to 3:00pm
• Cost: $325 for Early Bird Registrations, $375 after October 15th. The cost includes 7 hours of professional learning, all related session materials, continental breakfast and lunch. The cost does not include any overnight accommodations.
• Where: Delta Marriot, South Burlington, VT View the Venue & Rooms (if interested in staying over)

Keynote: Dr. Joelle van Lent is a licensed psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children, families, and child serving agencies. Dr. van Lent has expertise as a therapist, clinician, evaluator, consultant, and trainer. Her work focuses on child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, trauma, and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr. van Lent’s approach is geared toward fostering resilience and creating communities that support healthy development. She is currently in private practice based in the northwestern part of Vermont and works across the state with schools and agencies.

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Workshops, More Details Coming Soon, Topics/Facilitators Include:

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Outline Schedule

Time	Activity	Purpose
8:30 – 9:00	Arrival, Registration	Time for parking, registering, settling in
9:00 – 9:30	Welcome Activities with Opening Remarks	Relationship building, Warm-up
9:30 – 10:30	Keynote, Dr. Joelle van Lent	Inspiration, mindset, approaches
10:30 – 11:00	Break	Extended break, for checking on school, networking, & transition to breakouts
11:00 – 12:00	Workshops Round 1	Options to learn specific approaches & improved practices
12:00 – 12:45	Lunch & Break	Time to eat, connections, check in with school
1:00 – 2:00	Workshops Round 2	Options to learn specific approaches & improved practices
2:00 – 2:15	Break	Transition from breakouts
2:15 – 3:00	Closing: Boom Sessions with Community Partnerships Theme	A closing activity to hear from colleagues about ideas that are working well & exit ticket

FAQs

Do I need to be an assistant principal to attend? No. The keynote and workshops will be beneficial for many roles. If you review the content and see elements that are related to your work and/or want to support your assistant principal(s) by attending, please do so.

Will any of the sessions be hybrid in case I can’t attend in person? No, these sessions will be available in-person only on this occasion.

Cancellation Policy: For all Vermont Principals’ Association professional learning events, the VPA must be notified of any cancellations no later than 10 days prior to the event. Cancellation notifications received after the 10 day deadline will be subject to a fee of 50% of the total cost of registration. The reason for this 50% policy is it allows us to at least recoup the venue and food costs counts for the event which are locked in with the venue about ten days ahead of an event.