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- HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL, AND WHERE TO GO NEXT

- HAVE REALISTIC ACTION STEPS FOR PLANNING THE MOST COMMON UNITS WE ALL HAVE TO TEACH: FICTION, NONFICTION, POETRY, DRAMA, AND MORE

- HAVE READY-MADE ELA-SPECIFIC STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT STUDENT ENGAGEMENT ACROSS READING, WRITING, SPEAKING, AND LISTENING STRANDS

- HAVE THE BEHIND-THE-SCENES TIPS & TRICKS YOU'VE BEEN CRAVING SO YOU CAN RUN STATIONS, INTERVENTION, DIFFERENTIATION...AND STILL GO HOME EARLIER THIS YEAR THAN YOU HAVE IN THE PAST

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 throughout the most common reading and writing units we teach in the middle school grades: fiction, nonfiction, expository, argument, persuasion, poetry, and drama.

We're also dedicating an ENTIRE DAY to what to teach the first day, first week, and first month of the school year before we dive into the unit topics.

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

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 all year long 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 (and our high school teacher friends, too!) get

set up + organized for the entire year.

The 6th Annual MSELASummit is happening

TAKE A SNEAK PEAK at the 2024 TOPICS:

We're gathering speakers and setting the agenda, so more details are coming soon!

Instructional Strategies for Day 1, Week 1, and Beyond

Fiction Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Nonfiction / Expository Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Poetry & Drama Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Centers & Stations Workshops for Small Group Interventions

Plan & prioritize your classroom for small group interventions, differentiation, and classroom management all with student engagement + accountability at the forefront.

BY THE END OF THE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, YOU WILL -

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

TAKE A SNEAK PEAK at the 2024 TOPICS:

We're gathering speakers and setting the agenda, so more details are coming soon!

Instructional Strategies for Day 1, Week 1, and Beyond

Fiction Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Nonfiction / Expository Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Poetry & Drama Unit Planning Sessions

Includes reading, writing, vocabulary, engagement, comprehension analysis strategies, + favorite lessons and units

Centers & Stations Workshops for Small Group Interventions

Plan & prioritize your classroom for small group interventions, differentiation, and classroom management all with student engagement + accountability at the forefront.