Fwd: What's up at NELMS 3-26-14

-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.

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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: March 26, 2014 at 9:55:54 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: What's up at NELMS 3-26-14
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Only 4 Days To Go Until "Magic in the Middle"***
Don't wait! For more information and/or to register click here.

The Annual Conference program book is now online.
Click here to see what you can look forward to on March 31 & April 1.
Hope to see you there!

New this year: "The Magical Booth Trail"
Chances to win prizes and support our exhibitors.

Help us raise some dough!
During the conference Pizzaria Uno will be donating a percentage of each bill to NELMS when presented with this coupon at the time you pay.
Download the coupon here and thanks!

***PLEASE NOTE: The NELMS office is closed on Fridays so any Annual Conference registrations received after 1 pm on Thursday, March 27th will not be processed. Those attendees will need to stop at the Onsite Registration booth to register for the conference. Onsite Registrations for the Annual Conference are always welcomed! To make your registration process quicker, please bring a completed registration form and payment with you to the conference.

Keys to Literacy -
The ANSWER KEY Routine for Extended Response

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

Keys to Argument Writing

April 30, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

For more information and/or to register click here.

Here is what attendees were saying after the "SOLD OUT" January 9 - Key Writing Routine event:

The quality of the presentation was excellent and provided clarification of many critical issues surrounding argument and its implementation.

This was the best PD I've ever attended. More "take-away" than I've ever experienced.

Plethora of strategies, usable templates, activities, and ideas I will definitely use. Shauna was an excellent presenter! Relevant examples and great analogies. Evident she is knowledgeable and in classrooms.

Shauna is the most effective presenter I have seen. She provides relevant examples and answers questions. She gave quality suggestions and has the ability to control a group well. She has made me interested in what else "Keys" has to offer.

Excellent support materials. This is the first PD where I am starting to understand argument writing.

To learn more about this conference download the complete flier by clicking here.
To download bios of presenters click here.
To download a registration form click here.

Plans for Scheduling Workshop

NELMS is planning a Middle Level Scheduling Workshop for spring. Interested in attending? Please email at mjfawcett@nelms.org.

Have you remembered to renew your NELMS Membership?

Whether you would like to renew your NELMS membership or join NELMS for the first time you can get the information you need by clicking here!

 

 

 

 

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Fwd: Only 10 days to Magic in the Middle

-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.

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From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: March 20, 2014 at 8:56:26 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: Only 10 days to Magic in the Middle
Reply-To: NELMS <nelms@nelms.org>

Only 10 Days To Go Until "Magic in the Middle"
Don't wait! For more information and/or to register click here.

The Annual Conference program book is now online.
Click here to see what you can look forward to on March 31 & April 1.
Hope to see you there!

New this year: "The Magical Booth Trail"
Chances to win prizes and support our exhibitors.

Help us raise some dough!
During the conference Pizzaria Uno will be donating a percentage of each bill to NELMS when presented with this coupon at the time you pay.
Download the coupon here and thanks!

Keys to Literacy -
The ANSWER KEY Routine for Extended Response

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

Keys to Argument Writing

April 30, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

For more information and/or to register click here.

Here is what attendees were saying after the "SOLD OUT" January 9 - Key Writing Routine event:

The quality of the presentation was excellent and provided clarification of many critical issues surrounding argument and its implementation.

This was the best PD I've ever attended. More "take-away" than I've ever experienced.

Plethora of strategies, usable templates, activities, and ideas I will definitely use. Shauna was an excellent presenter! Relevant examples and great analogies. Evident she is knowledgeable and in classrooms.

Shauna is the most effective presenter I have seen. She provides relevant examples and answers questions. She gave quality suggestions and has the ability to control a group well. She has made me interested in what else "Keys" has to offer.

Excellent support materials. This is the first PD where I am starting to understand argument writing.

To learn more about this conference download the complete flier by clicking here.
To download bios of presenters click here.
To download a registration form click here.

Plans for Scheduling Workshop

NELMS is planning a Middle Level Scheduling Workshop for spring. Interested in attending? Please email at mjfawcett@nelms.org.

Have you remembered to renew your NELMS Membership?

Whether you would like to renew your NELMS membership or join NELMS for the first time you can get the information you need by clicking here!

 

 

 

 

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Creative learning and kindergarten

The annual MIT course Learning Creative Learning has begun again. The syllabus includes Mitch Resnick's article "All I Really Need to Know (About Creative Thinking) I Learned (By Studying How Children Learn) in Kindergarten*" again.

If you have never read it... take advantage of the access the is available:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/CC2007-handout.pdf

More on Mindsets

After listening to the NPR story on grit, I went through my files and found this image which I have shared with faculty in recent years.

The article is linked here.

Growth Mindset

Many educators are familiar with Carol Dweck's work with the Growth Mindset. According to Dweck's research, people tend to perceive learning and academic work from the fixed mindset or the growth mindset.

• Those with the fixed mindset perceive intelligence as a "natural" part of one's personality, and either one has it or they don't. Individuals with this mindset see tests as a measure of intelligence and are likely to be disappointed with poor performance. These individuals will not perceive work or study as something that will affect their performance.
• Those with the growth mindset tend to perceive learning as something that results from work and effort. An individual with the growth mindset will react to poor performance as motivation for learning.

In a recent NPR story, the reporters described how the growth mindset is used as a model for teaching and learning at a middle school for gifted students in New York city. The story is worth a listen as a reminder of what the Growth Mindest is and how it can change how we interact with students (and ourselves) and help them develop a skill that will last them a lifetime.

Fwd: What's up at NELMS 3-13-14

-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.

Begin forwarded message:

From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: March 13, 2014 at 7:49:36 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: What's up at NELMS 3-13-14
Reply-To: NELMS <nelms@nelms.org>

The Annual Conference program book is now online.
Click here to see what you can look forward to on March 31 & April 1.
Hope to see you there!

For more information and/or to register click here.
Help us raise some dough!
During the conference Pizzaria Uno will be donating a percentage of each bill to NELMS when presented with this coupon at the time you pay.
Download the coupon here and thanks!

Keys to Literacy -
The ANSWER KEY Routine for Extended Response

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

Keys to Argument Writing

April 30, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

For more information and/or to register click here.

Here is what attendees were saying after the "SOLD OUT" January 9 - Key Writing Routine event:

The quality of the presentation was excellent and provided clarification of many critical issues surrounding argument and its implementation.

This was the best PD I've ever attended. More "take-away" than I've ever experienced.

Plethora of strategies, usable templates, activities, and ideas I will definitely use. Shauna was an excellent presenter! Relevant examples and great analogies. Evident she is knowledgeable and in classrooms.

Shauna is the most effective presenter I have seen. She provides relevant examples and answers questions. She gave quality suggestions and has the ability to control a group well. She has made me interested in what else "Keys" has to offer.

Excellent support materials. This is the first PD where I am starting to understand argument writing.

To learn more about this conference download the complete flier by clicking here.
To download bios of presenters click here.
To download a registration form click here.

Plans for Scheduling Workshop

NELMS is planning a Middle Level Scheduling Workshop for spring. Interested in attending? Please email at mjfawcett@nelms.org.

Have you remembered to renew your NELMS Membership?

Whether you would like to renew your NELMS membership or join NELMS for the first time you can get the information you need by clicking here!

From one of our sponsors

Washington, DC's premier hotel designed for students.
Featuring lodging, dining, indoor/outdoor recreation, and guided tour services.
www.4HCenter.org
Pamela Knapp
New England Representative

 

 

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Fwd: What's up at NELMS 3-13-14

-- Gary Ackerman, Ph.D.

Begin forwarded message:

From: nelms@nelms.org
Date: March 13, 2014 at 7:49:36 AM EDT
To: "Dr. Gary L. Ackerman" <gary@hackscience.net>
Subject: What's up at NELMS 3-13-14
Reply-To: NELMS <nelms@nelms.org>

The Annual Conference program book is now online.
Click here to see what you can look forward to on March 31 & April 1.
Hope to see you there!

For more information and/or to register click here.
Help us raise some dough!
During the conference Pizzaria Uno will be donating a percentage of each bill to NELMS when presented with this coupon at the time you pay.
Download the coupon here and thanks!

Keys to Literacy -
The ANSWER KEY Routine for Extended Response

Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

Keys to Argument Writing

April 30, 2014
Holiday Inn Enfield/Springfield–Enfield, CT

For more information and/or to register click here.

Here is what attendees were saying after the "SOLD OUT" January 9 - Key Writing Routine event:

The quality of the presentation was excellent and provided clarification of many critical issues surrounding argument and its implementation.

This was the best PD I've ever attended. More "take-away" than I've ever experienced.

Plethora of strategies, usable templates, activities, and ideas I will definitely use. Shauna was an excellent presenter! Relevant examples and great analogies. Evident she is knowledgeable and in classrooms.

Shauna is the most effective presenter I have seen. She provides relevant examples and answers questions. She gave quality suggestions and has the ability to control a group well. She has made me interested in what else "Keys" has to offer.

Excellent support materials. This is the first PD where I am starting to understand argument writing.

To learn more about this conference download the complete flier by clicking here.
To download bios of presenters click here.
To download a registration form click here.

Plans for Scheduling Workshop

NELMS is planning a Middle Level Scheduling Workshop for spring. Interested in attending? Please email at mjfawcett@nelms.org.

Have you remembered to renew your NELMS Membership?

Whether you would like to renew your NELMS membership or join NELMS for the first time you can get the information you need by clicking here!

From one of our sponsors

Washington, DC's premier hotel designed for students.
Featuring lodging, dining, indoor/outdoor recreation, and guided tour services.
www.4HCenter.org
Pamela Knapp
New England Representative

 

 

Join us on Facebook and Twitter

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How to Engineer a Great STEM Curriculum for Middle School | MiddleWeb

STEM is all the rage among educators today (it makes me think how short-sighted they were to shutter the wood and metal and clay shops over the last 15 years). 

This article on Middle Web will help leaders who have forgotten what students learned in shops  generation ago to assess the many resources being promoted as STEM. 

www.middleweb.com/13942/engineer-great-middle-school-stem-curriculum

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