SREB's National Conference for 7,500 Educators Set for July 11-14 in New Orleans

SREB’s 21st Annual High Schools That Work Summer Staff Development Conference is one of the nation’s largest gatherings of high school and middle grades teachers, principals and other educators. The focus is to help schools eliminate student failures and raise student achievement.

The conference opens on Wednesday, July 11, with a keynote address from SREB Senior Vice President Gene Bottoms, who founded High Schools That Work, now the nation’s largest school improvement network, enrolling more than 1,200 schools in 32 states. Schools from across the nation that have raised student achievement substantially will be honored with awards during the opening session.

Smaller sessions on hundreds of topics — including how to improve math and science instruction, raise the quality of career/technical education, school leadership and much more — will begin Thursday morning and continue through midday Saturday.

The news media is welcome to attend. Please contact SREB Communications for more information. A full schedule and other details are available online at conference information.

SREB, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, advises state education leaders on ways to improve education. SREB was created in 1948 by Southern governors and legislatures to help leaders in education and government work cooperatively to advance education and improve the social and economic life of the region. SREB has 16 member states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Each is represented by its governor and four gubernatorial appointees.