March 22-26, 2006 – National Art Education Association Conference, Chicago, IL

April 11, 2006 – Greater Boston Museum Educators Roundtable Program: Administration & Staffing Issues, Location TBA

April 12, 2006 - Cultural Connections (Northern CA) Program: Public Speaking Workshop, Location TBD

April 17, 2006 – Deadline for Spring issue of Network

April 24, 2006 – Great Tours Workshop, presented by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, co-sponsored by AASLH.  New Jersey; Cost: $55, attendance is limited.

April 27 - May 1, 2006 – American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

April 27, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. – MER Board Meeting at AAM

April 27, 2006, 6 - 9 p.m. - MER will be co-hosting the opening evening event at AAM with EdCom on at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum. This event will also include the presentations of EdCom’s Awards for Excellence.

April 29, 2006 9-10:15 a.m. – MER AAM session: "Who Cares? Being Relevant to Less Frequent or Reluctant Visitors"

April 29, 2006, 5:30- 7:00 p.m. – Museum Education Roundtable Reception at AAM.  Held at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. The speaker will be Gail Anderson who will connect the Journal of Museum Education, spring issue topic, "Museums of Relevance," to her recent publication Reinventing the Museum: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift. 

May 19-20, 2006 – Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum will host a two-day symposium to examine new definitions of literacy in relationship to arts integrated teaching and learning practices.

May 22, 2006 - New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference, Changing Communities, Changing Museums: Educators Respond. Hosted by the American Museum of Natural History.

June 4 - 8, 2006 – The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums 2006 Conference And Annual Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA   

June 14, 2006 - Cultural Connections (Northern CA) Program: Paradigm Shift: Income-Generating Programming, Location TBD

June 26-29, 2006 - Visual Understanding in Education presents Jumpstarting Visual Literacy: VTS Theory and Practice, presented by Philip Yenawine and colleagues at the Museum of the City of New York. For more information, see www.vue.org"

August 15, 2006, 9:30-11:30 a.m. – MER program (topic TBA), Washington D.C.