Conventions & Conferences

Pictures and reflections on conferences, conventions, and events I’ve attended.

  • Pictures from Brooklyn

    My eldest and I spent the day at the Brooklyn Book Fest (more correctly the Target Activities Tent). We had Five Guys and then walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Click the picture for a slide show.

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  • When my Ahma came over she couldn’t read English. To manage, she devised a system for identifying objects by shape, size, color, and label art. This system was not foolproof like when our local supermarket started selling liquid soap (she thought it was lotion). But it served her needs 90% of the time. Family and

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  • NMSA Great in 08

    I spent the week in Denver at the 35th Annual National Middle School Association (NMSA) Conference. As one of the banners at Denver International stated: “300 Days of Sun.” I was there for three. When it was first decided I would go, I was excited about hearing Jim Collins (of Good to Great greatness) speak.

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  • It was a case of wrong place, wrong time for my wife, the boys, and me at this year’s Make Music New York celebration. We missed most everything. However, it wasn’t a complete disappointment. We managed to make High Tea with Dame Darcy and Jessica Delfino at the New York Marble Cemetery.

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  • Inspired by the great experience we had at the Cai Guo exhibit at the Guggenheim a few months back, my wife and I did not think twice about bringing the boys when we were invited to a tour of the American Folk Art Museum. It could have been the sophomore jinx. The Folk Art Museum

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  • Greetings from Utah

    The rest of the photos are here.

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  • Glad in Utah

    I am in Salt Lake City, Utah for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) conference. One of the things that drew me out here was an announcement that Malcolm Gladwell would be speaking at the conference’s opening ceremony. I was not disappointed. I have read (or read most of) his books, The Tipping

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