(Name-mce) ListServ Closing the Achievement Gap 5-21-07 University of Connecticut

[Villanueva Anselmo]

Second Annual Closing the Achievement Gap Conference

May 21, 2007

Call for Proposals

On  May 21,  2007, we are holding the second annual "CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP CONFERENCE" at the University of Connecticut.  

Last year, over 200 educators from around the state and across the region attended the inaugural conference.  This venue provided an opportunity for professors in the Neag School of Education to share their research with practitioners and provided opportunities to further future research collaborations in the schools.  We hope that this year's conference will be as successful.  We would like to invite Neag faculty to submit proposals that relate to our theme of "closing the achievement gap."  

The primary audience for the conference will be teachers, counselors, and administrators, so we welcome proposals that address research or best practices for closing the achievement gap. All sessions will be 1 hour in length.  

If you are interested in presenting at this year's conference, please send a title and a 100-150 word description of your proposed presentation to our conference coordinator, Christina Peretti, ( ChristinaPeretti at hotmail.com <mailto:ChristinaPeretti at hotmail.com>  ) by November 13, 2006.  Please be sure to explicitly state how your proposed talk addresses closing the achievement gap. If you have any questions about or ideas for the conference, please email either of the conference co-chairs: Dr. Robert D. Colbert ( Robert.colbert at uconn.edu )or D. Betsy McCoach ( betsy.mccoach at uconn.edu  ).