Now that Labor Day has passed, the 2010-2011 school year is now official. And if the school year is official, than the annual Maryland Assessment Group (MAG) conference is surely not far away. Once again we will be holding the conference at the CLARION RESORT FONTAINEBLEAU in Ocean City, Maryland beginning Wednesday November 17 and ending Friday, November 19.

These are hard economic times! We recognize that and are trying to do our part. We have kept our prices at the $165.00 rate. This rate includes registration and all meals.

As always, the MAG promises to offer you a very informative program. Staff from The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) will be offering a wide variety of presentations critical to understanding all changes occurring in the world of assessment. Many other exciting presentations will be offered. You may access a tentative list of presentations by clicking the following link: this link (this is a MSWord (.doc) file that you may view or download & print). This list will be updated regularly, and you will be able to watch the 2010 Program evolve as we begin to place presentations into actual time slots. We believe this will help guide you to the specific presentations that interest you. Visit often!

As we are dedicated to MAG and to you, we are doing everything we can to keep the cost of attending at an affordable level while also providing the same high quality presentations that have made the MAG conference so successful over these many years.

I wish you a happy and successful school year and I look forward to seeing you at the MAG conference in November.

Julian Katz
Executive Director.