• • Notes from CEO Bill Sims
• • OAPCS Workshop 7: Know Your Accountability Data
• • Important EMIS Information
• • New USDOE Grant Competition: Replicating & Expanding High Performing Charter Schools
• • The Lottery Viewing - National Education Day is June 8
• • KnowledgeWorks to Review K-12 Education System to Find Efficiencies While Maximizing Quality
• • New Brochure on College Jumpstart Programs
• • Call for Practices!
• • Central State University Institute of Urban Education S.T.E.M Summer Academy
• • National Charter School Resource Center
• • Attention All E-Schools!!! Join the E-School Consortium.
• • My Idea Grants launched to recognize and support young people
• • SLIYS '10: Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars Deadline extended
• • Help for our Schools - The National Teacher Registry
• • Balloon Launch for Missing Students at Columbus Preparatory Academy
• • 10th Annual National Charter Schools Conference
• • K-12 Teachers, Educators, Administrators
• • TECHie Camp 2010: Educating, Exciting and Empowering students with technology!
• • Parent Membership Program - "Be A Brick"

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Funding Opportunity:
The Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination (AEMDD)
For the full article click here

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Funding Opportunity:
Grants for the Integration of Schools and Mental Health Systems program
For the full article click here

Advocacy

Events

Quality Values and Principles

The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephanie Klupinski as our new Vice President of Advocacy and Government Relations. Stephanie will oversee the Alliance’s advocacy efforts as well as legislative and governmental relations.

Stephanie brings a wealth of experience and intelligence to this position and I look forward to working with her on the Alliance’s advocacy agenda. Stephanie recently completed her law degree at Ohio State University’s prestigious Moritz College of Law where she served as the managing director of the Ohio State Law Journal. While in law school she interned with the Ohio Senate Minority Caucus and the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. Stephanie took her Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan and was the student editor of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs.  While at UM, she was a graduate instructor in the university’s School of Education.

Stephanie has won numerous journalism awards including “Best Social Justice Reporting” from the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists and several “Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards” for work done when she served as the Associate Editor of Catalyst Ohio, a newsmagazine that documents, analyzes and supports school-improvement efforts in Ohio's urban school districts, with a particular emphasis on Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus. It’s the sister publication of the award-winning Catalyst Chicago.

Advocacy will always be a top priority of the Ohio Alliance and the issues aren’t likely to get easier in the next year or two; so, we are very pleased indeed to have someone of Stephanie’s caliber on board and heading up our advocacy and government relations work.

– Bill Sims

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OAPCS is repeating its highly acclaimed "Know Your Accountability Data" workshop July 1, 2010. At this workshop, participants will review their submitted end of year EMIS data and preview how their Local Report Card rating will be determined. Marianne Mottley, of the Ohio Department of Education, will be the key presenter, and Karlyn Geis, from the Office of Community Schools will be on hand to answer questions about the school closure provisions. The workshop is scheduled for 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.
 
Goals of the workshop are:
1. Use the Secure Data Center to access the Accountability Workbook
2. View your Preliminary Local Report Card
3. Understand Where Kids Count and the Accountability IRN
4. Drill down into data to illuminate areas that affect your school rating
5. Calculate your Performance Index, AYP subgroups, and Safe Harbor
6. Understand the School Closure provisions
7. Know how to show key data to teachers and board members
 
To register, please go to the OAPCS website at www.oapcs.org, and click on the events link. The cost of the workshop is $100 for members and $200 for nonmembers.

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ODE released their recent EMIS Newsflash today, May 21st, 2010. Please note the following subjects that were highlighted in the publication that can affect your school.

Also, please be sure that your school’s EMIS Coordinators have received this valuable information.

Upcoming ODE System Outages for Upgrades
The following message was included this week in the regular email to superintendents:

Web applications to be temporarily unavailable
ODE provides a number of online applications for its customers that provide secure environments for activities such as reporting student data or providing information about a specific school district. Currently, ODE is entering the final stages of a project to upgrade its application databases, which will improve performance and reliability. Unfortunately, the work requires application outages that will extend beyond the regular Saturday morning maintenance window:

•    May 22 – 23: The main application database will be upgraded. Work will begin early Saturday morning and is expected to continue into Sunday. With few exceptions, expect all ODE applications to be unavailable during this weekend. For a complete list of ODE Web applications, click here or on the abbreviation Apps at the top of any Web page at education.ohio.gov.

•    May 26 – 29: The Interactive Local Report Card and the Secure Data Center applications will be unavailable because the “data warehouse/Education Management Information System (EMIS)” database will be upgraded during this time. The size of the EMIS database requires the upgrade work to begin during the normal business week. Work will begin after normal business hours on Wednesday, May 26, and will continue through Saturday, May 29. Regular EMIS processing will commence on Sunday, May 30, to take advantage of the holiday weekend.

Exiting LEP Guidance from ODE’s Lau Resource Center
The attached memo was recently sent to select district staff regarding exit criteria for LEP students. ODE’s Lau Resource Center has asked that the information be shared with EMIS coordinators. If you have questions about reporting LEP status or the LEP Reclassification Date in EMIS, please direct your questions to the EMIS Helpdesk via your ITC. If you or district staff have questions about the actual process for exiting a student, please direct these questions to the email address in the attached memo.

FY10 Yearend data and the Secure Data Center (SDC)
Our current estimate for the availability of FY10 Yearend data in the SDC is the second week of June. Once ODE loads FY10N data into the SDC, the SDC will be unavailable for a few days while ODE staff validate the initial data load, as in years past.  Until that time, the SDC will remain available (with the exception of the system outage noted above) to review prior reporting period data sets.


GEN_MISSING Related Updates
ESCs not required to submit DT records (measure D3): The GEN_MISSING report distributed this week incorrectly showed ESCs as being required to submit the District Testing (DT) record type. This record type is not required for ESCs and will show as such on next week’s GEN_MISSING report.

Some measures will show as not required until specific data submitted to ODE: Since some of the GEN_MISSING measures (D6, D7, D8, D9, E1, and E2) are only based on data submitted during yearend processing, some districts will show one or more of these measures as not required for the district until the district submits students who actually meet the measure’s selection criteria. For example, until preschool students who are required to be tested are submitted by the district, measure D7 will show as not required. In essence, if the denominator of the percentage calculation for a measure is zero, the measure will appear as not required.  As soon as students who meet the selection criteria are submitted, the district will have to meet the measure, even if they did not receive a percentage for the measure the prior week. This fact makes it all the more important for districts to try and submit all of their students early in the reporting period so other measures are not unexpectedly changing later in the reporting period.

Measures D5 (Student Standing FS) and D6 (Course GN) not included in this week’s run: ODE EMIS staff are still working to validate the results of the STUDENT_MISSING and MISS_COURSE reports.  Therefore, we did not include the results of these measures on the GEN_MISSING report this week.  We expect that the percentages for these measures will be on next week’s report.

STUDENT_MISSING report issues/cautions
The STUDENT_MISSING report copied out to ITCs this past week has an issue that ODE is resolving for next week. All of the students listed on the report were missing and action was required (either reporting the student or requesting an override if appropriate) to resolve the listed errors.  However, additional students beyond those on last week’s report may also be missing.  

As of last week, the process was not checking to see if any student reported as withdrawn in October was reported in Yearend. Note that students who were reported as summer withdrawals in October are not required to be reported in Yearend, but any student who withdrew on or after the first day of school this year must be reported in Yearend, even if they were already reported as withdrawn in October. Most districts are still reporting these students in Yearend, but if they were excluded from Yearend for some reason, they will appear on the STUDENT_MISSING report starting next week.

Also related to students who withdraw early in the school year is a caution on the impact of the yearend building record on the STUDENT_MISSING report. The report uses the first day of school as reported in the yearend building record to determine which withdrawn students from October must be reported in yearend. If the yearend building record is not reported, ODE uses a default date of September 5th. Therefore, any change to the building record first day of school being reported, or starting to report the record for the first time, may cause students to appear and/or disappear from the STUDENT_MISSING report. Please check now that the building record is being reported properly to avoid an unpleasant surprise later in Yearend reporting.

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A new grant competition has just been announced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program. The CSP grant competition for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools will provide $50,000,000 to assist non-profit charter management organizations, and other entities that are not for-profit entities, in replicating or expanding high-quality charter schools with demonstrated records of success. Applicants must have experience operating more than one high-quality charter school.

Applications are due by July 7, 2010, and must be submitted through the Department’s e-Application system, at http://e-grants.ed.gov. A pre-application meeting will be held on June 8, 2010, in Washington, DC. For those interested in attending, either in person or by phone, please RSVP to charterschools@ed.gov. More information is available at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/charter/applicant.html.

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The Lottery will be screening on June 8th at 7:30pm in the following theaters in Ohio:

• Showcase Cinemas Western Hills, 5870 Harrison Ave, Cincinnati 45248
• Crosswoods, 200 Hutchinson Ave, Columbus 43235
• Showcase Cinemas, 7737 Waynetown Blvd, Huber Heights 45449
• Carmike Sandusky Plaza Cinema, 4314 Milan Road, Sandusky 44874


Ticketing will be posted at this website as it becomes available for each theater: http://www.screenvision.com/s/showing/TheLottery/
 
Also, due to the generous support of the Ohio Council of Community Schools, Kidsohio.org, The Graham Family of Schools, Arts and College Preparatory Academy, Citizens’ Academy, ePrep, Romig Road, and Mound Street Academies (and others to come!) we are able to sponsor a FREE VIEWING at Polaris, 1071 Gemini Place, Columbus 43240, followed by a Panel Discussion.


See http://thelotteryfilm.com/ for a Trailer, message board & how to get involved.
 
For more information, contact Marianne Lombardo, mlombardo@oapcs.org, (614) 744-2266 ext. 201.

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Columbus, Ohio – Ohio Governor Ted Strickland and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Deborah Delisle announced today that the KnowledgeWorks Foundation will lead a comprehensive review of the state’s K-12 education system this year in an effort to find efficiencies while maintaining focus and investment on activities that improve student achievement.  

This project builds on the state’s new education reform plan, which modernizes our classrooms and strengthens the teaching profession to better prepare students with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the 21st Century economy.

“As a respected national leader that understands the importance of innovation in education, KnowledgeWorks is the best entity to take on this challenge,” Strickland said. “We’ve modernized our education system to improve classroom learning and student success, and now our K-12 system is more aligned with our economy and higher education institutions than ever before. Our new evidence-based funding model makes sure that tax dollars are spent on what research tells us will help every child succeed in the classroom. We must continue to build on these reforms by working with Ohio educators to identify existing and new system-wide efficiencies that will empower our schools to deliver a quality education as cost-effectively as possible.”

This collaborative, non-partisan effort will ensure that Ohio is meeting the student-centered goals of the state’s new education law at a time when every dollar is critically important. The education law also sets a higher level of accountability for schools, requiring for the first time fiscal reports and annual spending plans for each district.

"I look forward to engaging in critical conversations with stakeholders about Ohio's reform agenda and identifying specific strategies that will enable our schools and districts to be efficient in our operations while maintaining the high quality of classroom experiences we provide for our students,” said Superintendent Delisle. KnowledgeWorks has committed significant time and effort to develop research-based approaches on what the future of learning looks like, and is a practitioner on developing the innovations necessary to get there.”

The Governor and Superintendent have asked KnowledgeWorks to apply this way of thinking toward further educational efficiencies in Ohio, as it has done in the past, and to not be afraid to disrupt the status quo in helping state leadership tap new learning technologies and new kinds of collaborations. This effort can help remold our current education system into a world of learning that truly puts the needs of learners first, the governor said.

“We are encouraged that Gov. Strickland is demonstrating forward-thinking leadership on what I believe is our most important public responsibility – ensuring the children of Ohio receive the best education in the nation in spite of the economic challenges we face,” said KnowledgeWorks CEO Chad Wick. “KnowledgeWorks looks forward to working with the Ohio Department of Education, key education stakeholders and listening to the citizens of Ohio as we explore the best ideas and systems available to help seed innovation and re-imagine how to better deliver learning in our state at a time of great financial challenge.”

KnowledgeWorks will work with the Ohio Department of Education, legislators from both parties, and education stakeholders, including administrators, teachers, students, community and business leaders,  and foundations. The collaboration will ensure that a full range of interests are involved to advise the state on achievable goals for modernization and efficiency in our education system in the near- and long-term future.

“Our success at identifying system-wide efficiencies through greater collaboration among University System of Ohio institutions has helped Ohio keep public tuition costs from exploding at a time when other states are increasing tuition by double-digits. Just as important, we did it without sacrificing improvements to the overall quality of our higher education system for students,” Strickland said. “I have no doubt that this work to share and incentivize best practices within our K-12 education system will yield similar results while improving the quality of our student’s education. Many of our districts are already finding efficiencies in their systems that we can build upon in this collaboration with KnowledgeWorks.”

Strickland has asked KnowledgeWorks to report back on its findings by December 2010 for consideration in the next biennial budget and the 2011-2012 school year. The project will be funded by KnowledgeWorks and potentially other private funders.

About KnowledgeWorks:
KnowledgeWorks Foundation (www.kwfdn.org) is a national leader in developing and implementing innovative and effective approaches to high school education. The organization primarily focuses on redesigning urban high schools, developing STEM and Early College high schools, and supporting student-centered approaches to delivering real learning and results in our schools.

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KidsOhio.org, School Choice Ohio, and the Columbus Urban League, are proud to launch a new school choice information tool for Ohio families.

The “Jumpstart on College & Your Career” brochure features information on four college access programs that allow students to receive college credit during high school for free. These programs let high schoolers to save money on college tuition and get their feet wet with professional, technical, and academic college-level work.

The brochure includes information on these four Ohio programs:
• College Tech Prep
• Early College High Schools
• Advanced Placement Courses
• Post-secondary Enrollment

Data show that these tremendous options are often underutilized by low-income students, so we’re pursuing an aggressive distribution campaign to try to get these brochures in the right hands.

Want some brochures of your own? Contact spechan@scohio.org to order your free copies.

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In this time of unprecedented attention to education reform, we invite you to add to the national dialogue.

The Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Ohio Grantmaker’s Forum, KnowledgeWorks, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and KidsOhio, with support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, are seeking

Best Cooperative Practices between Charter and Traditional Public Schools.

Fifty best practices will be selected for publication and wide dissemination throughout the education community and to national and state opinion leaders and policymakers.  

In order to find these transcendent cooperative practices, we have issued a national Call for Practices. If your organization has a good example of charters and traditional schools working together, please contact Amy Black, National Conference Manager at ablack@oapcs.org or visit www.oapcs.org/call-for-papers, for information on how to submit your best practice by June 18, 2010.

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Central State University Institute of Urban Education is sponsoring  a two-week summer program for high school students currently in grades 10, 11, and 12, that have an interest in science, technology, engineering, math, finance, and entrepreneurship (S.T.E.M.) and attending Central State University (CSU). Students who have completed the 2008 or 2009 ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camp at CSU, and will be entering the ninth grade in the fall of 2010 are also eligible.
 
July 5 – July 16, 2010

The program will be held on the campus of Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Students will be engaged in learning science, technology, engineering, math, finance, and entrepreneurship. An essential portion of the students experience involves meeting and interacting with minority scientists, mathematicians, and entrepreneurs. The students will participate in field excursions, which include a tour of Central State University, where they will be exposed to faculty and staff of the University. Participants will get a first hand look at where their college career can begin.

The registration fee for the 2010 Academy is $150.00. After June 7, there is a $50 late fee. All registrations are on-line only. Once registered, paperwork for the academy will be email address within 3-5 business days.or mailed. Space is limited to 50 students.

The link to register for the W.E.B. DuBois Talented Tenth S.T.E.M. Academy is here.
 
Questions call: (937) 376-6374

For more information contact:
Central State University
Institute of Urban Educaton
1400 Brush Row Road
P.O. Box 1004
Wilberforce, OH 45384
 
Or visit www.centralstate.edu
 

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Are you searching for a school building that will make the educational vision of your charter come to life? Is your school currently housed in a space that doesn't meet your needs? Are you overwhelmed by the process of constructing a new school? Not sure how to access financing?

Join us at the U.S. Department of Education's 2010 Charter School Facilities Institute. This full-day event, presented in partnership with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, is conducted by the National Charter School Resource Center at Learning Point Associates. This preconference event will complement the facilities strand at the 2010 National Charter Schools Conference.

Charter School Facilities Institute
8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile
540 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL

Whether you are applying for a charter, opening your first school, or planning to construct a new building, we invite you to learn from charter school leaders and national experts about the facilities planning process as you engage in interactive conference sessions on the following topics:

• Conceptualizing Your School Facility Needs
• Predevelopment Planning: Creating High-Quality Spaces
• Finding Short-Term Space
• Construction Planning and Management
• Politics and Fundraising
• Financing 101

There is no registration fee to attend, but space is limited. Register now.

For questions or additional information, please call Peggie Garcia by telephone (312) 288-7642 or e-mail peggie.garcia@learningpt.org.

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OAPCS E-School Consortium was created to provide a forum for e-school operators to discuss common advocacy, operational, technical and academic issues. It is also a forum for sharing best practices and virtual school innovation.

OAPCS E-School Consortium is an informal gathering of e-school professionals. Its agenda is the product of its members. The OAPCS provides meeting facilities and a conference bridge for those interested in participating by phone. The OAPCS also provides an e-school community board through its website to enable and encourage ongoing discussion between consortium meetings. 

If you are interested in joining, please email Jennifer Brzoski at jbrzoski@oapcs.org or contact her at (614) 744-2266 ext. 205 

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My Idea Grants launched to recognize and support young people and their projects to increase graduation rates. America's Promise Alliance and AT&T are looking for the energy, enthusiasm, creativity and commitment to help make this country a Grad Nation through the My Idea grants program. "My Idea" will empower young people to examine the high school dropout crisis and take action to help more of their peers to graduate on time, improving outcomes for themselves and their community.

National grants of $10,000 – $20,000 will be awarded to 20 – 25 youth for the best of the submitted ideas to help increase a community's graduation rate anywhere in the United States. Additional opportunities are available for young people living in Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Jackson, Louisville, Nashville, New York, New Orleans, Oakland, and Washington, D.C with grants of $500 – $1500 to support targeted local projects.

If you're a teen concerned about the dropout crisis, consider, plan and propose an idea to help increase the graduation rate in your community. With the help of a supporting non-profit organization or school, you or you and a group of your peers, will have the opportunity to make a difference in your community! If you're a youth service provider, this is a great opportunity to share with the high school-aged youth that you work with each day.

Young people, AT&T representatives and Alliance partners will review and select the local and national ideas that win the "My Idea" grants. The money will be administered by supporting non-profit or school, so you'll get plenty of help and support as you help bring an end to the dropout crisis.

Applications must be submitted by June 11, 2010.

What to Expect:

• You will be asked to complete an America's Promise Alliance web site registration if you don't already have one.
• Then you will Login and complete the Getting Started checklist to start the application.
• Once you start your application, you will receive an email with contact information for further assistance.
• Please complete all sections of the application. You can save your application as a draft and return to it.
• When you have completed your application, click Submit Application. You will receive an email to let you know that we have received your application. Once you submit the Application, you will no longer be able to edit it.
• Your application will be reviewed by a grant panel.
• You will be contacted by the grant panel when they have decided whether or not your project will be funded.

Click here to begin the My Idea Grant application process!

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The OSU Department of Linguistics will be holding a Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars (SLIYS, pronounced "slice") for high school students. This is a week-long summer event designed for students interested in the study of language. There will be two sessions held on OSU's main campus during July 2010. SLIYS '10 is open to high school students from entering sophomores to seniors who are interested in foreign languages. An exciting program has been developed filled with activities aimed at helping participants become better students of language. They will learn, among many other things: how to make "exotic" sounds from other languages; why people speak with a foreign accent; how to avoid typical errors that may make their speech sound non-native; the various ways that cultural differences are expressed in language; and how languages differ in terms of sounds, writing systems, and the meaning and structure of words/sentences. The deadline for applications has been extended. For more information, visit the SLIYS website at http://linguistics.osu.edu/SLIYS/ or contact Dr. Julia McGory at mcgory.1@osu.edu.

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Please help spread the word!

Severe nationwide education budget cuts have resulted in many teachers and schools not receiving enough money to purchase the supplies they need for their classrooms.

To address this growing problem the National Teacher Registry announces a new No Cost service for teachers and schools, public and private, pre-school through college.

The National Teacher Registry helps teachers get items they need for their classroom when there is no budget to purchase them. On the National Teacher Registry website a teacher or school can create a list of the items that they need and want for their classroom. There are currently over 40,000 items from multiple suppliers on the site and many more products are in the process of being added.

Once a registry is created, a direct link to the registry can be sent by the teacher or school to parents and friends. Parents and friends can access the list on the Internet, purchase items from the list, and have the items delivered directly to the teacher or school. In many cases this is a charitable donation which can be deducted on the purchaser's tax return.

You can review the website at:  www.nationalteacherregistry.com.

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On May 24th, 2010, Columbus Preparatory Academy (CPA), created an awareness event to find missing children from Ohio by hosting a balloon launch for the National Missing Children’s Day. Mr. Chad Carr welcomed the Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, representatives from the Columbus Police Department, Fire Department and the AMBER Alert Steering Committee and Bill Sims, President of the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools.  

After a few safety tips for students and parents from Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray on how to stay safe, Mr. Sims recognized CPA for their academic success but also their contribution to National Missing Children’s Day, concluding that, “The test of the morality of a society is what it does, or does not do for its children.” He went on to say that the number one reason that parents decide to send their children to charter schools is safety.  

As balloons were passed out to all grades, the 4th grade students entertained with a song. As soon as they finished, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray counted down the release of balloons. On each balloon was a sticker that had a child’s name who is currently missing in Ohio. CPA asked that each person think of those children during this time and remember their parents and family members that are currently waiting for them to return safely. The balloon release concluded this short, but yet meaningful event at Columbus Preparatory Academy. We applaud CPA’s attention to this important day.

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The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools invites you to attend the 10th Annual National Charter Schools Conference

Innovators in Education: Leading the Race to the Top

June 28 – July 1, 2010
Lakeside Center/McCormick Place Lakeside Convention Center, Chicago, IL.

Each year, the National Charter Schools Conference provides the sole opportunity for the entire movement to gather – leaders, teachers, and board members of charter schools; authorizers and legislators; and supporters in business and philanthropy. The 2010 theme is "Innovators in Education: Leading the Race to the Top" -- chosen because the charter school sector is truly at the cutting edge of education reform. Now serving more than 1.5 million students in 4,900 schools, public charter schools provide outstanding examples of innovation and quality. The National Charter Schools Conference is a time to recognize these achievements while rededicating ourselves to pushing toward even higher goals. With states scrambling to create far-reaching Race to the Top plans, and teams of educators hoping to scale their innovations, we are putting out a big welcome mat so all can see what innovative charter schools can offer.

The conference will be divided into eleven strands including Law and Policy; Finance; the role of Charter Support Organizations; Quality Innovation, Student Achievement; and Governance. We're inviting the industry's most distinguished policy gurus, practitioners, advocates, and school representatives to join us - so stay tuned this site for news of sessions and speakers.

This year, Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will provide keynote remarks at the opening general session on June 29, 2010. On June 30, Reed Hastings, Founder and CEO of Netflix will provide keynote remarks.

Growing from a single school 17 years ago, the public charter school movement is a testament to the dedication and skill of thousands of teachers, leaders, trustees, and those in the wider community who make their work possible. Our national conference is a time to share what we know, learn from one another and celebrate our successes.

Your support of the conference in attendance and participation is integral to the Charter School Movement. Not only is it important in gaining the attention of policy makers and funders but also in drawing attention NATIONWIDE to the amazing advances Charter Schools are making in improving the quality of education in our country.

The annual conference will include Breakfast, General Sessions, Breakout Sessions, Lunch, Snacks, and Happy Hour/Networking Reception.

For more information, please visit the conference website at: www.nationalcharterconference.org

For general conference questions:
Email: nationalconference@publiccharters.org
Call: 1-800-280-6218

Registration Questions?
Email: natlcharterconf@continue.uoregon.edu
Call: 1-800-280-6218 between 9 am to 5 pm Pacific Coast Time

Registration:
Click here to register online

To register by phone: Call 800-280-6218 between 9 am and 5 pm Pacific Coast Time

To register by fax: Click here to download a Conference Registration Form to pay by Credit Card or Purchase order. Fill out the form and fax it to 541-346-3545

To register by mail:
Click here  to download a Conference Registration Form.
Make checks payable to: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Fill out the form and mail registration form with check payment to:
2010 National Charter Schools Conference Registration
There are lower Affiliate Group Discount Rates for groups of 20 or more.

There are a limited number of rooms at low group rates at the official conference hotel Hyatt Regency Chicago (complimentary shuttles will be provided frequently to & from the convention center). Click here to reserve your hotel room now!

Also, on June 28, 2010, the U.S. Department of Education's 2010 Charter School Facilities Institute is a free, full-day event in partnership with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and is being by conducted the National Charter School Resource Center at Learning Point Associates. This pre-conference session will complement the facilities strand at the 2010 National Charter Schools Conference. It will be held at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, 540 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL.

Learn from charter school leaders and national experts about the facilities planning process and financing as you engage in interactive conference sessions. Each session will provide meaningful step-by-step assistance in one phase of the planning process. Featured topics include:

• Conceptualizing your school facility needs
• Predevelopment planning: Creating high quality spaces
• Finding short-term leased space
• Construction planning and management
• Politics and fundraising
• Indicators for quality loans

Click here for FREE Registration

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Registration is now open for ASEE's workshop, “Discovering Engineering in the Classroom!” Register now and learn fun ways to get students excited about math and science. This energizing, highly informative event will introduce you to innovative, effective engineering education lessons, best practices, and take-away tools. Teachers will also get a certificate (EILA) for securing Continuing Professional Education credits through their state authorities.

When: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.  

Where: Kentucky International Convention Center, 221 South 4th Street, Louisville, Kentucky 40202-2903  

Free to all who register by June 4. For details and to register, click here.

You may also contact Libby Martin by email: k12workshop@asee.org

K-12 Meeting | American Society for Engineering Education | 1818 N Street NW | Washington DC 20036

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TECH CORPS has partnered with Ohio State to offer TECHie Camp on campus between June 7, 2010 and August 20, 2010. TECHie Camp is a full day, week long summer program designed to engage rising 3rd – 5th and 6th – 8th grade students in hands-on, interactive activities focused on Robotics, Web Development, Programming, and Android App Development. TECHie Camp puts students in the role of creating and designing with technology – not just using and consuming it. The overarching goal of TECHie Camp is to engage students in activities that can stimulate a deeper interest in and understanding of technology; as well as provide opportunities for them to express their creativity. TECHie Camp is a program of TECH CORPS Ohio. To register visit www.techiecamp.org.

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