OMLA is an organization that strives to provide it's members (hint - hint: go to the membership page and join if you haven't already) with up-to-date information that will facilitate the change process towards becoming an age appropriate learning center for early adolescent students. Towards that end, the support pages are designed to help you find the program, expert, or other resource that you need to convince staff, community, or school board how best to change your school. This support has been divided into four sections.

Click on this button to go to our Annual Conference information. We update this page throughout the year with information and links to the venue, then a call for presenters, information about the presentations planned, registration information, a link to the conference evaluation, and finally any documents presented at the conference in which the attendees have shown an interest. Any such documents from past coferences can be found in our Publications section under Archives.

Click on this button to go to a data base of promising practices provided by other middle schools in the state of Oregon. Each year Oregon's middle schools are surveyed to find programs that have proven successful in raising student achievement during the middle school years. The data base developed from that survey is presented here.

Click on this button to go to a data base of people or programs in (or close to) Oregon that are seen as expert in middle school education.. These experts are categorized by middle school fields of endeavor (eg. curriculum, scheduling, teaming, etc.).

Click on this button to go to a page of links to other sources of ideas and expertise in middle school education.