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January 2-5, 2003 |
American Historical Association, 2003 AHA Annual Meeting The
American Historical Association (AHA) is a nonprofit membership organization
founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion
of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical
documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research.
As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves
as the umbrella organization for historians working in every period
and geographical area. Among its 15,000 members are faculty at secondary
schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities, history graduate
students, independent historians, and historians in museums, historical
organizations, libraries and archives, government, and business. |
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American Association of Physics Teachers, 126th AAPT National Meeting The 126th National Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers will be held in Austin, Texas. The headquarters for the meeting will be the Renaissance Austin Hotel. Because of Austin's proximity to NASA's Johnson Space Center in nearby Houston, the theme for this meeting is "Physics in Space". Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin, Texas |
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January 12-14, 2003 |
Community Day School Network, Community Day School Statewide Conference: "A Showcase of Strategies" The
Community Day School Network is your professional organization. Whether
you are an administrator, teacher or classified staff member, the network
will increase your awareness of the activities in your profession. As
a group, we all entered education to improve the quality of life of
our students. The legislature has made a statement that we work with
the most at-risk population in the state. Join the Network and share
the excitement of success and reap the benefits of sharing among your
peers. |
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The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) - Confident Parenting The Center offers intensive workshops designed to train people
who work with parents to deliver state-of-the-art parenting skill-building
programs. The Center has trained more than 6,000 instructors nationwide
in its three skill-building programs: Confident
Parenting, Effective
Black Parenting and Los
Ninos Bien Educados. These culturally-adapted programs, developed
by the Center's executive director, Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D., clinical child
psychologist, teach a variety of effective parenting skills in a manner
that is consistent and supportive of cultural values and traditions.
The skills that are taught in all of three programs include effective
praising, nonviolent confrontation, and the use of special incentives. Para
Los Ninos, 234 S. Loma Dr., Los Angeles, CA |
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The Center for the Improvement of Child Caring (CICC) - Effective Black Parenting The Center offers intensive workshops designed to train people
who work with parents to deliver state-of-the-art parenting skill-building
programs. The Center has trained more than 6,000 instructors nationwide
in its three skill-building programs: Confident
Parenting, Effective
Black Parenting and Los
Ninos Bien Educados. These culturally-adapted programs, developed
by the Center's executive director, Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D., clinical child
psychologist, teach a variety of effective parenting skills in a manner
that is consistent and supportive of cultural values and traditions.
The skills that are taught in all of three programs include effective
praising, nonviolent confrontation, and the use of special incentives. R.E.I.
WIC Prgram, 2930 W. Imperial Hwy, Ste. 602, Inglewood, CA |
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The California League of Middle Schools is a non-profit membership
association dedicated to improving the professional knowledge of middle
level educators so that early adolescents may experience academic success
and personal well-being. An inclusive organization, CLMS members are
administrators, teachers, parents, professors, policymakers, and others
interested in the achievement of middle level students. |
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Cal-SOAP/GEAR-UP, "Bridging The Gap" By building collaborative relationships with federal, state
and local sponsors, Cal-SOAP is working to increase the number or students
who avail themselves of postsecondary opportunities. The goal of the
program is two-fold: to advise, motivate and inform students regarding
college admissions and financial aid information, and to academically
assist students to achieve college potential. |
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January 21-24, 2003 |
Association for Library and Information Science Education, ALISE 2003 Annual Conference The
mission of ALISE is to promote excellence in research, teaching, and
service for library and information science education. |
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Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2003 Annual Meeting The Association of American Colleges and Universities is the
leading national association devoted to advancing and strengthening
undergraduate liberal education. Founded in 1915 by presidents of liberal
arts colleges, AAC&U now represents the entire spectrum of American
colleges and universities: large and small, public and private, two-year
and four-year. There are nearly 800 accredited member institutions,
drawn in approximately equal percentages from research universities,
masters institutions and liberal arts colleges. A growing number are
community colleges. |
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January 24-26, 2003 |
California Teachers Association, CTA Good Teaching Conference CTA
is the largest organization of working men and women in California.
It enrolls more than 330,000 members, the vast majority of them active,
dues-paying educators. CTA and its chapters represent nearly 95 percent
of the state's public school teachers and other non-supervisory, certificated
personnel. |
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American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, AACTE 2003 Annual Meeting & Exhibits The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
(AACTE) provides leadership for the continuing transformation of professional
preparation programs to ensure competent and caring educators for all
America's children and youth. It is the principal professional association
for college and university leaders with responsibility for educator
preparation. It is the major voice, nationally and internationally,
for American colleges, schools, and departments of education, and is
a locus for discussion and decision-making on professional issues of
institutional, state, national and international significance. |
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SAY San Diego Parents Alliance for School Standards (PASS) Project Meeting SAY San Diego PASS Project will be having an information session,
Tuesday, January 28, 2003 from 9:00am - 11:30am. It will be held at
the O'Farrell Community School, Parent Room - #203. Topics to be discussed:
Standardized Testing - Testing is coming up again! They will
cover the SDRT (Reading diagnostic test), the CELDT (for Spanish-speakers),
and the HSEE (High School Exit Exam), Review of PASS Kits - What
types of kits are available and how to get them, Preview of newest
PASS Kit - Preparing For College (English and Spanish), and Getting
academic-related information to parents - A Mid-Year Review. Please
RSVP to Cindy May by January 23, 2003. |
