NMSA08

  • Gray Matters

    From the outside it sounds facetious, “teaching to the brain.” Of course you teach to the brain. Teaching is expression: the telling. Learning is cognition: the synthesizing of what is being heard. Teri Cox’s presentation on the “middle school mind” at the 2008 National Middle School Association conference left a lasting impression on me. It

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  • Text Drive

    Among the more interesting workshop topics at this year’s National Middle School Association conference was text messaging as an educational tool. The workshop was called: If You Can’t Beat ’em… Staying true to the title of his workshop, presenter Tom Bronson asserted that currently banned or discouraged student behavior of sending text messages during class

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  • NMSA Great in 08

    I spent the week in Denver at the 35th Annual National Middle School Association (NMSA) Conference. As one of the banners at Denver International stated: “300 Days of Sun.” I was there for three. When it was first decided I would go, I was excited about hearing Jim Collins (of Good to Great greatness) speak.

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