Call For 2000 Annual Conference Proposals
ASCD is now accepting proposals for sessions at the 2000 Annual Conference, "Celebrating Education: Leading the Way in the New Millennium," to be held March 25–27, in New Orleans. The five major strands for the 2000 conference are Standards—Assessment/Achievement/Accountability; Improvement of Teaching and Learning; Designing Tomorrow's Classrooms; Emerging Trends Affecting Education in a Global Society; and Leadership in the 21st Century. The postmark deadline for receiving the proposals is May 31, 1999. Presenter proposal forms are available through the ASCD Service Center and on the ASCD Web (http://www.ascd.org).
FamilyEducation Network (FEN)
ASCD recently formed an alliance with FamilyEducation Network (FEN) to offer our resources for enhancing teaching and learning to educators and to expand our reach to parents—the child's first teacher. FEN is linked to more than 4,000 schools in more than 600 school districts throughout the United States.
FEN is an Internet-based network of families, schools, and communities dedicated to helping parents prepare their children to learn (http://familyeducation.com/home/). The FEN core site offers parents 8,000 pages of online information—from toddler concerns to college financing.
FEN is currently working to create a "Just for Schools" area, which will be geared toward school personnel who use FEN services. For more information, contact the ASCD Service Center.
Signature Schools
For more than 50 years, ASCD has worked closely with successful schools and has learned about their proven strategies, their enhanced capacities for change, and their excellence in professional development. Now ASCD is able to help share their successes with other schools through a new program called Signature Schools.
- A professional development framework that supports site-specific, job-embedded learning for teachers and leaders throughout the school;
- Networking structures that facilitate conversation with other schools;
- Educational resources that provide all staff members with a common core knowledge of teaching and learning; and
- Leadership support to help focus school improvement efforts and affirm the school's commitment to teaching and learning.
To find out more, call the ASCD Service Center.
Member Benefits Online
Imagine you had access to a library of education resources—open 24 hours a day, seven days a week—stocked with the very best and most current information, all accessible through a powerful and easy-to-use search software. As an ASCD member, now you do—with Member Benefits Online.
Member Benefits Online provides Internet access to searchable, full-text databases of ASCD's major publications. You can use various levels of searching and retrieving. All materials are updated every 2 to 4 weeks. To see this new benefit in action, point your Web browser to http://www.ascd.org. Once there, click on the Member Benefits button. You will need your membership number to register online.
ASCD Resources on "Understanding Race, Class, and Culture"
The following is a partial list of ASCD resources on this topic. For a more complete listing, visit ASCD's Web site or call the ASCD Service Center.
- Educating Everybody's Children. Cole, R. W., ed. Price: $21.95 (member); $25.95 (non-member). Stock no. 195024.
- Educating Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students(1997). Price: $159 (member); $191 (non-member). Stock no. 196213.
- Bilingual Education and ESL. Price: $19.95 (member); $23.95 (non-member). Stock no. 197200.
- Successful Teams in Diverse Schools.(1997). Blake, V. Price: $19.95 (member); $23.95 (non-member). Stock no. 194166.
Brief Takes
Hillary Rodham Clinton thanks ASCD! On January 14, 1999, the First Lady launched the Mars Millennium Project, a White House initiative challenging K–12 students to design a community on Mars. Mrs. Clinton recognized ASCD for writing integrated curriculum materials for the project. For more information, see ASCD's Web site (http://www.ascd.org).
Educational Leadership is available on CD-ROM, 1992–1998. Now you can search by author, theme, or keyword to locate full-text articles published in EL in the past six years. Price: $59 (member); $74 (non-member). Stock # 598223.
ASCD's Affiliate Networks can help build an understanding of race and culture. Two networks addressing this theme include the African American Critical Issues network, facilitated by executive council member Peyton Williams Jr., and the Language Varieties (Pidgins, Creoles, and Other Stigmatized Varieties) network. For more information, contact Roger Campbell (rcampbel@ascd.org).
ASCD's 1998 Employee of the Year is Facilities Manager Gillian Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick, who made ASCD's move to our new building such a success, was recognized at the 1999 Annual Conference in San Francisco. Congratulations, Gillian!
For Your Calendar
- 2000: New Orleans, March 25-27
- 2001: Boston, March 17-19
- 2002: San Antonio, March 9-11
- Reporting Student Learning, Indianapolis, Indiana: May 13-14, 1999.
- Instructional Strategies for the Heterogeneous Classroom, Indianapolis, Indiana: May 13-14, 1999
- Helping School Teams Lead Successful Schoolwide Change, Indianapolis, Indiana: May 13-14, 1999
