Widening the Circle

June 26-29, 2008
Troy, NY

Widening the Circle

June 26th - 29th, 2008

Russell Sage College, Troy, NY

You are cordially invited to the Alternative Education Resource Organization’s fifth annual AERO conference. For the fifth year in a row the AERO conference will bring together educators, students, parents, and many others interested and/or involved in educational alternatives from around the U.S., Canada, and the world. From Public Alternative to Unschooling we will have a many educational alternatives represented (some more examples include: Montessori, Waldorf, Steiner, Choice, Democratic, Homeschool, Open, Charter, Free, Sudbury, Holistic, Virtual, Magnet, Early Childhood, Reggio Emilia, Indigo, Krishnamurti, Quaker, Libertarian, Independent, Progressive, Community, Cooperative, and many more!).

This year’s conference theme is “Moving from Ideas to Practice," but even with the theme, the
conference will in no way be limited to just that. Workshops and presentations will be made on a wide range of topics. In fact, there will be open workshop time throughout the conference where workshops, presentations, and special events will be entirely up to the attendees to organize! Last year we had
over 80 unique workshops and presentations run by the attendees. This year we fully expect to match
and possibly eclipse that number! A complete listing of workshops that have already been scheduled
can be found on our Workshops page.

This year we will have several wonderful keynote speakers: Donna Barker, Matt Hern, Mary Leue, Deborah Meier, Molly Nichols & Wesley Clark, and Khalif Williams. More speakers will be announced shortly. We will also have a number of special events including documentaries, panel discussions, workshop series, featured workshops, plenty of entertainment throughout, and much, much more! All keynote talks and presentations will take place in the beautiful Julia Howard Bush Memorial Center at Russell Sage College in Troy, New York which is beautifully adorned with Tiffany stained glass windows (the most per square mile in the world in fact!).

http://www.aeroconference.com/