We are beginning to add a Chinese language section to the website, and start it with a translation of the introductory pages of our current site. The most substantial item is a translation of the Brief Guide to Imaginative Education. 我们正在为本网站开通一个中文板块，以中文的首页介绍开始，并附上一份完整的中文版的“富有想像力的教育简介”。

The Fourth Annual Imagination Education for Everyone! conference will take place at the National-Louis University campus in downtown Chicago, Nov. 21-22. Online registration and information about all of the workshops and artistic performances can be found here: www.nl.edu/imagine

The latest development in our Planning Frameworks for teachers is Tannis Calder’s Circular frameworks. Many teachers find these more “user-friendly” than our other frameworks.

Smith College, Massachusetts, recently sponsored a conference on “Teaching, Learning and Imagination.” Many of the presentations were from teachers in the Smith College Campus School, where they have been experimenting with implementing IE ideas in their teaching.

Published in September 2008, Kieran Egan’s latest book—The Future of Education: Reimagining the school from the ground up—is an attempt to show how both traditionalist and progressivist forms of education have let us down. The second half of the book is a “history” of education from 2010 to 2060, showing how we might realistically, practical step by practical step, remake the schools to better reflect the ideals of Imaginative Education.

We welcome Dr. Qing-yu Pan who will be with us for six months as a Visiting Scholar. He comes from Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China.

We are putting the final finishing touches to our new “Introduction to Imaginative Education: Resource materials.”

The happy-to-graduate group who recently successfully completed our first on-line M.Ed. in Imaginative Education.

You may have noticed that we have added two further language sections to this web site.

New book by long-time IERG associate.

The large project connected with ADHD students in Romania is developing very successfully. Dr. Stefan Popenici and Dr. Nadia Tarnoveanu have recently conducted training workshops for teachers in the cities of Brasov, Constanta, and Piatra Neamt.

You might want to take a look at our latest brief video on YouTube or on TeacherTube. It involves a discussion of the Learning In Depth project, with Tannis Calder, Kieran Egan, and Don McCleod.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council's International Opportunities Fund has granted IERG $60,000 to continue its work with centres in other countries. The project is to focus on development of teacher education materials and programs in various countries so that they can better implement Imaginative Educational methods. The picture is of (left to right) Sean Blenkinsop, Florentina Ion, IERG's Romanian publisher, Kieran Egan, Therese Iliscu, our translator, Nadia Tarnoeveanu, and Stefan Popenici, in Bucharest in 2007.

IERG's LUCID project, "Learning for Understanding through Culturally Inclusive Imaginative Education", has a Research Assistant position available.

J.K Rowling, on receiving an honorary degree from Harvard recently made the following comments, that all IE promoters would share: