very limited study in the area of middle schools, with most simply requiring an internship in a middle-level school....

This goal of this set of materials is to help schools develop a school-wide statement of values and beliefs.

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....

to distribute leadership. The data analysis was conducted from 302 educational practitioners, including 181 elementary educators and 121 middle school educators from elementary and middle schools in a Missouri public school district. With a probability of alpha...

The attached items are intended to provide a visual representation of the two guiding frameworks that inform the work in Project ASSIST.

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

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 discusses forty years of middle school statistics....

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

This study examined the relationship of three factors of principal leadership, managerial, instructional, and transformational. A total of 1,703 teachers from 133 middle level public schools in Missouri were included in the study, which was part...

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...

This presentation asks the question, “Are middle school programs and practices influencing student success academically?”...

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...

The purpose of this study was to analyze servant leadership and professional learning communities in Missouri schools. A central issue in the study was to examine the relationship of servant leadership characteristics to characteristics...

Project ASSIST (Achieving Success through School Improvement Site Teams) is a school improvement initiative sponsored by the Middle Level Leadership Center, University of Missouri. Center staff members work directly with school leadership teams from...