NMSA in Action

What's Happening

Explore Student Motivation, Literacy, Formative Assessment, and Advisory with five authoritative voices in middle level education.

Register today at www.nmsa.org/calgary

2009 Institute for Middle Level Leadership
July 12–15, 2009
Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Tamaya

July 19–22, 2009
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Ritz Carlton

Enjoy interactive classroom sessions, discussions, peer-facilitated learning, and opportunities to address topics that matter to you!

Register today at www.nmsa.org/leadership

NMSA09 - 36th Annual Conference & Exhibit
November 5–7, 2009
Indianapolis, Indiana

Plan now to learn, share, and connect at NMSA09—the largest and most comprehensive middle level professional development opportunity in the world!

Visit www.nmsa.org/annual for more information.

From the Editor

I want to offer personal thanks for the unique networking with Mary Ann Bash, Ginger Wilkins, Karen Erb, and Tom Bloch, which inspired me in composing my last "The Editor Reflects." Next September, please welcome the fresh ideas and talents of David Virtue as your new editor. To Tom Gatewood, Ron Maertens, John Lounsbury, and Tom Dickinson, the editors who preceded me, I hope I have kept alive this flame, Middle School Journal, that you birthed and nurtured so well.