Mike’s Experience
- Board of Trustees of the Association for Middle Level Education – AMLE (Past President)
- Board of Directors of the Maine Association for Middle Level Education – MAMLE (Past President)
- Maine Commission on Middle Level Education
- National Middle School Association’s Research Advisory Board (now AMLE’s Research Advisory Board)
- Numerous workshops & articles
- Authored: several NMSA Research Summaries; Middle Grades Education: Fundamentals and Research project
- Maine Middle School Educator of the Year 1998.
- Doctoral dissertation: What Motivates Underachiving Middle School Students?
- Focus on 6 High-Impact Motivation Strategies
- (student motivation work that evolved from my dissertation)
Some of Mike’s Writing on the Topic
- What Motivates Underachieving Students? (Middle School Journal, Nov. 2001)
- Webinar: Motivating Underachieving Students in the Middle Grades
- Focus on 6 High-Impact Motivation Strategies
- Let’s Put the “Middle” Back in Middle Level
- Is Middle School All About Grade Configuration?
- Some Students Need More Than Direct Instruction
- Advantages of a Plain English Instructional Model
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