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=MAME= Welcome to the **Manitoba Association of Multi-Age Educators (MAME)** online resource. MAME is a Special Area Group (SAG) of the [|Manitoba Teachers' Society]. ( Link opens new page) Our goal is to provide leadership in multi-age education and facilitate networking, professional learning opportunities, and communication among educators.
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 * SAG Conference [|MAME brochure]
 * Winter professional learning opportunities (link to PL page - more info coming soon)
 * Recommended PL Opportunity: Teaching in the Multi-grade/Multi-level Classroom - Brandon University/MECY - Summer Institute 2009 - Click here to see brochure (I currently have this as a .pdf that we can upload.)

**Message from the Chairperson**
As the school year begins to wind down, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of our Executive for their dedication and commitment to MAME. Since our establishment in April 2007 we have accomplished a lot…from two very successful SAG Conferences, in which we doubled our attendance from the first year to the next, to three exciting winter/spring PD sessions. We have been able to provide members with many opportunities to collaborate, inquire and network in the area of multi-age teaching and learning. A job well done!

We were very happy to have Lori Jamison with us on February 27, 2009 for our second winter PD session. She shared her knowledge and experience in a session entitled __Managing Multi-age Learning with Writing Workshop__. All those in attendance enjoyed learning some strategies and tools to help young writers blossom. Her book, __Marvelous Mini-lessons for Teaching Beginning Writing__, was even available for purchase.

In recent weeks, we have been working on developing a MAME website. We hope to have it up and running early in the Fall. We will keep you posted on this!

We hope you continue to support MAME by renewing your membership with us! MTS will be sending out renewal notices this summer!

Sincerely, Kathy Klenk MAME, Chair kklenk@mts.net