Registration

District Participation Information

A district superintendent must submit a letter of interest and commitment to Professor Janis Bergman-Carton before a teacher in that district may register for a seminar. The letter should support the Woodrow Wilson Foundation/TAS principle of a shared enterprise between universities and school systems in the form of the superintendent's agreement to cover the cost of substitutes for the two seminar days and the participation rate ($200/teacher) used to defray the expenses of reading materials and mailings. The remaining costs, equal to those absorbed by the school systems, are paid by SMU. Once a school district has been accepted as a partner in the SMU/TAS enterprise, it must identify specific teachers for participation, each of whom must, in turn, submit a registration form.

Registration Procedures

Teachers who have been selected for participation in the program should examine the seminar descriptions, then complete and submit the following registration form; please rank the seminars by preference, assigning a "1" to the seminar that you would most like to attend and a "3" to your last choice. Every effort will be made to place a teacher in his/her first choice.

Four weeks prior to each seminar, each registered participant will receive a packet containing logistical information (parking permits, campus map, & seminar location); contact names and numbers; information about seminar format, structure and content; an agenda; and reading materials.  The sessions meet from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.