Middle Level Leadership Center presentations (MU): Recent submissions
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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. -
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 ... -
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?” -
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: 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 ... -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Profiling Student Engaged Learning: Using Data for Changing Instruction and Achievement.
(2008-02)This manuscript was written to describe in some detail the Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI) data collection categories, the use of those categories to support school-wide instructional change by studying student ...