Online Courses:

• Successful Strategies in Today's Classroom for Education Technicians

• Supervising, Evaluating, and Training Educational Technicians

Guided Independent Study: Lots of new course offerings!

• The Art of the Essay: Reading and Writing Essays in the Classroom

• Among the Notables—Sinclair Lewis: America’s First Nobel Laureate for Literature

• The Authentic Voice: The “Writing” Teacher

• “Away From It All”— Writers on the Wilderness of Maine

• Beyond “Charlotte’s Web”: E.B. White—the Man, the Writer

• For the Love of Reading: On Engaging Students with the Printed Page

• Give Them Roots and Wings: The Power of Story for Teaching and Learning

• Great American Writers: A Self-directed Study

• Helping You Help the Young Learner

• How Did We Get Here From There?—Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Issues in Schools

• “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”: The Imaginative Literature of Flannery O’Connor

• Looking at Ourselves in the Mirror: Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

• The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

• On Maine and the World: May Sarton—Her Work, Her Life

• Remembering Our Writers: Utilizing Maine Writers in the Classroom (K-12)

• So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians
  and Teachers (K-12)

• Successful Strategies in Today's Classroom for Education Technicians

• Teaching: A Novel Approach

• Their Voices Were Not Silent—Women Writers from Maine

• Whatever Happened to Childhood?—On Growing Up in Today’s World

Aroostock County

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

July 14-18

Augusta:

New! Beyond Words: Teachers as Critical Readers

October 3/4 & November 7/8

Bangor:

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

June 6-7 and June 27-28

September 19/20 & October 24/25

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians and Teachers (K-12)

July 7 - July 11

Maine History Highlights (K-12)

August 4-8

New! The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

September 14, October 19, November 16, and December 14. The four-part, Sunday sessions will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM.

New! On Resistance to Reading & Democracy: Literary Perspectives

June 29, July 20, August 17, and September 21. These sessions will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM.

Bath:

Biddeford:

Brunswick:

Maine History Highlights (K-12)

Behavior Management

May 2nd & 3rd May 16 & 17

June 23 -28

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

May 6, 8, 10, 13, 15 (4:30 to 8:30 and Saturdays 9:00 to 1:00)

Caribou:

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians and Teachers (K-12)

August 4-8

Ellsworth:

New! Successful Strategies in Today's Classroom for Educational Technicians

Aug.  25 - Aug. 29

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

August 11-15

Teaching: A Novel Approach

October 17/18 & November 14/15, 2008

Gardiner

Lewiston/Auburn

New! On Resistance to Reading & Democracy: Literary Perspectives

October 5, November 9, December 7, and January 11, 2009.

New! The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

January 11, January 18, February 13-14, 2009, 9 AM to 5 PM. and February 13-14, Friday, 4 PM to 9 PM and Saturday, 9 AM to 5PM

So All May Learn: Behavior Management Strategies for Educational Technicians and Teachers (K-12)

November 21/22 and January 9/10 2009

Nobleboro

Pittsfield

Portland

Creating Writers out of Students who Don't Like to Write

August 18-22, 9 am to 5 pm

What's New in Children's Literature: A Writer’s Workshop

July 21-25, 9 am-5 pm

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

July 21 - July 25

New! The Long and the Short of It: Teaching—through the Short Story

July 28 through August 1. These daily sessions will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM.

New! On Resistance to Reading & Democracy: Literary Perspectives

July 27, August 24, September 28, and October 26. These sessions will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM.

New! Looking at Ourselves in the Mirror: Teachers as Reflective Practitioners

Sunday, May 4th, 9 AM to 5 PM
May 16-17 and June 20-21

August 18-22

New! Beyond Words: Teachers as Critical Readers

April 18-19 and May 30-31

Remembering Our Writers—Using Maine Writers in the K-12 Classroom

May 9-10 and June 13/14

August 1/2 & September 5/6

December 5-6 and January 16-17, 2009

A Passion for Teaching: A Retreat for Educators

August 15/16 and December 12/13

Saco

Teaching the Exceptional Child in the Regular Classroom (K-12)

May 20, 22, 24, 27, 29 (4:30 to 8:30 and Saturdays 9:00 to 1:00)

Winslow