Dear Educational Community,

Monterey.

Unless you’re already reading this from somewhere with an ocean view, the mere mention of the name transported you, even a little bit, toward the sea.

I hope to see you in Monterey November 28-30, 2012. The beautiful Portola Hotel & Spa will host the 91st annual California Educational Research Association (CERA) conference. This year’s conference theme is “Innovation and Expectation: New Standards, Technologies, and Approaches That Propel Learning.” Over 300 professional educators and researchers will attend this year’s conference and hear informative keynote addresses on the following topics:

• Continuing Development of the Smarter Balanced Assessment System
• California’s Transition to New Standards
• Realizing the Promise of Innovation in Education

The annual conference provides us with an opportunity to share our research, network with colleagues, and learn. Though the conference officially begins the morning of Thursday, November 29, CERA will again offer informative preconference sessions Wednesday afternoon (November 28), which are included with your conference registration at no additional charge. It is my profound hope that the inspiring setting and conference program will be a memorable professional learning experience for you. On behalf of the CERA Board and members, I want to thank the organizations who have pledged to sponsor the 2012 conference; these organizations help make the conference possible.

Conference registration, hotel registration, and proposal submission will all be open in April. Please consider submitting a proposal; the proposal window will close on June 29.

As more information is confirmed, we will post it to the CERA web site, www.cera-web.org.

See you in Monterey!

Sincerely,

Eric W. Crane
2012 CERA President