 | MESPA Home | | Nine exemplary schools receive 2010-11 Minnesota School of Excellence validation.
Greg Lange, principal, East Union Elementary School, Eastern Carver County.
Lynn Bol, principal, Franklin Elementary, Eveleth-Gilbert.
Amy Galatz, principal, Elementary, Deer River.
Heidi Critchley, principal, Marshall Primary Level (Park Side Elementary and West Side Elementary), Marshall.
Dr. Gail Swor, principal, Poplar Bridge Elementary, Bloomington.
Allan Albertson, principal, Rippleside Elementary, Aitkin.
Michael Guthrie, principal, Shannon Park Elementary, Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan.
Nancy Stucky, principal, Triton Elementary, Triton.
Michael Conway, principal, Wyoming Elementary, Forest Lake.
MESPA  | | When Aronson speaks, principals listen. |
Legal Issues Seminars with Roger Aronson.
Yes, he's back on track for another season.
The 2010 schedule has been set for these relevant, practical and fascinating seminars with Roger Aronson, MESPA legislative and legal counsel.
Plan now to
attend a full-day seminar at one of five regional
locations statewide. If there any topics, large or small, that you'd like to have addressed
at the seminar, include them on your registration. Roger will
incorporate as many topics as he can. Next seminar in Proctor: October 4.
If you wanted to spend your days tied to a desk, you would have become an accountant instead of a school administrator. The Breakthrough Coach (TBC) Executive Summary Podcast is for those in our professional community who want to better understand what you are doing and why. In this four-chapter audio presentation, Malachi Pancoast, President,
The Breakthrough Coach, delivers an executive summary of TBC's
Management Methodology™. The podcast is immediately
applicable to your front office environment and supports your mastery of
ISLLC stds. 2 and 3. Share this with that special supervisor in your life.
MESPA New Principals' Seminar: October 14, 2010.
Build
the network of peers and resources you need to succeed! Are you a first or second-year principal, assistant principal, or intern? MESPA presents the full day Surviving
and Thriving in the Principalship
seminar for new elementary and middle level principals with practical  | | MESPA New Principal Class of 2009 |
advice from people who
understand the flow of your work. Seminar topics are
designed to support you in your role as an elementary or middle level
principal
and MESPA member.
Three Minute Walkthrough Seminar: October 15, 2010.
Principals,
learn to use the three-minute walkthrough to guide teachers toward a
continuous improvement cycle A
walkthrough is a brief, focused classroom visit followed by reflection.
The principal assumes the role of coach as
opposed to judge, leading teachers to reflective practices and to
dialogue focused on curriculum and instruction. Kathy Larson,
national professional growth and development consultant, leads principals on the walkthroughs, using a school as a
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to observe and use the
process in its classrooms.
Data Storytelling Academy
How
do you tell your school's data story? Do you feel comfortable
interpreting your data to craft a story that best strengthens your
school? Presented by MESPA in partnership with TIES, this hybrid format
academy (onsite sessions, Webinars, online professional learning
community, follow-on exercises using your data at your school,
one-to-one professional consultation) will guide principals and school
data leaders in strategically working with your school data. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."
Let's invest in Minnesota together.
Have public schools really
changed, or are they run just like they were 50 years ago as charged by some
critics? There is some element of truth in both perspectives. Minnesota schools are
constantly changing to meet the needs of today’s learners as they prepare for
an unknown future. Kids learn more during their educational
careers than they have at any time in the past, from kindergarten through grade
12 and beyond. (To read the entire article, visit INVEST MN in MESPA Resources.)
Exercise Your Right.
"Health
is simply a choice. Are you making it?" Patrick Bryan, principal of
Jackson Preparatory Magnet, St. Paul, asked his 500 students after they
walked from their school to the Capitol to kick off the city-wide
Exercise Your Right to Feel Better Minnesota campaign. For
information on the Exercise Your Right to
Feel Better Minnesota campaign, free resources available to all
Minnesota schools, and SHIP funding, visit the MESPA
Press Room.
MESPA
Colleague to Colleague: Join our statewide principal blog and
check out the newest conversations: Battle of the Books programs; district cell phones for administrators: are they provided or not; and the timing of recess.
You
can
read and track your colleagues' ideas, or add to the conversations.
Click on the link above to join the flow -- quick and on-line.
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| MN Bullying Prevention Initiative & Bookstore | Do you have a bullying problem in your school? You may
not think you do, but ask your students. Adults tend to
overestimate their effectiveness in identifying bullying and intervening. Obtaining funding for a prevention
program is often a key concern for schools. Check the current Olweus funding opportunities, updated weekly
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| 7 tips for making students comfortable at school: | Social and Emotional Learning and the Start of School (from Edutopia)
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| "Schools shouldn't change principals | just for the sake of change. Turnover in leadership hampers achievement." Read complete Wallace Foundation study by U of MN and U of Toronto in MESPA Press Room.
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| MESPA 2010-2011 calendar | What are those MESPA Legal Issues seminar dates? What professional development is MESPA offering in 2010-2011 and how can I register? Find all this under MESPA Professional Development — and we’ll keep updating the calendar throughout the year.
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| | Interested in sharing your expertise at the MESPA Institute, our annual statewide convention? Focus session proposals due September 1, 2010. Click here
for full details.
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| Reading interventions for your school, for life! |
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| Try Lexia Reading FREE for 60 days! | Special MESPA offer!
Call Stephanie Williams at
800-435-3942, ext. 260
for full details.
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| MESPA Best Practices | New Best Practice articles: --Six Secrets of Change, by Jennifer Olson --Changing Times: Culture and Response to Intervention, by Andy Fields and Eric Anderson
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| MESPA Newsclips |
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| Education Blogs | Leader Talk: group blog by school leaders for school leaders: PreK-12 administrators. Inservice: ASCD community blog—a place for educators to gather
and share ideas. Principals' Office: NAESP blog connecting elementary principals with
their colleagues. Dangerously Irrelevant: Ruminations on technology, leadership, and the future of our schools.
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| Can't find something on the MESPA Web? | Use Search (left column).We also have a Search engine on our Members Only Web -- search there for information available only to MESPA members.
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