Upcoming Professional Education Opportunities

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 70th PASBO Annual Conference
March 11 – 14, 2025 | Hershey Lodge

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Elements courses are a broad overview of a School Business area offered at least one time during the year and conducted in a format much like a college course with class time, assignments, quizzes, etc.  The typical Elements courses are online, 4 week asynchronous courses with 1 unit per week. Students will complete 1 quiz and 2-3 discussion questions per unit. Students will also have the opportunity to join 3 calls with the instructor, including the initial kick off call. The in-person courses are run as a 1 day workshop where the concepts are reviewed and the discussions happen in person, with the quizzes being taken online after the in-person portion. For the in-person courses, all 4 units are covered in 1 day. The in-person courses are labeled in the event title.

Procurement: What You Need To Know and What You Should Know
December 10. 2024 | 1:00 – 2:30 pm

Including: Laws, Rules, Regulations, Authority, Bids, Quotes, Construction, Cooperative Purchasing, Specifications, Purchase Orders, Employee Reimbursements, Best Value Purchasing

SPEAKERS: 
Dale Kirsch, Member Advisor, PASBO
Jason Lichtfus, Purchasing Manager, Chester County IU

COSTS:
Member Early bird (end 11/26) – $75, after 11/26 – $80
Non-Member Early bird (end 11/26) – $115, after 11/26 – $120

AI 101
December 12, 2024 | 9:30 – 11:00 am

Learn how AI tools can streamline workflows in educational central office settings, automate tedious tasks like data entry and report generation, and ultimately boost productivity across your district. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore practical AI applications and unlock new levels of efficiency!

SPEAKER:
Keith McCray, Jr., Instructional Technology Specialist, Waynesboro Area SD

COSTS:
Member Early bird (end 11/28) – $75, after 11/28 – $80
Non-Member Early bird (end 11/28) – $115, after 11/28 – $120

Benefits Primer
December 16, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:30 pm

In this webcast, we will explain the basic requirements of administering the most common employee benefit programs in Pennsylvania. As with many aspects of administering payroll in public schools, most of the benefit programs are common to all employers and many are administered by payroll. This webcast will help you establish a general awareness of administering these benefits so that situations requiring expert assistance can be more easily recognized. The webcast will focus on those benefits outside of medical and prescription plans. This webcast will cover the following benefit programs with information explaining the benefit, proper treatment and other useful tips from practitioners in the field…

Taxability of Fringe Benefits; COBRA; Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Cost Control and Administration; Flexible Medical Spending Accounts; Group Life Insurance, Flexible Dependent Care Spending Accounts; Health Savings Accounts; Tax Sheltered Accounts (403(b)); Deferred Compensation Accounts (457); Workers Compensation Administration.

COSTS:
Member Early bird (end 12/2) – $75, after 12/2 – $80
Non-Member Early bird (end 12/2) – $115, after 12/2 – $120

Insights – Technology : Transportation, Food Service, HR, Payroll, & Business Office
December 17, 2024 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm 

Join us as a panel of expert PASBO members in the areas of technology, Transportation, Food Service, HR, Payroll, & Business Office discuss how the technology department can help your department and how you can help the technology department.

COSTS: 
Members: Early-bird (ends 12/3) $75 | After 12/3 – $80
Non-Members: Early-bird (ends 12/3) $115 | After 12/3 – $120

W-2/1099
January 8, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:30pm
Join us for this webcast where we will be… Revisiting Personnel Classifications: Employee, Contractor or Volunteer. This webcast will revisit legal classifications for supplemental positions and also discuss best practices for issuing W-2s versus 1099s.

SPEAKER:
Gareth D. Pahowka, Esquire | Stock and Leader, Attorneys At Law

COSTS: 
Members: Early-bird (ends 12/25) $75 | After 12/25 – $80
Non-Members: Early-bird (ends 12/25) $115 | After 12/25 – $120

Excel 1.0
January 9, 2025 | 9:30 – 11:30 am
Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Excel to become more efficient in your day to day environment. This session is beginner to intermediate level users. This is a hands-on session! We encourage attendees follow along with the hands-on activities throughout the session.

SPEAKER:
Sidney M. Clark, PCSBA, Business Manager/Board Secretary | Shanksville-Stonycreek SD

COSTS: 
Members: Early-bird (ends 12/26) $75 | After 12/26 – $80
Non-Members: Early-bird (ends 12/26) $115 | After 12/26 – $120

Planning in Picture: How Lessons Learned in the Military Special Operations Community Overseas Can Improve Incident Response at Home
January 15, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Communicating in unfamiliar locations under stress – and planning for contingencies – is an art and science mastered by U.S. military special operators through hard lessons learned over the past twenty years. During this presentation, decorated Army Ranger and Director for Pennsylvania at Critical Response Group will discuss how lessons learned overseas can improve how building managers and public safety professionals plan and communicate during critical incidents at home. This 45 minute presentation will detail how to make building maps. accessible and tactically-usable for first responders under stress.

SPEAKER:
Zach Querry, Regional Director-PA/MI/OH/WV, Critical Response Group

COSTS:
Members: Early-bird (ends 12/31) $75 | After 12/31 – $80
Non-Members: Early-bird (ends 12/31) $115 | After 12/31 – $120

First Things First
January 6, 2025 | 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
In-Person – PASBO Headquarters
This program is designed for in-person, small-group, with hands on work, deep dives and lively discussions. Designed for new members or more tenured members moving in to new business office roles. Tell us what your issues are, or topical areas you desire to be addressed; or describe the issues you face and we’ll look to connect to expertise and resources. The limited enrollment will allow for presenter preparation and to address specific needs, it will allow for cross-over learning on several topics even as we address specific needs and requests of days participants. For those so new their topic or job, who are not sure what specifically to ask for…just tell us that too….the sessions will cover general and overarching school business learning while connecting to resources, networking, and finding the expertise you may need.

SPEAKER: 
Tim Shrom, Ph.D., PCSBA, Director of Research, PASBO

COSTS: 
PASBO Member: $125
Non-Member: $185

Caffeinated Conversation: PDE363 Update
December 10, 2024 | 9:30 – 10:30 am

Come for a brief update on the updated PDE 363 form, including how to complete it, what data to use, and when to revise it. This will include open forum to ask any questions you may have. Caffeinated Conversations are free, members only events and are not recorded.

SPEAKERS:
Tim Shrom, Ph.D., PCSBA, Director of Research, PASBO
Hannah Barrick, Executive Director, PASBO

Human Resources Series
January 7, 2025 – March 4, 2025
Tuesdays 9 – 11:00 am | Thursdays 9 – 10:00 am
Online
This 8.5-week program is a deep dive into school HR (similar to a SHRM or HRCI prep course in private sector HR) Target group – School HR professionals who are either moving into an HR leadership role, who have been in HR 5+ years, and/or veteran HR professionals new to School HR looking for a deep dive to understand the nuisances of School HR

Course Format – 8.5 weeks, virtual, One 2 hour session per week with a 1 hour session each week (voluntary) for Q&A. The course will be run through GoToMeeting and registrants voices, names and faces will be visible. Sessions will be recorded and shared ONLY with registrants. Course will not be available for purchase post-event. Registrants are registering for the full 8.5-week series.

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SPEAKER:
Bobbi Billman, PCSBS, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Director of Member Development, PASBO

COSTS:
PASBO Members (early-bird, ending 12/24) $125 | After 12/24$130
Non-Members (early-bird, ending 12/24) $185 | After 12/24$190