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September 23, 2008

Off-Campus Opportunities for Teachers

For information about continuing education courses at Kennesaw State University go to http://www.kennesaw.edu/coned/sdu_approved.htm.

September 22, 2008

Professional Development Opportunity

Georgia Educational Tools Professional Development will offer seminars for elementary teachers in Atlanta on October 14th, when the topic will be "Reaching the 21st Century Learner" and on October 15th, when the topic will be "Cross Curriculum Integration".
To register, go to http://www.educationaltools.org/pd/upcoming.asp.

Description of Seminars

Georgia Council for the Social Studies annual conference

To get up to date on the latest in social studies, join your colleagues this October 23 and 24 at the Georgia Council for the Social Studies annual conference at the Classic Center in Athens. There will be more working sessions (105), exhibitors (50), speakers (2), and awards, and the chance to win great prizes for the classroom.

The early bird registration deadline is October 6. For more details and to download a registration form go to http://www.gcss.net/annualconference.htm.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

There are free resources for all subject areas at http://www.free.ed.gov/

GISA Annual Conference

The GISA Annual Conference will be November 3 at Brookstone School in Columbus, GA. For more information or to register online go to http://www.gisa-schools.org/evn_annual_meeting.asp

Creative Minds Symposium

For more information about the programs at Savannah Country Day School, go to http://www.savcds.org/podium/default.aspx?t=109029

"All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate."
--John Dewey

"To be a teacher you must be a prophet--because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future."
--Gordon Brown, MIT

"Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do."
--Art Costa