The Minnesota Middle School Association serves as a resource for educators, parents, and community members who advocate for the needs of young adolescents.
ATTENTION AMLE MEMBERS🤩 The application window for 2026 Successful Middle School Grant is NOW OPEN!
View highlights of past grantees along with this year's application👉 https://t.co/SkNL0hZjrb
Do you know a middle level educator who has a talent for helping students feel both supported and challenged to grow? The AMLE Adult Advocate Award honors educators with a knack for building authentic relationships with students who deserve recognizition for helping students feel seen, valued, and understood.
Nominations are due March 31: https://t.co/2KRfGyFK3T
It's Middle Level Education Month, and we're thrilled to be kicking off the fourth annual MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT SOUND OFF. 🗣️
Students can sound off on their middle school experience by responding to one of our prompts. Because we know that each middle schooler has different interests, talents, and ways of expressing themselves, they can submit in the format that most appeals to them! Submissions are due April 3 👉 https://t.co/pd8teUTONj
Making summer PD plans? 😎 Join us for the AMLE Leadership Institute: a learning retreat rooted in middle grades best practice, tailored for aspiring and current middle grades leaders and teams. View the preliminary schedule and register at Early Bird Rates now! https://t.co/Znh5lCtnSn
Guess what? National Opposite Day is Jan 25! 🔀 How about this for flipping the script: instead of waiting until high school for career exploration, start in middle school! Tune into our latest podcast featuring Julie Lammers from @Britebound sharing resources for educators and guardians to help middle schoolers explore who they are, what they love, what they are good at, and what the world needs. ➡️https://t.co/A30XQFMrdh
Thanks as always to our always to our wonderful podcast hosts, @PFagell & Jessica McGuire, for helping us deliver these valuable resources to our membership!
Exciting news as we begin 2026 at AMLE 🎉
We’re thrilled to welcome Chandra Diaz as our new Board Chair, along with new Trustees Tami Jo Cook and Will Murphy.
With their passion, expertise, and commitment to middle level education, we’re looking ahead to a year of growth, innovation, and advocacy for young adolescents and the educators who support them. Learn more about these dedicated leaders: https://t.co/fnmBtkfUwq
Tag your friends in your middle grades network!🔁The Association for Middle Level Education is the largest international association for middle level educators with more than 35,000 members. If your career is centered around education for students ages 10-15, AMLE is the professional home for you!
Learn more at https://t.co/8GktTDn2hQ
Reminder: Author Workshop Wednesday, January 28, 4-6 pm ET! Featuring scheduling wizard and author of The Successful Middle School Schedule 2nd Edition, @mccartyann will be facilitating this two-hour deep dive, joined by leaders from several AMLE Schools of Distinction sharing their strategies that led to scheduling success!
Learn more and register: https://t.co/Y5qAvXT3Dj
Final Call! Please take our survey to tell us about your middle grades leadership programming that is intentionally designed to develop students’ skills in leadership, agency, voice, responsibility, and collaboration.
The survey closes Jan. 23rd, and results will be shared in an upcoming Focus on the Middle Newsletter: https://t.co/AcO21TWlMu
We invite you to showcase your expertise at our virtual conference on February 10, 2021. The theme is United in the Middle. If you are interested in presenting, please complete the form and submit it by Monday, December 6th.
https://t.co/YzVAzHePQJ
MMSA Members,
While disappointed in needing to take another year away from our in person State Conference, we are excited to announce that we are going to build off our successful monthly virtual sessions last year and host our MMSA STATE CONFERENCE virtually FEBRUARY 10th 2022.
Special Olympics MN will be joining us as our Keynote and we will have the same type of great breakout sessions we have all become accustomed to over the years along with opportunities to network and join with other educators committed to middle level learners.