Learning that meets you where you are.

The MSA Virtual Learning Series is a new year-round opportunity for MSA members to access relevant professional learning, exchange ideas, and build relationships with colleagues across the magnet community.

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Each one-hour virtual session will combine useful information with opportunities to learn from and connect with peers who understand your work.

Organized around three role-specific pathways, the series makes it easier to find learning opportunities that reflect your responsibilities, challenges, and goals.

Whether you’re leading a magnet program, bringing learning to life in the classroom, or coordinating your school’s theme and programming, the Virtual Learning Series offers professional development connected to your role, responsibilities, and everyday challenges.

What To Expect

Each Virtual Learning Series session will offer:

  • Professional learning connected to a specific magnet role
  • Practical strategies and useful resources
  • Opportunities for peer discussion and networking
  • Ideas you can apply in your classroom, school, or district
  • One contact hour for participants who attend the entire live session

Meaningful Connections

Learn alongside peers who understand your work, exchange ideas, and build relationships with magnet professionals from across the country.

Practical Ideas

Leave each session with useful strategies, resources, and approaches you can apply in your classroom, school, or district.

Attend Live at No Cost

MSA members may attend the live sessions at no cost. To earn one contact hour, participants must attend the entire live session.

Find Your Learning Pathway

You are welcome to follow the pathway that most closely aligns with your role or participate in sessions across multiple pathways.

Leadership Learning

Designed for principals, district leaders, and other decision-makers guiding magnet programs and supporting meaningful change.

Explore ideas, strategies and tools that can help you strengthen programs, lead teams and advance the goals of magnet education.

2026–2027 Sessions:

The following Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. ET:

  • October 13
  • December 8
  • February 9 
  • March 16

Teacher Learning

Designed for educators looking for practical strategies, new ideas and meaningful connections with other magnet teachers.

Discover approaches you can apply in your classroom while learning from colleagues working across different themes, grade levels, and communities.

2026–2027 Sessions:

The following Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. ET:

  • November 10
  • January 12
  • February 23
  • March 30

Magnet/Theme Coordinator Learning

Designed for the professionals who help bring magnet themes, programs, and school identities to life.

Connect with peers and strengthen your work in program implementation, theme integration, collaboration, community engagement, and magnet identity.

2026–2027 Sessions:

The following Tuesdays at 4:00 p.m. ET:

  • December 1
  • January 26
  • March 9
  • April 13
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Upcoming Sessions

NOVEMBER

ChatGPT Isn’t Just for Marketing: Using AI to Inspire Innovation in the Classroom

Pathway: Teacher
Date and Time: Tuesday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. ET
Presenter: Dr. Holly Avdul, Magnet Coordinator, ArTES Magnet High School (Los Angeles Unified School District)

Magnet educators juggle rigorous, theme-aligned instruction with heavy planning and coordination demands. This session shows how ChatGPT can serve as a strategic partner, supporting differentiated instruction, formative assessments, and theme-aligned materials, while helping leaders with curriculum oversight, team facilitation, and data-informed professional growth, all without replacing human judgment.

Attendees will build guided AI prompting skills centered on data privacy, ethics, and instructional innovation, leaving with practical, ethical strategies to save planning time, foster collaboration, and deepen student-centered learning.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Use ChatGPT to support differentiated instruction, formative assessments and theme-aligned materials.
  • Develop effective AI prompts grounded in data privacy, ethics and professional judgment.
  • Apply AI tools to save planning time, strengthen collaboration and support student-centered learning.

Live attendance is free. Participants must attend the entire live session to earn one contact hour.

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DECEMBER

The 6 Ms: Learner-Responsive Instruction in Magnet Schools

Pathway: Magnet/Theme Coordinator
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 1 at 4:00 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Dr. Mary Conage, NIMSL consultant

How can educators help diverse learners effectively gather, process and apply theme-based academic content? This interactive session will introduce the 6 Ms framework: Meaning, Models, Monitoring with Feedback, the Mouth, Movement and Music.

Participants will identify key characteristics of learner-responsive instruction and examine how each element of the framework can support relevant, theme-based learning. They will also explore tools and resources for incorporating the 6 Ms into planning, instruction and assessment. Attendees will leave with practical ideas designed to affirm, inform and inspire their work with magnet school students each day.

What You’ll Learn:

  • Identify the key characteristics of learner-responsive instruction.
  • Explore how the 6 Ms framework supports relevant, theme-based learning for diverse students.
  • Incorporate the 6 Ms into planning, instruction and assessment using practical tools and resources.

Live attendance is free. Participants must attend the entire live session to earn one contact hour.

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Learn, Connect, and Grow with MSA

New topics, presenters, and registration opportunities will be added throughout the year. Check back regularly and watch MSA communications for the latest Virtual Learning Series announcements.

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