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Some Interesting Feedback from our April Fools Joke
 
All of the dozens who wrote back to us appreciated the April Fools Joke that we’d been taken over by Amazon. Many believed it and were relieved when they found it wasn’t true (see below). One thing that perplexed us was that we only had the normal number of opens. Did others simply believe it, or did they get the joke and not bother opening it? Let us know. Also, about 100 clicked on the real newsletter. For the others who opened it, weren’t they curious to see the real newsletter? Among other things there is an article about significant, ground-breaking, innovative work going on in thousands of public schools in Mexico, sent to us by an AERO member, an 85-year-old radical educator I met at the conference I went to in Colombia (see below). If you’re curious, we received a few new registrations for the AERO Conference but not as many as we’d hoped for. See a new mini-talker announcement below. We'll have two more and some other surprises in the near future. The rate has not yet been raised from $225 to the normal $250 but will automatically go up at midnight tonight, so you can still register at the early bird today . But $250 is still a great price for a 4 day conference if you miss the deadline.

Some comments on the April Fools joke by readers:
 
Touché! I'll take a block of conference tix at the new price, thanks!! -MM
 
I spent 12 years doing marketing, including email marketing. This is awesome! I'm guessing you will have better than average open rates and the click through rate would have been even higher if you said April Fools on the other side of the click. I loved this!!! -NC
 
Nice one! This was terrifying to read..so glad it is fake news. -SAE
 
Finally. I have been hoping for this for years. -RV
 
OMG -YOU GOT ME !!! You totally got me. Soooo glad this is an April Fools’ Joke. :-) -NW
 
You fooled me!! So happy this was a joke. Keep up the good work! -BM

Gosh! You almost had me! Happy April Fool's Day! -JA

Good one! Best April's Fools I've seen yet today! -CT
 
You almost got me with the Amazon April Fool's --
I almost had to believe it -----  loved your salary. -LW
Dear AERO Readers:

Technically the Early Bird is Over.
I guess you realize we weren't actually taken over by Amazon. Did you like the April Fools joke? Happy Passover and Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

We won't actually raise the rate from $225 to $250 until Monday Evening. So if you missed the deadline you can still register at the lower rate today.

See new workshop posts  here .  

Click here  to see some of the the major features of this year's regular AERO Conference in June

  
You can still register today at the early bird rate for the AERO Conference  HERE . A  deposit  can hold this rate.  
How Student-Tutors Can Become Prime Agents Disseminating a Radical Most Needed Transformation in Mexican Public Schools.
Ed: I met Gabriel Camara at the REEVO conference in Colombia. He is well over 80 and doing incredible things with innovation and student empowerment in the public schools in Mexico. Don't miss reading this article that he just sent us, along with interviews of students there. -JM

"In my view, tutoria occupies a very special niche among the exemplars that will guide the future of learning. Tutoria is special in a number of powerful and informative ways. It is a practice that is designed to lead to the development of a progressively more complex and deep theory of learning, driven by the practice itself ."
Mark Jacobs, EUDEC Keynoter and Longview School Director to be Mini-talk Presenter at AERO
Mark Jacobs, Longview's co-founder and current director, traveled to the annual conference of the European Democratic Education Community (EUDEC) to speak about combining a structured curriculum with student empowerment in a democratic school. 

Read more here .
What’s the FIRST Step?
By John Merrow

"I have been asked those questions a few times after talking about my new book, “Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education“. In some respects it’s like being asked which of your children you love the most–i.e., unanswerable. And so I usually respond by answering a different question: “ Which step will be the simplest to take? ”
A Spa for the Soul
By Mimsy Sadofsky

She said, “I love to come here. It is a spa for the soul.” I thought, “Wow, what a great phrase; I think I need to write a blog about that,” but then I became uncomfortable with the beautiful phrase: a spa is generally where you relax and are pampered. A visitor feels the good vibes from the community washing over everyone (as we all do), and can feel like it is a balm for the soul .
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