REMC13 News and Events

The Merrow Report
Veteran NewsHour education reporter, John Merrow, investigates education’s headline-making issues, as well as those we don’t hear about. In these documentaries, Merrow skillfully and objectively captures the drama and tension of the many sides of educational issues within our schools. Everyone from administrators to parents will come to appreciate their role—and conflicting interests—in educational change.

First To Worst VH1762
Growing Up In the City, Part 1 VH1681
Growing Up In the City, Part 2: Discovering Race VH1682
Growing Up In the City, Part 3: Family Portraits VH1683
In the Spotlight: Linda Darling-Hammond On Teacher Training/ VH1716
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. On Higher Standards In Our Schools
Lost In Translation: Latinos, Schools, & Society VH1658
Making the Grade, Pt. 1-3: First Day of School/Learning the VH1736
Ropes/Frustration and Accomplishments
Promises of Preschool VH1758
Promises, Promises VH1655
Public Schools, Inc. VH1760
Saving the Arts VH1644
School Sleuth: Case of the Excellent School VH1705
Tale of Three Cities: Mayor, Minister, and the General VH1685
Teacher Shortage: False Alarm VH1684
Teachers Wanted: No Experience Necessary VH1757
Teaching: First Year VH1654
Testing Our Schools VH1745
Toughest Job In America VH1687
Way We See It: Youth Speak Out On Education VH1774
Young Scientists VH1756

New Michigan Merit Examination (MME) Material Available

Check the WebMax online booking system for the annotations and detailed information on the new material listed below:
Michigan Merit Examination (MME): Spring 2008 Preliminary Planning VH11210
Michigan Merit Examination (MME): Fall 2007 Overview VH11211
Michigan Merit Examination (MME): Special Populations Overview, DV00823
Fall 2007 and Spring 2008

If you created a LearnPort I.D. and password previously, you may access the new interface without
creating a new one. If you have forgotten your login and password, you can email the system to retrieve them. If you are a new user we have attached instructions for logging in and filling out your user profile.

School employees are provided up-to-date and flexible online professional development to help meet personal and district learning requirements. Michigan LearnPort provides high quality courses and content through a full set of web-based communication tools and offers full professional development record-keeping capabilities. Topics range from Bloodborne Pathogen training to training on differentiated instruction.

One of the most exciting tools to use in LearnPort is netTrekker d.i. This award-winning educational search engine brings the best of the web to K-12 students, teachers, librarians, and parents. netTrekker d.i. connects you and your students to more than 180,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites - organized by readability level and aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal for every student’s learning needs with safe, reliable results.

Filling out the user profile .pdf

Register for a LearnPort I.D.

The tutorials take you through the steps of creating all the “pieces” of a course such as creating and posting announcements, how to post materials to the site, how to use the discussion board, how to enroll students, how to change the design of the course, and much more. The videos are free. You just need to drop an email to nmanning@inghamisd.org and Nancy will send you a CD-ROM via REMC 13 courier.

The session is free and you can register at Ingham ISD’s registration site. The trainer from ProQuest will focus on SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Renaissance and Heritage Quest. Not only will you learn how to use the database, you will pick up helpful tips for using it with students and staff.