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Volume 3
Number 5
2007-2008 MIEM Calendar Now Available!
Message from Your Executive Director
May-June 2007 Events... Register Now!
Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Conferences
Partnership with MIEM - MI-LIFE
For more than 25 years, MIEM has been helping paint a bright future for public education by being a top source for your professional development needs.
We offer a variety of conferences, workshops, webinars and certification classes for people in every aspect of education. We provide this training at reasonable prices, especially for districts that are MIEM members.
Membership in MIEM is a smart choice, because member districts receive up to a 25% reduction in registration rates.
Are you taking advantage of the savings when registering for workshops and conferences? Renew now.
This calendar should help you to better plan what MIEM can do for you. As with any planning document, there may be some changes. We will confirm these activities and make any necessary changes on our monthly update to you electronically. Let us know if this is a helpful tool so we can do an even better job of meeting your needs in the future. Our best wishes to you for a successful and rewarding 2007-2008 school year.
You do not have to be working toward certification to take a certification class. Anyone is eligible.
Have you started the MSBO Certification program? Learn more.
Are you registered for SAPC classes or in the program? SAPC classes are designed for school office professionals, secretaries and administrative assistants. Learn more.
This is the last issue of The MIEM Connection for the 2007-2008 school year. As our MIEM Team looks back over this year, we see that it has been extremely busy; and from your feedback, a productive and successful year. Our participation numbers have reached new levels, which says that our efforts to meet your needs during challenging times is a goal that we have reached. To that end, our planning for next year has resulted in the development of the 2007-2008 MIEM Calendar and summer planning to make sure everything is in place and ready to go when you return this fall.
The MIEM Calendar along with a MIEM membership application and membership information packets will be going out to you in your districts before the end of May. It is important to note that a district membership gives all district team members the discounted rate to MIEM events. This results in great savings to events that will support certification programs, tools to help individuals and information needed to help create schools that help all students achieve.
On behalf of our hard working and committed team, I want to thank you for your participation during this past school year. I look forward to seeing many of you throughout this upcoming school year. May the rest of this school year go smoothly, moving into a productive, safe and recharging time this summer.
Sincerely,
Daniel G. Pappas
MIEM Executive Director
Dennis Sparks - Leading For ResultsJune 19-20, 2007
Washtenaw ISD, Ann Arbor
Click here to download the brochure.
This session will explore ways district leaders, principals, and teachers can apply themselves to address three major barriers to improvement (lack of clarity, resignation and dependency) and to promote transformations in professional learning, teaching, student learning and relationships within schools. Participants will: develop clarity regarding their assumptions, intentions, requests and "next actions" related to key areas of their work. Practice includes several "results skills" to increase their interpersonal influence.
Adaptive Schools
August 23-24, 2007
Washtenaw ISD, Ann Arbor
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Learn how to build and sustain strong collaborative and caring school cultures in which results-oriented staffs work together for continual school improvement. Explore the latest practical findings in organizational development, team learning and handling change which link collaborative work cultures to improved learning for all students. This interactive seminar is designed as a two-day workshop. It teaches the models, maps, tools, and skills common to four school improvement roles: facilitator, coach, consultant and presenter, with emphasis on facilitation expertise.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE
Superintendent Preparation Series Academy (Supes Academy)
Four sessions, beginning in August
Apply by June 7, 2007
Support Staff Conference
Thursday, November 15 & Friday, November 16
Opening keynote address by: Joseph M. Hoedel, Ph.D. on...
The Importance of Being a Positive Role Model, Every Day!
Learn more about Dr. Hoedel.
Click here for more information about the conference.
The 17th Annual MIEM Technology Conference & Expo
NEW DATE and PLACE
January 30–February 1, 2008 at Dearborn Inn, Dearborn
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