Lost for me in all the Rose hubub, has really been the ELA conference, which starts today in Louisville. Scott, Neal and I are all going to be presenting (Scott and Neal on important things ... me, not so much). I love ELA because everything interests me. Other conferences that I go to typically only about 1/2 the program interests me (believe it or not, there are just some things in education that bore me). This year, as always, the sessions look fantastic and I am especially looking forward to hearing Charles Rose, the General Counsel to the U.S. DOE, talk on ARRA and Race to the Top issues.
Anyway, if you are planning to be there, be sure to say hi. If you are not, I'll be blogging the conference as always and bringing you as much good information as I can. I'll also post Twitter updates with the hashtag #ELA09 and if any of you also tweet, put that hashtag in your post and we can have a little miniconversation on the backchannel.