Conference 2008 will be held October 16 - 18 in Boise, Idaho @ the Grove

2007 Conference in Review Last year's Conference was both educational and fun It offere of interesting topics centered around Lifelong learning. Keynote: Steve R. Parson, Ed D Steve Parson serves as the Executive Director of the National Community Education Association. He began his career in education when he graduated from University of Northern Iowa and became a classroom teacher in a high school in Newton, Iowa. From that point he entered the field of Community Education as an administrator in the newly founded program at Iowa Central Community College. He was selected to serve as a Mott Fellow and spent a year in Flint, Michigan as a Mott Intern while he was earning his doctorate in Educational Leadership at Western Michigan University.

He joined the faculty at Virginia Tech as Director of the Center for Community Education. In addition to his work in Community Education at the university, he served as department head, associate dean and director of a regional graduate center. He is the author of several books and articles. His latest books are “Transforming Schools into Community Learning Centers” and “Journey into Community: Looking Inside the Community Learning Center”. Dr. Parson has also served as a consultant to many communities that have been involved in developing community schools.