December

Association for Career and Technical Education Expo 2007: Connecting Education and Careers
13-14, Las Vegas, Nevada

Let education that prepares youth for careers never again carry the stigma that defunct woodshop, home economics, and ROTC classes once possessed. In today's classroom, career education is exciting, practical, and applicable to every vein of the curricula.

National Staff Development Council Annual Conference
1-5, Dallas, Texas

A powerful opportunity for you to access world-class professional learning. The conference brings more than 3,500 educators together to learn from five internationally recognized keynote speakers, five Texas Scholars, more than 250 concurrent sessions, and more than two dozen one- and two-day preconference sessions. Sessions address instructional leadership, team learning, professional learning communities, building teacher-leader capacity, assessing impact of professional learning, improving instruction, managing change, and more.

January

Technology Reading & Learning Diversity Conference
24-26, San Francisco, California

TRLD is the only conference of its kind, integrating technology interventions with expert literacy strategies to help students succeed. It brings together educators, experienced literacy leaders, and technology experts to share, discuss, and work toward a solution to the nationwide concern of literacy achievement.

Museums

The Phillip Johnson Glass House
New Canaan, Connecticut

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect's most famous building was his own residence, the Glass House. Now open to the public, one of the most notable buildings in all of American architecture is a great destination for our future AutoCAD kiddies.

The Barnes Foundation Collection
Merion, Pennsylvania

One of the word's largest collections of impressionist, postimpressionist, and early modern paintings, the works are arranged in the exact building in the exact way Albert C. Barnes determined would maximize their educational yield. (Make reservations one to two months in advance.)