Date: September 22-24, 2008
Place: Georgia Aquarium (Oceans Ballroom entrance)
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Target audience: CIS, EDs, and local site staff, youth serving professionals, mentoring programs, parent engagement professionals

Registration covers your participation in the full conference which includes the Fall 2008 CIS Executive Directors’ Meeting and “Meeting and Exceeding TQS Site Standards”, renowned keynote speakers, as well as sessions on parent engagement and mentoring and more! The conference will take place in the Oceans Ballroom. Please visit the Georgia Aquarium website for directions: www. georgiaaquarium .org.

For more information please contact Nancy Sanabria at 404-897-2395

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

	Dr. Weinberger (a.k.a. "Dr. Mentor") has been recognized for her expertise in establishing, maintaining, and evaluating school and community-based mentoring programs and school-to-work initiatives. Her work has been published widely, and her program has been replicated in more than 40 states, as well as in Bermuda and Canada. Her publications on mentoring include the My Mentor and Me series, Business Guide to Mentoring, Strengthening Native Community Commitment through Mentoring, The Mentor Handbook, and Mentoring a Movement: My Personal Journey.
Ron Clark has been called " America's Educator." In 2000, he was named Disney's American Teacher of the Year. He is a New York Times best selling author, and his classes have been honored at the White House on three separate occasions. He has been featured on The Today Show, CNN, and Oprah, and Ms. Winfrey has even named him as her first " Phenomenal Man." Ron Clark brings charisma, energy and devotion to the education profession.   Most recently, Mr. Clark has founded The Ron Clark Academy, a new school serving students from inner-city Atlanta. The privately-funded institution is truly unique for its innovative teaching methods and curriculum based on worldwide travel. Each year the students, grades 5 through 8, apply what they've learned in class during international adventures, and by the time they graduate each child will have visited six of the seven continents.
	Susan L. Taylor was the driving force behind one of the most celebrated African American owned business success stories of the past three decades, as former editor of ESSENCE magazine. Most recently Taylor has been focusing her attention on the National Cares Mentoring Movement initiative. This is a massive mentoring campaign that asks every able adult and our leadership—elected and appointed officials, educators, business, religious and secular leaders and college students—to rally their communities to guide and secure our vulnerable children who are crying out for help. The goal is to create the largest mentoring campaign in the history of the nation and increase high school graduation rates among African American students by 10 percent annually.