Education Week - Calendar of Events & Professional Development Directory - Spring 2013 - C11

7-9 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION:

2013 National Chinese Language
Conference, sponsored by the Asia
Society, the College Board, and
Primary Source, for administrators,
community members, researchers,
state policymakers, teachereducators, and teachers, at Boston
Marriott Copley Place in Boston.
Contact: Eleise Jones, Asia Society,
(212) 327-9251, email: nclc@
asiasociety.org, website: www.
AsiaSociety.org/NCLC.
8 STUDENT BEHAVIOR: Bullying,

sponsored by COMPASS for kids,
for teacher-educators and teachers,
at Cambridge Family YMCA in
Cambridge, Mass. Contact: Nancy
Toso, CFK, (781) 862-4446, email:
nancytoso@compassforkids.org.
8-11 STUDENT BEHAVIOR: Four-Day

Event: Basic Restorative Practices,
sponsored by the International
Institute for Restorative Practices,
for teacher-educators, at IIRP
Graduate School in Bethlehem,
Pa. Contact: IIRP, (610) 807-9221,
email: prof_dev_info@iirp.edu,
website: iirp.edu/basics.
9 SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING:

Cooperative Games, sponsored by
COMPASS for kids, for teachereducators and teachers, at Cape Cod
Children’s Museum in Mashpee,
Mass. Contact: Nancy Toso, CFK,
(781) 862-4446, email: nancytoso@
compassforkids.org, website:
www.compassforkids.org.
9-11 INSTRUCTION: Learning

Environments for Tomorrow:
Next Practices for Educators
and Architects, sponsored by
the Harvard Graduate School of
Education, for administrators,
researchers, school board
members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, teachers, and
technology personnel, at the
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.
9-11 ONLINE EDUCATION: 6th

Annual Sloan-C/MERLOT
Emerging Technologies for Online
Learning International Symposium,
sponsored by the Sloan Consortium,
for administrators, researchers,
teacher-educators, teachers, and
technology personnel, at Planet
Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas.
Contact: Christine Hinkley, Sloan
Consortium, (781) 583-7561, email:
conference@sloanconsortium.org,
website: www.sloanconsortium.org.
9-12 STUDENT BEHAVIOR: Four-Day

Event: Basic Restorative Practices,
sponsored by the International
Institute for Restorative Practices,
for teacher-educators, at City
Year-Boston in Boston. Contact:
IIRP, (610) 807-9221, email:
prof_dev_info@iirp.edu,
website: www.iirp.edu/basics.
10 LEARNING DISABILITIES:

Understanding Learning
Differences: An Introduction to
Learning Disabilities and Attention
Deficit Disorders, sponsored by
The Hill Center, for administrators,
counselors, teacher-educators,
and teachers, at the Hill Center

in Durham, N.C. Contact: Pam
Hoggard, THC, (919) 489-7464,
email: phoggard@hillcenter.org,
website: www.hillcenter.org.
10-11 MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION:

Prepárate: Educating Latinos for the
Future of America, sponsored by
College Board, for administrators,
community members, counselors,
researchers, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at the Hyatt Regency McCormick
Place in Chicago. Contact: The
College Board, (800) 787-7477,
email: preparate@collegeboard.org,
website: preparate.collegeboard.org.
11 URBAN EDUCATION: Urban

Education & Community Forum,
sponsored by the University of
Missoui-Kansas City (UMKC),
for administrators, community
members, counselors, reading
specialists, researchers, school
board members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, and teachers, at
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
in Kansas City, Mo. Contact:
Barbara Petty, UMKC, (816) 2351299, email: schaafpettyb@umkc.
edu, website: www.umkc.edu.
11-12 ACHIEVEMENT, AT-RISK
YOUTH: Prepare, Achieve,

Succeed: Navigating the Education
Landscape with Underrepresented
Students, sponsored by the National
Partnership for Educational Access,
for administrators, community
members, counselors, researchers,
school board members, state
policymakers, teacher-educators,
and teachers, at the Hyatt Regency
Cambridge in Cambridge,
Mass. Contact: Cate Gardner,
NPEA, (617) 423-6300, email:
npeaconference@tsf.org, website:
www.educational-access.org.
11-12 GIFTED EDUCATION:

AGATE Spring Conference 2013,
sponsored by Montana AGATE, for
administrators, counselors, parents,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at Holiday Inn in Missoula, Mont.
Contact: Estee Aiken, Montana
AGATE, (406) 683-7035, email:
e_aiken@umwestern.edu, website:
www.mtagate.org.
11-12 MINORITY EDUCATION:

A Dream Deferred: The Future
of African American Education,
sponsored by College Board,
for administrators, community
members, counselors, researchers,
state policymakers, teachereducators, and teachers, at the
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
in Chicago. Contact: The College
Board, (800) 787-7477, email:
dreamdeferred@collegeboard.
org, website: dreamdeferred.
collegeboard.org.
11-13 ADMINISTRATORS: Leadership

3.0 Symposium, sponsored by the
Association of California School
Administrators, for administrators,
at the Hyatt Regency Irvine in
Irvine, Calif. Contact: Michael
Simkins, ACSA, (805) 624-5792,
email: mbsimkins@gmail.com,
website: www.lead3.org.
11-13 EDUCATION LAW: NSBA

Council of School Attorney’s
(COSA) Annual School Law
Seminar, sponsored by the National
School Boards Association, for
administrators and school board
members, at Manchester Grand
Hyatt in San Diego. Contact:

Lyndsay Andrews, NSBA, (703)
838-6738, email: landrews@nsba.
org, website: www.nsba.org/cosa.
11-14 CURRICULUM: UC Curriculum

Integration Institutes, sponsored by
the University of California Office of
the President, for teachers, at Westin
SFO in Millbrae, Calif. Contact:
Deborah McCaskey, UC Office
of the President, (510) 987-9437,
email: deborah.mccaskey@ucop.
edu, website: www.ucop.edu/ucci.
11-14 SCIENCE: NSTA National

Conference on Science Education,
sponsored by the National Science
Teachers Association, for teachereducators and teachers, at Henry
B. Gonzalez Convention Center
in San Antonio. Contact: Beverly
Shaw, NSTA, (703) 243-7100,
email: bshaw@nsta.org, website:
www.nsta.org.
12-13 TECHNOLOGY: CITEA Annual

Spring Conference, sponsored
by the California Industrial
Technology Education Association,
for teachers, at Laney College
in Oakland, Calif. Contact: Don
Dupont, CITEA, (925) 708-3742,
email: donaldupont@gmail.com,
website: CITEA.org.
12-14 ENVIRONMENTAL
EDUCATION: Elwha River

Series Part Three: Explore the
Elwha River, sponsored by the
NatureBridge, for administrators,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at NatureBridge in Olympic
National Park in Port Angeles,
Wash. Contact: Gillian Hagamen,
NatureBridge in Olympic National
Park, 206-382-6212 ext 13, email:
ghagamen@naturebridge.org,
website: www.naturebridge.org/
professional-development.
13 ENGLISH, MUSIC EDUCATION:

Second Saturday Series: Music and
Poetry, sponsored by Writers in
the Schools, for teachers, at The
Last Concert Cafe in Houston.
Contact: Tina Angelo, WITS,
(713) 523-3877, email: tangelo@
witshouston.org, website:
www.witshouston.org.
13 MATHEMATICS: Mother Goose

Math, sponsored by the Wolf Trap
Foundation for the Performing

Arts, for administrators, parents,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at the Center for Education at
Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va. Contact:
Bryna Shindell, Wolf Trap
Foundation, (703) 937-6306, email:
workshops@wolftrap.org, website:
www.wolftrap.org/workshops.

Norma Jean Garcia, Hispanic
Association of Colleges and
Universities, (210) 576-3206,
email: njgarcia@hacu.net,
website: www.hacu.net/hacu/
Capitol_Forum3.asp.
15-17 CAREER AND TECHNICAL
EDUCATION: Spring Meeting,

13 SPECIAL EDUCATION: SET

Connections Annual Conference,
sponsored by SET Connections,
for administrators, counselors,
parents, reading specialists, school
board members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, teachers, and
technology personnel, at Maine
South High School in Park Ridge,
Ill. Contact: Ashley Ausikaitis, SET
Connections, (847) 732-3823, email:
info@SETConnections.org, website:
www.SETConnections.org.

sponsored by the National
Association of State Directors
of Career Technical Education
Consortium, for state
policymakers and teachereducators, at Omni Shoreham in
Washington. Contact: Ramona
Schescke, NASDCTEc, (301)
588-9630, email: rschescke@
careertech.org, website: www.
careertech.org.
15-18 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT: 2013

13-15 SCHOOL BOARDS: NSBA’s

Professional Development
Institute, sponsored by the National
Alliance for Partnerships in Equity,
for administrators, counselors,
researchers, school board
members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at Crystal City DoubleTree Hotel
in Arlington, Va. Contact: Joyce
Ayers, NAPE, (610) 593-8038,
email: nape@napequity.org,
website: www.napequity.org.

73rd Annual Conference and
Exhibition, sponsored by
the National School Boards
Association, for administrators,
reading specialists, school
board members, teachers, and
technology personnel, at San
Diego Convention Center in
San Diego. Contact: Natalia
Gonzalez, National School
Boards Association, (703) 8386722, email: ngonzalez@nsba.
org, website: www.nsba.org/
conference.

16 READING: HillStrategies for

Reading, sponsored by The Hill
Center, for reading specialists, and
teacher-educators, at the Hill Center
in Durham, N.C. Contact: Pam
Hoggard, THC, (919) 489-7464,
email: phoggard@hillcenter.org,
website: www.hillcenter.org.

13-15 URBAN EDUCATION:

Council of Urban Boards of
Education (CUBE) at NSBA
Annual Conference, sponsored
by the National School Boards
Association, for administrators,
school board members, teachereducators, and teachers, at San
Diego Convention Center in
San Diego. Contact: Mutsa
Meda, National School Boards
Association, (703) 838-6722, email:
mmeda@nsba.org, website: www.
nsba.org/cube.
15-16 MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION: 18th Annual

National Capitol Forum on
Hispanic Higher Education,
sponsored by the Hispanic
Association of Colleges and
Universities, for administrators,
at Westin Washington D.C. City
Center in Washington. Contact:

16 READING: When Readers Struggle

Workshop, sponsored by The
Ohio State University, College of
Education and Human Ecology,
for teachers, at The Ohio State
University in Columbus, Ohio.
Contact: Diann Guy, The Ohio
State University, (614) 292-7893,
email: guy.81@osu.edu, website:
www.lcosu.org.
17 EARLY-CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION: Guiding K-3 Writers

to Independence-Workshop,
sponsored by The Ohio State
University, College of Education
and Human Ecology, for teachers,
at The Ohio State University in

Join the Council for Exceptional
Children (CEC) at the premier
professional development event
dedicated to special and gifted
education - the CEC 2013 Convention
& Expo, April 3-6 in San Antonio.

REGISTER NOW!
www.cec.sped.org/convention

Education WEEk 2013 CALENDAR OF EVENT S & P ROFESSIONAL DEVEL OPMENT DI R E C TO RY

w w w.e dw e e k.org/go/cal e n dar

11

CALENDAR OF EVENTS MARCH –APRIL 2013

linkeducation.org, website: www.
linkeducation.org.

http://www.linkeducation.org http://www.linkeducation.org http://www.nsba.org/cosa http://www.hillcenter.org http://www.hacu.net/hacu/Capitol_Forum3.asp http://www.hacu.net/hacu/capitol-forum3.asp http://www.wolftrap.org/workshops http://www.ucop.edu/ucci http://www.AsiaSociety.org/NCLC http://www.AsiaSociety.org/NCLC http://preparate.collegeboard.org http://www.careertech.org http://www.careertech.org http://www.SETConnections.org http://www.nsta.org http://www.umkc.edu http://www.iirp.edu/basics http://www.CITEA.org http://www.napequity.org http://www.nsba.org/conference http://www.nsba.org/conference http://www.compassforkids.org http://www.hillcenter.org http://www.naturebridge.org/professional-development http://www.educational-access.org http://www.naturebridge.org/professional-development http://www.nsba.org/cube http://www.lcosu.org http://www.witshouston.org http://www.mtagate.org http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/k12 http://www.cec.sped.org/convention http://dreamdeferred.collegeboard.org http://www.sloanconsortium.org http://dreamdeferred.collegeboard.org http://www.iirp.edu/basics http://www.lead3.org http://www.cec.sped.org/convention http://www.edweek.org/go/calendar

Education Week - Calendar of Events & Professional Development Directory - Spring 2013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Education Week - Calendar of Events & Professional Development Directory - Spring 2013