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Fostering Empathy Through Understanding: Listening to the Voices of Administrators and Teacher Leaders

Part Two: What do you wish people know about your position? This is the second of a six-part series exploring the relationships between administrators and teacher leaders. Curated by Kristen Engle, Laurie Rigg, and Megan Vosk of the AMLE Teacher Leaders Committee) Teacher leaders and administrators work closely to ensure that the mission, vision, and

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Fostering Empathy Through Understanding: Listening to the Voices of Administrators and Teacher Leaders

Part One: What is the hardest part of your position? This is the first of a six-part series exploring the relationships between administrators and teacher leaders. Curated by Kristen Engle, Laurie Rigg, and Megan Vosk of the AMLE Teacher Leaders Committee) Teacher leaders and administrators work closely to ensure that the mission, vision, and values

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Collaboration is a Mindset, Heartset, and Skillset

What is authentic collaboration?  Many schools and educators value and promote collaboration through various structures and processes. Schools carve out time for collaborative planning meetings, child study team meetings, grade level meetings, department meetings, faculty meetings, etc. All of these meetings are based around the idea that collaboration is important both for us as educators

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AMLE Announce Inaugural Esports League Champions

Columbus, OH — January 24, 2022 — The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) and Vanta Leagues have announced three winning schools of the inaugural season of the Middle School Esports League, which provides AMLE member schools’ students with the opportunity to engage in structured video game competitions while building real-world skills. The winning schools

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Team Passion Project – The Importance of Offering Student Choice in the Middle Grades

Save the bees. That was the aim of Team Passion Project, the winners of the second annual Solve Together Challenge, a national competition designed to encourage career exploration and skill-building for middle school students. The team, comprised of seventh grader from Franklin Avenue Middle School, could either select from a list of real-world problems or

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