Middle Level Leadership Center presentations (MU): 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.