Middle Level Leadership Center presentations (MU)
Items in this collection represent public presentations made by the Middle Level Leadership Center and Research faculty, staff, and students, either alone or as co-authors, and which may or may not have been published in an alternate format. Items may contain more than one file type.
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Recent Submissions
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Transformational Leadership: Principals, Leadership Teams, and School Culture
(2002-04)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 ... -
Performance/Outcome Based Principal Evaluation: A Summary of Procedural Considerations
(1986-10)Performance evaluation is designed to assist principals in better accomplishing their leadership role. Performance/Outcome Based Principal Evaluation (PBPE) is defined as "a process for the professional development of ... -
Audit of Principal Effectiveness: A Process for Self-Improvement
(1989)Feedback data provide an avenue to improved perceptions; in the educational setting, improved perceptions translate into personal growth and more positive organizational culture. To provide a valid, reliable, and practical ... -
School Improvement Surveys
(1986)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 ... -
Instructional Practices Inventory Documents
(2007)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 ... -
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, ... -
Project ASSIST: Team Typology Activity
(2005)This set of materials helps school improvement teams and other teacher teams understand their level of team effectiveness. -
Project ASSIST: School Culture Readings
(2006)The first section of this research summary documents the importance of an effective, collaborative school culture. The next section defines the concept of organizational/school culture and the final section provides a ... -
Project ASSIST: School Culture Typology
(2006)The Culture Typology Activity was developed for use by teachers and principals as a method to help schools and school leaders (a) identify the general type of culture present in a school, (b) reflect upon the impact of ... -
Project ASSIST: School Culture Survey
(2006)The School Culture Survey provides insight about the shared values/beliefs, the patterns of behavior, and the relationships in the school. Each factor measures a unique aspect of the school's collaborative culture. -
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 ... -
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. -
National Study of Highly Successful Middle Level Schools and their Principals: A Preliminary Report
(2003-11)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. -
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, ... -
Middle School Programmatic Characteristics and Student Achievement: A Report of a Comprehensive, State-wide Study
(2005-11)This presentation presents preliminary findings for the question, "Are middle school programs and practices influencing student success academically?" -
What Research Says About Principal Leadership in Highly Successful Middle Grades Schools
(2005-11)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. -
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.