Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and
Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher
in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting
in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district
in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th
grade at a project - based learning school
in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child
What follows are five practical and evidence - based principles that can be used to develop and implement effective performance
management strategies
in the
middle grades, along with a description of the rationale behind each principle, and a few specific practices and examples that schools can follow to ensure success.
Overall, students rate their skills more highly
in 11th
grade than they do
in 5th
grade, with the exception of Self -
Management of School Work, where elementary school students report higher skillsets
in this area, than students
in middle and high school.