A brief report for those of you who missed it (and nostalgia for those who were there): The eleventh annual ATEG conference convened on July 14 and July 15 at North Hennepin Community College in Minneapolis, graciously hosted by David Sawyer. As always, our conferences are very satisfying occasions: spirited conversations about grammar and teaching, thoughtful presentations, reunions with friends. The conference was preceded by the two-day minicourse on Grammar in the Writing Classroom. Martha Kolln, Rei Noguchi, and Amy Benjamin presented their advice to teachers who, as many of us know, hunger for nuts-and-bolts applications of grammar to the teaching of writing. At the conference itself, Martha Kolln gave the keynote address in which she analyzed the rise and fall (and slow resurrection) of classroom grammar in American education since the 1930s. Her paper will appear in a future issue of Syntax in the Schools. Loretta Gray presented the results from a study by her and Paula Heuser following up on Maxine Hairston's 1981 study of responses by non-academic professionals to writing errors. The study suggested that many errors may be less bothersome to readers today than they were to the responders twenty years ago. James Alexander pointed out that because many writing errors are antiquated usages, students might be told about their errors that they are not so much wrong as old-fashioned. Jeff Glauner presented materials from his on-line grammar text, available at www.park.edu/jglauner/Index.htm. Carl Gao discussed differences in specificity and perspective that distinguish such common English prepositions as "at," "on," and "in." Rebecca Wheeler and Johanna Rubba, in separate presentations, showed examples of standardized grammar teaching materials and analyzed the inaccuracies and dialect discrimination that they included. Rei Noguchi discussed one of his core principles of writing, that greater complexity at the word, sentence or paragraph level leads to greater length. Robert Yates and Jim Kenkel challenged the notion that sentence-level grammar principles are applicable to text-level organization. Amy Benjamin demonstrated the use of student sentences for in-class post-mortems of grammar problems. At the Business meeting, members approved a new set of ATEG officers: Dave Sawyer, treasurer; Paul Doniger, secretary; Pam Dykstra, vice-president; and yours truly as president. I presented plaques and gratitude to the four outgoing officers: Martha Kolln, president; Ed Vavra, treasurer (both the founding members of ATEG); Bob Yates, vice-present; Wanda Van Goor, secretary. The members decided that our publication, Syntax in the Schools, will now be subtitled, "The journal of the Assembly for the TEAching of English Grammar." I presented drafts of a new project for the ATEG web page, Tips on Teaching Grammar, a set of short, practical tips on a variety of grammar topics, intended for teachers at different levels. The Tips should be up and running later this summer. Those with suggestions may contact Pam Dykstra or me. Next year's conference will, if all goes as planned, be held at Park University in Kansas City in July and will be jointly hosted by Jeff Glauner and Bob Yates. I look forward to it. Brock Haussamen