• MI-LIFE Cohort 2
  The application process is now open for administrators to apply for the second cohort of the MI-LIFE, Michigan Leadership Improvement Framework Endorsement, Program which will begin in September 2008 and continue through August 2009 at eight different locations around the state.  
     
  CLICK HERE for application information.  If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jan at 517-694-7158 or jkesel@mi-life.org.

MI-LIFE is a professional learning program for Michigan Educational Administrators that is stimulating, inspiring and challenging and will cause educational leaders to confront and question their current assumptions about administering, teaching and learning. As Gary Stager, Editor-At-Large for District Administration Magazine and Editor of the newly created Pulse Blog states, "People in the knowledge business need to be engaged in an ongoing process of knowledge sharing, personal reflection and growth."  The MI-LIFE program will provide such an opportunity. 

Based on the Michigan School Improvement Framework and aligned with the Balanced Leadership work of Robert Marzano, Tim Waters, and Brian McNulty, the MI-LIFE curriculum will provide technology-rich courses that, when successfully completed, will earn administrators a MI-LIFE endorsement and State Board Continuing Education Units (SB-CEU's.)

The MI-LIFE program is funded through a grant from the Microsoft Partners in Learning Program to the Michigan Department of Education.  The program leadership team is comprised of the same educators who led the successful Gates LEADing the Future program with the addition of other state-wide educational leaders. 

Oversight to the program is provided by an Executive Committee comprised of representatives from the Michigan Department of Education, Microsoft Corporation, the Executive Directors of the professional administrator associations in Michigan, and representatives from other professional educational associations.

The courses in the MI-LIFE curriculum have been developed by a core faculty comprised of Michigan educators who have had practical experience in the "real" world of educational administration and understand the day-to-day workings of schools.  While the courses are research based, they are practical and applicable to the busy administrator's daily life.

Be sure to visit the MI-Leader Blog http://blog.mi-life.org where you will find issues of interest and commentaries and where you can have your own voice on the Web by commenting on the postings that appear.