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My job has been blissfully light on school board committee meetings this week, because a school board quorum and a dozen APS officials are at the annual Council of the Great City Schools conference in Indianapolis.
The theme of this year’s conference is “Driving Education into the Winner’s Circle,” and conference materials are festooned with black and white checkered flags. This makes me giggle, but I probably shouldn’t be too flip because Albuquerque is hosting the national conference next year, and I suppose our conference materials will have a bunch of balloons on them.
In fact, APS sent a larger-than-usual delegation to this year’s conference to drum up interest in next year’s conference. They’re staffing a booth, and APS Superintendent Winston Brooks sent me this picture of it.
I’ve written a story for tomorrow’s paper with some more details on the cost of attending the conference and the presentations that APS staff and board members are giving. In the meantime, I’m keeping tabs on the conference by following #cgcs12 on Twitter. Conference attendees from around the country are doing a pretty decent job live-tweeting speeches and presentations. Even though I’m pretty fluent in jargon, I retweeted this one:
@district_doss: Improve parent engagement by reducing “edubabble” and communicating clearly, say Oakland educators #cgcs12
For more APS-specific tweets from the conference, APS Chief of Staff Joseph Escobedo seems to be the only one tweeting, at least so far. You can find him at @apsescobedo. And you already follow me at @HaileyHeinz … right?
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