Are you struggling with school change? Are you about to launch a major change initiative? What are the lessons from folks who have successfully moved the needle on large-scale school change? Come learn about avoiding the barriers to school change, the strategies for building buy-in for change among your staff and community, and for supporting educators as they implement the change.
Personalized Professional Learning with Micro-credentials – Resources
What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? What are they and how do I earn them? What do they have to do with professional development and personalizing learning for educators? What are some educator micro-credential programs currently available? How can you tell a real micro-credential program from one just using the term “badges”?…
Walking in the Footsteps of Sunshine – MAMLE ‘22 Keynote
When walking in the woods, sunshine can illuminate a path that has been taken by others, making a journey a bit easier, and offering the opportunity for you to discover what they had discovered. Let’s shed a little light on those who created the Middle Level paths for us. Now is the time to reawaken, enliven, and celebrate early lessons from Middle Level Education.
Helping Students Become Self-Motivated – Resources
Are you frustrated at the challenge of working with underachieving and unmotivated students? What motivates them to learn? What can we do to improve the situation? This session will explore what does motivate underachievers, and some concrete actions teachers can take to improve learning for every student.
Personalized Professional Learning with Micro-credentials – Resources
What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? What are they and how do I earn them? What do they have to do with professional development and personalizing learning for educators? What’s the iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials program? Attend this session and not only discover answers to these questions, but get a head start on figuring out which micro-credentials you might like to earn!
Moving the Needle: Leadership for School Change
Are you struggling with school change? Are you about to launch a major change initiative? What are the lessons from folks who have successfully moved the needle on large-scale school change? Come learn about avoiding the barriers to school change, the strategies for building buy-in for change among your staff and community, and for supporting educators as they implement the change.
Motivating Underachieving Students – Resources
Are you frustrated at the challenge of working with underachieving and unmotivated students? What motivates them to learn? What can we do to improve the situation? This session will explore what does motivate underachievers, and some concrete actions teachers can take to improve learning for every student.
How The Heck Do We Reach 10-14 Year Olds!?! – Resources
Learners in grades 5-8 can seem hard to teach. They are rapidly going through physical, intellectual, and emotional changes, making them developmentally different than elementary students and high school students. What practices will make your life easier by being harmonious with the developmental characteristics of young adolescents?
Motivating Students with Engaging Tasks
The two most popular questions from students are “why are we learning this?” and “when will we ever going to learn this?” Both questions show how students sometimes feel that what they are learning has little meaning for them. Creating Engaging Tasks is a template for creating learning activities that situates the learning in a meaningful context by designing a role and task for the student. Engaging Tasks can make the learning more meaningful, engaging, and interesting to your students. This interactive session highlights how to find, use, & design such learning tasks.
Technology to Transform Learning, Not Buff and Shine It – Resources
The true power of technology is not in learning to use it, but rather using it to learn. The device (by itself) isn’t the magic, all the ways students can learn with it is! Don’t be a district that puts the device first or is swayed by fancy gadgets and buzzwords! Put the learning first.
Student Learning Guru 