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CADAtoons!50 years of Building CharacterCADAtoons!

Grand Sierra Resort Reno, NV

March 5-8, 2014

2014 Convention Preview

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CCADA is turning 50 this year and we will have a cast of characters

to help us celebrate. Activities Directors spend their lives helping students grow and build their personal character. At the 2014 convention, we’ll have a yabba dabba doo time as we remember the characters that took us into the future, taught us to cheer for the underdog and to be strong to the finish if we ate our spinach. Come and relive your Saturday morning memories with Bugs, Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear and countless other cartoon characters at CADAtoons - 50 Years of Building Character!

Walt Disney, the creator of countless characters that shaped our lives, once said, “If you can dream it, you can do it.” For 50 years, CADA has been helping people dream about creating outstanding activity programs that transform our campuses into extraordinary places for both students

and staff. As educators, we work to develop leadership skills that our students

will carry forward with them for rest of their lives. We produce outstanding students with unquestionable character who go on to change the world.

The 2014 CADA Convention will provide you with ways to bring character-building back to your campus to help transform your activities program. We will look at how leadership programs build character on our campuses, and how activities directors serve as superheroes to our students to truly change the way our students look at themselves and the world.

Character

Connections

- Common Core

• Building character is the heart of CADA’s training and networking. The convention will feature over 90 workshop sessions focusing on incorporating more of your student body into your school culture and incorporate Common Core skills/requirements into curriculum with ideas for your entire educational team. Activities Directors, administrators, class advisors and finance clerks will all benefit from the workshops offered.

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New to Convention

• On Wednesday afternoon be sure to attend the New to Convention Orientation. This highly interactive session is the perfect way to be introduced to CADA. You’ll have the opportunity to meet other new CADA members and develop a plan to help you navigate the convention and stay in touch with your new-found friends.

Leadership Lessons

for Leadership

Development

• Taking 10 – 15 minutes of a class period to teach a concept or specific skill can save you hours in the weeks to come. Invest in this session and come away with four new lessons and countless other ideas that will spur you back in your classroom.

Friday Night Event

• Come celebrate our 50th anniversary in style in the Grand Theatre on Friday night. Come dressed as your favorite cartoon character, have your photo taken to commemorate the evening and take part in the costume contest! Winners of the contest will receive free registration to the CADA 2015 Conference in San Diego, CA. Prizes will include - the most creative individual, most creative group and overall grand supreme. The evening will feature a walk of CADA’s Past Presidents as we celebrate in style and dance the night way on one of the world’s largest stages! Contest rules to follow... stay tuned!

Cyber Cafe • The Batcave was good, but the

Cyber Café is better! Our interactive classroom will show you how technology is being successfully utilized by characters throughout the state and will give you tips on how to integrate technology into your own program. Holy must see!

CADA Store

• Need help getting into character? Come and stop by the CADA store for some inspiration. Our store is fully stocked to meet your needs for getting into character back on your campus. Don’t have time to stop by the store? No problem.. simply order whatever you need at www.cada1.org/store.

"Cartoon Alley"

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CADA Exhibit Hall

• The expo hall at the CADA Convention will feature over 140 companies that will supply you with the tools and resources you and your students need.

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Technology I Presenter - CADA Street TeamSession Time: 9:00am-12:00pm | Fee: $50.00 Limited Space is Available (Max 50)

This is an introductory workshop for people wishing to build their technology skills using Google Docs, Twitter and other online tools. If you are looking to get started or would like to start using tools you have developed in your class this is the workshop for you. At the end of this session you will walk out with a strong understanding of these online tools and

how to use them to communicate with your students as well as create and share lessons. You can choose from one of the computers in our “Bat Cave” or bring your own device. Space will be limited so register early!

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Presenter - Michelle Plumbtree - Chief Management Analyst, FCMATSession Time: 9:00am-12:00pm | Fee: $50.00

Limited Space is Available

The Financial Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) is proud to offer a workshop on how to maintain an effective and complete student body program in grades K-12. This workshop focuses on information necessary for today’s school leaders to maintain fiscal accountability, legal compliance, transparency and accuracy within their student body accounts. Student body finances have become a higher focus area as school site leaders are forced to respond to the increased demands to augment funding for students and schools in a complex environment. This workshop focuses on the great range of decision-making authority of student councils, suggests useful tools and procedures, provides practical advice, discusses effective procedures for safeguarding assets, and much more. Most importantly, the information will be communicated in an easy to understand manner and will focus on “how to get things done” within the parameters of the law. Set up to answer questions for school administrators, ASB and activity directors, fiscal services administrators, ASB bookkeepers, and others respon sible for activities. Areas covered will include laws and regulations, fundraising, allowable expenditures, general business practices, internal control and overall rules and responsibilities.

How Student Activities Help Achieve Common Core Goals Presenter - Michael Josephson

Session Time: 9:00am-12:00pm | Fee: $50.00 Limited Space is Available (Max 100)

Most schools are preoccupied with preparing for full implementation of Common Core standards focusing on college and career readiness. In addition to presenting grade level content standards, a major part of Common Core concerns the development of higher level thinking skills - particularly analytical, problem solving and creative thinking skills. In this seminar, Professor Michael Josephson, founder of and developer of 4.0, will show how leadership and other student activity functions can be designed to enhance and more explicitly promote Common Core, executive functioning skills, and 21st Century life skills.

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Technology II Presenter - CADA Street TeamSession Time: 9:00am-12:00pm | Fee: $50.00 Limited Space is Available (Max 50)

This is an advanced course in technology. Learn from experts on how to take your skills to the next level as we look at automating your technology and using your online toolbox to work together in collaborative units. This advanced session will have a couple of different strands looking at iPads and mobile devices where you can use apps to streamline communication, create visual media content with pictures and video for lessons, and ways to share that content between you and your students. We will also take Google Docs up a step and show how to use the tools on both mobile devises and your computer to work between your website and social media to create self updating and easily shareable documents that students can access and use. Finally, we will demonstrate how to automate social media with apps like Hootsuite, If This Then That, and mass texting apps like Celly so that with a few easy steps you will be able to simplify your online life. Please remember to bring your own device as you will be creating items and streamlining YOUR resources to use back at your school. Space will be limited so register early!

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Justin Boudreau...Justin Boudreau...

1st General SessionWednesday - March 5

Known by students as the “Dude Who Changed My Life,” Justin is ready to bring awareness to your “community”. His insightful “There YOU Are” vision and his expertise in HUM-ERGY (Humor & Energy) will empower you to step up and stand out.

This former high school teacher, coach of the year, world traveler and author, exudes a realness that people don’t question. In 2007, Justin created and launched “Calling for Gratitude,” a campaign that is based on paying gratitude forward. More than 30,000 people from more than 15 countries called the toll free gratitude hotline or posted a comment directly on the website, that was featured on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.” Justin is the Founder & Executive Director of Gear UP for Excellence, offering high quality, cost effective leadership retreats and summer institutes for non-profit organizations and student associations across the country. Justin is also the co-author of the book for teens “Gearing Up: Inside & Out for a Great Life.”

ian tyson...

Kathy BucKley...

ian tyson...

2nd General SessionThursday - March 6

For the past 24 years, Ian Tyson has been entertaining and inspiring audiences across North America to realize their potential, seek the positive in life, and find the “Hero Inside” themselves. Ian’s high-octane presentation is sure to keep any audience in stitches and leave them with words and thoughts to live by. His presentations take the audience on a hilarious and heartwarming journey from childhood to high school and beyond, with observational humor and life lessons along the way. He is one of North America’s top student speakers and has worked extensively with educators about teaching positivity and inspiring youth. Ian recently released his first book, “Hooray For Everything! The Optimist Manifesto” an insightful collection of stories, rants and ideas about finding and keeping the positive in your life.

Kathy BucKley...

3rd General SessionFriday - March 7

Kathy Buckley is a five-time American Comedy Award Nominee as Best Stand-Up Female Comedian and the winner of countless other awards for her work. She is also an actress, writer and producer, author, humanitarian, and one of the country’s leading motivational speakers. Her extraordinary story is truly amazing to all who experience it. She is the author of the heartfelt and hilarious book “If You Could Hear What I See.” She has also been recognized by the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army for outstanding efforts toward disability employment awareness, and is a key speaker for Anthony Robbins’ Life Mastery Classes.

Whether performing in a comedy club, appearing on television, speaking publicly, teaching at camps for children, or appearing in any number of other settings, Kathy Buckley bears her message that anything can be achieved when the heart and the mind work together.

Main Characters!

Kathy Buckley

Justin Boudreau

Ian Tyson

Main Characters!

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Tentative ScheduleTentative Schedule

Networking EventsNetworking Events

Friday Continued... 9:00am-10:15am Past Presidents Breakfast 9:00am-9:30am Workshop Session 7 9:45am-10:15am Workshop Session 8 10:30am-12:00pm 3rd General Session- Featuring Kathy Buckley 12:00pm-3:00pm General Membership Exhibits - In Cartoon Alley 12:00pm-4:00pm CADA Elections 3:00pm-3:45pm CADA / CASL Talks 3:15pm-3:45pm Workshop Session 9 4:00pm-4:45pm CADA / CASL Talks 4:10pm-4:40pm Workshop Session 10 4:45pm-6:00pm Area Suites 7:00pm-8:00pm CADAtoons Reception 8:00pm-9:00pm Dinner at the Cartoon Ball in the Grand Theater 9:00pm-12:00pm Jostens Spotlight Event Dessert & Dance

Saturday – March 8th

8:45am-9:45am Meet the Pros 9:00am-11:00am CADA Store Hours 10:00am-10:30am Speaker Showcase 10:45am-11:15am Speaker Showcase 11:30am-12:30pm Closing Luncheon

One of the best aspects of the CADA convention is that you are surrounded by people who do what you do. CADA provides an array of opportunities for networking with your peers. Below is a list of the various events designed with networking in mind … be sure to take advantage of them, you won’t be sorry!

Wednesday – march 5th

8:30am-9:00am Pre-Con Registration 9:00am-12:00pm Pre-Con Seminars Technology I & II CHARACTER COUNTS! & FCMAT Finance 12:30pm-6:00pm Affiliate Registration / Set Up 1:00pm-6:00pm Registration 1:15pm-1:45pm Certification Orientation 2:00pm-2:45pm Workshop Session 1 2:30pm-5:30pm CADA Store – Closed During General Session 3:15pm-4:00pm Workshop Session 2 4:20pm-5:30pm New to Convention Orientation Sponsored by USA Student Travel 6:00pm-7:30pm 1st Keynote - Featuring Justin Boudreau 7:30pm-8:30pm “Dinner in the Animation Studio” Sponsored by Lifetouch / DJ Sponsor SOS Entertainment 8:30pm-10:30pm Area Suites by Sponsored by Lifetouch

Thursday – march 6th

7:30am-1:00pm Registration 8:00am-8:45am New to Convention Base Camp 8:00am-11:00am Affiliate Set Up 9:00am-10:30am 2nd General Session - Featuring Ian Tyson 10:30am-3:30pm CADA Store – Closed During General Session 10:45am-11:25am Workshop Session 3 10:50am-11:50am Awards Reception 11:40am-12:20pm New To Convention Exhibits - In Cartoon Alley 11:45am-12:25pm Workshop Session 4 12:30pm-2:30pm General Membership Exhibits - In Cartoon Alley 2:40pm-3:30pm Leadership Lesson Roundtables 2:50pm-3:30pm Workshop Session 5 3:40pm-4:20pm Workshop Session 6 4:30pm-5:50pm Area Meetings 6:00pm-9:00pm Exhibit Hall Reception - In Cartoon Alley 9:00pm-12:00am Bowling in “Bedrock” Sponsored by Herff Jones

Friday – march 7th

7:15am Fun Run 8:00am-10:30am Registration 8:00am-8:45am New to Convention Base Camp 8:30am-10:00am Affiliates Meeting 8:30am-4:00pm CADA Store – Closed During General Session

Animation Evening – Wednesday Night – 7:30pm-10:30pm – Start the convention off right by mixing with activities directors from all over the state and nation. Sponsored by Lifetouch / DJ Sponsor by SOS Entertainment.

Stroll down Cartoon Alley – Thursday Night – 7:00pm-9:00 pm – Enjoy dinner as you wander around Cartoon Alley and network with our affiliates who have everything you need and more to make your year successful.

Bowling in “Bedrock” Party – Thursday Night – 9:00pm-12:00 am – We’ll have a yabba dabba doo time while we network and bowl like twinkletoes himself – Fred Flintstone. Sponsored by Herff Jones.

Cartoon Fun Run/Walk – Friday 7:15 am – A great way to network and keep in shape at the same time.

Cartoon Ball – Join us on Friday night in the Grand Theater for an evening of dinner and dancing dressed as your favorite cartoon character. The evening will pay tribute to CADA’s 50th Anniversary. Dessert sponsored by Jostens. 8

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Including pricing and package details, please review both sides of the enclosed registration form (see center pull out) or visit www.cada1.org/stateconvention. Please note: This is an adult conference - no children will be admitted to any session, social events or the exhibit hall for any reason.

Mail completed registration packets to:

CADA Central 3540 Soquel Avenue, Suite A

Santa Cruz, CA 95062

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Grand Sierra Resort & Casino2500 W 2nd StreetReno, NV 89595

Reservations: (800) 501-2651Rates: $90/single or $110/Double

T ransportation Information....

The Grand Sierra Resort and Casino offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the Reno Tahoe International Airport (RNO) during 5:00am - 11:45pm based on the following schedule:

Departure from the Reno Tahoe International Airport - The shuttle leaves from the exit located at the far end of baggage claim every 15 and 45 minutes past the hour.

Departure from the Hotel - The shuttle leaves from the hotel on the hour and half hour.

CADA / CASL Talks

Friday

• Based on the popular TEDtalks, our version will also offer knowledge and inspiration in a storytelling format from experts...former students, now change agents in the field. How did becoming involved contribute to their path? What caused them to not only become successful but have a desire to change attitudes and the lives of those around them in order to build a better world? We invite our educational community of curious souls to come listen to these stories, think about leadership programs on your campus and gain new perspective. What are the most important elements we should teach, and what are the most valuable experiences we can provide our youth.

Meet the Pros

Saturday

• Want to get lots of training in a short amount of time? Well then, come to this energizing session. You’ll have the opportunity to hear 4 different “pros” giving 5 twelve minute presentations, and your training will increase exponentially.

Speaker Showcase

Saturday

• Come and meet a new cast of characters that are ready and able to bring their message back to your school. Get a quick glimpse at some new and amazing speakers that you’ll want to bring back to showcase to your entire campus.

Featured Presentations

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