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

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....

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 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 report discusses the preliminary findings of the NASSP's National Study of Highly Successful Middle Level Schools and Their Leaders. Discussed are the demographics of and statistics about principals....

, 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 comprehensive, state-wide, and two-year study of 224 of the 325 middle level schools across the state of Missouri is the largest study known with common measurement of student achievement. The study produced findings on leadership, culture...

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

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...

This presentation discussed the National Study of Highly Successful Schools and Their Leaders, focusing the following six successful schools: Becker Middle School, Lawton Chiles Middle Academy, Freeport Intermediate School, Independence Middle...

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

Hundreds of Instructional Practices Inventory Level I workshops are conducted throughout the United States each year. The workshops are led by an IPI certified trainer and require a minimum of 7 hours to complete. The workshops include...

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

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...

to measure or assess school culture. An understanding of the research associated with these three sections is important as a school leadership team, a school improvement team, and/or a school faculty embark on the tasks of organizational growth....