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May 2 - 5, 2012
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November 7 - 10, 2012
Atlanta, Georgia

April 10 - 13, 2013
Chicago, Illinois

November 13 - 16, 2013
San Diego, California


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At IECA Conferences, Education Shares Spotlight with Networking: 5 Rules for Success

by Mark H. Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA We make a great deal about the national experts who keynote IECA Conferences, including this fall’s gathering in Texas. Famous authors, practitioners, and public figures have all shared the stage. Typically some 100 panelists and presenters bring attendees the latest in research or new ideas that can be … Read more »

Tips from IECA Colleagues for Maximizing Your IECA Conference Experience

With IECA’s Philadelphia conference starting next week, we thought some tips from IECA members might be useful to help newer attendees maximize their time at the conference. From Ginger Fay (D.C.): After I had graduated from college and found my career (college admissions, of course!) but not yet the love of my life, my dad … Read more »

Educational Consulting Conference Evals Indicate Where We Hit it Out of the Park & Where We Can Improve

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association First, a big thank you to all who joined us at our 2010 Fall Conference in Cincinnati, with special notes of appreciation to our 77 presenters, our host committee from Ohio & Kentucky, and the amazing IECA staff. I also want to thank the nearly 300 … Read more »

Attendees Finding Myriad Ways to Maximize Their IECA Conference Experience

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA from the 2010 Fall Conference in Cincinnati Let me say to those who couldn’t make the Fall Conference of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, “We miss you, and we’re sorry that you have been missing an extraordinary event!” Every event has been well attended and many of the educational … Read more »

With IECA Conference Approaching, Focus on ROI

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA With the fall conference of the Independent Educational Consultants Association just six weeks away, many are deciding whether to attend. Given the nature of the economy and budgets, one way to evaluate is by examining the ROI or Return on Investment. For schools that often means the ability to … Read more »

IECA Conference & Special Needs…Part 2

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association (Part 2 of 2) Yesterday we published the results of  the specific suggestions we received for making the conference more valuable to IECA members, schools, and programs that work in the area of emotional and behavioral needs. With the results we noted the numerous changes we … Read more »

Responding to Surveys: Special Needs & the IECA Conference

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association (Part 1 of 2) Last month we invited special needs consultants, as well as representatives of wilderness and emotional growth schools (more than 1,000 professionals), to provide us with feedback on a number of ideas about ways to make the IECA conferences more meaningful and valuable … Read more »

Attendees Span North America as Conference Registration Passes Early Deadline

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association One of the unexpected consequences of holding our first-ever meeting outside of the United States has been the musings of some about whether “consultants are really going to Canada” for the conference, or, in the minds of IECA members, whether schools, colleges, and program representatives are … Read more »

For Therapeutic Consultants, Schools, and Programs: an Amazing IECA Conference is Planned

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA We are excited to announce that many of the innovations that IECA introduced as experiments at the 2009 Fall Conference were so enthusiastically received that we are bringing them back, with a few changes to make them even more valuable. When IECA gathers in Toronto this May, the Speed … Read more »

Speed Meetings? Here’s What We Heard

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA We tried a number of new things at the conference: from a bookstore and Conference Central to debates and a master class. Among the most anticipated were our first Speed Meetings that gave participating schools and consultants a series of short, seven-minute appointments over a three-hour block of time. … Read more »

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