Middle School Matters

This is a special interview recorded live at NMSA08 with Dr. Debbie Silver.

Our wrap up of the National Middle School Association's Annual Conference for 2008. This episode sets the stage by providing an overview of the conference.

MSM 49 NMSA08 The Conference

MSM 48 Field Tripping, NMSA08 & Student Research

MSM #47 Gaming & Grading - Keeping the Clean Tag

MSM 46 Izzit Enough? Bailouts, Evaluations and Co-Teaching

MSM 44 News, Mucus, Saliva and Articles

A lot of news and events. Specifically, we focus on substitute teachers.

An overview of Advisory and why.

MSM 42 NMSA08

Free Kindle!, (please Jack and/or Jeff!), Free iTunes (U), and Free Second Life! News & Events 1. Start planning for October's Month of the Young Adolescent! 2. Ohio Middle School Association's Annual Conference, February 19-20, 2009 in Sandusky, OH. 3. Institute for Middle Level Leadership. July 20-23 4. Best Practices for Student Success. July 28 & August 6 5. NMSA Annual Conference, October 30 - November 1 (Video sample) 6. Summer Teacher-to-Teacher professional development program registration is open. (free) 7. Canadian National Middle Years Conference, November 5, 6, & 7 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 8. Rick Stiggins has a new Balanced Assessment Manifesto posted at NMSA's website. 9. NMSA is looking for a new journal editor. Applications due August 1, 2008. 10. Michigan Association of Middle School Educators Elections are posted: PRESIDENT-ELECT: Alice Seppanen TREASURER: Charlene Pike Suzanne Lappin, Member-At-Large Nic Cooper, Region 2 David Feldman, Region 4 Mary Ann Schmedlen, Region 8 Sherry Lambertson, Region 11 David Baldus, Region 12 Joe Somerville, Region 13 11. Looking for news from Ontario Middle Level Educators Association. If you have any, drop us a line. 12. Wisconsin Association of Middle Level Educators annual conference is coming up October 9-10, 2008. 13. The New England League of Middle Schools has a whole bevy of professional development planned for the 2008-2009 school year and you can access it here. 14. ADVISORY IDEAS NEEDED: NELMS is putting together an Advisory Resource page with lessons for you to use. They are asking for submissions here by January 1, 2009. If your entry is used, you will be entered in a raffle for a 3 day NELMS conference ticket. 15. Second Life Education Community Conference (SLEDcc) Announcement: (From the webpage...) "The Second Life Education Community Conference 2008 will take place in conjunction with the Official Second Life Community Convention 2008 in Tampa, Florida (US) and in the virtual world of Second Life on September 5 - 7th, 2008. All members of the Second Life educational community and anyone with an interest in the use of virtual worlds technology in education is invited to attend! Please note: Registration fees cover both the SLEDcc and SLCC events! Conference registration and fees only apply to those going to SLEDcc/SLCC in Tampa, in-world only participants do not need to register or pay any fees." Here's your chance to attend a free conference during the first week of school. The conference schedule can be found here. Shout outs: 1. Jeff Bezos, we'd love to put a free Kindle through its paces at NMSA '08 ... 2. Ron in New Jersey, thanks for the email. 3. The lake trout at 140 feet down who saw my lure at 100 feet down and took it last week, you were delicious ... 4. Our international friends - even the Spammers! Copyright Fight looms over College Textbooks http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54684;_hbguid=1a943a6a-3bb8-4f98-9bd7-ab945e14b76c The high cost of college textbooks has spawned a new battleground in the fight to keep students from downloading copyright-protected materials over the internet: textbook file sharing. Court upholds Teacher firing for looking at porn http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54693;_hbguid=80f259df-0ff1-423f-8e9c-c0b047174269 iTunesU (K-12)

News and information about Middle School.

MSM #39 Book Talk, Hacking, & Transformation

Podcast #38 The Mail Bag Grab Bag: Eclectic discussions this week on Middle Level Education! News & Events 1. Start planning for October's Month of the Young Adolescent! 2. Innovative Practices Across the Curriculum, June 24 in Minnesota. 3. Institute for Middle Level Leadership. July 13-16 & 20-23 4. Best Practices for Student Success. July 28 & August 6 5. NMSA Annual Conference, October 30 - November 1 6. Summer Teacher-to-Teacher professional development program registration is open. (free) 7. Michigan Joint Education Conference, June 25 in Holt, MI. Integrated Education Conference. Reader/Listener Mailbag:

MSM #37 Advisory Resources and Tape