Read and implement the 16 vital characteristics of
successful middle grades schools.
The Association for Middle Level Education position paper, This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents (2010), has an overarching framework of four essential attributes that connect with the 16 characteristics of
successful middle grades schools.
Not exact matches
As high
schools garner headlines in the current wave of
school improvement work, educators and experts are trying to spread the word about the role the
middle grades can play in that mission and the
successful paths taken by some of the nation's
middle schools.
As with many other
successful data - driven
schools, at Elm City the work begins before
school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary
grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the
middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.
Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from
successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving
middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of
schools that include early
grades and high
schoolers.
For example, Mizelle (1995) found that students who stayed together with the same teachers through sixth, seventh, and eighth
grades and experienced more hands - on, life - related learning activities, integrated instruction, and cooperative learning groups were more
successful in their transition to high
school than were students from the same
school who had a more traditional
middle school experience.
In a comparison of highly
successful middle schools (as measured by student achievement scores) to a national sample, Petzko (2004) found that the highly
successful schools were more likely to have
grade - level or content - area teams that were led by designated teacher leaders.
In 2011 Baltimore City
Schools submitted a
successful proposal for an Investing in Innovations (i3) grant to offer a three year (2012 - 2014) summer program designed to expose rising sixth through eighth
grade students to VEX robotics.1 The i3 - funded
Middle School Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Learning Program was part of a larger Baltimore City STEM summer learning program entitled «Create the Solution» in 2012 and «22nd Century Pioneers» in 2013 and 2014.
This rigorous education provides a wide variety of content regardless of ability level and strives to ready scholars for a
successful middle school experience in 6th - 8th
grade.
In 2011 Baltimore City
Schools submitted a
successful proposal for an Investing in Innovations (i3) grant to offer a three year (2012 - 2014) summer program designed to expose rising sixth through eighth
grade students to VEX robotics.1 The i3 - funded
Middle School Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Summer Learning Program was part of a larger Baltimore -LSB-...]
Through its
Schools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing middle - grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conf
Schools to Watch ® (STW) program, the Forum has developed criteria for identifying high - performing
middle -
grades schools, and created tools to help schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conf
schools, and created tools to help
schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conf
schools use the criteria and expand the program states across the United States and selected and honored hundreds of
successful schools across the country during the Annual STW Conf
schools across the country during the Annual STW Conference.
Students must establish a solid foundation in the
middle grades to be
successful in high
school.
The Tulsa Public
School Board has approved expanding a successful charter middle school through 12th grade, showing that a thoughtful approach and partnership with school choice can be beneficial for everyone inv
School Board has approved expanding a
successful charter
middle school through 12th grade, showing that a thoughtful approach and partnership with school choice can be beneficial for everyone inv
school through 12th
grade, showing that a thoughtful approach and partnership with
school choice can be beneficial for everyone inv
school choice can be beneficial for everyone involved.
Sterrett earned his B.S. in
Middle Grades Education from Asbury College (Kentucky) and his Ph.D. in Educational Administration & Supervision from the University of Virginia, and he is the author of the ASCD books Insights Into Action:
Successful School Leaders Share What Works and Short on Time: How do I make time to lead and learn as a principal?
Pennsylvania Don Eichhorn
Schools: A Program for Middle - Grades Schools on a Successful Trajectory of Improvement By Paul A. Meck The first day of February 2008 was important for the middle level schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania Schools to Watch Stat
Schools: A Program for
Middle - Grades Schools on a Successful Trajectory of Improvement By Paul A. Meck The first day of February 2008 was important for the middle level schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania Schools to Watch State
Middle -
Grades Schools on a Successful Trajectory of Improvement By Paul A. Meck The first day of February 2008 was important for the middle level schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania Schools to Watch Stat
Schools on a
Successful Trajectory of Improvement By Paul A. Meck The first day of February 2008 was important for the
middle level schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania Schools to Watch State
middle level
schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania Schools to Watch Stat
schools that were visited by the Pennsylvania
Schools to Watch Stat
Schools to Watch State Team.
For example, a meta - analysis of
school - based and afterschool SEL programs found that participation improved elementary and
middle school students» test scores by an average of 11 to 17 percentile points, decreased conduct problems, and increased students» problem - solving skills.17 Similarly, a meta - analysis of
school - based SEL programs for students in kindergarten through 12th
grade found that participation improved students» academic performance by 11 percentile points, reduced their anxiety and stress, and increased their prosocial behavior.18 These programs were
successful in all geographic locations, including urban, suburban, and rural
school environments.19
Midlands
Middle College (MMC) is a South Carolina Public Charter
School helping 11th and 12th
grade students achieve
successful work and educational futures.
Midlands
Middle College will prepare 11th and 12th
grade high
school students for a
successful work and educational future through the integration of high
school, technical college and the world of work by providing targeted students with a rigorous and relevant academic program.
And finally, the student - run Hope Squad, which has been so
successful in
MIddle School under the direction of Megan Hurster, is expanding to
grades 4 and 5 this year.
Our
middle school education is a
successful model that takes students who are performing behind entering
grade level and preparing them to be outstanding students ready for high
school.