SkillsUSA is excited to announce that Dr. Tim Elmore, an icon in youth leadership development, will spend the day with Engage participants. Dr. Elmore will deliver to the group the foundations of healthy leader development by providing ideas for leader training that result in real life change. He will also provide steps for nurturing new leaders! According to internationally recognized leadership expert Dr. John Maxwell whom Elmore has worked with for over 25 years, "No one teaches leadership better than Tim Elmore." To learn more about Dr. Elmore and his organization Growing Leaders go to: www.growingleaders.org. Teachers participating in Engage will have the opportunity to spend time with Dr. Elmore in a small group setting to ask questions and drill down into his teachings. Dr. Elmore's presentation is scheduled for Saturday June 22, 2013 from 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. in Bartle Hall.

The remaining day and a half-day of professional development training, is designed to help teachers better understand and utilize the many leadership development materials and interactive resources available through SkillsUSA. The program is taught by experts within youth leadership development as well as guest presenters.

Advisors will dive deep into the world of chapter operations and discover how to use chapter activities as classroom teaching tools.  Answers on how to successfully engage students in chapter meetings, committees, recruitment, fundraising, public relations and the entire program of work will be revealed.  Teachers will gain the latest techniques involved in giving clear directions, questions, processing and accessing student achievement.

Engage will focus on new educational resources being launch by SkillsUSA at the National Leadership and Skills Conference. New products will be unveiled during the training and each workshop will be led by the author of that product. Participants will unpack the new resources and share best practices on how to implement these tools for the greatest impact in their chapters. Teachers participating in Engage will receive a set of all the new resources as a part of the training. Here is a complete schedule for Engage.

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The bus schedule will be determined at least one week prior to the conference and posted on our website. Please also check with your State Director as the schedule will be emailed to them as well.