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Show Public school doors close for convention The doors to Utah's public schools will close Oct. 8 and 9, and those at the Salt Palace will swing open to 15,000 educators for the Utah Education Association. About 350,000 Utah students in public schools will be out of class for those two days, UEA vacation. The convention will provide a wide variety of speakers, workshops, exhibits and discussions aimed at helping educators in their various specialties. "I don't believe an educator can attend the convention without absorbing ab-sorbing many good ideas , for classroom use, many new slants on curriculum, exposure to other educational philosophies and the motivation to try even harder to help more young people to succeed in school," said UEA Executive Secretary Daryl J. McCarty. Although the Salt Palace will be headquarters for the convention, general sessions will be held in the adjacent Concert ' Hall. Those sessions will be a multi-media production entitled "Public . Education: Our Past, Our Present, Our Promise." The presentation will include live music and -dance performances, a color slide "tour" through America's public school history and present featuring several Utah educators and prominent persons and an address by UEA President Betty Condie. Another feature of the Convention's first-day activities will be the UEA's Curriculum Carnival a showcase of Utah educator's methods and techniques that have worked in classrooms across the state. The carnival atmosphere at-mosphere will be accented ac-cented by a gazebo in the huge Salt Palace Arena, which will be the center of an "old-fashioned ice cream social" for educators picking up new techniques at the Curriculum Carnival. |