News Flash

  THANK YOU, Saline Middle School staff, students, volunteers, and community. Your efforts made the 2008 MAMSE Conference successful!

 

 

 

 First Annual Schools to Watch Conference---Celebrating Excellence in Middle Level Education
WHEN:       Wednesday, May 7, 2008 8:15 AM - 2:45 PM
                    Eastern Time Zone
WHERE:     Bovee University Center
                    103 East Preston St.
                    Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859
                    USA
FEE:     Individual Registrant   Michigan Schools to Watch Conference $125.00

View Event Details and Registration

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Michigan Joint Education Conference
Making Integrated Education Work for Everyone: Bringing It All Together

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Holt High School
Holt, Michigan

We are currently accepting proposals for speakers. PLEASE NOTE...the application deadline has been extended to February 29, 2008. Applications can be found at: http://macul.org/site/files/jointed08spea.pdf

Don't miss your chance to be a part of this first ever collaboration!

For more information on the Michigan Joint Education Conference, please visit our website at www.mijec.org.

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NEW Membership Benefit

Included in your membership with MAMSE is the ability to take advantage of a special program through Office Depot! You can purchase office products at significant discounts (up to 70% on most used items). This includes in-store purchases (with pre-setup swipe card), in-store copies and Internet orders (copies, printing orders, office supplies, promotional products and furniture).

How do I sign up?  Click on the logo below or Click here for more information.

Enrollment is easy - just click on logo. 

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Membership Renewal

Dual Membership - MAMSE and NMSA

Michigan Association of Middle School Educators and National Middle School Association

...Twice the Opportunity, Twice the Service

...Online application and payment  click here

...Application form to print click here

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MDE/NCA News New November 2007

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Michigan Schools to Watch   New March 2008

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Middle School Matters  New October, 2007 

This is a website and podcast for middle level educators by middle level educators. 

Want to join a discussion about middle school at your convenience and your time frame? Looking for some thoughtful ideas that center around middle school?  All of these things and more are possible when you visit Middle School Matters.  Middle School Matters is a new podcast and web site specifically for middle level educators. Featuring a weekly podcast, a couple of middle school educators discuss some of the important issues revolving around middle school educators, young adolescents, teaching and learning. Middle School Matters is a place for middle level educators to share ideas, dialogue with other educators and develop some new methodologies. All of this is provided for free. After listening to ourselves tell others that education is changing and needs to be done differently, we decided to put our “money where our mouth is” and do some professional development, networking, and more in a different way. Thus is born the Middle School Matters podcast and web site. We hope that you'll enjoy the offering (both the podcast and the web site) and hope that you'll help us build a supportive community to impact the learning and success of all students. 

 

  Results, New March 2008

                                

2008 Award Winners   New February, 2008

2007 Grant Recipients  New October, 2007

Change of Address

Newslink Updates

Spotlight on Success

Consultant Services

Interested in hosting a MAMSE Conference?

Membership Renewal: You need to renew your membership if you did not attend the 2007 conference and did not mail in your membership dues.  The membership year begins March 1st.  The cost is $30.  For an application form, please click here.

GRANT APPLICATIONS deadline is June 30, 2008.    Applicants will be notified in September and grant recipients will be published here.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS  Let us know if you have moved so that you can continue receiving MAMSE information.   E-mail MAMSE Membership with your change of address information or send a note to MAMSE, 3300 Washtenaw Avenue, Suite 220, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-4200.  Please be sure to include both your old and new address information.

NewslinkUpdates via e-mail:  Members receive weekly e-mail messages that include teacher tips, legislative updates and other middle school news.  If you are not receiving these, please notify Alecia Powell by clicking on her name and on the subject line type request for MAMSE newslink updates.   Include your full name.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK:  " What we do, we do for kids. And with all their differing abilities, talents, circumstances, and ambitions, kids have a way of skewing control charts, spreadsheets, and quality control databases. Consequently, we embrace kids before data and manage the system to their needs. No apologies."  From Jim Ballard's MASSP communication regarding the Standard and Poor's Education Report.

MAMSE Professional Development Consultant Services are now available.  Click here for more information.

Interested in hosting a MAMSE Conference?  Contact the MAMSE Office at (734) 677-5678 or e-mail us.

SPOTLIGHT ON SUCCESS - This is a feature for the MAMSE Journal.  This is an opportunity for you to share unique techniques, strategies, lessons, or motivators that have worked with middle level students.  These can be one paragraph or more.  Include the educator's name, title, school name, district name and city.  Submit to Nancy Stires, 1379 Bicentennial Pkwy., Ann Arbor, MI 48108  or click here to e-mail.