I'd like to invite California members of this list to attend the 50th
yearly Asilomar teachers' conference at Pacific Grove (near Monterey),
Sept. 22-24. The conference usually is full by this time, but this year
we have spots still open. The conference focuses on innovative as well
as tried-and-true methods, techniques, and topics in language arts teaching.

The conference is a wonderful opportunity to spend a weekend with your
colleagues from around the state. Each attendee signs up to spend the
whole weekend in conversation with one group of up to 25 teachers on a
particular theme. This year's themes (34 of them!) include opera, art,
Steinbeck, short story-writing, standardized testing, 'How to teach high
school and still have a life', and, of course, grammar (a workshop
conducted by yours truly).

Room (in a wonderful, 1920's conference resort among the dunes on the
Pacific Coast) and board are included in a price of about $225
(depending on room preference). For more details, contact John Cotter at
510-357-5425 or Brad Shurmantine at 707-257-7127.
Your district may well grant you professional development credit for attending!

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Johanna Rubba   Assistant Professor, Linguistics
English Department, California Polytechnic State University
One Grand Avenue  • San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Tel. (805)-756-2184  •  Fax: (805)-756-6374 • Dept. Phone.  756-259
• E-mail: [log in to unmask] •  Home page: http://www.calpoly.edu/~jrubba
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"Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose,
but that's not why people do it normally"  -            Frank  Oppenheimer
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