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Posted: Thursday, March 31
Event | How Immersion in Virtual Worlds Helps Students in the Real World
Abstract: Many people of different ages now participate in immersive virtual environments, from Club Penguin and Webkins through World of Warcraft, America's Army, and Second Life. The 2010 National Educational Technology Plan identifies immersive media as among the most powerful emerging technologies for learning. This session describes our research in designing and studying immersive virtual…
Posted: Tuesday, March 29
Event | 15th Annual Edufest
For more information about this event, visit http://www.edufest.org/ Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Mentoring Young Mathematicians: Teaching Math to Talented Primary Students (Gr. K-2) (07/25/2011)Presenters: M. Katherine Gavin (project: Project M2: Maturing Mathematicians -- Advanced Curriculum for Primary Level Students)        
Posted: Monday, March 28
Event | 34th Annual Confratute
For more information about this event, visit http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/confratute/ Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Project M2: Mentoring Young Mathematicians (7/12-15/2011)Presenters: Janine Firmender  (project: Project M2: Maturing Mathematicians -- Advanced Curriculum for Primary Level Students)        
Posted: Monday, March 28
Event | 2011 CAMT conference
For more information about the conference, visit http://www.camtonline.org/ Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Connecting Mathematics Comprehension to Language Development (07/18/2011)Presenters: Jose Franco (project: Math Pathways and Pitfalls: Capturing What Works for Anytime Anyplace Professional Development), Alma Ramirez  
Posted: Monday, March 28
Event | Cambridge Symposium on Pedagogy and Teacher Education
For more information about the conference, visit http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/teachereducation/ Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory of Action for Improving the Quality of Mathematics Teaching at ScalePresenters: Paul Cobb (project: Designing Learning Organizations for Instructional Improvement in…
Posted: Monday, March 28
Event | 2011 AMTE National Conference
For information about the fifteenth annual AMTE conference, go to: http://www.amte.net/conferences/conf2011 Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting: Session Title: Developing Consumers of Coaching (01/28/2011)Presenters: Elizabeth  Burroughs (project: Examining Coaching in Elementary (K-8) Mathematics Classrooms), David Yopp Session Title: Research in Mathematics…
Posted: Monday, March 28
Announcement | Request for Proposals
The 2012 NSELA Professional Development Institute (PDI) on “Leading Professional Development in Science Education” will be held in Indianapolis, IN, on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. This RFP solicits presentations from which NSELA selects all-day or half-day Institute sessions. Each session runs three hours in the morning and/or three hours in the afternoon. Each three-hour block includes a break.…
Posted: Wednesday, March 23
Event | CEC 2011 Convention and Expo
For more information about the conference, visit: http://www.cec.sped.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ProfessionalDevelopment/ConventionExpo/ Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Mathematics Problem Solving: The Marriage of Inquiry-Based and Explicit Instruction (4/28/2011)Presenters: Yan Ping Xin, Ron Tzur, John Woodward
Posted: Thursday, March 17
Event | Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting
For information about the meeting, visit: http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=568 Look for this DR K-12 grantee who is presenting: Session Title: Assessments for Early Science Learning and Instructional Environments: Filling a Critical Instrumentation Gap (04/02/2011)Presenters: Kimberly  Brenneman (project: Supports for Science and Mathematics…
Posted: Wednesday, March 16
Event | NCTM 2011 Research Pre-session
For information about the Research Pre-session, visit: http://www.nctm.org/conferences/content.aspx?id=3744 Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting: Session Title:   Examining Learning Progressions, Trajectories, and Levels:  Beyond Scope and Sequence (04/12/2011)Presenters: Jeff Barrett (project: A Longitudinal Examination of Children's Developing Knowledge of Measurement:…
Posted: Wednesday, March 16
Event | Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (SREE) Fall 2011 Conference
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Fall 2011 Conference Call for Papers The Fall 2011 SREE research conference “Building an Education Science: Improving Mathematics and Science Education for All Students” will be held September 8-10 in Washington, DC. The conference will include symposia and paper presentations, a virtual poster session, plenary sessions, and professional…
Posted: Monday, March 14
Event | 241st ACS National Meeting & Exposition
For information on the meeting, visit the American Chemical Society website. Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting:     Session Title: ACS Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry: Symposium in Honor of David F. Treagust (March 29, 2011)Presenter: Stacey Lowery Bretz (project:      Chemistry Education Research Doctoral Scholars Program) Session…
Posted: Friday, March 11
Event | Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry
The Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from May 17-21, 2011. The theme of the 2011 Congress is "Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy." Increasingly in these troubling political times qualitative researchers are called upon to make their work relevant. They are encouraged to pursue social justice agendas…
Posted: Friday, March 11
Announcement | A Call for Common Content
Core Curriculum Must Build a Bridge from Standards to Achievement A group brought together by the Albert Shanker Institute makes a “A Call for Common Content.” “Shared curriculum in the core academic subjects would give shape and substance to the standards, and provide common ground for the creation of coherent, high-quality instructional supports — especially texts and other materials,…
Posted: Monday, March 07
Announcement | Ferrini-Mundy to become NSF Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources
Joan Ferrini-Mundy to Become NSF Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources February 24, 2011 Joan Ferrini-Mundy has been selected as the new assistant director of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). She has held the position on an acting basis for the last year. EHR is the part of NSF that funds the majority of research and…
Posted: Monday, February 28
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Event | Fall CUE Conference
Presenting at the Fall CUE 2011 Conference   SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS FOR FALL CUE 2011 IS NOW OPEN Conference tags: fallcue, #fallcue CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT TO FALL CUE 2011 Deadline to submit workshops is January 31, 2011Deadline to submit concurrent session is May 2, 2011 All speakers who submit a session will be notified by July 31, 2011.  Click to view the speaker selection process.    We look…
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Event | ED-MEDIA World Conference
  ED-MEDIA Call for Participation Submissions Final Deadline: April 12, 2011 June 27 - July 1, 2011 - Lisbon, Portugal Proposal Submission Guide & Form INVITATION ED-MEDIA--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This annual conference…
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Event | E-Learn World Conference
E-Learn Call for Participation Submissions Deadline: April 22, 2011 October 17 - 21, 2011 - Honolulu, Hawaii - Sheraton Waikiki Beach Resort Proposal Submission Guide & Form Invitation E-Learn 2011 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in…
Posted: Sunday, February 27
Project Spotlight | Project Spotlight: Middle School Mathematics and the Institutional Setting of Teaching (MIST)
The MIST project investigates how changes in the school and district settings in which mathematics teachers work influence their instructional practices, students' learning opportunities, and student achievement (ESI-0554535). The project is also developing instruments and methods for analyzing data to document the institutional setting of mathematics teaching that are specific to equity and…
Posted: Thursday, February 24
Announcement | IES Newsflash
Results for The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 Trial Urban District Assessment (TUDA) now available! The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has just released the 2009 Science results for 17 urban districts and for large cities nationally in The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009 TUDA. The 2009 NAEP Science TUDA assessed representative samples of between 900 and 2,200…
Posted: Thursday, February 24
Event | 2011 International CDIO Annual Conference
“Building Educational Networks"  During this conference, engineering educators from all over the world will come together over four days in June, 2011, to look at how curriculum reform will lead the future of engineering education: from educational research to the needs of industry.  Join us from all sides of engineering education - as students, teachers, employers, or education researchers in…
Posted: Wednesday, February 23
Event | FIE Conference
Celebrating 41 Years of Monumental Innovations From Around the World 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference Rapid City, South Dakota, October 12 - 15, 2011 http://fie-conference.org/fie2011/ On behalf of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, and the three sponsoring societies, we are pleased to welcome you to FIE 2011. In the 30 years since FIE was last hosted in Rapid City…
Posted: Wednesday, February 23
Posted: Wednesday, February 23
Event | 2011 AAPT Summer Meeting
AAPT Summer Meeting Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2011 Summer Meeting in Omaha. 2011 Summer Meeting Information - Program, hotel, location, and more information Look for these DR K-12 grantees who are presenting: Session Title: Best Practices for Use of Technology in Education Presenter: Ian Beatty (project: Teacher Learning of Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment     ) Session…
Posted: Wednesday, February 23