ATLANTA — The Southern Regional Education Board will hold its annual major conference for about 7,500 educators from across the nation in Nashville, Tennessee, from July 9-12 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
SREB’s 22nd 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.
High Schools That Work is 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 conference.
A special Thursday morning session will feature business consultant Edward Gordon. His presentation, "The 2010 Crossroad: Preventing a Workforce Meltdown," will focus on the increasing need for an educated and prepared workforce even as the number of workers qualified for 21st-century careers declines.
Sessions focusing on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) will be highlighted on Friday. A featured speaker will be Raymond Simon, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education.
Smaller sessions on hundreds of other topics — including how to raise the quality of career/technical education, improving school leadership and much more — will begin Wednesday morning and continue through midday Saturday.
The news media is invited to attend. Please contact SREB Communications for more information about participants from your state. The conference program 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.
