This set of materials helps school improvement teams and other teacher teams understand their level of team effectiveness....

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the relationships among principal transformational leadership, school leadership-team transformational leadership, and school culture. Twelve middle schools composed the sample population...

This document is a review of one of the research summaries about outcome variables studied in Project ASSIST. It presents pre and post project ASSIST School improvement data changes....

This presentation summarizes research on effective principal leadership, focusing on the National Study of Leadership in Highly Successful Middle Level Schools and the traits of an effective principal....

This presentation includes a detilaed discussion of Volume II of NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Education....

This presentation discusses Volume II of NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Education, focusing specifically on school leadership....

, curriculum, instructional strategies, and leadership....

This is a collection of four school improvement surveys developed by the Middle Level Leadership Center. The Audit of Principal Effectiveness (APE) provides information about the effectiveness of principals in dealing with personnel inside...

This report presents the findings of the second phase of a comprehensive two-year state-wide study. The second phase includes a teacher survey of leadership, climate, culture, efficacy, commitment, trust, assessment....

This quantitative study determined the order of leadership dimensions most utilized in elementary and middle school settings compared the most and least prevalent characteristics of distributed leadership exhibited in elementary and middle schools...

To develop and maintain a school improvement process that promotes success for each student, principals and teachers must understand and implement two unique but interrelated “frameworks” for improvement. The frameworks ...

This presentation presents preliminary findings for the question, "Are middle school programs and practices influencing student success academically?"...

This presentation discusses forty years of middle school statistics....

ASSIST, an acronym for Achieving Success through School Improvement Site Teams, is grounded in the premise that professional development and support provided to a school leadership team comprised of a nucleus of teacher-leaders and the principal can...

from across the state of Missouri. The shift to middle schools only was congruent with the goals of the MLLC and its primary focus on middle level leadership. The findings and discussions presented in this paper are drawn from the 1996-1998 and 1998...

of a larger study of middle level education being conducted by the Middle Level Leadership Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Two survey forms were used to collect data for this study. One survey collected data on managerial...

The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a correlation between the leadership style of the director of area career centers in the state of Missouri and the placement of career education completers. The survey instrument...

The problem examined in this study was student achievement at the middle level and the programs and practices that might positively influence it....

This presentation discusses leadership, climate, culture and instructional practices. It raises questions and links topics together for a big-picture view....