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Laurie Barron

Superintendent Evergreen School District Kalispell, Montana lbarron@evergreensd50.com 1. Name the key responsibilities in your current role I am the superintendent of a small K-8 district in beautiful northwest Montana near Glacier National Park and Whitefish Mountain Ski Resort. Our administrators, teachers, and staff wear many hats. In addition to my role as superintendent, some of

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Nancy Ruppert

Chair, Dept. of Education UNC Asheville Asheville, NC 1. Name the key responsibilities in your current role I oversee faculty and staff who help prepare candidates for teacher licensure. 2. Describe either your professional preparation, experience or achievements My undergraduate degree was middle school math; my masters was middle school language arts, my specialist and

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Todd Brist

Principal Watertown Middle School Watertown, SD todd.brist@k12.sd.us 1. Name the key responsibilities in your current role I use to think my job was about schedules, staffing, budgets and behavior; time and experience have taught me that my job as a principal is to “make good things happen for other people.” To me, it is my

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Going Beyond School

Connecting school and community in project-based learning It’s easy to stereotype “kids these days.” Always on their phones, always taking selfies, tethered to a virtual world but disconnected from the real one. If you don’t work with kids, or know what is happening in schools, it can be easy to think of young adolescents in

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AMLE Celebrates Inaugural Schools of Distinction

AMLE recognized its inaugural class of Schools of Distinction earlier this month, in conjunction with the organization’s 49th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. The twelve schools were selected for their fervent commitment to implementing the essential attributes and characteristics of successful middle grades schools. In addition to being celebrated during a special awards ceremony, each

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Reimagining School – What should it look like and who is it for?

Cornelius Minor and Kass Minor help #AMLE22 attendees find their bottom lines as educators Cornelius and Kass Minor believe that kids don’t just learn in school. They become. It’s an attitude reflective of what we know about middle grades best practice, making them the perfect keynoters for #AMLE22 and our return to in-person conference. We

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Kindness is harder than it looks.

Houston Kraft reminds #AMLE22 attendees that connection doesn’t happen by accident. Houston Kraft, author and co-founder of CharacterStrong, took the main stage at #AMLE22 yesterday for his keynote address on Deep Kindness. From the outset, he made clear that he had a mission for those in attendance. “If we want more kindness on our campus,

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