Bridging Success: Empowering Every Learner
Tuesday, August 5th, 2025 | 8:00 am – 3:00 pm | $50
Teamwork makes the dream work! We’ve all heard this phrase, but how can we create teams to make that dream a reality? The Endless Possibilities conference will provide resources and tools to build effective teams to support our students with disabilities to succeed in school as well as in life!
Through accommodations, technology and innovation, educators and families can help students thrive in school and prepare for success after school. We will learn about Augmentative and Assistive Communication, how to support engaged readers, and learn what others are doing to support positive outcomes for students with disabilities to achieve their goals.
The conference will be held in-person at Waukesha County Technical College (WCTC) again! WCTC’s Pewaukee campus offers a state-of-the-art venue on a beautiful, easily accessible campus, for a day of engaging in-person learning and community. WCTC campus maps and directions to WCTC can be found here.
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Families are encouraged to come. However, childcare will not be provided. Children need to be registered before the conference, which is accessible by adding the add-on ticket for an additional lunch during registration. Please contact Chris Stagge at [email protected] with questions or for more information.
A limited number of parent scholarships are available to cover the registration fee. For registration questions, including parent scholarship and purchase order information, please contact WI FACETS.
Registration closes Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Bringing Everyone to the School Community with Mike Hipple
The AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) highway in Wisconsin. For the last 30 years Mike and his family have been on the AAC highway of Wisconsin, with a lot of wrong turns, train tracks of languages, one-way roads of the education system, and neighborhoods of networking opportunities. Join him as he talks about it, tells stories about his journey, shares his knowledge of how to provide support for AAC in school, and shares a few thoughts about how schools and families can work together so students can thrive in schools and kids can live their best life, whatever it may mean.
Mike Hipple is a young man who has cerebral palsy and uses assistive technology tools to live his best life. He presents workshops on Augmentative Alternative Communication (AAC)/assistive technology, inclusion, behaviors, how to get involved in the community, and his own journey. Mike founded Wisconsin Augmentative Alternative Communication AAC Network. The network’s mission is to bring Wisconsin stakeholders for AAC together to have one voice and to share the knowledge that we have. He wrote a children’s book about starting school. When he isn’t working, it is likely that you can find him watching baseball or cop shows. He is a member of a Kiwanis club. He has a membership in Wisconsin Autism Society, Wisconsin CEC, the United States Society of AAC (SSAAC), and the International Society of AAC (ISAAC).
