38th Annual Conference
November 17-21
Fort Worth, Texas
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!!!
REGISTER NOW ... and receive up to $25 in savings!*
Join us for NABSE's 38th Annual Conference:
- Professional Development and Best Practice Workshops
- NEW Workshop Strands addressing Special Education and School Board Administration
- Unparalleled Networking Opportunities with over 4,000 Educators and Administrators
- Over 300 Exhibitors and Vendors
- Interactive School Tours
- Plenary Sessions Led by Nationally Known Education Leaders
*EARLY BIRD SPECIAL . . . Registrants who register by May 1, 2010 under the "INDIVIDUAL" category will receive a deduction of $15!! INDIVIDUAL registrants who register ONLINE will receive an additional $10 off the current Registration Rate.
ALL registrants who REGISTER ONLINE will automatically receive a deduction of $10 from the Registration Rate!!!
National Lab Day (NLD) is more than just a day. It's a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborations among volunteers, students and educators. NLD is the ultimate educational matchmaker.
Volunteers, university students, scientists, engineers, other STEM professionals and, more broadly, members of the community are working together with educators and students to bring discovery-based science experiences to students in grades K-12. When an educator posts a project, our system will help them get the resources needed to bring that project to fruition.
NLD is already underway! We currently have projects throughout the country - Interactive Map.
In the first week of May, 2010 (May 5th is the actual day) we will celebrate this collaboration with National Lab Day activities across the country.
Please visit www.nationallabday.org to learn more about National Lab Day
National Lab Day is sponsored by the following:
Education Department to Give $350M to States That Revamp Testing
from USA Today
 The U.S. Department of Education is looking to hand out up to $350 million to states willing to revamp how they test students. The money is designed to encourage states to develop standardized tests that accurately measure how much a child has learned each year and ensure the student is ready for college or a career after high school.
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Improving Teaching and Learning by Improving School Leadership
from National Governors Association
During the past decade, numerous states, localities, and foundations have launched initiatives to recruit and train better principals. What these efforts share is a recognition that school leaders exert a powerful, if indirect, influence on teaching quality and student learning. Although many have sought to take on the leadership issue, few have detailed the steps that states can take to reform their systems of leadership development. To improve the system of preparing and developing principals, governors and other state policymakers should focus on three key areas — licensure, preparation, and professional development.
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Acting on the Black Gender Gaps
from Education Week
There are plenty of studies about the black gender gaps, but not that many efforts to do something about them that appear to be paying dividends. That's what makes the Call Me Mister program so important.
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A Terrifying "Cliff Hanger" for School Districts
from Public School Insights
The U.S. economy is improving overall, but our schools will be among the last to share in the wealth. Deep and persistent economic troubles can be a deadweight on vital reforms. A new survey of superintendents released by AASA reveals the depth of the problem. School leaders report that things were bad last year and worse this year. And they're likely to be even worse next year.
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The Dropout Nation Podcast: Iron Forges Iron
from Education News
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, the crisis of low educational and economic achievement plaguing many young black men is the topic of RiShawn Biddle's discussion. For these young black men and boys to be saved, older black men, raised by fathers and successful in life, must take on the roles of father figures (and champions in improving America's education system) that these young men lack at home.
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NEA Plan for Rewriting NCLB Departs from Obama's
from Education Week
The National Education Association has put forward its most detailed recommendations to date for the overhaul of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, in what a union official calls a new approach for the federal law. The union's close engagement in the law — even as the legislative window for moving a bill this year begins to close — stands in contrast to the rewrite that resulted in the current version of the ESEA, the No Child Left Behind Act, which became law in 2002. Teachers' unions were widely considered to have been left out of that reauthorization.
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The New Republic: Taking An Incomplete
from NPR
After months of wrangling, Congress finally passed health care reform, and the president signed it into law. In the same budget reconciliation bill that sealed the health care deal, Democrats also overcame Republican defenders of corporate welfare and improved the nation's main federal student loan program. Eliminating for-profit banks as the middlemen in the lending process, Congress mandated that all federally subsidized loans now come directly from the Department of Education — saving taxpayers $87 billion over ten years. But Obama's health care and student loan victories overshadowed the collapse of another key domestic priority: helping more students graduate from college.
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