Collaboration in the Middle: Middle Grades to Higher Education Promoting, Advocating, Igniting Support for Middle Schools

On May 17-18, 2018, approximately fifty educators from 6 states convened for the Southeastern Professors of Middle Education Symposium with the goal of promoting collaborative efforts among state level POMLEs to advocate for Middle Level Education. Professors and Middle Level Education Leaders from across the Southeast joined with preservice educators and graduate students. From pre-service to long-term service, the variety provided lots of opportunities to learn from each other. Over the year prior, middle level education professors in the southeast organized the fifth Southeast Professors of Middle Level Education (POMLE) event.