Professional Development Opportunities 2009-10

A page has been created for a collaboration on workshops, conferences, etc. that will be available to educators and others during the coming school year. Please feel free to add, modify, delete, embellish, enhance the page to come up with a valuable source for Maine educators.

Professional Development Opportunities 2009-10 at LIM Resources

Academy for Powerful Literacy Learning

Today and tomorrow I'm part of a wonderful group of educators from Mt. Abrams and Mt. Valley School Districts at the Granary in Farmington. This is an opportunity for leaders in these districts to look at data, culture, and strategies in order to enhance learning in their respective schools. This time is being sponsored by the Western Maine Educational Collaborative under the leadership of Mona Baker. Gloria Jenkins and Matt Gilbert gave a review of their experience at Mt. Valley High School. George Tucker of DOE gave an overview of the CIPS structure and strategies. We then listed issues of leadership and culture that came to mind and are sorting them in an activity called affinity.

This afternoon Darlene and I reviewed a strategy for summarization and sharing some straightforward digital methods of using the same strategy. Sometimes the simplest of tools end up being the most powerful. We looked at sticky notes, preview, and the ability of the Mac to turn just about anything into a pdf, and then practiced using these in the summarization strategy.

Upcoming Conferences

Below find some upcoming conferences in Maine and elsewhere. This is a collaborative list created by many. Can you help to refine it? To add to or adjust the ever-changing wiki list, go here or add to the comments for this post.

Sept 12, 13, 14th Haystack 2008 Fall Conference, Maine Art Education Association http://www.mainearted.org/

Sept 25, 26, 27th - National Open Source and Education Conference - Open Minds http://www.k12openminds.org/

Oct. 3-5 - New England Environmental Education Alliance Conference, Hancock, NH http://www.neeea.org/conference.html

Oct. 6 - Maine Digital Government Summit, August Civic Center http://www.govtech.com/events/mainedgs2008

Oct. 10, 2008 Maine Science Teachers Association Conference at Gardiner High School, http://mainescienceteachers.org/conference-info

Oct. 16-17, 2008 ACTEM MaineEducation2008, 21st Annual Technology Conference, "The Way Learning Should Be" Augusta Civic Center, August, Maine http://www.actem.org/Pages/ACTEM_Conference/index

Oct. 16-17, 2008 MAEA Conference 2008: Suzanne Rojas is the 2008 Conference Chair and has a great staff supporting her. Conference dates are Oct. 16-17 at the Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River in Bethel. There will be a Pre-Conference on College Transitions and possibly another topic. http://www.maineadulted.org/conferences.html

October 23 and Friday October 24, 2008.Maine Libraries Conference
The Maine Libraries Conference 2008 will be held at the Grand Summit Resort Hotel at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine.

October 23 - 24, 2008, MAMLE (Maine Association for Middle Level Education) Annual Conference, Sugarloaf, USA http://www.mamleonline.org/

Nov. 10, 2008 at Augusta Civic Center, Maine Council for Social Studies Annual Conference http://www.memun.org/MCSS/

December 2-4, 2008 Christa McAuliffe Technology Conference, Nashua, NH, http://www.nhcmtc.org/

Jan. 23-25 Educon 2.1, Philadelphia http://educon21.eventbrite.com/

April 3, 2009, Learning Disabilities Association of Maine's 2009 Annual Conference will be held in collaboration with Maine Transition Network/Committee on Transition (MTN/COT). TRANSITIONING to the POST-SECONDARY WORLD: LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, Grandeur Sun Banquet & Conference - Waterville, ME, http://www.ldame.org/events.html