Education Week - Calendar of Events & Professional Development Directory - Spring 2013 - C15

24-28 SCIENCE: Space Across the

Curriculum Class: Astronomy
Principles for the ClassroomKinesthetic Astronomy,
sponsored by the Space
Foundation, for teacher-educators
and teachers, at Colorado State
University-Pueblo in Pueblo,
Colo. Contact: Chrys Rheinbolt,
Space Foundation, (719)
576-8000, email: education@
spacefoundation.org, website:
www.spacefoundation.org.
24-28 STEM: Making Sense of

Science Force and Motion
Institute for Middle and High
School Educators, sponsored by
the ASSET STEM Education,
for teachers, at ASSET STEM
Education in Pittsburgh. Contact:
Karen Savitz, ASSET STEM
Education, (412) 481-7320, email:
ksavitz@assetinc.org, website:
www.assetinc.org.
24-28 STEM: STEM Education

Leadership Institute, sponsored
by Washington State LASER,
for administrators, community
members, teacher-educators,
teachers, and technology
personnel, at Southcenter
DoubleTree Guest Suites in
Seattle. Contact: Sonia Siegel
Vexler, Washington State
LASER, (206) 443-2903, email:
ssiegelvexler@pacsci.org,
website: www.wastatelaser.org.
25-27 INTERNATIONAL
EDUCATION: Primary Years

Programme Workshop, sponsored
by the Center for the Advancement
and Study of International
Education, for researchers, and
teacher-educators, at Atlanta
International School in Atlanta.
Contact: CASIE, (404) 848-9044,
email: info@casieonline.org,
website: www.casieonline.org.
25-27 ONLINE EDUCATION:

WIDA Summer Academy: Data
Digging, sponsored by the WIDA
Consortium, for administrators
and teachers, at University of
Wisconsin-Madison in Madison,
Wis. Contact: WIDA Consortium,
(866) 276-7735, email: pdinfo@
wida.us, website: www.wida.us.
26 READING: Know Your Roots:

Building Vocabulary and Language
Arts Skills, sponsored by The Hill
Center, for reading specialists
and teacher-educators, at The Hill
Center in Durham, N.C. Contact:
Pam Hoggard, THC, (919) 4897464, email: phoggard@hillcenter.
org, website: www.hillcenter.org.
26-27 ASSESSMENT: NJCIE’s Annual

Summer Inclusion Conference,
sponsored by the New Jersey
Coalition for Inclusive Education,
for teachers, at The College of
New Jersey, Brower Student
Center in Ewing, N.J. Contact:
Paula Lieb, NJCIE, (732) 6130400, email: njcie@njcie.net,
website: njcie.net.
26-28 READING: Comprehensive

Literacy Model: An Introduction,
sponsored by Illinois Reading
Recovery, for administrators,
reading specialists, state
policymakers, and teachers, at NIU
Conference Center, Naperville,
IL in Naperville, Ill. Contact:

Chantavia Weathersby, IRRC, (630)
874-4602, email: cweathersby1@
nl.edu, website: www.nl.edu/irrc/.
27-28 EDUCATION POLICY:

Inaugural Government, Politics,
and Media Institute, sponsored
by the Holy Innocents’ Episcopal
School, for teachers, at Holy
Innocents’ Episcopal School in
Atlanta. Contact: Jane Kunberger,
HIES, (404) 303-2150, email:
jane.kunberger@hies.org,
website: www.hies.org.
27-29 CURRICULUM: 2013 National

Conference on College & Career
Readiness and Common Core State
Standards, sponsored by the Center
for College & Career Readiness, for
administrators, reading specialists,
school board members, teachereducators, teachers, and technology
personnel, at JW Marriott Orlando
Grande Lakes Resort and Spa in
Orlando, Fla. Contact: Lauren Zake,
CCCR, (630) 282-1639, email:
info@collegecareer.org, website:
www.collegecareer.org.
27-30 ACHIEVEMENT: 8th Annual

Schools to Watch Conference,
sponsored by the National Forum to
Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform,
for administrators, at Crystal
Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.
Contact: Deborah Kasak, National
Forum, (217) 351-2196, email:
dtkasak@gmail.com, website:
www.middlegradesforum.org.
29-JULY 3 ACHIEVEMENT: Closing

the Achievement Gap: Strategies
for Excellence with Equity,
sponsored by the Harvard
Graduate School of Education,
for administrators, community
members, counselors, parents,
reading specialists, researchers,
school board members, teachereducators, 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.
30-JULY 3 ACHIEVEMENT: 2013

ASCA Annual Conference,
sponsored by the American School
Counselor Association, for
counselors, at Pennsylvania
Convention Center in
Philadelphia. Contact: Kelly
Frey, ASCA, (703) 683-2722,
email: kfrey@schoolcounselor.
org, website: www.
schoolcounselor.org.

Cindi Hubbard, University of
Connecticut-Music Dept/Gullah
Voices, (415) 847-2487, email:
nehgullahvoices@uconn.edu,
website: www.gullahvoices.org.
7-13 READING: Jump at the Sun: Zora

Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville
Roots, sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities,
for teachers, at Rollins College
in Winter Park, Fla. Contact:
Brenda Clark, Florida Humanities
Council, (727) 873-2009, email:
bclark@flahum.org, website:
www.floridahumanities.org/
teachers/Zora.
8-10 HEALTH AND SAFETY: NASP

2013 Summer Conferences-Cincinnati, sponsored by the
National Association of School
Psychologists, for reading
specialists, at the Hyatt Regency
Cincinnati in Cincinnati. Contact:
Rosie Levine, NASP, (301) 3471673, email: rlevine@nasponline.
org, website: www.nasponline.
org/summerconferences.
8-11 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT: Advisers

Institute, sponsored by the
Journalism Education Association,
for teacher-educators and teachers,
at Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
Contact: Kelly Furnas, JEA, (785)
532-5532, email: furnas@ksu.edu,
website: www.jea.org.
8-12 SCIENCE: Space Across

the Curriculum Class: Early
Childhood Space Exploration,
sponsored by the Space
Foundation, for teachereducators and teachers, at
Space Foundation Discovery
Institute in Colorado Springs,
Colo. Contact: Chrys Rheinbolt,
Space Foundation, (719)
576-8000, email: education@
spacefoundation.org, website:
www.spacefoundation.org.
8-12 TEACHER EDUCATION:

Universal Design for Learning:
Reaching All Learners, sponsored
by the Harvard Graduate School
of Education, for administrators,
community members, counselors,
parents, reading specialists,
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.
8-17 AT-RISK YOUTHS: Montessori

Applied to Children At-Risk
for Learning Differences I and
II, sponsored by the Shelton
School and Evaluation Center, for
administrators, reading specialists,
teacher-educators, and teachers,
at Shelton School and Evaluation
Center in Dallas. Contact:
Consuela Teague, Shelton School,
(972) 774-1772, email: cteague@
shelton.org, website: www.
shelton.org/MACAR.
9-11 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION:

Diploma Programme Summer
Workshop, sponsored by the
Center for the Advancement and
Study of International Education,
for researchers, and teachereducators, at Atlanta International
School in Atlanta. Contact: CASIE,
(404) 848-9044, email: info@
casieonline.org, website: www.
casieonline.org.
9-12 ARTS EDUCATION: NAEA

SummerVision D.C., sponsored
by the National Art Education
Association, for teachers, at
Washington, D.C., area musuems
in Washington. Contact: Renee
Sandell, NAEA, (703) 860-8000,
email: info@arteducators.org,
website: www.arteducators.org.

Museum of Science in Boston.
Contact: Valerie Costa, EiE, (617)
589-4239, email: eie@mos.org,
website: www.mos.org/eie/.
10-11 SCIENCE: Everyone Engineers!

An Introduction to Engineering
is Elementary, sponsored
by the Museum of Science,
Boston, for administrators, state
policymakers, and teachers, at the
Museum of Science in Boston.
Contact: Valerie Costa, Museum
of Science, Boston, (617) 5894239, email: EiE@mos.org,
website: www.mos.org/eie.
10-12 MATHEMATICS: Conference

for the Advancement of
Mathematics Teaching,
sponsored by the Texas Council
of Teachers of Mathematics,
for administrators, community
members, school board
members, state policymakers,
teacher-educators, teachers, and
technology personnel, at Henry
B. Gonzalez Convention Center
in San Antonio. Contact: Anita
Hopkins, CAMT, (512) 335-2268,
email: camt@camtonline.org,
website: www.camtonline.org.
11-12 SCHOOL BOARDS: School

District of Beloit Summer
Learning Conference, sponsored
by the School District of Beloit,
for administrators, and teachers,
at Central Christian Church in
Beloit, Wis. Contact: Michelle
Shope, SDB, (608) 361-4160,
email: mshope@sdb.k12.wi.us,
website: www.sdb.k12.wi.us.
12-14 SPECIAL EDUCATION:

9-12 TECHNOLOGY: Constructing

Modern Knowledge, sponsored by
Generation YES, for administrators,
teacher-educators, teachers,
and technology personnel, at
Radisson Hotel in Manchester,
N.H. Contact: Gary Stager,
Constructing Modern Knowledge,
(310) 874-8236, email: gary@
constructingmodernknowledge.
com, website:
constructingmodernknowledge.com.
10-11 EARLY-CHILDHOOD
EDUCATION: Engineering

is Elementary, sponsored by
Engineering is Elementary, for
administrators and teachers, at the

ASHA Schools 2013, sponsored
by the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association,
for administrators, at Long Beach
Convention Center in Long Beach,
Calif. Contact: Karen Niles, ASHA,
(301) 296-5752, email: kniles@
asha.org, website: www.asha.org.
13-19 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT: Habla Teacher

Institute, sponsored by Habla:
The Center for Language and
Culture, for teachers, in Merida,
Mexico. Contact: Kurt Wootton,
Habla, (401) 374-3237, email:
contact@habla.org, website:
www.habla.org.

30-JULY 3 CHARTER SCHOOLS:

National Charter Schools
Conference, sponsored by the
National Alliance for Public
Charter Schools, for teachereducators, at the Washington
Convention Center in Washington.
Contact: Jenny Wanger, NAPCS,
(202) 289-2700, email: Jenny@
Publiccharters.org, website: www.
publiccharters.org.

JULY
7-12 MULTICULTURAL
EDUCATION: Gullah Voices:

Traditions & Transformations,
sponsored by the National
Endowment for the Humanities,
for teachers, at the Inn at Ellis
Square in Savannah, Ga. Contact:

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