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Direct linkChesley, Gary M.; Hartman, Diane – Principal Leadership, 2010
During the 2008-2009 school year, faculty members at New Fairfield (CT) Middle School examined relevance and student engagement in relation to student achievement. Subtle clues indicated that students were not fully engaged in their learning: many students did not relate their classroom experiences to their personal reality or to their vision of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Peer reviewedSchneider, Jean Suchsland – Roeper Review, 2006
This descriptive study investigated two areas: (a) perceived changes in gifted and talented (G/T) programming in Iowa from the time a state mandate was implemented to the time of the study, and (b) perceived effects of the mandate on G/T programming in Iowa. Perceptions of middle-level teachers of gifted and talented students (n = 111) were…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Gifted, Educational Change, Program Implementation
Download full textNewstead, Barry; Howard, Don – Bridgespan Group, 2006
Chris Barbic, a Teach For America corps member, started Project Youth Engaged in Service (YES) in 1995. He wanted to offer his former elementary-school students an alternative to the low-performing middle schools they otherwise would attend. Since then Barbic has led a high-energy team of educators in refining a comprehensive approach to helping…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Development, Educational Change, Middle Schools
