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2015 Assigners Summit

Welcome

Agenda:

1. Welcome 2. Part 1 – Issues in assigning today 3. Break 4. Part 2 – Assigner Certification 5. Closing Remarks

Who we are

Director, Education and Training

Erin Smith

• Sr. Manager,

Officials Education

Charlie Obermayer

Manager, Men’s Officials Education Program

Gordon Corsetti

Manager, Women’s Officials Education Program

Liz Brush

Objectives

• Provide an update on US Lacrosse

initiatives related to assigners

• Learn from each other and discuss

issues in assigning today

• Discuss requirements for

certification of assigners and benefits

Resources

• Assigner Guide
• Arbiter360 Integration
• Membership
• Certification
• Test Results
• NCSI Background Checks
• Assigner Only Webpage
• Coming in 2015!

Education and Training Center

• Officials Education Staff
• Certification
• Training
• Membership
• General Questions
• ArbiterSports
• Integration
• Assigner help
• Official help

PRATT STREET LOBBY LEVEL ACROSS FROM REGISTRATION AREA

Part 1 -

• Introductions
• Where you’re from
• Your involvement in lacrosse
• How long you have been assigning
• Discuss the Part 1 Scenarios
• Put the responses on your poster

paper

• When finished post your poster in

the appropriate spot

Part 1 - Topics & Scenarios

• 1. Discuss how you set fees, and the challenges you face.
• 2. Discuss how you have handled situation s that involved angry coaches and/or

administrators.

• 3. Discuss how you use assigning to develop your officials and retain them and move

them up the “ladder”. Come up with three to five strategies.

• 4. Discuss assigning tournament. On your poster list a column for challenges and a

column for solutions to those challenges. NO CHALLENGES WITHOUT SOLUTIONS!

DO NOT FORGET TO RECORD THE KEY THINGS FROM YOUR DISCUSSION ON YOUR POSTERS

Poster Review

Walk around the room with your individual post-it pad, reviewing other group’s

• posters. Use post-its to

annotate or make comments

• n the other posters in the

room. Use your phone to take pictures of each groups posters to reference ideas when you get home.

Part 2 -

• Certification Discussion
• Put the responses on your poster

paper

• When finished post your poster in

the appropriate spot

Part 2 – Certification Discussion

Using the information provided and your group’s best thinking, develop a certification program for assigners by answering the below:

What are the essential skills/competencies should assigners demonstrate? (TOP 5) 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) What should the requirements be for becoming a certified assigner? List below: Would you charge a fee for your certification program? If no, how would you fund it? What benefits would you give to assigners that achieved certification? How would you fund these benefits? What ongoing education would you require for certified assigners (ie re-certification)? What would be the value or benefits to the lacrosse community by having a national certification program for assigners?

Poster Review

Walk around the room with your individual post-it pad, reviewing other group’s

• posters. Use post-its to

annotate or make comments

• n the other posters in the

room. Use your phone to take pictures of each groups posters to reference ideas when you get home.

Next Steps

• 1. Assemble Certification Task Force
• 2. Create Certification Steps
• 3. Approve Incentive Program
• 4. Develop Certification Curriculum
• 5. Launch Certification Program

Key Sessions

• 1. Officials’ Role in Player Safety:

Concussion and Injury Recognition

Friday – 4:30PM – 343

• 2. Why are they Quitting? How to

Keep Your Officials Officiating!

Friday – 5:45PM – 345

• 3. Sticks and Stones: Legally Speaking

Saturday – 9:15AM – 318

• 4. Officials Keynote – Bill Carollo

Saturday – 12:30PM – 314