Regretfully, we are postponing our annual fall conference.
The VAAE board of directors arrived at this difficult decision based on a desire to bring the best possible professional development opportunities to our members, and we believe the fall date was too soon for us to deliver on our traditional quality this year.
However, plans are already underway for an exciting, vibrant conference next spring that we believe will be better suited to everyone’s schedules. We expect to announce the new date for our rescheduled event later this fall, and will work with our workshop presenters to determine their availability, as well as on actively recruiting more presenters.
VAAE is committed to presenting a high-quality professional development conference for teachers in Vermont. We thank you for your patience and we look forward to letting you know more about the rescheduled conference once we know more.
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I’ve just been on the job for a month as the new Executive Director of VAAE. We have not yet scheduled a conference, and are talking as an organization about whether we should be re-thinking how we address the goal of sharing resources and providing professional development. We’re looking at how many districts are keeping professional development as an internal function, thus limiting resources (and attendance) for a conference such as ours. We are wondering if there might be other effective ways to provide what we’ve done in the past through the conference.
If you’d like to let us know your thoughts about this, we will include your comments in our discussions.
Thanks,
Janet Van Fleet