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Early Education and the Every Student Succeeds Act: Maximizing Achievement
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) significantly increased state legislatures’ autonomy in education reform. Learn what it means for the youngest learners and how ESSA can assist lawmakers in improving school readiness, preschool and K-12 coordination, professional development for teachers and program directors, literacy services and supports for young dual language learners.

State Accountability under the New Federal Every Student Succeeds Act
State legislators are vigorously debating the role, rigor and value of assessments in their school, student and teacher accountability systems.  Examine ESSA and the flexibility it provides to states to redesign state assessments and accountability systems. Hear about states taking new, creative approaches to educational accountability.

Presidential Candidates’ Views on Education   
With an election year well underway and a new federal education law on the books, hear from senior campaign staff for both major parties’ presidential candidates how the nominees view ESSA regulations and state flexibility in the law, what they envision the state-federal in education relationship to be, and their insights on other education topics.

Innovative Approaches to Making College Affordable
Tuition has increased faster than inflation every year since 1980, outstanding student loan debt has more than doubled since 2004, and one million Americans are defaulting on their student loans annually. Hear how states have been experimenting with innovative solutions to this affordability crisis in big picture terms and more targeted policies.

Building a Strong Workforce: The Role and Importance of Community Colleges
Community colleges are integral to growing state economies, educating the workforce and providing opportunities to thousands of students. But what makes a community college outstanding? Hear from recent recipients of the prestigious Aspen Prize on how they succeed in graduating and credentialing their students and what state policies have helped or hindered their efforts.

School Vouchers and Education Savings Accounts:  Are They Constitutional?
More than half the states have school vouchers or private school choice programs, yet 37 states constitutionally ban public funding for religious schools, many of which have been challenged in the courts. Hear from legal experts about the history of the cases, how choice advocates have managed to win a majority, and legal issues to keep in mind when considering future private choice programs.

Personalized Student Learning: The Future of Education?
States and school districts are experimenting with personalized learning in which student progress is tailored to student interests and based on mastery of content rather than seat time. What are some state approaches and what are policies that support this transition?

Making the Grade
What will it take to move the United States from a mediocre C on the international education report card to the A+ other nations are scoring? NCSL’s International Education Study Group examined the principles that make countries like Finland, Singapore, Poland and China achieve a perfect education score. This interactive session will give you the syllabus to make it happen

What you’ll learn:

• How every aspect of these comprehensive systems is designed to create the world’s best education system—and workforce—and improve their economy.
• Why teachers are considered “nation builders” and how that translates into high achievement for students.
• What the instructional systems of the top performing counties have in common.
• Recommendations for turning state education systems into world class. 
• Latest Gallup Poll data on people’s response to education comparisons to other countries.

Welcome to the Third Wave of the Future
Economic powerhouses like Uber, Lyft and AirBnB challenged the culture and structure of prevailing business models. Now the dawn of a new technological revolution is on the horizon—the “third wave” of the internet. It will change our lives in unimaginable ways.

What you’ll learn:

• How, as the major funder of some of these sectors, government will be an important ally in reacting to—and shaping—the changing landscape.
• Why entrepreneurs will be looking at the public sector as a vital customer, not merely a regulator.

Making the Grade
What will it take to move the United States from a mediocre C on the international education report card to the A+ other nations are scoring? NCSL’s International Education Study Group examined the principles that make countries like Finland, Singapore, Poland and China achieve a perfect education score. This interactive session will give you the syllabus to make it happen

What you’ll learn:

• How every aspect of these comprehensive systems is designed to create the world’s best education system—and workforce—and improve their economy.
• Why teachers are considered “nation builders” and how that translates into high achievement for students.
• What the instructional systems of the top performing counties have in common.
• Recommendations for turning state education systems into world class. 
• Latest Gallup Poll data on people’s response to education comparisons to other countries.

The Future is Near: Revolution of the Roadways
A brave new transportation world is on the horizon where autonomous vehicles are at our service with a tap of a mobile device, traffic fatalities could be drastically reduced, and new partnerships pave the way for a radically different mode of travel. But this transition to the future is complicated, requiring legislatures, agencies and industry to invest in vehicle-to-everything technology and infrastructure for safer and more consumer and energy friendly roads and highways.

What you’ll learn:

• The infrastructure needs and costs to create a connected-vehicle future.
• Create a seamless transportation system and avoid regulatory pitfalls through partnerships among states, private industry and federal regulators.
• The types of infrastructure improvements necessary, including lane markings, hazardous roads mapping, embedded hazard road sensors, communications systems to minimize congestion and maximize efficiency.

Reaching Across the Aisle on Juvenile Justice
There is growing recognition by both Republicans and Democrats about what makes juvenile justice systems more effective at reducing juvenile crime. With a focus on evidence-based programs that effectively treat and rehabilitate young offenders, lawmakers in a number of states are working together to strengthen juvenile justice. Explore how legislatures, agencies and the courts are reducing juvenile confinement through early intervention, holding young offenders accountable and investing in improved community supervision.

What you’ll learn:

• How data and research are being put to work in crafting juvenile reform legislation.
• Cost-effective alternatives to incarceration.
• A comprehensive, system-wide approach that improves public safety, saves money, and gives kids a chance to be productive members of society.

Collective Creativity
New leadership looks, sounds and feels, well, a lot like jazz. You’ll get a musical perspective on the creativity, inspiration and efficiency that characterize leadership from Orbert Davis and members of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, who use music as a catalyst for change. You will learn how an innovative and inclusive leadership approach nurtures an environment where all voices are fully present, and excellence is the standard. 

What you’ll learn:

• How to listen, bop and swing along and translate these musical differences into current challenges.
• How to unleash and focus your creativity, energy and collaboration techniques.
• How to engage and integrate diversity of thinking and perspectives.

Reducing Poverty: A Bipartisan Approach
It’s a discussion on the campaign and on Main Street: How do we address poverty, wages and the collapse of the middle class in the U.S.? You’ll dive deep into new recommendations to solve poverty from The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, which brought together experts across the political spectrum to come to consensus on this difficult problem.

What you’ll learn:

• 12 policy recommendations to cut poverty and increase productivity.
• How to incorporate opportunity, responsibility and security into a specific strategy.
• A roadmap for strengthening families, increasing the number of qualified workers and improving education.

RX for America’s Opioid Addiction
The nation is battling a lethal epidemic that kills more people each year than traffic crashes. More than 120 Americans die each day from drug overdoses, with the majority caused by abuse of opioid prescription drugs and heroin. State resources are increasingly strained by rising foster care caseloads and crowded emergency rooms and jails.

What you’ll learn:

• How to develop a multi-pronged, inter-agency approach that addresses this as a public health issue.
• The human costs and budget implications of the opioid epidemic and how to rein them in.
• How to expand treatment options, including medication assisted treatment.

Targeting Health Care Costs
You know that health costs continue to rise, challenging state budget writers and squeezing other program priorities. But, how much do you know about where the money goes? For example, about 5 percent of the nation’s patients account for half of health care spending.

What you’ll learn:

• Where health care spending goes.
• State strategies to allocate health money more efficiently and effectively while improving patients’ health.
• Ways to reduce inefficiencies and waste in the health system.

Talk Like TED
Short, concise, emotionally connected—it’s what everyone strives for in their communication. And nobody does it better than TED.  It takes practice, practice and more practice to make your speech perfect. But after this interactive session you’ll be speaking like a pro, and prime-time ready.

What you’ll learn:

• The top steps to an effective and impactful presentation.
• How to revise and sharpen your talk.
• How to make a short, video presentation.
• How to create a plan for making your presentations compelling.

Police-Worn Body Cameras: Data and Privacy
Police-worn body cameras are becoming common law enforcement equipment, and now states and localities face the challenge of managing voluminous video and audio data the cameras produce. Explore protocols for camera use, how data is handled, stored and shared, and the state policies beginning to address these matters.

Second Chances: Public and Private Approaches to Offender Reentry
Nearly 11.5 million people cycle in and out of prison and jail each year. Explore steps lawmakers, executive agencies and the business community are taking to overcome the barriers to employment offenders’ face, and to expand second-chance opportunities.

Supreme Court Roundup
Many cases with implications for states came before the U.S. Supreme Court this term, including immigration, redistricting, affirmative action, abortion and the death penalty. Learn about these cases and how the Court’s ruling will impact your state.

Capital Punishment in the 21st Century
Executions in the U.S. are at a 20-year low, yet the capital punishment debate is intensifying in state capitols.  States must comply with court rulings, while also addressing sentencing and appeals, confidentiality, and methods of execution.  Examine important Supreme Court rulings on death penalty, along with state actions that are shaping capital punishment.

Cybersecurity Showdown: Challenges and Strategies for States
Cyber threats have enormous implications for government security, economic prosperity and public safety. In rapid fire blasts, learn about key cybersecurity issues and perspectives: government, financial and consumer data, water and energy threats, IT security and law enforcement challenges—all with an eye toward collaborative strategies to combat these elusive and ever evolving threats.

Reaching Across the Aisle on Juvenile Justice
There is growing recognition by both Republicans and Democrats about what makes juvenile justice systems more effective at reducing juvenile crime. With a focus on evidence-based programs that effectively treat and rehabilitate young offenders, lawmakers in a number of states are working together to strengthen juvenile justice. Explore how legislatures, agencies and the courts are reducing juvenile confinement through early intervention, holding young offenders accountable and investing in improved community supervision.

What you’ll learn:

• How data and research are being put to work in crafting juvenile reform legislation.
• Cost-effective alternatives to incarceration.
• A comprehensive, system-wide approach that improves public safety, saves money, and gives kids a chance to be productive members of society.

RX for America’s Opioid Addiction
The nation is battling a lethal epidemic that kills more people each year than traffic crashes. More than 120 Americans die each day from drug overdoses, with the majority caused by abuse of opioid prescription drugs and heroin. State resources are increasingly strained by rising foster care caseloads and crowded emergency rooms and jails.

What you’ll learn:

• How to develop a multi-pronged, inter-agency approach that addresses this as a public health issue.
• The human costs and budget implications of the opioid epidemic and how to rein them in.
• How to expand treatment options, including medication assisted treatment.

Politics 2016: State Election Preview
More than 6,000 legislative seats are up for grabs this November. Add to that the presidential race, a dozen gubernatorial elections and 150+ initiatives and referendums on statewide ballots, and the stakes are high for everyone in 2012. Come peer into the crystal ball and see what to expect come November.

Evaluating Elections: Ideas from the Carter Center
Continuous improvement is the goal in the elections world. How to do it? Election observers can watch and comment on (but not interfere with) everything from voter check-in to vote counting.  Others can evaluate election analytics, with an eye toward tweaking procedures for the next election. Learn from The Carter Center and others how legislators can move their states in these directions.

What to Do If You’ve Got a Disputed Election
What if an election is so close that no one concedes? It’s happened before: Think of the 2008 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota, when Senator Al Franken wasn’t sworn in until July 2009. Learn about history-making contested elections from Ned Foley, author of this year’s “Ballot Battles.” Explore “what if” procedures states can adopt ahead of time, so a disputed election—especially a presidential election—is less painful.

Redistricting: A Distinctively Legislative Power
Redistricting matters to every legislator in every state. Some states have designed commissions to do this vital task; most remain DIY. With a little history and a dash of humor, learn about the criteria states use to divvy up their geography, the ways that citizens engage in this eminently political process, and the procedures they follow.

Campaign Finance: What It All Means
Campaign treasuries, PACs, superPACs, 501c4s, and independent expenditures are the jargon of campaign finance. Learn what each can receive in contributions, and limits on spending. Look at the impact of self-funded campaigns, contribution limits and disclosure requirements: Do they make a difference? Come prepared to learn about the vastly different regulatory landscape across the states.

Technology: Improving Elections One Bit or Byte at a Time?
Election apps, online tools, electronic poll books, and more, are changing every aspect of the elections process. This brave new world comes with new challenges. What role do legislators play in adopting new technology? What is the price for implementing new voting tools? And what about the human factor—how does all this affect our voters and our poll workers? 

Helping Our Military Vote
Since the Civil War, it’s been official policy to get ballots to and from those serving in the military. What’s the modern day equivalent of the Pony Express that ensures ballots are sent to overseas citizens at least 45 days before Election Day and returned in time to be counted? If that means using the Internet, what are the security concerns, and are there any work-arounds that are foolproof?

Redistricting Working Session
Join your fellow redistricting geeks for this roundtable to help guide NCSL’s redistricting work over the next few months. The centerpiece: Creating the 2020 edition of the Redistricting Law book, aka The Red Book.

Gearing Up: Transportation Funding for the Future
Fuel economy standards are set to increase through 2025, more electric and alternative vehicles are on the road, and transportation mobility is changing.  Is it time to reevaluate how states collect transportation revenues? Examine how these changes could impact the future of transportation funding and emerging policies states are considering to meet transportation infrastructure needs.

Nuclear Nexus
Nearly 100 commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S generate almost 20 percent of the nation’s electricity. Competing energy technologies, lower fuel prices and little growth in electricity demand are changing economics and prompting some reactors to shut down. Explore market structures, economic challenges and compliance with safety considerations in the largest energy transition in generations.

The Electric Grid Revolution and the Clean Power Plan
Despite the Supreme Court stay of EPA’s carbon regulations, states are considering a range of potential energy futures based on new technologies and dramatically lower prices for natural gas and renewables. Hear leading energy analysts discuss how states can harness these changes to spark innovation, drive job growth and modernize electric grids, and how it will impact the state economies, jobs and citizens.

Crystal Clear? State Efforts to Improve Water Planning
Water makes news, whether it’s the algae bloom on Lake Erie, storm water runoff, lead poisonings in Flint, suits against upstream counties. States are working to bring together the agriculture industry, urban areas and clean water advocates to address efforts to maintain healthy water resources, and consider future demand and supply of this important resource.

Natural Disasters: Planning, Preparing and Paying for Them
As the frequency and severity of natural disasters increases, so do the potential budget impacts. From planning and mitigation to response, recovery and restoration, states must juggle a complex set of priorities. Engage with peers on the front lines of natural disaster planning and experts with information to help you prepare for this growing threat.

The Future is Near: Revolution of the Roadways
A brave new transportation world is on the horizon where autonomous vehicles are at our service with a tap of a mobile device, traffic fatalities could be drastically reduced, and new partnerships pave the way for a radically different mode of travel. But this transition to the future is complicated, requiring legislatures, agencies and industry to invest in vehicle-to-everything technology and infrastructure for safer and more consumer and energy friendly roads and highways.

What you’ll learn:

• The infrastructure needs and costs to create a connected-vehicle future.
• Create a seamless transportation system and avoid regulatory pitfalls through partnerships among states, private industry and federal regulators.
• The types of infrastructure improvements necessary, including lane markings, hazardous roads mapping, embedded hazard road sensors, communications systems to minimize congestion and maximize efficiency.

Prescription Drug Costs:  Challenges and Opportunities

Improving End-of-Life and Palliative Care
Modern medicine helps us live longer, but also complicates decisions about the amount and types of medical care patients want (or don’t) when facing the end-of-life. Learn about roles states play in palliative care and policies that help people make their wishes known in advance through living wills, advance directives and physician orders.

Medicaid Innovations
Medicaid is one of the biggest challenges for lawmakers in terms of anticipating and controlling costs. Hear about recent innovations states have implemented to improve health system performance, increase quality of care, and decrease costs for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries.

Healthy Kids are Better Learners
It’s no surprise that healthy children perform better academically than ones who struggle with poor mental and physical health. Hear about innovative strategies for promoting health, reducing risky behaviors and enhancing so-called “protective factors” that all contribute to a student’s well-being and academic achievement.

Married or Not: Shared Parenting is the Trend
Gone are the days of sole custody or preferential treatment for one parent over another. States are shifting family law to reflect the changing nature of families while ensuring both parents are involved regardless of whether they’re divorced or never married.  Hear how some states are even trying to set parenting time orders along with child support.

Pay for Success or Free Failure?
Pay for Success, a relatively new financing scheme in which private investors pay upfront costs to provide services and receive a return on their investment if they meet performance targets set by the state, has mixed results in social services. Learn about the challenges and innovations from this type of public-private partnership from home visiting to early education, foster care and homeless services.

Improving Lives of Older Kids in Foster Care
Hear from researchers, former and current foster youth, and state legislators about the latest research and policy approaches to address a host of issues kids face when they leave foster care: housing and homelessness, education, employment, teen pregnancy, access to health care, criminal justice and overall social support and connections. 

Reducing Poverty: A Bipartisan Approach
It’s a discussion on the campaign and on Main Street: How do we address poverty, wages and the collapse of the middle class in the U.S.? You’ll dive deep into new recommendations to solve poverty from The American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, which brought together experts across the political spectrum to come to consensus on this difficult problem.

What you’ll learn:

• 12 policy recommendations to cut poverty and increase productivity.
• How to incorporate opportunity, responsibility and security into a specific strategy.
• A roadmap for strengthening families, increasing the number of qualified workers and improving education.

RX for America’s Opioid Addiction
The nation is battling a lethal epidemic that kills more people each year than traffic crashes. More than 120 Americans die each day from drug overdoses, with the majority caused by abuse of opioid prescription drugs and heroin. State resources are increasingly strained by rising foster care caseloads and crowded emergency rooms and jails.

What you’ll learn:

• How to develop a multi-pronged, inter-agency approach that addresses this as a public health issue.
• The human costs and budget implications of the opioid epidemic and how to rein them in.
• How to expand treatment options, including medication assisted treatment.

Targeting Health Care Costs
You know that health costs continue to rise, challenging state budget writers and squeezing other program priorities. But, how much do you know about where the money goes? For example, about 5 percent of the nation’s patients account for half of health care spending.

What you’ll learn:

• Where health care spending goes.
• State strategies to allocate health money more efficiently and effectively while improving patients’ health.
• Ways to reduce inefficiencies and waste in the health system.

The Speed of Trust
Franklin Covey frames trust in economic terms. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up, creating a Trust Tax™.  But as trust increases, so does speed, and costs decrease, creating a Trust Dividend™. Join Franklin Covey and legislative experts for a unique perspective on trust as key to your legislature’s success, and learn ideas to build and maintain trust in your work and life relationships. 

Legislative Oversight Bootcamp
Bipartisan, fact-based, in-depth oversight leads to good public policy. In this interactive session you’ll learn about approaches and tools to organize the work, how to better work with people of opposing views, focus on the facts, and seek consensus. 

Staffing for Cyber Security
How can government and legislative IT offices be sure they have the budget, staff and skill sets necessary to protect against ever-increasing cyber threats and balance costs versus risks? Can government compete for qualified security professionals? Which tools or practices, such as security audits, are essential?

It’s a New Online World: Creating Legislative Websites that Inspire Public Trust
Americans are going online not just to find information; they want to their share their personal views and feel they’ve been heard. Legislatures in several states are ramping up efforts to create websites that encourage citizen involvement. Hear about new initiatives that not only welcome citizens but also help legislators understand, keep track of and respond to questions and concerns from voters.

Who is the Client? Ethics for Legislative Attorneys
Legislative attorneys have many masters--legislators, a legislator's staff, the chamber, the body as a whole, a legislative committee or caucus, and other stakeholders involved in the legislative process. And the question of attorney-client privilege is critical. When do you have a duty of confidentiality and from where is that duty derived? Who has the authority to make a request of you or direct your work?

Privilege and Immunity: Protecting the Legislative Process
Balancing unencumbered legislative deliberations with more open government is an ongoing struggle. Constitutional speech and debate clauses protect legislator—and to a more limited extent, staff –communications. Yet in some cases, the courts have narrowed this legislative privilege. What has happened in recent cases and how are legislatures working to protect the legislative process?

Making the Most of Mobile
Mobile devices, mobile websites and mobile apps are making legislative information accessible anytime and anywhere. Hear about various state approaches and policies for supporting and enhancing the experience of site visitors, including key design principles for successful legislative web and mobile sites.

The Military, Your Community and the Economy
Defense cuts and the threat of a future Base Closure and Realignment (BRAC) have created a perfect storm of challenges—and economic opportunities—for states and local governments that host military installations. Hear from leaders on the front line and then work in small groups on innovative policies on land use, educating veterans, preserving agricultural land and more. 

A Hero’s Best Friend: Regulating Service Animals
Taking advantage of a largely unregulated system, many people have purchased fake service animal certifications to allow their pets access to places they shouldn’t go.  But many veterans and others rely on service dogs to cope with physical disabilities, PTSD and other injuries. See what states are doing to curb this problem and protect the individuals who truly need service animals.

Helping Our Military Vote
Since the Civil War, it’s been official policy to get ballots to and from those serving in the military. What’s the modern day equivalent of the Pony Express that ensures ballots are sent to overseas citizens at least 45 days before Election Day and returned in time to be counted? If that means using the Internet, what are the security concerns, and are there any work-arounds that are foolproof?

U.S. Economic Outlook
Plunging oil prices, rising interest rates, the China effect—what do they mean for the global economy and states? Hear the latest insights from a national economist on the performance of the economy and how states and their budgets might be affected.  

Designing a State Tax System for the 21st Century
The sales tax base is eroding, personal income taxes are the target of tax reduction efforts, corporate income taxes are increasingly insignificant, and everybody hates the property tax. Severance taxes are down with the price of oil and gas and motor fuel taxes can no longer support basic transportation infrastructure.  What is a lawmaker to do?  Come to this session and find out.

AAA: Making the Grade in State Credit Ratings
How much debt is too much?  When should a state issue debt and how does it affect credit ratings?  Explore the proper role of debt as a financing tool, and its affordability in state budgets. 

New Tools for Evaluating Tax Incentives Workshop
Tax incentives are a common tool for policymakers to convince companies to set up shop in their states, but it is notoriously difficult to evaluate the long-term economic and budgetary consequences of incentives. Attend an in-depth tutorial on a new tool from the Pew Charitable Trusts to help legislative staff and policymakers better predict the costs and benefits of tax incentives.

The State of State Pension Funding and Underfunding
Although many state pension trusts are well funded with enough assets for current pension obligations, there are real concerns about the extent of underfunding in certain jurisdictions.  New reporting standards may offer more guidance to policy makers and rating agencies as well as to the public as to the extent of pension funding challenges.

Transparency in Public Pension Plans
Are public pension beneficiaries, taxpayers and policymakers getting the information they need about the investment performance and risk of public pension plans?  As many plans shift towards riskier and more complex investments, learn about how states can improve transparency and get a clear picture of pension funds’ investment performance and the funding risk from investment shortfalls.

Speaking on the Fly
Do your hands get clammy when, unexpectedly, you have to speak up and you’re not prepared? Or when you have half a minute to get your point across?  You’re not alone, and following this session you’ll have the tips and practice you need to articulate what you know succinctly, quickly and confidently.

Building Your Brand
Everyone has a brand, and consciously or not, we reinforce that brand for ourselves and our employer at every turn. Learn the do’s and don’ts of messaging, how to effectively build and maintain a strong brand, and how to position yourself, your team, your boss and your organization at the top of the food chain.

A Conversation on Leadership
Outstanding leadership is the key to effective legislatures. Hear from accomplished legislative leaders on their philosophy of bold leadership and their secrets on how to achieve success in the unique world of lawmaking.

10 Things Great Legislative Leaders Do
It’s true: There are 10 essentials to great leadership and you’ll leave this session knowing how to apply them and what the field of neuroscience reveals that all successful leaders need to know.  

The Seismic Demographic Shift: Generations and the Office
Millennials—the largest generation ever—are overtaking the workforce as Baby Boomers retire. This demographic shift has huge implications for the workplace—how we communicate, hire, retain, motivate and develop the new generation—and how understanding it can ensure inter-generational success at the office.