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Early bird discounted rates are available now through February 29, 2012!

$50 deposit until midnight Feb 29 (adult or youth) for us to hold a place for you at the conference.

$250 until midnight Feb 29 ($300 per adult starting March 1)

$175 until midnight Feb 29 ($200 per student or youth starting March 1)

What is the AERO conference?

The most important activity at AERO conferences is the networking. There have been some very powerful and inspirational keynote speakers such as John Gatto, Riane Eisler, Alfie Kohn, Herb Kohl and Patch Adams. The workshops, presentations and panels are often done by people who would have been keynotes at other conferences, but are also done by grassroots people, who are simple practitioners in educational alternatives, including homeschooling parents. Furthermore, unlike most conferences, AERO always reserves space in every time session for spontaneous workshops that are posted daily.

Who should go to the AERO conference?

Our attendees are from an amazingly wide spectrum. We have had people from every state and dozens of countries. We had 500 attendees last year.

Our conference has always been friendly to students and children, usually including presentations by and for children and students. Therefore many attendees bring their children and teachers bring groups of their students. Student and children’s rates are discounted. We also have very reasonably priced child-care.

Attendees have been:

• Teachers, administrators, parents and students from public and private alternatives
• People from Democratic, Montessori, Waldorf, higher education alternatives and charter schools
• Homeschooling families
• Researchers
• Mainstream public school personnel interested in change
• Media
• Education writers

Transportation and logistics

The conference will begin with pre-conference events on the evening of Wednesday, the 1st of August. It will end after lunch on Sunday the 5th.

It will be held at the Red Lion Hotel on the River, In Portland, Oregon. You can see the map of the location here. The hotel provides free transportation from the nearby airport. You may actually lock in your room right now at the low conference rate. Later on rooms at the hotel may be limited.

Volunteers

We are looking for a handful of superstar volunteers to help out at the conference. This might involve sitting at the registration/conference info table or the bookstore, helping put up signs, childcare, audio/visual, putting together conference packets (info about the hotel, Portland info, brief schedule). If interested, write to conference@educationrevolution.org

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