Pro tip: Use the tracks on the right side to filter sessions for your division or areas of interest!
If you are asked for an event code: Instead of searching for the event, go to “Sign Up / Sign In” and enter your email address. That will bring you to the 2024 Fall Educators Conference and allow you to download the app.
Unable To Download the App? The app will be the richest way to navigate the conference, but if you are not able to download it, there are a few other options:
FOOD AND DRINK
Breakfast will be served in the Tarrier Dome from 8:00-8:30AM.
Lunch will be served in the Tarrier Dome from 11:00AM-12:00PM.
Coffee stations will be located in the Tarrier Dome and the Middle School Commons throughout the day.
Wandering Cowgirl Espresso will also be offering other beverages for the day right outside the Middle School Commons. Remember to bring money if you are looking for something with a little more oomph than drip coffee!
WA CLOCK HOURS & STARS CREDITS | 4 HOURS AVAILABLE
There will be a Clock Hours / STARS Credits table at registration.
Please read the following instructions carefully.
To receive WA Clock Hours, you must:
- Opt in for clock hours using this form prior to or on the day of the conference.
- Physically sign in at registration to receive your clock hours form. This must be completed on-site.
- You do not need to sign out at the end of the conference. This form is for your records to re-certify with OSPI independently.
Clock Hours are only available to those who have opted in and signed in receive them. Any opt in submissions received after October 11, 2024 will be deemed ineligible.
To receive STARS credits, you must fill out the session form by
STARS Credits are only available to those who have completed the session form by the date above.
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
If you are credentialed outside of Washington State and need to petition another agency for credits or you would like a certificate for your files, NWAIS is happy to provide one upon request at no charge.
To request a certificate of participation, please fill out this form.
SUSTAINABILITY NOTE
Let’s Make This Our Greenest Conference Yet!
This is our chance to walk our talk and live into our sustainable values. We are asking your help partner to lessen our impact on our local community and on the Earth as we gather together on Friday.
Carpool With A Colleague
We encourage that people travel to the event together in groups of three or more.
Bring a Water Bottle and/or Coffee Cup
We will not have water bottles available. There will be coffee cups, but it would be great to minimize our single use items. Refill stations are marked on the Campus Maps.
Use The App
We will have a limited number of paper handouts that have the most basic information (session names, times and locations). We will not have any printed versions of the full conference program. All that information (and tons more) can be found in Whova, the conference app. Take a few minutes to find your way around the app. You can also explore some great ways to find and connect with colleagues. The app will also hold all the follow-up resources, slides that will be shared, and handouts. You can download the app here.
Bring Your Lanyard From Another NWAIS Event
Attendees tell us all the time that they have a lanyard or two from other NWAIS events—we invite you to bring that lanyard with you and put it to good use!
Leave Behind Your Lanyard
If you have a use for it, please take it with you, but if you expect to throw it out, we will reuse if for a future event.
There will be bins located throughout campus for lanyard returns to be reused for future events.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Breakout sessions are open to all attendees on a space-available basis. It would be a good idea to come with a first and second choice in mind.
LACTATION ROOMS
You can sign up for a space to pump here.
These spaces will be private, have locking doors and nearby access to a sink. Lactation rooms are also marked on the Campus Maps.
SUPPORT FOR THOSE WITH MOBILITY LIMITATIONS
If you need mobility support, please call or text Jami Sheets at 206-851-3311.
Jami will be able to get in touch with Charles Wright's team who will be able to come and get you in the golf cart and bring you to your next session. We hope this will help you manage the spread out campus.
We will not be holding any sessions in the Upper School Building. The other buildings on campus have good accessibility from the entry ways to the classrooms and featured speaker sessions.
