The National School Boards Association's 2007 T+L conference, held Oct. 17-19 in Nashville, Tenn., urged educators to think outside the box to encourage the kind of innovation needed to ensure success in the 21st century.

The need for today's students to learn high-level skills has never been greater: This was the key theme to emerge at the National School Boards Association's 20th annual Technology + Learning (T+L) Conference in Dallas Nov. 8-10. How to reinvent today's schools to prepare students for these challenges--and ensure they have the high-level skills they'll need for successwas the focus of the three-day educational technology conference, which brought nearly 2,000 educators, administrators, and school board members to the Dallas Convention Center.