The annual conference of the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), National Association of Economic Educators (NAEE) and the Global Association of Teachers of Economics (GATE) will be held at the Marriott San Antonio Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas on October 5-8, 2005.

The Texas Council on Economic Education will host this year's conference. This is the largest nationwide conference focusing on K-12 economic education, featuring:

Make transitions fun and magical for young children. Key Note Speaker, Nola Larson, co-author of three Transition Magician books will share a magician's strategies for guiding young children. She will also share a "bag of tricks" from the eight transition categories in her books.

Workshop sessions will be varied and cover subjects tying rhythm and rhyme to language development, a teacher roundtable for sharing information, effective parent-teacher communication, and economics & children's literature - just to highlight a few of the twenty-two available workshops.

Attendance at the conference can be applied toward the in-service hours required by the Illinois Dept of Children and Family Services. For a conference brochure with registration information, please call 815-479-7570. Fee is $30 ($15 for MCC/ECE students). For additional questions, contact: Molly Walsh 815.455.8697, Lisha Linder 815.479.7767 or Jim Falco 815.479.7728. Registration Deadline: October 14, 2005.

Illinois Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (IAFCS)
2005 Annual Statewide Conference
October 28- 29
Springfield Hilton
Springfield, IL

Nancy Hanlon Harrison, Senior Vice President and Assistant Director will be a featured exhibitor on October 28 and will present professional development sessions featuring the FFFL Curriculum on October 29.

If you teach consumer education, work with consumers, interact with consumers in the workplace, or if you are a consumer, you should attend this year's conference! The information you will gain will be invaluable professionally and personally!

Along with the educational sessions there will be an off-site tour, the Family & Consumer Sciences Showcase featuring research poster sessions, university student projects, and curriculum showcase sharing. The day wraps up with lunch and a Fashion Design Show featuring the latest from fashion students throughout Illinois. For details visit:
http://www.cast.ilstu.edu/iafcs/iafcs_annual_conference.htm

The Governors State University Office of Economic Education, along with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and the Illinois Association of School Economic Teachers (IASET) presents the annual Fall Conference. This year’s topic is “Foreign Trade, Foreign Exchange: Foreign Concepts?”