Education Forum coming up in April

The Forum on April 11 will be important for a couple of reasons:

• We have Mary Abouzeid as our keynote speaker. She will be talking about Reading First in Virginia, a topic that will be of interest to all Virginia educators, especially to teachers in elementary grades.


• We will be honoring Dr. Bob Raines who recently retired from the Emory & Henry faculty in teacher education. Dr. Raines is the person who essentially created the Forum, and he has been an important figure in education in southwest Virginia for forty years.

There is a link on the Forum webpage for you to share your messages, anecdotes, stories, photos, and notes about Dr. Raines. When you use this link, you will be sending your information to Sarah Williams, who will post these to the web page.

As usual, the SVEA will be hosting the event, so you will be receiving information on that at your next meeting.