July

Advanced Placement Annual Conference

July 12-16, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

The best practices, policies, and resources for Advanced Placement teachers and coordinators.

Building Learning Communities Conference

July 18-20, Weston, Massachusetts

Top-of-the-line thinkers, educators, and innovators, hand picked by educator/big thinker Alan November, join in the east for the seventh annual November Learning conference.

U.S. Department of Education Summer Workshop

July 20-21, Billings, Montana

Celebrate the bicentennial of the completion of the Lewis and Clark expedition with a free professional-development workshop at Montana State University -- complete with historians and reenactors -- provided by the U.S. Department of Education. Check out the DOE's Web site for regional workshops.

GIS Educational Technology Consultants Summer Residential Institute

July 29-August 3, Jamestown, Colorado

Learn how to navigate the twenty-first-century globe and classroom with hands-on instruction in geographic-information systems and global-positioning systems.

August

Educating Heart and Mind Through Ethics and Character: The Timeless Mission of Schools

August 2-4, Salt Lake City, Utah

Character matters -- in education, business, and society. Learn how to instill it in your students.

American Community Gardening Association Annual Conference

August 10-13, Los Angeles, California

This gathering of green thumbs features a preconference workshop on garden-based curricula, as well as tours of school and community gardens around the Los Angeles area.