Newsletter
Volume 31 | 2008 | Number 2
Standard Celeration Society
By Michael Fabrizio
Rooted firmly in the practices and procedures of Precision Teaching, the Standard Celeration Society (SCS) exists to promote standardized measuring and monitoring of behavior frequencies and their celerations. This past year marked another milestone for the SCS as it held the 20th International Precision Teaching Conference (IPTC) in Kansas City in November 2007. With over 150 people attending the conference, its theme of "Back to the Future: Honoring the Past, Navigating the Future" marked this important event in the SCS’s history. Coordinated with the opening of the Ogden R. Lindsley Memorial Archives housed at the Behavior Research Company, the 20th IPTC featured distinguished presenters from our field such as Hank Pennypacker, Ann Duncan Hively, Carl Binder, Abigail Calkin, Rick Kubina, Patrick McGreevy, Owen White, Claudia McDade, Chuck Merbitz, and Wells Hively who, along with all of the conference’s other presenters, gave riveting and insightful presentations. The SCS Executive Committee wishes to thank both the Behavior Research Company and the Lindsley Archives Committee for jointly hosting the conference as well as Nancy Hughes-Lindsley, Scott Born, Megan Willesen, and Courtney Pepper-Owens for all of their fantastic work that contributed so much to the success of the conference.
Beyond the highly successful 20th annual IPTC, the SCS also unveiled a newly designed Web site (www.celeration.org) with significantly expanded content including online versions of all back issues of the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, as well as vastly improved functionality inducing online membership renewal, conference registration, and voting. The SCS Executive Committee extends its thanks to Scott Born of the Behavior Research Company for all of his hard work on our site.
The SCS also proudly announces that it will resume publication of the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration as an on-line resource available to SCS members. The next issue of the Journal should now be available to SCS members with subsequent issues of the Journal already in production.