WACA 2025: Full Schedule

3:00pm PDT

Area 9 Meeting

Wednesday March 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT

Countdown - building culture and community in the area, networking, preview the conference.

Speakers

Katie Harrington

Area 4 Rep

Wednesday March 12, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
B

Area Networking, Culture Building, Professional Growth

5:00pm PDT

Job-alike Session-Middle Level ASB/Activities w/o Leadership Class

Wednesday March 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm PDT

This is an opportunity to network, connect, and have conversations with people in similar roles.
This is a two-part session, meaning you will meet with this same group twice during the conference.
-Wednesday 5-5:45 pm
-Friday 10:50-11:30 am

Speakers

Kacie Solar

Middle School Level Rep, Sequoyah Middle School

Link to Leadership Goes to the Movies website: https://sites.google.com/p12fwps.org/leadership-movies/home?authuser=12025 Middle Level Pre-Con Presentation:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GmF2ZWgZ-sspv_Mbu_DzNmUEO8PXVPsnaR8D_D5B6gU/edit#slide=id.g33e9efe7c31_0_67

Wednesday March 12, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm PDT
B

Networking, Culture Building, Professional Growth, Project Management

8:45am PDT

Area 9 Meeting

Thursday March 13, 2025 8:45am - 9:30am PDT

Launch - Professional Growth, building our collective knowledge

Speakers

Katie Harrington

Area 4 Rep

Thursday March 13, 2025 8:45am - 9:30am PDT
B

Area Networking, Culture Building, Professional Growth

9:40am PDT

Session 1-05 Teamwork makes the dream work? Or... something like that.

Thursday March 13, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am PDT

Ready for your team or class to bond and connect in fun-interactive ways? This session is interactive and provides activities, tangibles, and takeaways for your team to bond, connect, and have some fun in the process!

We will be playing! So get ready to have some fun!

Speakers

James Layman

Administrator, Association Of Washington Student Leaders

Teamwork makes the dream work (WACA 2025) pdf

Teamwork (WACA 2025) pdf

Thursday March 13, 2025 9:40am - 10:30am PDT
B

Professional Development, Culture Building

1:00pm PDT

Session 3-05 No Prep Lessons, Ice-Breakers & Check-Ins for General Ed & Leadership Classes

Thursday March 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT

This session provides plug and play leadership class lessons, ice-breakers that can be used in leadership and general ed classes, name games to play at the start of the semester (or at club meetings), hundreds of attendance questions, check-in and get to know you forms, plus more. (Please note: This session includes some of the same lessons and resources as last year's Ice-Breaker's, Check-Ins and Name Games, Oh My!)

Speakers

Jacqueline Keezer

Recognition Coordinator, Richland High School

I teach leadership, math and AVID at Richland High School!! I would love to connect with you!! Email: Jacqueline.Keezer@rsd.edu Insta: @mrs.keezer

Thursday March 13, 2025 1:00pm - 1:50pm PDT
B

Professional Development, Culture Building, Professional Growth

3:15pm PDT

Session 5-05 Building Culture Through Growth

Thursday March 13, 2025 3:15pm - 4:05pm PDT

Speakers

Christian Paige

Poet, Speaker, Educator, Poet, Speaker, Educator

Christian Paige is an Emmy nominated spoken word poet, a professional speaker and educator who speaks at schools, conferences, and events across the United States. Paige has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people and loves to work with young people who are committed to doing good... Read More →

Thursday March 13, 2025 3:15pm - 4:05pm PDT
B

Professional Development, Culture Building, Professional Growth

4:15pm PDT

Session 6-03 Relating to the Unrelatable

Thursday March 13, 2025 4:15pm - 5:05pm PDT

How do we reach students who don’t want to be reached? How do we get to the students who have no interest in school? This session will give ideas and strategies on how to reach these fringe students who are not the “Easy” students to get engaged into your school

Speakers