Contents

Letter from PMSA President,                        4

Nick Perry

 

Letter from PMSA Executive Director,            5

Len Ference

 

PMSA Regional Information                           8-9

 

Lesson Learned from Nickel Mines                10-11

InnerLink’s Rod Schoening and Mark Vogel

 

Jack Gantos: An Interview and                     12-13

Book Review with the Author of

“The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs”

Shellie Hipsky

                                                                          

 

 

 

PMSA State President

Nick Perry

Center Area School District

 

PMSA Executive Director

Len Ference

Mechanicsburg Middle School

 

PMSA Newsletter Editor

Anneliese Ledebur

Titusville Middle School

415 Water Street

Titusville, Pennsylvania  16354

phone - 814-827-2715

fax - 814-827-1275

aledebur@gorockets.org

 

 

The mission of the Pennsylvania Middle School Association is to promote best practices for middle level education.

 

The PMSA Newsletter is published four times each year.  Issues are delivered to all PMSA member schools in October, January, March, and May.   It is created using Microsoft Office Publisher 2003.

 

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