Field Trips: Events For Educators

April

AAHPERD National Convention
8-12, Fort Worth, Texas

The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance invites y'all to Texas for all things physical from multicultural learning through physical education to tackling childhood obesity.

NCTM 2008 Annual Meeting and Exposition
9-12, Salt Lake City, Utah

"Becoming Certain About Uncertainty" is the theme for this year's meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Featured speakers include The Tipping Point and Blink author Malcolm Gladwell, Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills, and NCTM president Skip Fennell.

TechEd 2008
13-16, Ontario, California

What good is technology if you don't know how to apply it? New sessions at the Technology in Education Conference & Exposition include "New & Emerging Technologies," which addresses the human factor in technology, "Standards-Based Instruction," and most importantly for you skeptics, "Integrating Instructional Technology."

Center for Summer Learning's National Conference
17-18, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Summer changes everything, according to the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University. Head to scenic Albuquerque to hear keynote speaker Mae C. Jemison, the first African American woman in space, and learn everything you need to know to run an effective summer program.

May

Engaging Learners in Literacy
4-8, Atlanta, Georgia

The International Reading Association invites you to sessions that address reading instruction, assessment, adolescent issues, and teacher quality, as well as talks by well-known authors Jamie Lee Curtis, David Baldacci, and Sherman Alexie.

Visions of Hope and Opportunity
5-9, New York, New York

The Annual International Conference on Developmental and Learning Disabilities will be based on treatment and practices, new models and strategies. It features a keynote by Temple Grandin on "Autism Spectrum Disorders."

June

Sparking Innovative Learning and Creativity
11-14, Princeton, New Jersey

Head east to the New Media Consortium's Summer Conference, which opens with a talk by the president of Educause and closes with a talk by MIT's Henry Jenkins, an expert on media and popular culture.

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
22-25, New Orleans, Louisiana

"Still We Rise: Achieving Academic Excellence at Scale" is the theme of the only national gathering of the entire charter-school community, which takes place in the city with the largest percentage of charter-school enrollment.

National Educational Computing Conference
29-July 2, San Antonio, Texas

Don't forget the Alamo, but don't forget this annual ed-tech blowout, either. This year NECC is in San Antonio, which promises to be hot as a pizza oven in early summer. There'll be hundreds of booths, dozens of panels, and thousands of attendees. Pack sensible shoes and plenty of sunscreen.