Multi-Tiered Systems of Support: Systems and Structures
for Middle Level Schools, Teams, and Professional Learning Communities
The book / DVD combo, This We Believe in Action: Implementing
Successful Middle Level Schools (2012), is designed to demonstrate how schools use This We Believe as the foundation for school improvement plans.
Health Promoting, High
Performing Middle Level Schools: The Interrelationships and Integration of Health and Education for Young Adolescent Success and Well - Being Peter F. Mulhall Chapter2.
(Professional Development) Professional development is a continuing activity in
middle level schools where teachers take advantage of every opportunity to work with colleagues to improve the learning experiences for their students.
Description: Seven high - poverty urban middle schools that participated in a study conducted by the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin for the U.S. Department of Education, examining how high - performing, high - poverty
middle level schools improved student performance.
The Missouri Association of Elementary School Administrators (MAESP) represents elementary and
middle level school leaders across the state.
Comprehensive induction programs have strong implications
for middle level schools — grade 5 to grade 9 — where teachers often lack the specific preparation and experience for their role as a teacher of young adolescents (Jackson & Davis, 2000).
Common Planning Time
in Middle Level Schools: Research Studies from the MLER SIG's National Project 2013 Steven B. Mertens, Illinois State University; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr., University of Tennessee; Micki M. Caskey, Portland State University; Nancy Flowers, CPRD / University of Illinois
His doctoral dissertation «
Middle Level Schools in an Era of Standards and Accountability: Adaptations of the Features of the Middle School Concept» won the NASSP Ted Sizer Dissertation award in 2013.
The development and impact of principal leadership self - efficacy in
middle level schools: Beginning an enquiry.
Counseling program alum, Benjamin Barry, MS» 09, was recently granted
the Middle Level School Counselor of the Year award from the Iowa School Counselor Association.
Middle level schools are vibrant, intense environments with unique needs that are very different than those of high schools, colleges, or the working world.
Volume IX: Common Planning Time in
Middle Level Schools: Research Studies from the MLER SIG's National Project
Perpetuating the factory model of schooling by importing policies from high schools and colleges to
our middle level schools because we think it prepares students for what is to come is uninformed and ineffective.
Key Findings from «A Voice in the Middle» Poll of Middle Level Students In May 2007, NASSP and Phi Delta Kappa International released the first - ever nationwide poll of students in
middle level schools, called «A Voice from the Middle,» to gauge young adolescents» hopes, dreams, and aspirations and they prepare for high school and beyond.
The Importance of Having a Highly Qualified Principal in Every Middle Grades School, Sue C. Thompson Creating Academically Challenging
Middle Level Schools for Every Child, Ronald D. Williamson and J. Howard Johnston Creating Quality in the Middle School Curriculum, James A. Beane Creating Socially Equitable Middle Grades Schools, Nancy M. Doda The Role of Accountability in Middle Level Schools, Dan French.
M. NORA MAZZONE is
a middle level school administrator in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and doctoral adjunct professor for Pace University.
M. Nora Mazzone is
a middle level school administrator in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and doctoral adjunct professor for Pace University.
Jackson and Davis (2000) maintained that
middle level schools should be filled with expert teachers who are prepared to teach and advocate for young adolescents during their emotional, social, and academic development.