This has been a turning point week for the upcoming AERO Conference, August 3-7 in Portland, OR. Below are a few of the announcements, along with a way to get a 10% discount or win free conference fees! You can still use the $50 deposit to hold the current price.
You can see a partial list of workshops here.
AERO Childcare to be Mini-School
We pleased to announce that the childcare at the AERO conference will be directed again by Village Free School's Jessica Graves. Jessica plans to run it as a sort of mini-Village Free School, with some of its students participating. This will be complete with a democratic meeting that conference participants can observe. This program will only cost $100 for the whole conference and is open to any children 12 and under. The number may be limited so sign up soon!
Grauer Announced as Keynoter
We're very excited to tell you that Stuart Grauer, founder of the Grauer School in San Diego and author of Fearless Teaching will be a keynoter at the AERO conference. Grauer's book has been a best seller on Amazon in several categories. He has traveled all over the world to see unusual schools and unusual teaching situations. He is a widely praised story-teller and his talk will be about how to get story telling back into teaching. Grauer will join Yong Zhao and Peter Gray as keynoters at the conference.
AERO Conference 10% discount for Two Days
To celebrate all of this news we are offering a coupon for a 10% discount for the conference for the next two days. It will even apply to the low income andstudent rates. Now is the time to register. Don't expect this offer to be repeated. As we have said, as the conference fills up the rate will increase. The coupon code is aerocon10. To use it paste it in at checkout to the coupon code box.
New AERO T Shirts for This Week's Registrants
We are in the process of making new AERO T-shirts. This week all new registrants will get a free AERO T shirt. Eventually they will be available to everyone. We'll let you know.
AERO Conference Sweepstakes
AERO will be giving away three free registrations to the AERO conference. This will go to three of our applicants. We are asking all those interested to publicize the conference on their list serves, forums and social media along with a few sentences on why you want to attend. Send us links so we can confirm this. We will then pick three winners. If you've already registered we can reimburse you or you could bring someone else!
We are asking those interested to send out a link to our conference. If you have a network of people you can contact, here's a short message you can send them:
You can see the conference flyer here.
Two Important Groups Announce Events at AERO Conference!
Agile Learning Centers Training
At this year's conference, facilitators from the Agile Learning Centers Network will be offering a series of special workshops. The ALC model is an exciting and innovative approach which is catching fire around the country and around the world.
In addition to their annual ALF Summer intensive training, the ALC Network will be offering a 3-day Mini Training right after the AERO Conference in Portland. Save $200 by signing up for both the AERO Conference and theALC Mini-Training. Learn more here!
The 2016 Education Transformation JAM
Former AERO keynoter Shilpa Jain has been co-organizing YES! Leadership JAMs all over the world for many years. She is the Executive Director of YES!JAMs bring together personal, interpersonal and systemic transformation, and create profound spaces for learning, unlearning, connecting, healing, growing and collaborating. Each JAM has about thirty participants — in this case, a diverse, multigenerational group engaged with transforming education in all ways. The Jam will be starting three days in advance of the AERO Conference in a retreat center just outside Portland. To find out more about the JAM, and apply to be a part of it, go here.
You can reserve a hotel room here or you can call toll free 1 855 642 6271 .
