National Middle School Association
Welcome to the OMLA website. It is the purpose of our organization to provide you, the middle school educator, with information that is relevant, useful, and motivational. We believe that educators, whether they be teachers, instructional aides, or administrators benefit from a network of colleagues helping one another through the constant process of making our middle schools centers for early adolescent learning. This requires curriculum, instruction, organization, and a school climate that are conducive to the needs of the early adolescent..
This website will help you...
- Understand the mission, leadership, and organizational structure of the OMLA
- Join and/or network with members of the OMLA
- Find information to help your school implement effective strategies for the early adolescent
- Read publications of the OMLA
What's
New?
| OMLA Needs Your Input for Refocusing Efforts | The OMLA Board is spending time this year concentrating on the manner in which we accomplish our mission - to facilitate the implementation of effecive educational practice for the early adolescents of Oregon. To that end, we need your input. Please give us five to ten minutes of your time to answer a few questions. This will help immensely in meeting your needs. Please click HERE to take our short survey. |
| Middle Level Toolkit | Last winter and spring a group of middle level educators from ODE, COSA, and the OMLA worked together to develop a Middle Level Toolkit designed to help middle schools prepare for the new, more rigorous, high school graduation requirements. It is now posted on the ODE website. Check it out. It has links to many research proven, widely supported school and classroom based strategies for improving the achievement of middle level students. |
| Nominate Colleagues for OMLA Awards | OMLA will again be recognizing middle level advocates and practitioners from around Oregon with it's Putnam and Pence Awards. If you know of a person deserving recognition for their contributions to students in grades 5 through 8, click HERE to go to our Awards Page to learn more and nominate someone. We promise that the whole process will take you no more than 15 minutes! |
| Schools to Watch Program | Oregon has been selected by National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform as a Schools to Watch State. Click HERE to go to our links page for links to the National Forum for Middle-Grades Reform and the Confederation of Oregon School Administrator's page with information about Oregon's program and an application. |
| Get Involved in Helping OMLA | Click HERE to jump to a page that suggests several things you can do to help OMLA help the middle schools of Oregon. For example, from this page you can offer Promising Practices for our support area, propose conference sessions for our annual conference, volunteer to serve on our board, etc. |
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