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No Child Has To Be Left Behind: Conference Highlights Newest Learning Opportunities, Homeschooling and School Choice Home education offers hope and optimism for choices in education and brighter futures for children. Parents today have the opportunity to make changes, ponder many educational choices and get the information they need to provide the best possible education for their children. The annual New England Homeschool and Family Learning Conference is held annually. This year the event is set for July 15 and 16 at the Boxborough Woods Holiday Inn, Boxborough, MA, and features dozens of workshops and interactive sessions for parents, teens and children. Boxborough, MA(PRWEB) July 8, 2005 -- The annual New England Homeschool and Family Learning Conference will be held July 15 and 16 at the Boxborough Woods Holiday Inn, Boxborough, MA. Featured will be dozens of workshops and interactive sessions for parents, teens and children. Conference supporters believe that home education offers hope and optimism for choices in education and brighter futures for their children. Parents today have the opportunity to make changes, ponder many educational choices and get the information they need to provide the best possible education for their children. One of the conference speakers, Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld, well known educator, author, commentator and champion of school reform writes, "Fortunately, there are a growing number of parents who have seen the light and have turned to home-schooling… we ought not to expect politicians to solve our education problems. They will have to be solved by parents... for the only true reform of education will take place when the government gets out of the education business." The public is welcomed to join hundreds of families for a weekend of learning, encouragement and support. Veteran home educators, beginners or those simply looking at the option will be provided with a full selection of workshops to meet every need. Additionally, some parents want to supplement their children’s traditional education with the methods that are succeeding for more than a million American children. Today, options abound. All of them will be discussed. One of the most respected educational conferences, this annual event offers more than 100 workshops taught by nationally recognized experts to help all families develop a lifestyle of learning. Workshop tracks include: Homeschooling: Getting Started; Homeschooling and the Law; Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Gifted Children; Dealing with Learning Disabilities; Developmental Stages from Birth to Adulthood; Discovering Children's Learning Styles; Succeeding with High Schoolers; Early Childhood Education; Teaching Math, Science, Reading, Literature, Social Sciences; College Preparation; Houesehold Management and Organization and much more. Methods of homeschooling and alternative education are presented: eclectic homeschooling, unschooling, Waldorf methods, Montessori, umbrella schools, virtual homeschooling, distance learning, online education and much more; it's all under one roof. The full exhibit hall features more than 70 companies and thousands of the finest educational resources. This year's guest speakers include: * Attorney Deborah G. Stevenson, founder of National Home Education
Legal Defense. Ms. Stevenson has a private practice in Southbury, Conn.,
handling cases in all aspects of education and appellate law. In addition
to her legal practice, Attorney Stevenson is also a veteran homeschool
Mom and founder of Connecticut's Citizens to Uphold the Right to Educate
(CT's C.U.R.E.) and Executive Director of Home Education Legal Defense
of Connecticut, newly reorganized as NHELD. * Cheryl Carter, founder and director of "Organize Your Life" an
organization that helps people reach their maximum effectiveness and
productivity. She is a writer, homeschool leader and homeschooling mother. * Josh Shaine, former director of the MIT High School Studies Program and former headmaster of Massachusetts Academy for Gifted students. He has taught at public, private, and alternative schools, and has also worked with special needs students who were either at home or institutionalized for a number of public school districts in several different states. * Thomas Clark, a lifelong teacher of mathematics and science with more
than 30 years of experience at all levels, from elementary through adult.
He began his career with twelve years of classroom teaching, including
a full year of graduate study, and then served for five years as the
state mathematics suprvisor for the Indiana Department of Education.
Currently, he is president of Video Text Interactive, a company that
specializes in bringing the textbook to life through technology. * Dr. Susan Snyder is principal member of IDEAS—Inventive Designs for
Education and the ArtS, LLC, a company dedicated to facilitating child
appropriate educational models and programs. She has taught at all levels,
Pre-K - post-graduate, and holds a BS and MA in Music Education, a Ph.D.
in Curriculum and Instruction, an Orff Master Teachers Certificate, and
a Cooperative Learning Trainers' Certificate. * Lynn Scully is the founder and developer of the get IT Independent Tutorial SAT Preparation course. Lynn’s 16 years of tutoring experience range from the elementary level through the master’s level and has covered many topics. Lynn has conducted numerous workshops and classes and is actively involved with various schools in NJ as a testing and curriculum consultant. She currently works at Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ. * Special Conference Event: The FRC Museum & Community Education
Expo joins the fun as a major exhibitor at the conference occupying over
1500 sq. ft of exhibitor space and 4 workshop classrooms. This space
will be completely devoted to hands-on programs and learning opportunities
presented by the best New England area Museum & Community educators.
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