Reinventing the Middle School
Many contemporary American middle schools are stuck in a state of "arrested development," failing to implement the original concept of middle schools to a varying, though equally corruptive degrees. The individual chapters of the book outline in detail how to counter this dangerous trend, offering guidance to those who seek immediate, significant, internal reforms before we lose the unique value of middle schools for our nation's adolescents.
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Many contemporary American middle schools are stuck in a state of "arrested development," failing to implement the original concept of middle schools to a varying, though equally corruptive degrees. The individual chapters of the book outline in detail how to counter this dangerous trend, offering guidance to those who seek immediate, significant, internal reforms before we lose the unique value of middle schools for our nation's adolescents.
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Reform and Reinvention1Reinventing the Middle School: A Proposal to Counter Arrested Development32The School and the Child and the Child in the School213Hope for Sandy: Transformation Points: A Reinvention Paradigm394The Arc of Equity in Reinvented Middle Schools565Standards, Students, and Exploration: Creating a Curriculum Intersection of Excellence796Connecting Caring and Action: Teachers Who Create Learning Communities in Their Classrooms967On Headpieces of Straw: How Middle Level Students View Their Schooling1178High-Quality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty Middle Schools: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality1559Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents and Adult Learning17610Our Turn? Teaming and the Professional Development of Teachers20111The Role of Technology for Learning in the Reinvented Middle School21812Transformation and Context in Middle Grades Reform24913Coming Together to Raise Our Children: Community and the Reinvented Middle School26914Engineering Success through Purposeful Articulation28815Reinventing Middle Level Teacher Preparation via Professional Development Schools30216On a Good Day Everyone Grows: Reflections on the Reinvention of a School321Author Biographies329Index337Author Index341
