Dr. Tracy Smith Coaching and Consulting

The Association for Middle Level Education Conference will be held in Nashville, TN, on November 6-8, 2014. I am very excited to be co-hosting a World Cafe Conversation with Nancy Doda during the conference. The session, titled, Leveraging the Legacy: Reigniting Commitment to Middle School Ideals, will be held Thursday, November 6, from 2:30-3:45 p.m. in Presidential Ballroom A. John Lounsbury will be providing opening remarks to the session. Nancy Doda and Tracy Smith will provide a description of the World Cafe process, which participants can take back to their schools and districts to engage students, teachers, parents, administrators, and community members in courageous conversations about middle level education. Patti Kinney, Howard Johnston, Mark Springer, Edward Brazee, and Paul George will serve as table hosts in the World Cafe conversation. To open the session, we will have a presentation of inspirational quotations ( Legacy Project Slides) from middle grades founders and prominent teachers. We will also have some slides that provide information about the World Cafe Process (Leveraging the Legacy_2014).