We are pleased that many people have registered for this year's Fall Conference. Because Wisdom house can accommodate additional people, we are able to extend the final date for registration to Monday, October 22, 2007.

Our cancellation deadline remains November 2, 2007. Until November 2nd we will be able to refund money, subject to a $50 cancellation fee.

After November 2nd, in the event of a cancellation, we cannot give refunds for any reason because Wisdom House will have been paid in full.

Betsy Wice and Paige Bray, Conference Co-chairs

We hope you can be there! Please continue reading.

Prospect Center’s Descriptive Processes are introduced and taught.

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"We welcome Jennifer Rea, Elaine Replansky Smith, and Dr. Olga Winbush to this issue. Their pieces are generous. Each writer lets us in on her personal experience to deepen our understanding of how our students learn and grow. Jennifer Rea makes a thorough, concrete and reasoned argument in support of Kindergarten play as essential to literacy....Elaine Smith brings us into the life of a 'special needs' teacher in a public school in the year 2007, bringing her particular perspective as a “special education” graduate herself....In her warm, hopeful account of Deena learning to read and write, Dr. Olga Winbush uses her experience as an African-American educator to examine the strengths she and Deena draw from their shared culture. This story of the partnership between Deena and Dr. Winbush becomes a shining resource for all of us, regardless of our home culture (and Dr. Winbush also provides a powerful bibliography)."

Here's the URL for an article about the events in the Burlington Free Press: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703220307

I hope others who were there add their comments. Margaret

Dan and Carole Burack President’s Distinguished Lecture

by Patricia F. Carini, Co-founder of the Prospect School and Center

March 22, 2007, 4:30 pm

Celebrating the gift of the Archives of the Prospect Center, North Bennington, VT
to the University of Vermont, Special Collections, Bailey/Howe Library, Burlington, VT

Waterman Memorial Lounge, University of Vermont, Reception following

The lecture introduces the Archives, relating its contents and Prospect’s philosophy to Vermont’s progressive educational history and to current issues confronting education in Vermont and nationwide.

MADE BY HAND is a workshop for teachers and others interested in a hands on experience with collections of children’s drawings, constructions, writings, arranged by children, and spanning up to nine years of a child’s school life.

Saturday, March 24, 2007
8:30 am to 12:30 pm, followed by lunch
UVM Lafayette Hall, Room 207

Patricia F. Carini, Co-founder of the Prospect School and Center and members of Prospect Center will lead the workshop.

The workshop introduces processes developed at Prospect School and Center for describing children’s works and provides an opportunity to explore the value of these collections for the challenging issues confronting teachers and schools today.