NMSA2011 Luncheons
Principals' Luncheon
Friday, November 11, 2011
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Tickets - $40
Sponsored by
Featuring Rick Wormeli
Join principals, assistant principals, and middle grades leaders to reflect on the past and strive for a better future while enjoying the camaraderie unique to middle level leaders.
Middle Level Essentials: Cultivating Creativity and Heightening Humor
In our stressful education climate, teachers are often told what to do instead of encouraged to think divergently and color outside the lines. To be successful, however, teachers’ exhausted imaginations need compelling catalysts for rich thinking. Join us for a provocative look at how to boost teacher effectiveness through building creative capacity and welcoming humor in the daily classroom. Asynchronous cogitation and moderate euphoria expected.
Teachers' Luncheon
Friday, November 11, 2011
11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Tickets - $40
Sponsored by
Featuring Jack Berckemeyer
Gather with middle grades teachers to learn, laugh, share, and celebrate your contributions to middle level education.
Middle Level Education—Living It, Loving It, Laughing About It
Looking to put a spark back into your teaching? Are you curious what really makes your students tick? Looking for ways to connect with your students? This laugh out loud keynote provides ideas and strategies in the areas of connecting with your students, being an adult advocate for kids, and new strategies in the area of classroom management. A true crowd pleaser for any type of educator.
Jack Berckemeyer
A nationally-recognized presenter, author, and humorist, Jack Berckemeyer, began his career as a middle school teacher in Denver, Colorado. After two years of teaching he was named as an outstanding educator at his school, and shortly thereafter, he was identified as one of the outstanding educators in the district. In 2003, he received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the Falcon School District. He brings his energy, humor, and expertise of the middle level adolescent to all staff development as he helps teachers and administrators remember why this job makes a difference. Berckemeyer has presented in conference and school district settings, both nationally and internationally. He served as a judge for the Disney American Teacher Awards and the selection committee for the USA TODAY All Teacher Team.
Berckemeyer is known for his motivating, practical ideas communicating a message of hope, laughter, and insight to the nature of the young adolescent.
Berckemeyer was also assistant executive director for the National Middle School Association for 13 years and is the author of Managing the Madness— A practical guide to Middle Grades Classrooms. He is also the co-author of H.E.L.P. for Teachers.
Berckemeyer is currently the director of professional development for Incentive Publications. He works with schools all over the world and coordinates the NUTS and BOLTS Symposiums located in Destin, Florida, and Boulder, Colorado.
He lives in Denver, Colorado and has no pets or plants.