Monday Minute
January 27, 2020
The Super Bowl in the Classroom
DOE RELEASES RESOURCE GUIDE FOR CAREER EXPLORATION IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
Social Media Resources for Parents (and Educators)
Great Uses for Wakelet: Collections & Tutorials
DOE Book Study Moves to New Format for Don't Ditch That Tech
INSPIRE3 UPDATE
Highlights included in this weekly Update for 1/27/20 (can be downloaded below.) Thank You for sharing these Updates with your staff.
· NEW Snapshots of Service-Learning Stories
· Tutorial videos - Learning to Give website
· February Events: LTG Teaching Resources for Black History Month, Presidents’ Day, Valentine’s Day, and Random Acts of Kindness Day
· generationOn website Book lists and Fact sheets for Black History Month
· New Spotlight on Service-Learning article “Put the FUN in FUNraising”
· New LTG blog post “Learning to Give is Constructivist Learning”
- INSPIRE3 $250 mini-grants still available for the 2019-2020 school year.
Learning Opportunities
January 30: AMLE Leadership Webinar: Effective Feedback & Difficult Conversations, 4-5 pm ET
February 5: World Read Aloud Day
February 10: Children’s Museum Educator Preview Evening, 5-7 pm ET
February 10: John Hattie Webinar, "Maximizing Impact: The Power of Implementation", 6 pm ET
February 11: Middle-Level Workshop, Valparaiso University (Last chance to register)
February 11: DOE Webinar-Engaging Learners with Virtual Reality, 4 pm ET
February 11-12: DigCitCommit Virtual Congress
February 14: No One Eats Alone Day
February 14: Deadline for Solution Tree Rebecca Burnette DuFour Scholarship
February 15: Deadline to Apply for $1000 STEM Grant from Adopt a Classroom/Staples
February 17: DOE Book Study begins, Don't Ditch That Tech
February 18: Deadline to Apply for Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars
February 27: Digital Learning Day
March 31: Deadline for Special IMLEA/AMLE Discount
Did You Receive Your Special Mailing from AMLE?
Time to Go!
Please send Susie Highley any ideas or suggestions of things to be included. We would love to feature more school activities! We are now sending the Monday Minute to members only, but we invite you to forward it to anyone who might be interested. You can also access it via this link on our webpage, and you can follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Indiana Middle Level Education Association
Shirley Wright, Executive Director
Susie Highley, Director of Operations
Fax: 317-454-0749
Email: shighleyimlea@iasp.org
Website: https://www.imlea.org/
Location: 11025 East 25th Street, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Phone: 317.894.2937
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