Starbucks! The Space Needle! Pike Place Market! Did we mention Starbucks?

NAESP’s 86th Annual Convention and Exposition is just a few months away and for the first time will be held in Seattle, Washington. Thousands of principals will convene in "Emerald City" from March 29-April 2 for the largest professional development experience created exclusively for elementary and middle-level principals and assistant principals. NAESP's Convention will feature some terrific speakers, including the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman; author and educator, Jonathan Kozol; and educator, Erin Gruwell.
To register, visit http://web.naesp.org/conv2007/.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings made a strong showing on last week’s episode of “Celebrity Jeopardy,” coming in second place. But the Secretary wasn’t the only recent educator to appear on Jeopardy. Last month, New Jersey middle school principal Andrew Espinoza appeared on the show. Andrew was a Jeopardy champion the first night after he responded to the clue, “Introduced in a 1981 novel, this big-screen character tops the AFI's 2003 list of all-time great movie villains.” While most of us were thinking Darth Vader, Andrew correctly answered, “Who is Hannibal Lecter? Congrats to Andrew.