Enjoy your summer as it officially started
June 19th!

For Your “To Do List”

• Register for Summer NELMS
• Register for the highly acclaimed NELMS Leadership Academy
• Register for the NELMS Teaming Institute
• Nominate deserving colleagues NOW! for 2008-2009 Recognitions Awards
• Order books from NELMS for summer professional reading
• Write an article for the NELMS Journal
• Look at and make plans to attend events after perusing the complete schedule of the great NELMS conferences and activities on www.nelms.org
• Plan School-Based Professional Development now for fall and winter of 2008–2009
• Take some time to look over the ever expanding and informative NELMS web site www.nelms.org

NELMS appoints 2 as “Administrators in Residence”

NELMS announced today that Mary Jean Fawcett and Sue Dumas have been chosen to be “NELMS Administrators in Residence”. Both have significant experience in school leadership and helping other schools to get off NCLB lists or improve practices. Susan is a former principal in Connecticut and Mary Jean is a former principal in Massachusetts. More information will be available in the fall but if you’d like to contact them, please email Gerry Quatrale the NELMS Assistant Executive Director for Professional Services.

NELMS continues planning for 2008 – 2009 school year.

Popular events return and others are new but the lineup is impressive.
Returning Events Include:

• The Literacy Summit with Judi Irvin and Julie Meltzer
• Differentiated Instruction with Rick Wormeli
• Literacy Coaching with Cheryl Wrin
• Administrators Leading Learning Conference
• Scheduling Rodeos
• Middle Level Fundamentals with Eunice Taylor
• Tri-State Conference in Keene, NH
• The popular Spotlight Schools Visits custom scheduled just for you

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New for 2008 - 2009

• Emerging Technology Conference sponsored by the NELMS Technology Committee
• Planning for Discipline 2-day seminar with Jim Quinn
• 21st Century Leadership Teams with Chris Toy and Jill Spencer
• Teaming Institute with Pat Clem

Call for Presenters for 2009 Annual Conference

While your time is full, now might be the best time for you to complete the Call for Presenters for our Annual Conference in the Spring of “09”.

The 2009 Annual Conference Strands are based on the concepts contained in NMSA’s "This We Believe" and are:

• A: Varied Instructional and Learning Strategies
• B: Challenging and Relevant Curriculum
• C: Unified Arts -Issues and Ideas
• D: Assessment and Evaluation that Promotes Quality Learning
• E: Organizational Practices that Enhance Relationships and Learning
• F: Effective Leadership in the Middle Level
• G: Technology in Classrooms to Improve Learning
• H: Middle Level Beliefs, Research, Advocacy, and School/Parent/Community Partnerships

Our newest strand is Strand C, which is for Unified Arts teachers to share their Issues and Ideas. We have developed this strand because the Unified Arts conference no longer exists. Included in this strand are all things pertaining to the Unified Arts. Topics within the areas of Art, Health, Physical Education, Music, Technology Education, Family and Consumer Science, Performance groups, and Drama are appropriate. Also, issues such as connecting to grade level teams, scheduling, UA classes and state testing, and current trends are also very suitable. The challenge now is for Unified Arts Teachers to submit sessions so that we can have a complete and full program.

Submit a proposal NOW! Go to http://www.nelms.org/calendar07-08/annual_08/annual08.html and select one of the Call for Presenters forms. We will all be glad you did.

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