Getting the MI discussion started in school communities

Circulate and post MI bulletins and newsletters in the staff room
Create an "MI Chat Room" by displaying attention grabbing blow-ups of quotes from MI literature on the bulletin board, like:
"I think we're putting too much emphasis on our student's verbal and mathematical abilities and neglecting the rest?" and Howard Gardner's own, "It's not how smart you are, it's how you are smart!"
Put up a list of times that you can be available to have a live chat with your colleague about the issue next to the quotes.

Invite your colleagues to discover their dominant intelligences by using one of the short, quick online MI checklists available at these sites:
http://www.clat.psu.edu/homes/bxb11/mi/MIQuiz.htm
http://www.mitaleadership.com/seminars.htm
http://surfaquarium.com/MIinvent.htm
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month1/

Run an in-house MI workshop with the staff
If you have the equipment invite them
to a showing of Tapping into multiple intelligences http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month1/#3
Otherwise you can download the site and print out the materials for a free workshop with colleagues and parents.

Make contact with people who are in the process of making the transition IN MI SCHOOLS to hear how they are doing it.

Plan an interdisciplinary project together that will give students an opportunity to use all their intelligences.

Email MI hot links with attached discussion questions to parents and colleagues.

Encourage colleagues to join the ASCD MI Network and receive a free electronic subscription to its INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS Multiple Intelligences Network by contacting trhoerr@newcityschool.org

Involve your parents - For guidance go to http://www.arches.uga.edu/~hmt/webwrite/mi

Take the MI online course offered at http://www.gigglepotz.com/i_11outline.htm and decide if you would recommend participation in this course to other people.

Moving the MI agenda forward in school communities

Ask administration to provide MI professional development seminars and workshops
Your colleagues may decide that they would like to call in one of the MI agencies that offer teacher development workshops or ask your District Superintendent to support an MI workshop in your district. Here are some links to consultants offering MI workshops and seminars to start with:
http://www.mitaleadership.com/seminars.htm
http://surfaquarium.com/consult.htm
http://www.markwahl.com/default.htm

In preparation for the development of an MI Action Plan, start up an MI study group for your school, including parents that will
first of all, identify what you are doing now that is already fostering your students' MI and talk about how you can build on theses strategies, as well as identifying in what ways instruction needs to change if the school is to become an MI implementer.

Communicate with administrators, teachers and parent groups that have made the transition and prepare an MI Action Plan for your school