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Ongoing professional development has never been more critical. No matter the grade configuration of your school, if your work touches the lives of young people between the ages of 10 and 15, the NMSA Annual Conference & Exhibit is for you. Join more than 8,000 of your peers to share the most current knowledge, research, expertise, and ideas in middle level education. NMSA08 will be an experience that will take you above and beyond.

Conference News and Headlines

Conference sessions are now online
Hundreds of sessions cover more than 40 topic areas. View sessions by job category, subject, or presenter.

NBC's special report on NMSA's Annual Conference
This report by KPRC in Houston, will give attendees an excellent preview of what to expect at this year's annual conference.

Interactive conference blog
Follow this blog and post your comments from now until we arrive at the NMSA Annual Conference in Fall 2008. It will contain information and insights into all aspects of the Denver conference.

National middle grades research project
The Middle Level Education Research SIG invites you to join an exciting, challenging, and timely research endeavor—the National Planning Time Project.

Check out the student perspective from NMSA07
The Conference Insider is a daily Web newsletter written by middle level students attending the conference. Read what students had to say at the 2007 conference.

Keynote Speakers

Jim Collins
Author of Good to Great

Marlee Matlin

Alan November

35th Annual Conference & Exhibit

October 30-November 1, 2008Colorado Convention Center • Denver, Colorado

Plan now to attend the largest and most comprehensive middle level professional development opportunity in the world!

October 30-November 1, 2008
Colorado Convention Center • Denver, Colorado