Field Trips: Events for Educators

April

National School Boards Association Annual Conference
14-17, San Francisco, California

Visit with Edutopia and thousands of your colleagues at one of public education's biggest gatherings. Speakers include former president Bill Clinton.

The Distance Education and Training Council Annual Conference
15-17, Tucson, Arizona

Who says schooling has to happen down the road? Distance-learning fans get an update in the blooming deserts.

Broadcast Education Association Annual Convention and Festival of Media Arts
18-21, Las Vegas

A yearly gathering for the tech-savvy instructor interested in teaching the skills and craft of electronic media.

Future + Form + Function: Building to Last
26-28, Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Council of Educational Facility Planners will discuss design and how to create community-based schools that benefit the planet and its students.

May

Association for Childhood Education International Conference and Exhibition
2-5, Tampa, Florida

A look at education's transformative impact through such topics as global perspectives, emotional intelligence, and civic responsibility.

Anytime Anywhere Learning Summits
14, 16, and 18; Raleigh, North Carolina,
Wichita, Kansas, and Chicago

These one-day intensive seminars bring together educational leaders for focused training in one-to-one computing.

June

New Media Consortium Summer Conference
6-9, Indianapolis, Indiana

Spark creativity in twenty-first-century higher education.

Lexile National Reading Conference
18-20, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

Literacy specialists focus on bridging the reading achievement gap.

International Association for Learning Alternatives Conference
20-22, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Think outside the box at this gathering of innovators.

National Media Education Conference
24-26, St. Louis, Missouri

An understanding of new media is crucial for education; find out why.

National Educational Computing Conference
24-27, Atlanta, Georgia

Don't miss this year's ed-tech blowout.

Ed-Media
25-29, Vancouver, Canada

Head north for a roundup of the best practices worldwide in multimedia, hypermedia, and telecommunications.