BACKGROUND Early career middle grades teachers–defined as middle grades teachers who possess three or fewer years of professional teaching experience–are likely to encounter a series of transitions at the outset of their career. As early career middle grades teachers navigate these transitions into the profession and into their new schools, they are required to satisfy
Columbus, OH — Thursday, August 8, 2024 The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) is proud to announce that seventeen schools have been named 2024 AMLE Schools of Distinction. This prestigious recognition honors schools that demonstrate outstanding commitment to middle grades best practice. The 2024 Schools of Distinction are: Beach Street Middle School – West
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This is the second in a three-part article series on preparing for the 2024 election in our middle school classrooms. You can read part one here and look for the final installment later this fall. Need more support tackling difficult conversations with students? Explore Jen Cort’s book, Help Us Begin, available from AMLE. As we
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Funding will support creative scheduling initiative and future-focused innovation center The AMLE Foundation Fund has selected South View Middle School in Edina, MN and West Clermont Middle School in Batavia, OH as the inaugural recipients of its Successful Middle School Grant. That AMLE Foundation Fund established the grant in 2023 to provide funding to educators
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Activities to Help Educators Process and Apply PD Content and Skills The most useful professional development (PD) is not in the “sit and get” moment at a conference or in-service training, though there can be sudden and lasting moments of insight in each. The most effective “stuff” of professional learning is in the personal reflection,
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We teach a precious and somewhat precarious age group. Our middle grades students are in the throes of one of life’s most pivotal and seminal periods in human development. They are growing faster than at almost any other time in life and are grappling with some of life’s most significant milestones which will come to
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