 | MESPA Home | | Cognitive Coaching:
Attend the 8-day Principals’ Cognitive Coaching
for Leading Professional Learning Communities seminar with Jim Roussin
(strategic change consultant and a national trainer for the Center for
Cognitive Coaching), and earn 56 CEUs. Why cognitive coaching for
principals? An essential feature of Cognitive Coaching is that it uses
the relationships between principals, teachers and staff to create the
conversations that lead to behavioral, pedagogical, and content
knowledge change. The seminar begins June 21-22. All participants will
receive the Cognitive Coaching Foundation Seminar Learning Guide (by
Arthur Costa and Robert Garmston).
“How to Work Less,
Produce More, and Still Get the Job Done in a Sensible School Week”: June 14-15.
Work beyond administrivia! What if you could trim 20 hours off your work week
AND multiply your time in classrooms by 500%? Led by Malachi Pancoast, President, The Breakthrough Coach, this is one of the
most practical -- and liberating -- programs you will ever attend.
Teacher Evaluation for Principals: 3-part seminar series
Proven and researched-based strategies and techniques for effectively working to improve teaching and learning.
Part 1: Evaluating Teachers, Sept. 20
Part 2: Improving Marginal Teacher Performance, Nov. 15
Part 3: Dealing with Deficient and Non-Performing Teachers, Feb. 26
Presented by John F. Eller, Ph.D. Attend all three seminars and receive a copy of Working With and Evaluating Difficult School Employees. Seminars will be held in St. Cloud, centrally located for travel statewide.
When Roger talks, principals  | | Roger Aronson, MESPA Legal and Legislative Counsel |
listen!
Relevant, practical, and
interactive -- and fascinating!
Plan now to
attend one of MESPA’s full-day seminars, offered at six regional
locations statewide, and presented by Roger Aronson, MESPA legislative
and legal counsel. (MESPA division meetings precede the seminars, as
organized by the divisions in each region.)
"Roger Aronson's yearly MESPA Legal Seminars are worth their weight in
gold. Just knowing principals are represented so well legally and
legislatively is worth the membership!" -- Tim Bell, Five Hawks Elementary, Prior Lake-Savage
MESPA Advocate: May 2012
Arriving in your mailbox this week -- the annual MESPA Advocate awards issue, with best practice articles by:
Institute 2013 Scheduled!
The survey results are in --
and the preferred time slot for MESPA Institute 2013 is February 6-8.
Thank you for taking time to give us your input -- and mark your
calendars now. Follow-up from Institute 2012 will be available
throughout the year. For copies of Institute presentations, speaker
bios, photos, and a Virtual Trade Show with links to exhibit vendors,
visit MESPA Professional Development.
Colleague-to-Colleague: Guided Math instruction.
MESPA Colleague to Colleague is a web-based forum, your resource for directly asking your peers questions and sharing responses. Check out the newest conversations on: Guided
Math instruction; Using music and PE specialists for interventions;
Replacing textbooks with E-books; Tier III interventions; Paper/Pencil vs.
Online for MCA... To get started,
click on the link above.
Bits 'n Pieces public relations materials available for you from INVESTMN.
State and Common Core Standards quick take
State standards
are revised on a schedule approved by the Minnesota Legislature. You
can follow the revision process for each subject area and subscribe to
receive updates on this: MDE Web page.
- The State Commissioner of Education controls the recommendation of standards.
- Principals are the lynchpin for the successful implementation of Common Core standards.
- School-wide expectations and support for a cultural change underpin meaningful implementation of standards.
- When
Minnesota received a waiver for flexibility from No Child Left Behind
(NCLB) we were required to demonstrate that we had college and career
ready standards in process.
To read this entire article, available for your use in speaking to your school communities, visit INVESTMN in MESPA Resources.
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| 2012 Minnesota National Distinguished Principal | Jon Millerhagen, principal, Washburn Elementary, Bloomington, MN!
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of us who are relatively new to the profession. MESPA has opened up the
doors of communication with other principals and resources around the
state helping me discover ways to improve, cope, grow, learn and succeed
with our staffs and our students. Thanks in no small part to MESPA,
none of us are alone.” -- Jacob Donze, PreK-3 principal,
Plainview-Elgin-Millville Elementary
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Chatfield Elementary
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Woodland Elementary
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