Laboratory for Student Success Offers Products
at New Jersey Education Association Convention

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory for Student Success (LSS) offered samples of its many products to attendees of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) Convention at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, NJ on November 8–9, 2001. NJEA's 147th annual convention was attended by nearly 51,000 NJEA members, one of the largest educational gatherings of its kind in the world.

This gathering of teachers and education support professionals gathered in Atlantic City to participate in nearly 400 seminars, workshops, and programs conducted by leading national experts. This year's convention offered a variety of events emphasizing NJEA's new initiative, Expanding Horizons: Great Public Schools.

"NJEA members come to our convention searching for the best professional development opportunities available in the state," said NJEA President Edithe Fulton, "and this year's program certainly lived up to their expectations."

In addition to the seminars and programs designed to meet members' state-mandated, 100 hours professional development requirement, convention-goers took advantage of exhibits and wares displayed by more than 500 vendors and exhibitors, including the Laboratory for Student Success.

Because New Jersey is one of the five mid-Atlantic districts covered by the Laboratory for Student Success, one of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories financed by the U.S. Department of Education, its products were of particular interest to attendees. Teachers from many of the New Jersey schools in which LSS is working stopped by to chat and pick up products at the LSS booth