Middle Level Minute

IMLEA is sponsoring a visit to Klondike Middle School in West Lafayette on Thursday, May 15, beginning at 10 am EDT. Klondike is in a brand new building (they even moved in during the school year), and is so spacious that they current include 4th and 5th grade as well as 6-8. The visit will be free for IMLEA members, $10 for nonmembers, which will be invoiced after the event. Please RSVP using this form. This will be a great opportunity to network with other middle-level educators, tour a new building, and find out about their practices. More details will be provided in our next newsletter.

You can still register to attend the Middle Grades Forum Conference in Arlington, VA on June 26-28. In addition to outstanding keynotes, there will be breakout sessions from award-winning middle schools and the opportunity to visit with your representatives or their aides on Capitol Hill. You do not have to be a School to Watch to attend. Find more information here. Many schools like to send a group to learn from the conference as well as sightsee before or after.

Any principal or assistant principal registered for AMLE25 can invite their superintendent, assistant superintendent, or a senior-level district administrator with significant oversight of middle level education to attend AMLE25 in Indianapolis—for free! Find the details here. The conference is November 5-8, 2025.

TIMES ARE EDT; FREE UNLESS NOTED

Many are available via recording, especially if you pre-register.

April 30-Nominations Due for AMLE's Conrad Toepfer Award (Recognized in Indianapolis!)

April 30- Nominations Due for Gilder Lehrman History Teacher of the Year

April 30- Horace Mann's Virtual Teacher Appreciation Events Begin, 8 pm

May 1- Successful Middle School Grant Applications are Due (must be AMLE member by then)

May 1-Applications Open for AMLE25 Student Ambassadors

May 1- Zoom Party with Pooja Agarwhal (Retrieval Practice), James Lang, Michelle Miller, 5 pm

May 6- KINL Adolescent Literacy Leadership Group, 4 pm (Cancelled)

May 14- Deadline for Earlybird Rate for KINLCon $

May 15- School Visit to Klondike Middle School, 10 am

May 15- Webinar with Dr. Sharon Vaughn on the SOR, 3:30 pm

May 19- Webinar with Nathan Maynard, Co-Author of Hacking School Discipline, CEO of High Five, "Discipline Reimagined", 4 pm

May 27- Moon Mascot Entries Due

June 9-10 or June 12-13: Indiana Get Your Teach On Conferences, Indianapolis

June 24-25, 2025- KINLCon at Noblesville West MS (Registration open now!)$

June 26-28, 2025-Schools to Watch Conference, Washington DC Area $

July 9- Secondary Science of Reading Workshop, CIESC, 8:30 am $

July 15- Deadline to Nominate an AMLE Middle Grade Educator of the Year

August 7- Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant Information Session, 3:30 pm

August 19- Lilly Teacher Creativity Grant Information Session, 4:30 pm

November 5-8- AMLE in Indianapolis $

ONGOING EVENTS

IDOE Summer of Learning Events, June 2-August 5; More Details Being Added

Indiana Learning Lab Workshops (Requires Sign in for Registration, Also Access to Archived Events)

Teachers First OK2Ask Online Workshops; (Past on-demand sessions)

Keep Indiana Learning (KINL); Live Events (some $) Past Recordings/Digital Content

edWeb.net Webinars (Can watch at later date; if sponsored, "commercials" are at the end)

AMLE Podcasts: Walk and Talk & Research to Practice

AMLE Events (some free, some paid)

Corwin Webinars, Additional Free Corwin Resources, Including Past Webinars

Please note: Webinars and events mentioned in this space are not an endorsement of commercial products; on the contrary, we try to avoid listing events that appear to be commercial in nature. Every effort is made to strip social media/tracking data from provided URLs. In many cases, you can register and receive a recording later.

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