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MEAP Can Produce Test Anxiety

It's October and middle level administrators are getting ready for the MEAP assessments that will take place during this month. A recent Marshall Memo gives some pointers for dealing with test preparation and test anxiety. The Marshall Memo is an MASSP membership benefit...click to read more.

Recent News

Latest Budget Information

Linkage Reports are still Free for Members

NASSP Advocacy Update

Promise Scholarship Advocacy - Updated

Principals Questions of the Week

Portal to Portal Policy

If you have had your MS changed from teaching 5 of 7 to some other configuration in the past five years, could I call you?

Tweets of the Week

MEAOnline: RT @BarbByrum: Sad day for our kids. School Aid Budget (HB 4447 CR-2) passed. 66-42 Per pupil funding will be cut $165.

joejocee: MEAP tests have arrived and staff is ready. Let's hope students work to their potential and show our community that CVS is still on top.

SalinePrincipal: RT@Power has been restored at Saline High School and Harvest Elementary!

HornetPrincipal: RT @TeamCScience: Fire Drill Award goes to AWESOME SECTION 4!!! You were the BEST EVER! Drill number 2...safety here at the MS

PrinRipmaster: http://znl.me/53SXY AP Bio students investigate relationship b/t physiology of humans and beetles specific to mass and strength to pull.

Look Who Blogged This Week

Another Great Conference - (Butch Yurk)

Upcoming Events

October 21, 2009, The Legal Aspects of Teacher Evaluation with Lisa Swem, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

October 28, 2009, Flexible Scheduling Options for Secondary Schools, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

November 1-3, 2009, Assistant Principals' Fall Conference, Crystal Mountain Resort, Thompsonville, MI

November 9, 16, 23, 2009, Flexible Scheduling Webinar Series, Online

November 13, 2009, Classroom Discipline: Establishing Respect and Responsibility, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

December 15, 2009, Credit Recovery Summit II: Math Solutions, Lansing, MI

February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2010, Tuesdays in the Middle Webinar Series, Online

February 24, 2010, Classroom Discipline: Establishing Respect and Responsibility, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

March 6, 2010, Principal Contracts and Negotiations Seminar, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

March 12-14, 2010, NASSP Annual Convention & Exposition, Phoenix, AZ

March 24, 2010, Are You Sure They're Telling the Truth? Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

April 28, 2010, MASSP Spring Law Update, MELG Building, Lansing, MI

June, 2010, Summer Retreat, Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island, MI

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