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MAIN Event

  • October 17, 2013
  • 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Groveland Elementary, Minnetonka
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Registration

  • If you are an individual member or your school is an institutional member of MAIN, you may attend the MAIN Event free of charge.

    Current member schools:

    •Academia de Español Vista Clara/Clearview Elementary
    •Adams Spanish Immersion
    •Anwatin Middle School
    •Bilingual Childcare and Education Center
    •Central Middle School
    •Clear Springs Elementary
    •Eagle Heights Spanish Immersion
    •Emerson Spanish Immersion
    •Excelsior Elementary
    •Groveland Elementary
    •Guang Ming Academy
    •International Spanish Language Academy
    •Joyce Preschool
    •Lakes International Language Academy
    •L'Etoile du Nord French Immersion
    •Lino Lakes Elementary
    •Minnetonka Middle School
    •Minnewashta Elementary School
    •Normandale French Immersion
    •Nuevas Fronteras
    •Park Spanish Immersion
    •Phalen Lake Hmong Studies
    •Pierre Bottineau French Immersion
    •Richfield Dual Language School
    •Risen Christ
    •Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion
    •Spring Lake Park Spanish Immersion
    •Twin Cities German Immersion
    •Wellstone Elementary
    •Windom Dual Immersion School
    •XinXing Academy
    •Yinghua Academy
  • Become a member for $55. Members may register for the October MAIN event and a follow-up meeting in the winter free of charge. Click on the Membership link in the left margin.

Registration is closed

The annual fall MAIN Event will be held in the Learning Commons at Groveland Elementary School (Spanish immersion) in Minnetonka, 17310 Minnetonka Boulevard.

The morning will include a welcome gathering with a chance to see two new videos about immersion education in Minnesota, break-out sessions on a variety of immersion topics for preschool, primary, and intermediate educators as well as administrators, and a grade level networking session. 

Agenda

8:30-9:00 Check-in, coffee and social hour

9:00-9:30 Welcome and videos from MAIN and CARLA

9:45-10:45 Break out sessions (more coming)

  • Sharing Our Model: Joyce Preschool's Bilingual Curriculum
  • How Can I Get Them Speaking? Authentic Language Opportunities for the Immersion Classroom (1-3)
  • Making Spanish Real (K-4, applicable to other L2)
  • Spanish Immersion Language in Math (3-7)
  • Musical Math (3-8)
  • Integrating Technology: SmartBoards, iPads, USB Microphones (elementary)
  • Active Chinese Learning: Games, Songs, Smartboard Ideas (elementary)
  • Sequential Approach to Teaching Reading in Chinese Immersion (elementary)
  • Staffing Immersion Schools: What Can MAIN Do? (administrators)
  • Facilitating Collaboration in Two-Way Immersion Classrooms (current research)
  • Corrective Feedback (current research)

11:00-12:00 Grade-level networking with facilitators from Minnetonka immersion programs

Deadline for registration is Monday, October 14, 2013.








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