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• WI standards on the way out

• Professional issues work starts

• By-laws revision underway

• Student writing awards chair sought

• Intellectual Freedom Committee revived
  See the February Update for details

Annual Convention Oct. 21-22, Eau Claire

• Theme: Finding a Balance: Traditional Content vs. Contemporary Technology

• Keynoter: Hilve Firek

• Pre-Convention Workshop with Kylene Beers and Robert Probst

• Register Now

• Propose a sectional presentation
  See the Convention Page for details

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Announcements from Other Organizations

• Friends of Niedecker receive Poetry Foundation grant/next Wisconsin Poetry Festival moved up to September 2010
• Thoreau essay contest deadline March 31
• Theatre in London sponsored by UW-Stevens Point in June
• Games+Learning+Society Educator Symposium, Madison, Saturday, June 12
• World Congress on Reading New Zealand/Australia Tour

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