MRVED Business

Call for MELT Presentations & Session Ideas

The MRVED is once again looking for people to present at the annual MELT conference in January.  The 2014 installment of the MELT will be held at Lac Qui Parle Valley High School on January 20.  This is a great day to showcase some of the great things you are doing in your classrooms.  Presenters will be paid a small stipend for their efforts.  If you are interested in providing a session, please click on the link below and fill out the form.  Filling out the form does not guarantee or bind you to providing a session.  If you don't want to present, but have great ideas for possible sessions, please click on the correct link below to provide the MRVED with your suggestions.

If you are willing to present and provide a session click HERE

If you do not want to present, but have ideas for sessions, click HERE

Agriculture Best Practice Meeting Update

The Agriculture instructors assembled on Thursday September 26 at K&M Manufacturing in Renville.  The group had the opportunity to tour the building, seeing new equipment and techniques.  They also had the chance to visit with management talking about the process as well as what skills are needed to succeed in this area.  Great conversation was had over lunch.  In the afternoon, Gail Polejewski met with the instructors to talk Perkins and the group shared resources and ideas for the rest of the afternoon.  Overall it was a great tour and another chance to get together and network.

Last Chance To Register for October 16 Common Day Activities
Registration will close on Wednesday, October 9 at 4:00 to participate in any of the professional development activities.  See the flyer for registration information.  Sessions being offered are:

Google Docs @ LQPV
Middle School Math Data Day @ MRVED
MCIS Training @ MVALC
Diversity Day @ Prairie's Edge Casino

October 16 Flyer Link

Meet Karen Jacobson

Karen Jacobson is the Director of the MRVED. Hired as Assistant Director in November 2001, Karen became the MRVED Director in July 2007. Prior to joining the MRVED, Karen worked as the Community Initiatives Director for the Southwest Minnesota Initiative Foundation, served as the Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coordinator for several area schools, and began her career as an Extension Educator in Chippewa County. She earned her Masters of Education from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, in 1990.

Karen and her husband, Steve, have two grown sons. Scott is a Mechanical Engineer for K & M Manufacturing in Renville and is married to Michelle who is the finance manager for Yellow Medicine County. Thomas is a registered nurse at the Chippewa County Montevideo Hospital. He is single. ;-) When not at work, Karen enjoys wine tasting, traveling, following football (Go Bears!), spending time with her new horse, and is a volunteer Pole Vault coach for the Montevideo Track and Field team.


Upcoming Meetings
October 4: Online Teachers
October 8: Title I Teachers
October 9: Music
October 10: Art
October 11: Title III Paraprofessionals