2016 Annual Conference

The 2016 MREA Annual Conference will focus on “Making Teaching Matter” with National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling presenting the keynote on Reclaiming the Value of Education.

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Join us at the MREA Annual Conference

Making Teaching Matter

November 13-15, 2016

Cragun’s Resort, Brainerd, MN

Why “Making Teaching Matter”?

Expectations for today’s professional teachers have redesigned teaching and made it a more demanding profession. Research continues to demonstrate that great teaching is more important than ever to student achievement.

How, then, do we recruit, train, and retain the teachers we need to prepare the World’s Best Workforce? How do we better support and communicate the value of the teaching profession? This is an essential question for the next decade in Minnesota and across the nation. Check out MREA’s Minnesota Teacher Crisis Report.

What’s Ahead at the Conference?

The MREA Annual Conference will bring together more than 300 rural education leaders and advocates to connect practices, resources, policies, and research in re-imagining the teaching profession and education today, community collaborations, and technology trends. View the Conference Schedule.

Here is what you can look forward to:

• Opening Keynote Session by Sarah Brown Wessling
• Over 30 breakout sessions
• Ample opportunities to connect and network with friends, peers and experts from across the state
• Closing presentation by Kayla Delzer
• Presentation of the inaugural MREA Educators of Excellence Awards
• Presentation of the 2016 Profiles of Excellence Awards
• Presentation of the Distinguished Service Award
• Legislative updates on how political realities will impact education in Greater Minnesota
• Gallery Walk vendor fair featuring 35 resource partners ready to showcase best practices
• Prize drawings for your school or organization

Learn more.

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