Thank you for your interest in presenting at the 2016 North Carolina Chapter Conference. We are pleased that you are considering joining us and we look forward to reviewing your proposal. The intended audience includes school district superintendents, educators, facility and operations managers, planners, designers and builders whose collective mission is to improve the environments where children learn. Conference attendees will self-select into concurrent sessions. Presenters will have sixty (60) minutes to interact with attendees and present information on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:
- the relationship between facilities and learning
- facility planning and consensus building
- recent developments in Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- trends in green design for educational purposes, i.e. outdoor learning
- opportunities for learning anywhere, anytime
- school construction costs and educational funding – where are they heading and why
- lessons learned regarding school security upgrades
The conference is organized to present a balance between practical information and forward-thinking concepts. North Carolina is most interested in seminars with a emphasis on experience gained from actual projects using tried tools, technologies and practices that architects, planners, school facility managers and superintendents can take home and use or adapt. Each session should include key "lessons learned" that can be put into practice to enhance projects or affect change.
Though not mandatory, presenters are encouraged to collaborate with peers in other fields in order to bring a broad perspective to the subject. Real life examples should be used and case studies are encouraged. In an effort to provide our participants with the most useful training and information, we will not consider proposals with a commercial or product-oriented focus.
Sessions will be sixty (60) minutes in length, with a balance of time for presentation and group discussion. AV equipment will be available, if requested. All speakers must register and pay the regular conference fee. All speakers that would like to provide an electronic copy of their presentation must do so by April 8, 2016 and are welcome to forward to the contacts below. All presentations will be converted to PDF files and posted to the A4LE North Carolina Chapter websites. All proposals for consideration must be submitted on or before
March 1, 2016.
Call for Speakers is closed
Questions? Please contact
Len Witke, North Carolina Chapter president or
Rhonda Angerio, North Carolina Chapter president-elect.