FINAL FORMS TO OFFER “FIRST-TIME MEMBER” SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Final Forms, a prime sponsor of the Annual OIAAA State Conference, wants to assist those Ohio athletic directors who are joining the OIAAA for the first time and would also like to attend the 2016 State Conference.  Four (4) Membership/Conference “scholarships” will be awarded this month by FinalForms for the selected athletic administrators who submit their application by Friday, September 30th.

 

Here are the details:

    • Any current Ohio interscholastic athletic director (either Middle School or High School) who has NOT been an OIAAA & NIAAA member since 2014 is eligible to submit an application for the Final Forms scholarship.

 

  • The scholarship application form can be downloaded from the OIAAA website

 

  • Applications will be reviewed by a committee comprised of OIAAA Board of Directors.
  • Four (4) selected applicants will be notified no later than Thursday, October 6th.  A full year’s membership (through June 30, 2017) in both the OIAAA and NIAAA (value = $135) along with full registration for the 2016 OIAAA State Conference (value = $95) will be paid for by Final Forms.
  • NOTE:  
    • Chosen applicants must complete a hard copy of both the OIAAA/NIAAA Membership form along with the 2016 OIAAA Conference registration form upon notice.
    • Housing for the State Conference will be the responsibility of the chosen applicant.

DON’T DELAY!  Download, CLICK HERE, and submit your FinalForms OIAAA “Membership/Conference Scholarship” Application today!

An Important Consideration for the 2016-2017 School Year

August, 2016

To:          Ohio School Superintendents & Principals

From:     Bruce Brown, Executive Director, OIAAA

RE:          An Important Consideration for the 2016-2017 School Year

 

The Ohio Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (OIAAA) is one of the nation’s leading professional organizations for education-based athletics and the school administrators who oversee interscholastic athletics for our students.  In direct partnership with the Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) and the Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators (OASSA), the OIAAA stands as the third largest organization of its kind (in total membership) in the country for the specific purpose of enhancing the professional development of athletic administrators and other stakeholders of education-based athletics.

 

Just as your promotion of continuous education for your academic staff is critical to your schools’ growth and progressive development, there is high value for similar encouragement and support for those coaches, athletic directors and support personnel who touch the lives of our young people literally every day.  The OIAAA is committed to providing professional development opportunities and resources to insure that Ohio’s school-based athletic programs are meeting the educational purposes of each school district.

 

Many of you may already be aware of the opportunities that exist through membership in our OIAAA.  Among our resources, we provide:

  • Over 40, four-hour “Leadership Training Courses” which are accredited by AdvancEd’s North Central Association CASI (the same organization that accredits your school curriculum) for athletic administrators
  • National Certification for athletic administrators through our Professional Development Academy
  • Monthly online webinars, national Leadership Training Course webinars and valuable links to a repository of downloadable forms and “best practices” for your athletic administrator
  • CEU and college semester credit for attendance at our annual state conference
  • A $2,000,000 liability insurance policy to protect your athletic administrator for activity related to professional duties
  • A $5,000 term life policy for active athletic administrators
  • Opportunities to nominate your student(s) for annual OIAAA scholarships
  • Discounted registration fees for combined OIAAA/NIAAA/OASSA membership

 

With the myriad of challenges we all face as school administrators, we hope you will consider and support the opportunity for your athletic administrator to benefit from membership in our OIAAA.  Knowing that the person(s) who oversees your students’ athletic opportunities has full access to the very best resources in athletic leadership will likely benefit all of your school community’s stakeholders.

 

For more information on the OIAAA and membership options, go to:  www.oiaaa.org/about/membership-info/

 

Have a great start to your new school year!

May 2016 Executive Board Minutes

  1. Action Items:
      1. Additions to Agenda Powers
      2. Approve Agenda Powers
      3. Approve Minutes of 3/16/16 (HANDOUT A) Powers

1st  PHP

2nd BH

Action—approved 8-0

  1. Reports:
      1. Financial Report (FY to date) King
        1. May Financial Report (HANDOUT B)

1st PHP

2nd TE

Action—approved 8-0

 

        1. Additional budget notes and update through 5/1/16
        2. Other:
          • Insurance (term life) proposal for Membership (HANDOUT B1)  Bruce,

Look at term life and liability insurance.  35 cents per member per month—roughly $4.20 per member per year in total cost additional 2500 term life insurance to a total of $5000, start on July 1

Bruce asking for approval of this change

1st TE  

2nd JR  

Action—approved 8-0

 

          • Dan Adams contribution  Actual design of what John Glenn will do with contributions still not determined

Action—Already taken, $500 donation

 

          • Bruce Whitehead donation (HANDOUT B2)  $500 total contribution

1st PHP  

2nd BH  

Action this change is unanimous

 

      1. Membership Report    King/Brown
        1. Clarify CURRENT Ohio/NIAAA memberships

Randy’s report  15-16 membership form still being used, still receiving confused” submissions.

Bruce comments—16-17 overlap 6 months break point, if purchased after January 1 will go until June 30 of 2017.  Prior, theirs will expire June 30, 2016.

For brochure, slight change at “note to qualify in middle section” must be considered an administrator to receive the OASSA portion of the tri membership.

What about lifetime members?  Would have to make up the difference if lifetime with NIAAA only, so to add lifetime member of OIAAA additionally, would be $150

 

Should we remove the waived fee for regular/active lifetime membership for the state conference.  Also, add memberships are non transferable.

 

        1. Update on 2016-2017 Membership Drive
          • Membership Brochure (HANDOUT C)

 

          • Partnership with OASSA

 

          • Membership “overlap” concerns with NIAAA
            1. January 1, 2016 and later = good through June, 2017
            2. May, 2017:  Everyone on same cycle
          • Tie-in with Summer Institute (501 and 502)

Bruce, how can we move more people into LTI training.  Push toward new ADs.   So for new MEMBERS for 2016/2017, they will receive 501 & 502 at no charge

 

        1. Online registration discussion  Changing online provider from Ticket Roar to Ticket Tracker due to increase in cost.  

Include a membership form with brochure for fall distribution and OHSAA meetings

Move toward membership cards now being available only online

      1. OHSAA Report Snodgrass/Brown
        1. Summer Summit collaboration (HANDOUTS D, E & F)  15 registered for 501/502 already.  Pre-registration is moving forward, be sure to share with your respective districts.
        2. Division 1 Football: 4 Regions  
        3. Competitive Balance:  Will eventually need to do a transfer of students into arbiter as this will be how Comp. Balance will be determined.  Arbiter is providing a spreadsheet to make this transfer.
          • Beta testing
          • Discussions with Arbiter
          • Competitive Balance Committee review (May 3)
        4. Other updates—Summer leadership
      2. OASSA Report Baker—absent

 

      1. NIAAA Report Brown—

 

Section 2 situation, need two volunteers to assist in the process of selecting replacement.

          1. Potential NIAAA Board Vacancy, Section 2

 

  • Process (HANDOUT G)

 

        1. Candidate Review Committee (3 members)
      1. Awards Schumacher

 

        1. OIAAA Scholarship process—six scholarships, currently have 7 nominations.  Keep all and just use total amount and split up between these submissions.   District reps will need to determine if district board covers cost of scholarship attendees (Bruce will do).   Discussion on topic.  Motion requested on

Move to $400 per submitted scholar

passed—5 to 2

        1. Awarding of OIAAA Scholarships @ DABs (Brown)  
        2. NIAAA Awards:  Ohio nominations in red for this year
          • NFHS Citation, Kovaleski  Jon Payne
          • DSA  Tom Nerl
        3. OIAAA HOF issue  All but one of the submitted districts submitted
      1. Conference Report Brown

Three sessions and six offerings

Early bird activity requests

Asking for suggestions for 2nd Cracker Barrel session—topic would be those with limited personnel resources

3rd Cracker Barrel session –need facilitators and topics for this session

Andy J is working on keynote speaker

Mitch Osbourne speaking and support for the encouragement of multi sport athletes

Program for transition from MS to HS.

Add 2nd cycle of breakouts, focusing on Arbiter

How to engage stake holders on initiatives

Emergency action plan execution Tonya Gruel-Wright & Dean Taylor will present

Student Athlete Leadership Counsel—looking for a presenter.

 

 

  • 2016 planning update (HANDOUT H)

 

        1. Conference “Flow Chart”
        2. “Jerry Lucas” memorabilia fundraiser (info only)
        3. Vendor update and Brochure Poggi About 48 on a waiting list, last year’s vendors get a week lead
      1. Certification Update Payne  exams are in place for this year’s opportunities (CAA)  Registration is still through national.  Exams will be moving toward online, no paper tests after national this year.
      2. Leadership Training Gillespie  for outreach programs, instructors have not been paid.  Glen has asked for input on this practice.  

Motion to consistently compensate instructors

Tim 1st  Phil 2nd passed 7-0

      1. Newsletter e-zine Gillespie  
        1. May timeline: Articles due MAY 1; release May 6  
      2. Website Frombach  asks for submissions on major job openings.   Discussion on district websites with state.
      3. Business Partnership Report Brown–conversation with corporate vendors.
        1. On-site visits (Ohio Team Shop)

 

        1. New reviews:
          • “New World Newsletter” (Mark Goldberg) (HANDOUT I) proposing three options.  If OIAAA shares this, schools get membership for school @ $250.  2nd– for $5000 offered to all school districts across the state

3rd—OIAAA gets a sponsor to cover this costs.

Bruce will investigate further.  Either get  a sponsor or propose to schools the $250 per school.

 

        1. Current Partnership Schedules

 

    1. Discussion Items:
        1. Section 2 Brown/Erickson Send registration by May 20.   Attending will be Section 2 Board Rep (TBA), Bruce Brown, Tim Erickson , Randy King, Paul Powers
          1. Update on MD Section 2 attendees:  BB, TE, RK, PPow, BH, RG + Board rep
          2. Organization of Advance Committee for Ohio Hosting (2017)

 

  • Update from Joe Roberts  Sandusky area will be used.  Cedar Point will be considered as hosting site, waiting on reply.  Both Kalahari and Cedar Point are available for conference dates

 

            • Planning Committee (Need to have details for Maryland mtg. in June)
        1. Strategic Planning Updates Brown

 

  • Sub-group reports/updates: (HANDOUT J)  Brown—due to time constaints of today’s meeting.  Each group needs to come back with time frame and sub sets and report those back within the next two weeks.

 

          • Strategy 1: Erickson & Roberts
          • Strategy 2: Payne & Gillespie
          • Strategy 3: Brown & Powers
          • Strategy 4: King & Poggi
          • Strategy 5: Brown, Powers & Erickson

 

 

  • Timeline for reporting and approval of target items:

 

          • Set a date (????)
          • Prep information packet:  Members and website

 

      1. District reports:   
        1. Central: Alyssa Downing absent.  Bo reports just had meeting.  Bo reports

 

        1. Northwest: Joe Roberts  just had spring round tables, about 70 ADs in attendance.  Will change format for next year.

 

        1. Northeast: Andy Jalwan  absent.  Conference in April, highest attendance ever about 130.  Included Arbiter and had discussion a part of this.  Oliver Luck spoke

 

        1. East: Ray Hibbs  Conference took place, included Arbiter training for membership.  Thursday night had awards and presented membership proposal.

 

 

  • Southeast: Rick Guimond—April Meeting held-Three Vendors present

 

Peter Fitzpatrick Ohio Team Shop

Rob Rice of School Pride

Pete Miller of MillCoDesigns, maker of the “The Matt”

Discussed our hosting of the State Meeting have about 15 to 20 volunteers at present.  Spring outing will May 13@Elks’ Country Club, Portsmouth 9AM

        1. Southwest: Phil Poggi   Meeting will be May 10 and a golf outing is  May 23.

 

      1. Upcoming dates of note:
        1. Spring District meetings:
          • SWOADA—May 10—Sycamore HS
          • SEOIAAA—May 13–Jackson
          • SWOADA— May 23—Spring Golf Outing- Heatherwoode CC

 

  1. Adjournment: Powers

 

        1. IMPORTANT DATES:
          1. “Summer Institute”: June 14-16, 2016, OHSAA Offices, Columbus
          2. Section 2 Meetings: June 22-24, Solomons, Maryland

 

  • “2016-2017 New A.D. Webinars” – determine planning committee  Brown, 15 to 20 people on average in attendance.  last one May 10

 

        1. Officers, Executive Director, Treasurer:  Summer Strategy Session:  Wednesday, July 27, 2016:  SITE: (TBA) 10 AM
        2. NEXT ALL BOARD MEETING: SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2016, OHSAA Offices, 9:30 a.m.

October 16

November 12 (part of conference)

January 22

March 12

April 30

 

 

2016 NIAAA Fall LTC Webinar Schedule

 

2016 Fall Webinar Schedule

We are pleased to announce that the NIAAA will be teaching LTC 501, 502, 504, 506, 511, 631, 703 and 705 via webinar in the fall of 2016. Our webinars offer the opportunity to take courses from the comforts of the office or home and receive the same quality instruction, interaction and networking opportunities as is provided in a classroom setting.

Courses being offered include:

 

501 November 1 & 8
502 October 20 & 27
504 October 18 & 25
506 November 3 & 10
511 October 17 & 24
631 October 31 & November 7
703 November 2 & 9
705 October 19 & 26

Registration opens August 1 and will close September 31.

For more information, please call 317-587-1450 or email ncrocker@niaaa.org.

 

Appropriate Social Media for your Coaches & Athletes

As administrative leaders, we consistently strive to provide our teachers and coaches the tools for best practice and appropriate behavior in their respective roles.  Social media concerns and advances make for a critical discussion topic that we all must address and show due diligence in the training of our people.

The National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS) has recently released two, free online courses to assist coaches and students in making appropriate decisions in the use of Social Media. The OIAAA strongly encourages our member schools to provide access to these courses prior to the start of the coming school year.  Below is information as to how administrators can learn more about accessing these free training courses.

 

New FREE Courses Available at the NFHS Learning Center
Social Media for Students
 Social Media for Students has been designed to give students the information that they need to develop responsible social media habits.  This course illustrates the long-term consequences that irresponsible social media usage can have on a student’s educational, athletic, and professional careers.
Social Media for Coaches 

Through the use of social media, everyone now has the ability to be a mass communicator.  This has greatly impacted the sports industry, including high school sports and activities.  This course is designed to assist you in setting clear boundaries and guidelines for your students’ responsible social media usage.