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- HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR FINALLY STARTING WITH (OR VASTLY IMPROVING) THE READING AND WRITING WORKSHOP MODEL YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY

- HAVE REALISTIC ACTION STEPS FOR MAKING MIDDLE SCHOOL ELA FUN AGAIN THROUGH CREATIVE, UNIQUE, OUTSIDE-THE-BOX LESSON IDEAS FOR MAXIMUM ENGAGEMENT

- HAVE READY-MADE ELA-SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT THE NEEDIEST STUDENTS, MEETING THEM WHERE THEY ARE IN A WAY THAT IS REALISTIC + SUSTAINABLE ALL YEAR,

- HAVE THE TEACHER SUPPORT YOU WANT SO YOU CAN BATCH LESSON PLANNING, OWN YOUR GRADING, AND ALL THE TIME-SAVING HACKS IN BETWEEN

What is the MSELASummit?

The MSELASummit is a back-to-school virtual conference hosted each summer by Laura Kebart, M.Ed. and that features interviews and trainings with experienced teachers who believe in achieving an actual harmony between teaching and living.

This year's BIG FOCUS is on show-n-tell strategies for increasing student engagement through creativity, collaboration, workshop model instruction, and support / intervention.

Each day of the MSELA Summit is organized by topic so you can pick and choose which day(s) you wish to attend so you can prioritize your needs as a teacher. You can attend one session, one day, or all sessions all the days!

The topics, ideas, freebies, and action steps you will learn over these five days are all designed to help you get organized, set up your classroom, and engage your middle school ELA students in a realistic way that allows you to enjoy life outside the classroom.

⭐️By the end of the event, you'll know what you're doing this coming school year⭐️

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the MSELA Summit for? The MSELA Summit is designed for an audience of both new AND experienced Middle School ELA Teachers. These are reading and writing (English / Language Arts) teachers who desire actionable, realistic strategies and ideas to implement not just at the beginning of the school year, but all year long!

As Middle School ELA teachers, we have our own special needs that other content areas or grade levels just don't deal with. No one person has all the answers, but pulling together an incredible team of teachers from all over the country with a diverse amount of experiences, knowledge, and backgrounds, will provide the BEST professional opportunity to learn and implement new strategies that grow your students while helping you teach and live with joy this year.

If you are ready to start your teaching journey (or if you've been at this a while and need to restart with a fresh perspective from teacher experts who GET IT), then this virtual conference is perfect for you!

Does it include a Professional Development (PD) certificate? With your All-Access Pass, you get 30+ hours of PD certificates to serve as a record of your time. This is a fantastic way to not only learn what you personally want to learn as you start prepping for the new school year, but also to serve as documentation that you can add to your continuing education files!

What if I have plans, appointments, or if I just can't view all the sessions at once? You have 24/7/365 access to the sessions until July 2023. You can watch at your own pace and you can re-watch your favorites (so helpful when you see something in July or August but you don't want to implement it in your class until March--you can re-watch as much as you wish!). Plus, with the All-Access Pass, you get dozens of classroom resources to use all throughout the year on top of the other MSELA Summit bonuses.

Being a Middle School ELA teacher has its own special needs that other content areas just don't deal with. No one person has all the answers, but pulling together an incredible team of teachers from all over the country with diverse experiences, knowledge, and backgrounds will provide the BEST professional opportunity to learn, ask questions, and implement new strategies that grow your students while helping you teach and live with joy this year.

Through my members-only Lesson Plan Community, I provide middle school ELA teachers with bell-to-bell lesson plans & curriculum every day, all year long, for 6th, 7th, & 8th grade so they can teach with joy while living an actual life outside the classroom.

The back-to-school virtual event that helps Middle School ELA Teachers get

set up + organized for the entire year.

The 5th Annual MSELASummit is happening

DAY 1: All Things Reading!

Building Better Book Clubs

4 Powerful Ways to Use Graphic Organizers Better

Book Club How-To's and Setup

The Science of Reading and How to Create Text Sets

Independent Reading & Choice Novels

DAY 2: All Things Writing!

Writing Workshop Strategies: Setting Up + Getting Started

Writing Workshop: Advanced Tips for Success

Writing Interventions: The Leveled Writing Lab

Graphic Organizers + Feedback for Student Writers

Step-by-Step Paragraphs: A Writing Framework

How to Write a Literary Response Paragraph

DAY 3:

Topics Unique to Middle School ELA

ChatGPT & AI

Successful Student Project Organization

How to Create a Back-to-School Social Contract with the Socratic Seminar Method

Serialized Stories for Year-Long Engagement

Canva in the Classroom for Student Projects

Choice Boards for ELA/R

DAY 4:

Student Support Topics

Simple Strategies to Manage Classroom Behaviors

Teaching Literary Elements to ELL Students

Parent Communication Support

Accommodations vs. Modifications in ELA Classes

Motivation & Engagement

Small Group Instructional Strategies

DAY 5:

Teacher Support Topics

Batch Planning + Lesson Plan Organization

Sources for Finding Non-Text Passages

Socratic Seminar Strategies

Google Classroom Grading Hacks

Canva in the Classroom for Teachers

Differentiation the Easy Way

BY THE END OF THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, YOU WILL -

Hi! I'm your summit host, Laura Kebart, M.Ed.