Fall Conference

MIPA Consultations

Bring a MIPA expert into your classroom live via video conference for a consultation on a specific topic or issue. MIPA will arrange session for your staff with one of our expert speakers based on your schedule, availability of our speakers and your desired content. Most sessions last 45-60 minutes and can be held during or after school. Consultation options include exclusive coaching sessions with only your students and non-exclusive seminar, roundtable or discussion sessions that include participants from other schools.

Request a MIPA Consultation

• MIPA matches your needs and schedule with our list of experts. Use our consultation request form to tell us your desired topic and preferred schedule. You may request multiple consultation sessions, but we give priority to programs arranging their first consultation. Some of our speakers have specific sessions they can present, while others can create a custom session to meet your needs.
• Sessions may be exclusive with students at your school or may, depending on the topic and time, include students from other schools.
• MIPA will invoice you for a consultation only after we’ve scheduled you with a speaker.
• Programs that also sign up for access to our MIPA Explorer On-Demand Library can save $10 off their first consultation.
• The consultation fee includes access for all of the students in your class or on your program’s staff.
• The adviser or another adult should be present for all consultations.
• Cancellations & Refunds: Requests for refunds or cancellations must be received five days in advance to avoid a charge.
• Some seminar-style sessions may be recorded and added to the MIPA Explorer On-Demand Library.

Lead a MIPA Consultation Session

We want you to lead a session with our students! MIPA Consultations can include coaching or critique sessions, Q&As about specific topics in your area of expertise and/or how-to sessions. We welcome scholastic and collegiate educators, journalists, media professionals and others with expertise in media-related topics. We’ll match your expertise and schedule with the needs of our member programs.

• Sign up to be a MIPA Consultation speaker

MIPA Explorer On-Demand Library

Explore journalism and media production from wherever you are, whenever you want, with the MIPA Explorer On-Demand Library. We’ve assembled more than 160 pre-recorded lessons, panels and how-to videos from many of the best speakers and scholastic media educators across the country. This on-demand library of materials will be available to you to use this entire school year.

MIPA Explorer is organized by topic to help you and your students find just what you’re looking for to supplement your lessons or learn about new topics. We’ve also curated small groups of lessons into learning pathways; complete all the lessons and accompanying quizzes in a pathway and earn a digital badge from MIPA!

Program materials are housed on MSU’s online course system, which requires event registration via MIPA’s website and creation of a user account on MSU’s system.

You can set up a single user account to share with all of your students or we’ll work with your students to help them set up their own accounts, which will let them earn badges as they complete lessons in our learning pathways.

Pay a single fee for all of your students: To make it easier for all students in your program to access MIPA Explorer, we’ve established a tiered fee structure based on the size of your media program staff, class or club. You’ll have access to MIPA Explorer materials for the rest of the school year!

• MIPA Explorer is available exclusively to MIPA members. Become a member or renew your membership now
• Advisers: Do you have additional materials to contribute to the MIPA Explorer On-Demand Library? You can add your lessons to our library to help others in MIPA. Contact Jeremy for more information.
• Cancellations & Refunds: Requests for refunds or cancellations must be received before you or students access the library.

Make your selection based on the size of the class(es) or staff(s) you will be using MIPA Explorer materials with this school year. Contact us if you have any questions.

• Are you an individual student or teacher not affiliated with a MIPA member school or media program? Contact us for information about how you might be able to access MIPA Explorer