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Principal's Impact on a Middle School Success
(2008-02)
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 ...
Focus on Leadership, Climate, Culture, and Instructional Practices: Practical Strategies for School Improvement.
(2007-02)
This presentation discusses leadership, climate, culture and instructional practices. It raises questions and links topics together for a big-picture view.
NASSP's National Study of Middle Level Schools: Leadership for Highly Successful Middle Level Schools
(2005-02)
This presentation discusses Volume II of NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Education, focusing specifically on school leadership.
Instructional Practices Inventory: Using a Student Learning Assessment to Foster Organizational Learning
(2007-12)
This manuscript describes the IPI data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change, and data findings from schools of various types that have used the IPI.
Instructional Practices Inventory: A Process for Profiling Student Engaged Learning for School Improvement
(2005-08)
This manuscript was written to describe in some detail the IPI data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change by studying student engaged learning and provide data from ...
Project ASSIST: Faculty Reflection Worksheet
(2007-02)
These materials help school improvement teams and faculties develop a perspective about several key concepts for school improvement. The comprehensive school improvement worksheet addresses a broad range of key concepts. ...
Project ASSIST: SI Profiling Activities
(2006)
This set of materials helps schools develop a current and historical perspective of several key components related to school improvement. The materials focus on culture, professional development, organizational structure, ...
Decolonizing Qualitative Instruments: Adapting Qualitative Instruments for Meaningful and Culturally Appropriate Data Collection in Schools with Indigenous Majority Populations
(2008-01)
The purpose of this research project is to explore decolonizing an observational assessment process and consider its utility for use in diverse school settings. To meet this research goal, the research team selected the ...
Project ASSIST: A Comprehensive, Systemic Change Initiative for Middle Level Schools.
(2006-01)
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 ...
Principals Make a Difference: An Analysis of Principal Leadership in High and Low Achieving Middle Level Schools
(2007-11)
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.
Turning Points 2000 Recommendations and Student Achievement: A Statewide Study Provides Insight into Best Practices
(2006-03)
This presentation asks the question, “Are middle school programs and practices influencing student success academically?”
Middle School Programs Do Make A Difference: An Analysis of Significant Relationships Between Program Implementation and Student Achievement
(2006-11)
The problem examined in this study was student achievement at the middle level and the programs and practices that might positively influence it.
Project ASSIST: Comprehensive, Systemic Change Initiative Impacts School Culture, Climate, Leadership and Instruction
(2006-04)
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 ...
Profiling Instructional Practices: Data for Improving Instruction, Achievement and School Culture
(2006-11)
This presentation disusses use of Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI) categories, including examples of situational applications.
Eliminating the Gap: Insights From A School of Poverty that Changed Achievement for All Students
(2006-03)
This report presents the improvement in student achievement in the 7th and 8th graders at Freeport Intermediate, a school where 77% of its students are economically disadvantaged.
Project ASSIST: A Comprehensive, Systemic Change Initiative for Middle Level Schools
(2006-04)
From 1996 through 1998, the first two-year ASSIST cohort of eight elementary schools, eight middle schools, and nine high schools attended bi-monthly work sessions at the university. The sessions were designed
to build ...
Project ASSIST 1998-2000 Middle Level Schools
(2001)
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.
Highly Effective Middle Level Schools and How They Got There
(2004-02)
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, ...
What Forty Years of Numbers Tell Us: Reflections on Large, National Middle School Studies
(2003-11)
This presentation discusses forty years of middle school statistics.
NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Schools: Understanding Leaders and Programs in Highly Successful Middle Level Schools
(2004-02)
This presentation includes a detilaed discussion of Volume II of NASSP's National Study of Leadership in Middle Level Education.