MESPA Colleague to Colleague
A statewide professional forum for MESPA members, 
Minnesota's elementary and middle level principals.

 
MESPA Colleague to Colleague is a web-based forum  -- and will be your resource for directly asking one another questions about the principalship and sharing responses on resources, best practices, curriculum, professional and staff development, testing, school human resources concerns, negotiation processes, etc. As peers in the principalship, you are one another’s best source of information and support.
 
MESPA Colleague to Colleague is a Google Group. In order to join the group, you first need a Google Group Account. This is different than having a Google e-mail (or "g mail") account.

MESPA Colleague to Colleague is for MESPA members -- and your school e-mail address is how you are identified as a MESPA member.
 
If you have any questions, please contact the MESPA office at 651-999-7310 or mespa@mespa.net




Easy access to MESPA Colleague to Colleague
If you've already joined Colleague to Colleague:
  1. Click on the link below.
  2. Click on "Sign into Google Groups."
  3. Enter your e-mail address.
  4. Enter your password!


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Ready to post a question or response?
Post it on the Web: quick and simple. To respond to questions asked by your colleagues or post one of your own, simply visit the MESPA Colleague to Colleague forum: click on a topic, click on Reply, and type in your response. Or click on Post and type in your question.

Please don't send an e-mail! When you set up your Google Groups Account and joined MESPA Colleague to Colleague, you selected how you want to “read the group” -- that is, be notified of postings: only through the Web, or through e-mail summaries. If you selected e-mail, you will receive e-mail updates notifying you when new questions are posted in Colleague to Colleague. The e-mail is just to let you know there is a new question. If you answer the e-mail summary, your response will go to the list manager only and will not be viewed by other members of the MESPA Colleague to Colleague forum.


How do you want to keep track of MESPA Colleague to Colleague?
You have a choice! You can learn about new postings through an e-mail update, or you can visit MESPA Colleague to Colleague on the Web and learn what's new.

And you can update your choice any time!
1. Sign in to the group (using your e-mail address and password)
2. Click on Edit My Membership.
3. Under "How do you want to read this group?" select:
  • No e-mail (Read the group on the Web, with no e-mail notices.)
  • Abridged e-mail (Receive an e-mail with summary of new activity each day.)
  • Digest e-mail (Receive an e-mail summary bundling 25 new messages into a single e-mail.)
  • E-mail (Receive an e-mail notifying you of each new activity in MESPA Colleague to Colleague).



Mission: The Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association is dedicated to promoting and improving education for children and youth, strengthening the role as educational leader for elementary and middle level principals, and collaborating with partners in education to assist in achieving these goals.

Leading schools toward excellence through the MESPA vision to be the premiere resource for preparing today's principals for tomorrow and a strong leading voice for public education.

Minnesota Elementary School Principals' Association
1667 North Snelling Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55108
651.999.7310     MN toll free 800.642.6807    
Fax: 651.999.7311     E-mail: mespa@mespa.net