Welcome to McMEL!

The Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning works to bring quality information to educators on teaching and learning practices that engage learners in meaningful learning.

Districts and schools are struggling with daunting challenges:

• They wrestle with trying to reach students who aren’t interested in learning, often trying to find ways to deal with the subsequent discipline issues or with trying to meet the diverse needs of students at various levels of achievement and ability.  
• They grapple with families who remove their children from public school to attend private and charter schools with more appealing educational programs.  
• They make an effort to prepare a modern work force that will attract business to the area and improve the local economy.

One answer to each of these challenges is to create a meaningful and engaging learning environment and educational program. 

McMEL takes on the critical step of identifying quality examples of motivating, engaging learning in classrooms and schools, and sharing resources and tools.

McMEL is a project of

The Universtiy of Maine at Farmington