I never call Fall Meeting a conference. It isn’t a traditional conference where there’s a menu and you pick and choose between sessions to listen in on. Or skip and go shopping! We have built the Fall Meeting into an important professional gathering with powerful common experiences for participants. Our community became accustomed to Fall Meeting as a space for professional growth, renewing relationships and building new ones. I am so glad it is back and we have the opportunity to work with brilliant and passionate educators. Fall meeting is a meeting: a meeting of the minds. We spend just a few days together and by the end you always get a sense of “Oh these are my people!”