Just returned from a conference at Purdue with Katie Wood Ray and Kelly Gallagher. They are both such great speakers! The attendance was pretty low but I think they are doing some good things at CLEAR and hopefully will be able to get that conference back to its glory days! Think about attending next year. Next up will be the ISRA which they have moved to September. I hope that many of you can attend! Check and see if you have any PD $$ left and come on downtown to the Hilton. If you have any questions please give me a call and I will see if I can assist you by getting more information.

Happy Summer!!

Wow! What a summer it has been so far! We had an outstanding time at the All-Write Conference in Warsaw this year! Heard some authors I had never had the pleasure of hearing before and sold a ton of books! We then went to New Albany for the Southern Indiana Writing Project conference and had a great time with Georgia Heard. Tim Rasinski was in Columbus so we went there and sold his books. Unfortunately we were not allowed to attend the Department of Education three day conference at the JW. Dr. Rasinski was a speaker there also and I know that many teachers would have liked to purchase the books he talked about. It would be great if someone would put a bug in John Wolf's ear about allowing professional book vendors to attend. He denied us when we asked him. I understand that you probably don't need every publisher there throwing materials at the teachers, but if a distributor of professional books was there, I don't see any harm. Maybe I'm biased?
Anyway, we will be at Purdue next week with Kelly Gallagher. Attendance is really low again this year, so if you haven't signed up you may want to take a look.