Educator currents, 03/11/2013

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From: OK State Dept of Ed [OKSDE@public.govdelivery.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 11:27 AM
To: gphillips@oltn.odl.state.ok.us
Subject: OK State Dept of Ed Daily Digest Bulletin
SDE: Educator Currents Newsletter for All Oklahoma Educators
03/11/2013
Registration is now open for the 2013
OSDE
VISION 2020 Summer Conference!
The Oklahoma State Department of Education's VISION 2020
conference will be July 9-11 at the Cox Convention Center in
Oklahoma City. Online registration for attendees and
exhibitors, and proposals to present are now available on
our website along with other conference information such as
hotel accommodations.
Vision 2020
offers learning
opportunities,
professional
development and training for anyone from the engaged
parent, the classroom teacher, counselor, librarian,
technology instructor, treasurer, central office personnel,
principal, school board member, district superintendent and
others.
Attendee registration is free and includes all professional
development sessions at the conference.
This conference will host more than 900 concurrent sessions
with dynamic content, nationally recognized keynote
speakers and engaging professional development.
The theme of this year's conference is FocusED, with the
REAC3H NETWORK
REACHES ALL
DISTRICTS
After gathering district feedback, the
REAC3H Network has been
restructured to allow more
professional development
opportunities for all districts.
The state has been organized into
eight proposed regions, with Tulsa
and Oklahoma City school districts
remaining independent because of
their size.
The State Department of Education
will conduct two professional
development opportunities per region
each year. The sessions will primarily
focus on classroom teaching
strategies to help with integrating
Oklahoma C3 Standards, which
include Common Core in math,