• Education (professional training) – fundamental information that you need to know that prepares and re-energizes you to do your job,
  
• Service (delivery) – current, emerging and cutting-edge practices that improve access for students, and
  
• Research – current inquiry that brings together critical information about methods, practices and profession.

When not participating in Conference activities, you are offered a multitude of “Milwaukee” ways to occupy your time. Here is just a sampling of what awaits you:

• The Milwaukee Art Museum, with it’s stunning award-winning movable sun screen, the Brise Soleil (wings), designed by world-renowned Santiago Calatrava
• State-of-the-art Miller Park Baseball Stadium with a TGIF’s overlooking the field
• Milwaukee Public Museum with features varying from “The Streets of Old Milwaukee” to the Humphrey I-Max Theatre and Discovery World to a glass-enclosed butterfly wing
• Strolls along Lake Michigan (where you can fly a kite, rollerblade, bike or power a paddle boat) and the Milwaukee River boardwalks
• Shopping in the downtown Grand Avenue Mall
• Free music venues in downtown parks: “Jazz in the Park” & “River Rhythms”
• Historic Third Ward Jazz Festival
• African World Fest located on the world-famous Summerfest grounds
• Wisconsin State Fair
• Milwaukee County Zoo
• Brew pubs and brewery tours offered by local brewers

We look forward to meeting you in Milwaukee, A Great Place by a Great Lake!