I really enjoyed my time at the ASCD Conference in San Francisco today, though had to leave early to get back to play in my regular Sunday night basketball game 🙂 The next time I attend one I plan to make arrangements to attend the whole thing — it would certainly be worth it!
The best places to get thoughtful reports on the conference are at Alice Mercer’s blog and at the posts written by David B. Cohen at the InterAct blog. David also has some nice photos there.
I’d love it if others left comments here with their reactions to the workshops and speakers. Or just leave links to what you have written on your own blogs.
I, on the other hand, hung out at the Exhibit Hall and chatted with the great people at the Eye On Education (they’re publishing my next book in April) booth and elsewhere. It was fun meeting Bill Bigelow and Jody Sokolower from Rethinking Schools, one of my longtime favorite publications. I was also able to meet Jason Buell, Dave Orphal, Bill Ferriter, Judie Haynes, Angela Maiers and Eric Sheninger (who lives near where I grew-up in Staten Island). And it was nice to see Marjorie McAneny from Jossey-Bass.
Here are a few photos:
Alice Mercer, David B. Cohen and me
Alice Mercer getting ready to do a webcast from the Eye on Education exhibit
Angela Maiers and me
I’m standing with Janice Silva, who teaches at a school in Monterrey, Mexico. Look for an interview with her on this blog this spring.
Larry,
Janice is a very close colleague of mine at Colegio Inglés and I was thrilled that she had the opportunity to meet you! As a Technology Integration Specialist at the school, I took a Wednesday afternoon to share with the staff your impressive edublog. Keep up the great work! We’re so happy one from our team got to meet you!
Andrea,
It sounds like you folks are doing great work!
Larry
Hey Larry! We missed meeting you at ASCD! I do plan to blog about my experience there quite soon! Had a blast! But…my co-presenter Joan Young @flourishingkids on Twitter has her post up here: http://allkidscanflourish.blogspot.com/2011/03/3-big-ideas-from-ascd11.html?spref=tw
I will get a comment back to you, when my post is up. 🙂
Best to you, Larry.