Middle grades faculty represent at AMLE Conference
Georgia Southern University middle grades program faculty took part in the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) virtual conference, which took place November 4-7. Shelli Casler-Failing, Ph.D., Betsy Barrow, Ph.D., Amanda Glaze-Crampes, Ph.D., and Taylor Norman, Ph.D., presented “The Struggle is Real: Creating Productive Struggle in All Content Areas.” Amanda Wall, Ph.D., took part in one panel sponsored by AMLE’s Professional Preparation Advisory Committee and another panel sponsored by AMLE’s Research Advisory Committee. Wall, Barrow, Norman, Casler-Failing, and Regina McCurdy, Ph.D., shared “Large Scale, Small Feel: Revising a Middle Grades Program” at the Best Practices roundtable sponsored by the National Association of Professors of Middle Level Education. At the Middle Level Education Research roundtable, Casler-Failing presented her research on un-grading, and Wall presented her research on a shadow study assignment.
The mission of AMLE is to help “middle school educators reach every student, grow professionally, and create great schools.”
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