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Colleagues: I want to thank each of you for the personal and professional commitment you have made to our students in New Mexico. After my many years in New Mexico Public Schools ...

Colleagues: I am looking forward to our Summer Leadership Conference that will be happening in Albuquerque at the Embassy Suites from July 11-15. The Annual Scholarship Golf Tourn...

Carol Johnson is a bilingual educator and the creator of Renaissance English in a Flash—the breakthrough vocabulary-building so ft ware that helps struggling students learn the voc...

Alizé Carrère is a National Geographic Explorer, filmmaker, and PhD student researching and documenting human adaptations to environmental change. Raised in a house wrapped around ...

We know that many schools are currently going through leadership transition. Here is a guide for Announcing a New Superintendent in Your District. Use this to help strategically ...

Colleagues: As we approach the end of the 2021-2022 School Year, we can reflect on our resiliency and our “grit” as we have begun to return to “normal” practice. As I have visited...

NMCEL 2022 Summer Conference Registration Now Open!July 11 - 15, 2022Embassy Suites, Albuquerque, NM MEETING THE CHALLENGE WHILE LIGHTING THE FUTURE! Click Here to Register!

The 2022 Session of the New Mexico State Legislature has finished and important legislation for public schools in New Mexico has headed to the Governor’s desk. The general themes o...

Stan’s Straight TalkJanuary 2022 Colleagues: The New Mexico State Legislature has begun and will continue through February 17. To assist our communication with you regarding ...

These are the three budget recommendations for Public School Support as of 1/18/22

We’re thrilled to announce NMCEL’s new app! It's everything NMCEL- in your pocket. With the new app, you can access events, news updates, and more. Be sure to subscribe to push not...

November is a time of thanksgiving and a time when districts are looking forward to the Holidays. It is a time, now, when districts are anticipating the outcomes of their Board ele...

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Fall is arriving in our state and it marks the change of seasons that we often look forward to that includes the finish of local fairs, football, volleyball, and cross country seas...

Welcome back to another year of educating our children! You are each critical to the development of the future citizens of our state. In these continuing days of challenge, I appre...

Colleagues: Graduation, end-of-year activities, ELTP, K-5+, staffing, budget, planning for next year, board meetings, and more. This time of year is always busy but this year is...

As we move New Mexico Schools back to engage, face to face, for a majority of our students, I know that each of you is taking an active role in what that looks like in your distric...

Colleagues: The leadership of our public schools in New Mexico is one family and knitted together in many ways. Since the last Straight Talk, we have been reminded of that in se...

Colleagues: On behalf of the NMCEL/NMSSA membership, let me wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and Happy Holidays! As we take measure of this last year ...

Focusing on THANKFULNESS as a Leader Thankfulness is something that is hard to focus upon in a world of change and pressure such as we are experiencing today. I suggest that refle...