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Education Highlights

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ith more than 60 sessions and 12 education tracks being
offered at the 2020 NRPA Annual Conference: A Virtual
Experience, you are guaranteed to learn something new
and leave inspired. Below are just a few of the education
sessions that will be offered during NRPA Virtual.

WE GOT ENGAGED!: Tips for
Communicating Effectively with
Your Part-Time Workforce
This session will focus on tackling
the challenges of effectively communicating with large numbers of
part-time employees in an efficient
manner that encourages collaboration, mentorship, cross-training and
employee development. Attendees
will learn about the benefits of creating a part-time advisory council
and embracing the unique talents
found in a diverse department, while
exposing the part-time workforce to
the varied and wide-ranging careers
that can be found under the park
and recreation umbrella. Interactive
discussion topics will include lessons
learned from an array of communication and efficiency barriers, best
practice suggestions for managing
today's part-time employee and tips
for how to prepare for the future of
increased service demands balanced
with staffing challenges.
Speakers: Adam Blackmore, City of
Henderson Public Works, Parks and
Recreation
Track: Career Development

Safe Spaces for High Performers:
How to Create a Safe Space for
Your Workforce
In this interactive learning experience, participants will explore the
characteristics of high performers
and how engaging these key team
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members within the workplace can
be critical to work performance.
Identifying these characteristics
will create an opportunity for managers and coworkers to put into
action the concept of " checking
on your strong friends. " Highperforming staff members can be
an asset to your team. However,
managing and staying engaged
with such members can be a challenge. This session will stimulate
a conversation that identifies characteristics of high performers and
also puts into action essential staff
engagement tools to support the
continued success of high performers within the workplace.
Speakers: Atuya Cornwell, MarylandNational Capital Park and Planning
Commission, Prince George's County
Department of Parks and Recreation;
Cortni Grange, Grange Enterprises
Track: Employee and Volunteer
Management

There's an Octopus in the
Parking Garage?! 'Futureproof'
Your Parks for Resiliency to
Climate Change
With the election upon us, one topic that is often discussed is climate
change and its dramatic effects on
communities all over the world.
Increased flooding, drought, expanding ranges of non-native invasive species, access to clean water
and changes in the growing season

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are just a few impacts that show
that this isn't just a coastal problem. Resiliency is another term often used - but what is resiliency
and why should you be thinking
about it when developing/redeveloping parks? Making decisions regarding the location of parkland,
the use of those lands, the placement of infrastructure and overall
park design will be critical in the
coming decades. This discussion
will give you a good idea of how
climate change will be affecting
parks and recreation departments,
what jurisdictions around the
country are doing to be more resilient, and how you can describe
these changes and their effects to
elected officials and the public.
Speakers: Chris Matthews, Mecklenburg
County Parks and Recreation; Jai Cole,
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery Parks
Track: Conservation

Equity: The Case for Redlining
the Term 'Social' and Getting
Comfortable with 'Racial'
Why " racial, " not " social " equity?
While wealth is a major driver in
outcomes, race is the stronger predictor. When studies control for
income, racial disparities remain
key factors in health, education,
employment and incarceration
outcomes. Racial equity strategies are currently a major focus of
parks departments in large, diverse,
urban cities. Parks departments
- such as the Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission, New York City Parks and
Recreation, Los Angeles County



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