2009 ASBA Annual Conference

The 2009 ASBA Annual Conference will be held December 9-11, 2009, at the Peabody Hotel and Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. Featured speakers include Gov. Mike Beebe, Education Commissioner Dr. Tom Kimbrell, Ark. Lottery Commissioner Patty Shipp, Ark. Lottery Exec. Director Ernie Passailaigue and motivational speaker Dr. Charles Petty. Jim Slaughter will present a pre-conference workshop on parliamentary procedure.

Online registration is now available. To register online, click here. You may pay by credit card or select "company check" if you wish for ASBA to invoice your school district.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO SUPERINTENDENTS AND SUPT. SECRETARIES: When registering online, use your school district e-mail address. The screen you should see after you enter your district e-mail address and click "go" will show all of your board members' names with check boxes next to them for your ease of registration. If after logging in you do not get the screen showing all of your board members, you are not using an e-mail address in our system. Please immediately call Jason Sylvester at the Arkansas School Boards Association at 1-800-482-1212 for your name and e-mail address to be added to our database.

We will mail registration forms to all board members and superintendents soon. These may be submitted instead of using the online registration, if you prefer. Click here for a print version of the registration form.

Click here for the tentative conference schedule. Click here for breakout session descriptions.

The Peabody Hotel is offering a single room discount rate of $129 for conference attendees. Please advise the hotel when making reservations that you are with the Arkansas School Boards Association annual conference. Hotel reservations may be made by calling 501.906.4000 or 800.PEABODY. Hotel reservations must be made by November 18.