Taking Stock and Creating a Vision: A Middle School Community Takes the First Steps toward Creating an Accelerated School.

McBride, Ron E.; Stuessy, Carol

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Publication Date: 1996

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Taking Stock and Creating a Vision: A Middle School Community Takes the First Steps toward Creating an Accelerated School.

McBride, Ron E.; Stuessy, Carol

Education Canada, v36 n3 p20-24,19 Fall 1996

Accelerated schools strive to bring at-risk students into the educational mainstream and perform at grade level through acceleration rather than remediation. Describes four steps to initiate the accelerated process and how a Texas middle school involved all members of the school community in implementing the first two steps, taking stock and forging a vision. (TD)

Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Group Unity, High Risk Students, Junior High Schools, Long Range Planning, Middle Schools, Nontraditional Education, Parent Participation, Participative Decision Making, School Restructuring, Self Evaluation (Groups)

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Texas

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