Leadership Conference 2025
Includes a Live In-Person Event on 10/09/2025 at 8:30 AM (EDT)
Date: 10/09-10/2025
Location: Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel | 409 Altair Pkwy | Westerville, OH | 43082
Fee: $300 (Member) / $600 (Non-Member)
Join us for a hands-on, interactive session with Dr. Marguerite Roza, exploring how to navigate today’s complex financial landscape. Unpredictable state and local revenues, shifting federal funding, and declining enrollment continue to challenge school leaders. Dr. Roza will provide a K-12 financial outlook and practical tools to help prioritize student needs, manage budget pressures, and sustain district financial health.
On day two, we will shift focus to communications. Media and messaging experts will guide participants on how to answer tough questions from the press and the community, and how to communicate consistently and effectively.
Participants will learn how to:
- Prioritize spending on student needs and sustain high-impact investments
- Use data to communicate financial decisions and improve outcomes
- Explore innovative compensation strategies that support student success
- Strengthen messaging with media and the public
Thursday, October 09
8:30 am - 9:30 am
Registration Desk Open/Breakfast
9:30 am - 10:00 am
Welcome and Program Overview
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dr. Marguerite Roza
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Dr. Marguerite Roza
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Program Re-Cap & Wrap Up
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Reception/Dinner
Friday, October 10
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Media/Public Relations Training
12:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Hotel Reservations
OASBO has secured a special hotel room rate at the Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel of $179 + 16.5% tax per night for your stay.
Reservations may be made be calling the Hotel directly at 614-882-6800 or 833-427-0292. You need to identify as being with the Group of OASBO's Leadership Conference in order to receive the special Group rate.
OR
You may make a reservation through the following link:
Group's cut-off date is 4:00 PM, Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
Dr. Marguerite Roza
Director, Edunomics Lab / Research Professor, McCourt School, Georgetown University
Dr. Marguerite Roza is Research Professor at Georgetown University and Director of the Edunomics Lab, a research center exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions to inform policy and practice. She leads the McCourt School of Public Policy's Certificate in Education Finance, which equips participants with practical skills in strategic fiscal management, policy analysis, and leadership. Her research traces the effects of fiscal policies at the federal, state, and district levels for their implications on resources at the school and classroom levels. She is author of the highly regarded education finance book, Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go?
Roza was a Senior Economic Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Lieutenant in the US Navy teaching thermodynamics at the Naval Nuclear Power School. She earned a PhD in Education from the University of Washington, a BS from Duke University, and studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Amsterdam.
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