Art

Massachusetts Department of Education: Professional Development Institutes Summer 2007
 * A treasure trove of opportunities that traverse all subject areas and grade levels--see the following link and download the brochure entitled "2007 Summer Professional Development Institute Brochure - Updated"
 * http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/cinstitute/

Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program
 * Snow Farm is a licensed professional development provider by the Mass. Board of Ed. and appears to offer PDP's primarily for courses in the arts (everything from mosaics to jewelry or raku to glassblowing).
 * Find all of their many courses at http://www.snowfarm.org/adultintensive.html or http://www.snowfarm.org/artindepth.html

Primary Source: Education for Global Understanding
 * Year round seminars, summer institutes, and programming most of which occurs on site in Watertown, MA.
 * Seminar topics are arranged by region of the world and are intended to provide an in depth connection to cultures from around the world as well as a venue were instructional practices are modeled and discussed
 * The voluminous list of seminars, etc. can be found on their website [|http://www.primarysource.org]

New England Comperehensive Center (NECC)
 * NECC is one of 15 regional comprehensive centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education that supports educators in the six New England states
 * They hold periodic meetings, webinars, and panel discussions on a variety of issues but most importantly on developing high quality teachers and providing the necessary technical support to incoporate data and technology into school culture
 * http://www.necomprehensivecenter.org/

Teachers Count
 * This website is a clearinghouse for large national conferences on a variety of topics; unfortunately, none of them are coming to Boston or New England.
 * The link to their list of conferences is http://www.teacherscount.org/teacher/conferences.shtml