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24 STUDENT BEHAVIOR: Schoolwide
Behavior Supports,
sponsored by the Hill Center,
for administrators, counselors,
reading specialists, school
board members, teachereducators,
and teachers, at
the Hill Center in Durham,
N.C. Contact: Pam Hoggard,
The Hill Center, (919) 4897464,
email: phoggard@
hillcenter.org, website: www.
hillcenter.org.
24 TECHNOLOGY: Long Island
Technology Summit 2012,
sponsored by the New
York State Association for
Computers & Technology in
Education, for teachers, at
Huntington Hilton Hotel in
Melville, N.Y. Contact: Debbie
Maxwell, Western Suffolk
BOCES A536, (631) 595-6829,
email: dmaxwell@wsboces.
org, website: www.wsboces.
org/webreg.
24-25 ASSESSMENT,
INSTRUCTION: Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment:
Meaningful Instruction,
sponsored by the Core
Knowledge Foundation, for
teachers, at Liberty Common
Elementary in Fort Collins,
Colo. Contact: Julian Molitz,
CKF, (434) 220-3352, email:
julian@coreknowledge.
org, website: www.
coreknowledge.org.
24-26 MATHEMATICS: NCTM
2012 Regional Conference &
Exposition, sponsored by the
National Council of Teachers
of Mathematics, for teachereducators,
and teachers, at
the Connecticut Convention
Center in Hartford, Conn.
Contact: NCTM, (703) 6209840,
email: nctm@nctm.org,
website: www.nctm.org.
24-26 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT: Strategy in
Action, sponsored by Harvard
University-Graduate School of
Education, for administrators,
counselors, researchers,
school board members, state
policymakers, and teachers,
at Harvard Graduate School
of Education in Cambridge,
Mass. Contact: Programs in
Professional Education, (800)
545-1849, email: ppe@gse.
harvard.edu, website: www.
gse.harvard.edu/ppe/k12.
24-26 TECHNOLOGY: Educational
Computing Organization of
Ontario 2012 Conference,
sponsored by the Educational
Computing Organization of
Ontario, for administrators,
counselors, researchers,
school board members,
state policymakers, teachereducators,
teachers, and
technology personnel, at
Sheraton Parkway Toronto
North in Toronto. Contact:
Tammy Gunn, ECOO, (416)
538-1650, email: office@ecoo.
org, website: ecoo.org.
24-27 READING: 63rd
Annual IDA Conference:
Reading, Literacy, &
Learning, sponsored
by the International
Dyslexia Association, for
administrators, counselors,
reading specialists,
researchers, state
policymakers, teachereducators,
and teachers, at
the Baltimore Convention
Center in Baltimore. Contact:
Kristen Penczek, International
Dyslexia Association,
(410) 292-232, email:
conference@interdys.org,
website: www.interdys.org/
AnnualConference.htm.
25 ADMINISTRATORS:
TEPSA Tour Grapevine,
sponsored by the Texas
Elementary Principals &
Supervisors Association,
for administrators, at the
Grapevine Convention
Center in Grapevine, Texas.
Contact: Elizabeth Kernan,
TEPSA, (512) 478-5268, email:
elizabeth@tepsa.org, website:
www.tepsa.org.
25 ASSESSMENT, INSTRUCTION:
College and Career Readiness
Workshop, sponsored by
ACT, Inc. Northeast Region,
for administrators, and
teachers, at Ramapo College
of New Jersey in Mahwah,
N.J. Contact: Debbie Haines,
ACT, Inc., (508) 229-0111,
email: Debbie.Haines@act.
org, website: www.act.org/
learningevents/workshops/
index.html.
25 STUDENT BEHAVIOR:
Collaborative Intervention
Processes for Students
Difficult to Serve, sponsored
by the Hill Center, for
administrators, counselors,
teacher-educators, and
teachers, at the Hill Center in
Durham, N.C. Contact: Pam
Hoggard, The Hill Center,
(919) 489-7464, email:
phoggard@hillcenter.org,
website: www.hillcenter.org.
25-26 EDUCATION POLICY:
Project RED Regional
Institute, sponsored
by Project RED, for
administrators, school board
members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, teachers,
and technology personnel,
at River Dell Regional School
District in River Edge, N.J.
Contact: Alicia Sutfin, Project
RED, (517) 978-0006, email:
info@projectred.org, website:
www.projectred.org.
25-26 SPECIAL EDUCATION:
33rd Annual Conference on
Mainstreaming Students with
Hearing Loss, sponsored by
Clarke Mainstream Services,
for teachers, at the Sheraton
in Springfield, Mass. Contact:
Barbara Rochon, Clarke
Mainstream Services, (413)
587-7313, email: brochon@
clarkeschools.org.
25-27 SCHOOL BOARDS: New
York State School Boards
Association’s 93rd Annual
Convention and Education
Expo, sponsored by the New
York State School Boards
Association, for school board
members, at the Rochester
Riverside Convention Center
in Rochester, N.Y. Contact:
Debra McDermott, New
York State School Boards
Association, (518) 783-3766,
email: debra.mcdermott@
nyssba.org, website: www.
nyssba.org.
26 ENGLISH: PCTELA Annual
Conference, sponsored
by Pennsylvania Council
of Teachers of English, for
teachers, at the Marriott in
Lancaster at Penn Square
in Lancaster, Pa. Contact:
Bob Dandoy, PCTELA, (724)
282-1362, email: bdandoy@
zoominternet.net, website:
www.pctela.org.
26 GIFTED EDUCATION: Day
of Sharing for Teachers of
the Gifted, sponsored by
the University of Southern
Mississippi, Frances A.
Karnes Center for Gifted
Studies, for teachers, at
the University of Southern
Mississippi in Hattiesburg,
Miss. Contact: Frances
Karnes, Frances A. Karnes
Center for Gifted Studies,
(601) 266-5236, email:
gifted.studies@usm.edu,
website: www.usm.edu/
karnes-gifted.
26 LEADERSHIP: Core
Knowledge Leadership
Institute, sponsored by the
Core Knowledge Foundation,
for administrators, at Liberty
Common Elementary in Fort
Collins, Colo. Contact: Julian
Molitz, Core Knowledge
Foundation, (434) 220-3352,
email: julian@coreknowledge.
org, website: www.
coreknowledge.org.
26 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT: Response
to Intervention Conference,
sponsored by Hofstra
University, for administrators,
counselors, researchers,
school board members,
state policymakers, and
teachers, at Hofstra
Student Center Theater in
Hempstead, N.Y. Contact:
Teresa Citro, Learning
Disabilities Worldwide, Inc.,
(978) 897-5399, email: info@
ldworldwide.org, website:
www.ldworldwide.org.
26-27 ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
LEARNERS: Georgia TESOL
Conference, sponsored
by Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages,
Inc., for administrators,
reading specialists, and
teachers, at the Hyatt
Regency Atlanta in Atlanta.
Contact: Beth Wallace,
Georgia TESOL Conference
Chair, (678) 891-3543, email:
Elizabeth.Wallace@gpc.edu,
website: gatesol.org.
26-27 MATHEMATICS: Utah
Council of Teachers of
Mathematics Annual
Conference, sponsored
by the Utah Council of
Teachers of Mathematics,
for administrators, teachereducators,
and teachers, at
American Fork High School
in American Fork, Utah.
Contact: Logan Toone,
UCTM, (801) 402-5303, email:
ltoone@dsdmail.net.
26-28 ENGLISH: Knowing,
Nurturing, and Educating
Students as Linguistically
Diverse Learners-VATE’s 98th
Annual State Conference,
sponsored by the Virginia
Association of Teachers of
English, for administrators,
reading specialists, state
policymakers, teachereducators,
teachers, and
technology personnel, at
the Hilton Richmond Hotel
and Spa in Richmond, Va.
Contact: Kirk Dolson, VATE,
(571) 201-2133, email: kirk.
dolson@lcps.org, website:
www.vate.org.
MA TH
Fully funded by
BEHIND
MARKET
Students who played The Stock Market Game™
scored significantly higher on mathematics tests
than their peers who did not play the game.”
(Learning Point Associates, 2009)
Students in the SIFMA Foundation’s grade 4 – 12
investor education program, The Stock Market Game:
n Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
n Reason abstractly and quantitatively
n Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning
of others
For over 30 years, students in Te Stock Market Game program have been
applying their math knowledge and skills in engaging, meaningful ways
to address simulated real world personal finance decisions. Trough the program’s
Math Behind the Market activities, students connect classroom lessons of math to
real world applications.
Visit www.mathbehindthemarket.org
for additional information and lesson samples.
Visit www.stockmarketgame.org
to learn more about The Stock Market Game program
A program
of the
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