Handouts & Materials

For current handout materials, please visit the Program Sessions page. Sessions are listed chronologically. If available, a "Download Materials" link appears at the end of the session's description.

All speakers are asked to provide handout materials for attendees, and everything is posted on this website as it is received from them. Some sessions do not lend themselves as readily to handouts, and some speakers choose not to provide materials until after the Conference. Our partners at the U.S. Department of Education are rarely able to release their handout materials far in advance, as the details discussed in their sessions are often changing up until they arrive. In all cases, this website will have the most current handouts available for any session - it they are not available to download here, that means they haven’t been provided. Although there are any number of ways to distribute these important items, we have chosen to offer them in an electronic form only. Here’s why:

• Electronic handouts are available, in most cases, in advance of the Conference. This allows attendees to pre-screen which sessions are going to be of most value to them prior to arrival at the Conference.
• Electronic handouts provide materials from sessions attendees were unable to attend, but would like to learn more about.
• Electronic handouts provide greater opportunities for speakers to submit updated information, as well as nontraditional materials.
• Electronic handouts are more environmentally friendly. When first introducing the concept of self-printing as a Green Initiative last year we didn’t do an adequate job of explaining how this saves paper and trees. When we distribute paper handouts onsite at each session, we print approximately 15% more sets than the number of seats in each room to ensure that very popular sessions will have sufficient copies available. A room that seats 600 (for which we’ve printed 700 sets) may only attract 400 attendees, of whom 250 wanted to retain the handouts. This means that 450 sets (of up to 30 or 40 pieces of paper each) will be wasted. Multiply this by more than 100 sessions and you can see how quickly a conference of this size can end up with hundreds of thousands of pages of unnecessary paper.
• Electronic handouts save money. Yes, it’s true, part of our motivation is cost saving, but that’s good news for attendees, as well. As we all know, the cost of just about everything continually goes up and up and up. The National Title I Conference has not increased the registration price for this event in more than four years, in large part because we are able to find smaller cost-saving measures such as this.