Monday Minute
November 11, 2019
A Bird? A Plane? Is It......?
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After principal Ryan Mikus and athletic director Rex Olds facilitated a video discussion regarding the purpose of STEM education and the four Cs of STEM learning, - creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication - students were divided into small groups, where the real challenge of building a pumpkin launcher began.
AMLE Conference Reflections
One of the overwhelming takeaways from the conference: What you do as middle level educators really matters! Just one person can make a dramatic difference in a student's life, and it is important that we help them (and parents) understand all of the changes that are going on during adolescence. And, it's important that we take advantage of opportunities to share our successes with others!
Thursday Keynote, Baruti K. Kafele
Friday Keynote, Jessica Lahey
Two Favorite Authors (+1)
Revisions to Champions Together Training Schedule
Statistics in Schools: Powered by the Census Bureau
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Program Info
Free Tech Training Materials from IU
INSPIRE3 UPDATE
Highlights included in the update that you can download below: Thank You for sharing these Updates with your staff.
Do you know that service learning can be one of the most authentic ways for students to develop leadership skills?
· Check out the November conferences that our INSPIRE3 program will be an exhibitor and presenting sessions.
· Since the month of November includes Veteran’s Day and Thanksgiving, check out some Spotlight on Service-Learning articles. Engaging students in service-learning during November just makes sense!
· Newly posted SNAPSHOTS OF SERVICE-LEARNING STORIES focusing on Military/Veterans and Hunger from Attica Jr. Sr. H.S., Liberty Elementary, and Tecumseh H.S.
· LTG November Moments of Service Toolkits with lessons and project ideas for Veterans Day, National Philanthropy Day, Thanksgiving Day
· generationOn Website November and December Projects/Resources
· INSPIRE3 Mini-Grants available for 2019-2020 school year.
· INSPIRE3 contact information for free on site PD or interest in area workshop
· Visit our INSPIRE3 page on the IASP website HERE or the IMLEA website HERE and Connect
Learning Opportunities
November 13: #WorldKindnessDay (many will be wearing cardigans to honor Mr. Rogers)
November 13: Workshop with Artist Rita Spaulding, Children's Museum, 6-8 pm ET
November 13: DOE #INedchat: Thinking Ahead to #CSEweek and #HourOfCode
November 18-22: American Education Week
November 18: Deadline to Apply for Library Coding Grant
November 19: All4Ed Webinar: Think Differently About Professional Learning,Creating High-Quality Personalized Professional Learning that Works (includes Joe Sanfelippo) 3 pm ET
November 20: Webinar for AMLE Members, "Middle Schools, a Place to Belong & Become," 4-5 pm ET
December 2: Deadline to Apply for Small & Rural Library Grant
December 7: Indiana Author Fair, Indiana Historical Society (includes free admission to Festival of Trees), Noon-4 pm ET
TBD: Champions Together Trainings at South Ripley JH, Rochester MS, and Lowell MS
Until Next Week....
Please send Susie Highley any ideas or suggestions of things to be included. 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.
For information about our new joint membership with AMLE, see this page, or our website.
Members should receive a copy of our fall print newsletter any day; they were delivered to the mailing service on November 6.
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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