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Montana Indian Education Association (MIEA) - We are presenting!


  • Holiday Inn Downtown Missoula 200 S Pattee St Missoula, MT, 59802 (map)

We are presenting!

Brightways Learning’s Education Director, Lisa Kerscher, will be presenting at the Montana Indian Education Association on April 17th and April 19th.

April 17, 2024

Whole-Child Resilience: It DOES Take a Village

2:30-3:45 PM & 4:00-5:15 PM

April 19, 2024

Shifting Focus on Bullying Behavior: A Wholistic Approach

10:00-11:15 AM & 1:30-2:45 PM

Kersch co-coordinates, facilitates collaboration, and implements our Professional Development trainings and other opportunities related to our software products, educational projects, and supporting services. Joining our team in 2005, she also helps design our software applications and serves as our lead trainer, providing both group and one-on-one PD virtually and on-site. With an M.A. in Journalism and B.S. in Wildlife Biology, she has been doing online and print journalism, design work, and software development and training since 1998, specializing in educational, news, and interactive media most commonly related to science. As a consultant, she wrote content distributed to about a dozen Newspapers in Education programs nationwide and also co-developed many of the hands-on and interactive components of the original STEMscopes middle and high school Life Sciences curriculum. Most recently, she developed NGSS Middle School Life Sciences PD curriculum for the Kansas City Teacher Residency program. Kersch loves traveling and immersing herself in local cultures and communities, appreciating the nuances of humanity and different ecological regions.

Registration is still open for the Montana Indian Education Association. Go to https://www.mtiea.org/ to learn more and to register today!