Field Trips: Events for Educators
Places to go, people to see, things to do.
by Edutopia Staff
October 18, 2006
July
Advanced Placement Annual Conference [1]
July 12-16, Lake Buena Vista, Florida
The best practices, policies, and resources for Advanced Placement teachers and coordinators.
Building Learning Communities Conference [2]
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 [3]
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 [4]
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 [5]
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 [6]
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.
Links:
[1] http://www.collegeboard.com/apac/2006/index.html
[2] http://www.novemberlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=29
[3] http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/04/04172006.html
[4] http://www.gisetc.com/calwood.html
[5] http://www.communityofcaring.org/ServicesAndResources/SummerInstitute/overview.html
[6] http://www.communitygarden.org/learn/conference.php