Sept 25-27, 2024
Convention times/schedule/sessions & workshops
Expectations
- All K3-12 faculty and administration attend; some staff attend. Principals are the final say about whether a BJA employee is to attend.
- Regular school dress while at the convention.
Provided by BJA (sign up through your principal)
- Shared room at the Sheraton (sign up through your principal for who you will share the room with)
- Transportation via school vans
- Cash! $210, provided shortly before trip, for
- $120 food allowance
- $90 reimbursement for Whova registration
- No receipt involved in reimbursement process
- This is the early bird rate (register by Sept 1)
- Whova registration (required) reimbursement
- Register here (Use your personal credit card; do NOT use a BJA credit card)
- Complete all registration information
- You are the buyer & the ticket holder, and you will use your own credit card to pay (do NOT use a BJA credit card)
- “Affiliation” information … for you convenience, BJA’s mailing address is 1700 Wade Hampton Blvd, Greenville, SC 29614
- See above for reimbursement info
- Full registration packet is available here
- Location for convention
- Check in after 4 p.m. on Wednesday
- Receive room assignment when checking in at hotel
- For those staying here, parking is complimentary but breakfast is not provided.
Alternate Transportation/Housing Plans
- Transportation: you’re welcome to drive your own vehicle and pay for your own parking.
- Staying elsewhere: you’re welcome to stay elsewhere (hotel suggestions)
- To be reimbursed (up to $140 total; represents your half of the Sheraton room, which would be $70 per night), submit hotel receipt to Tami Bucholtz within 2 weeks of the trip.
- Bringing a spouse/children to stay at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach
- Depends on availability; see Tami Bucholtz by Sept 1 to request, cost is committed 3 business days in advance of trip
- $140 total (covers 2 nights; pay via cash/check made out to BJA)
- Staying for the weekend at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach
- Make your own arrangements with the hotel, will not be for the group rate.