The AFT’s Quality Educational Standards in Teaching (QuEST) conference took place July 13-15 in Washington, D.C. As in past years, QuEST 2009 included high-quality workshops featuring the latest research and best practices on a range of education topics, such as common academic standards, early childhood education, English language learners, classroom management and collaborating with parents and the community. The AFT has made available workshop presentations from the QuEST conference.

Early childhood education workshop track presentations available online include:
- Creating Positive, Caring Learning Environments
- Preschool for All: The New Face of Public Education
- Preschool and Early Education: It's Union Work 
- Autism: Strategies To Promote Success in the Classroom

Also, the following workshops offer valuable resources for early childhood educators:
-Caring for Children with Medically Fragile Needs in the School Setting
- Help ELLs Succeed! Instructional and Parent Outreach Resources
- Teaching Reading to English Language Learners
- Community Engagement: A Must To Sustain School/District Improvement 
- Crafting Solutions for Staffing Dilemmas: Establishing Teacher Residency Programs in High-Needs Districts
- Differentiated Instruction
- The Essentials of Mentoring
- Setting the Stage for Learning: Organizing the Classroom Environment
- Supporting High-Achieving Low-Income Students (Mini-Plenary) 
- Universal Design for Learning-Strategies To Promote Student Success
- Community Schools in Action
- Instruction that Reaches the Whole Child
- Stop Bullying Now!