Since AMLE first published its landmark text on educating young adolescents more than forty years ago, teaming has emerged and continues to be validated as a core structure within a high-performing middle school. This companion guide to that text, The Successful Middle School: This We Believe, will help schools explore how to create and sustain an impactful teaming process. 
Using his signature style, Jack identifies the 16 essential elements of teaming, exploring the what, why, and how of each. Complete with a wealth of resources, templates, and examples, this book is an essential guide for both veteran teams looking to expand on their success and educators just starting their teaming journey.

Successful Middle School Teaming

Jack Berckemeyer

Association for Middle Level Education

Student-led conferences have been billed as "the biggest breakthrough in communicating about student achievement in the last century." And this resource provides everything a team or a faculty needs to engage in a practical, professional development study. The seven modules contain 20 tasks that will carry participants through the steps needed to understand and initiate what is coming to be regarded as an essential feature of a high-performing middle school.

The What Why and How of Student-Led Conferences

Patti Kinney

National Middle School Association

In the pages of Managing the Madness you ll find innovative and specific ideas on discipline, humor, technology integration, student-teacher interactions, attention grabbers, classroom management, and much more. He tackles the most awkward situations that arise in middle level classrooms that are not often considered in other books. "There are moments with Jack Berckemeyer when I think I m in the presence of absolute genius; he s a dynamo that never fails to inspire. Using everyday classroom realities, Jack cultivates our instructional potential, using acts of kindness, stunning wit, and vibrant applications of the middle school concept. And just as refreshing, there are other times when Jack is an overgrown adolescent who is making good on his promise to his teachers that he d one day rule the educational universe and inject it with a healthy dose of warped and wonderful humor. We are lucky to be in his orbit." Rick Wormeli

Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Middle Grades Classrooms

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Yes, you can have a classroom that your students and you look forward to entering. Successful classroom management comes through patience and practice. In this updated edition of Managing the Madness, Jack Berckemeyer informs and boosts our instructional practices by helping us bring humor and compassion to our classrooms. Rooted in a clear understanding of middle school students and how to get the best from them, this new edition offers insights, hard-learned lessons, and tested ideas on 
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<li>Knowing who your students are</li> <li>Creating a safe, caring, and stimulating classroom</li> <li>Developing engaging activities</li> <li>Modeling social skills and proper behavior</li> <li>Proactive versus reactive management</li> <li>Workable intervention plans for behavior issues</li> <li>Honoring student voices</li> </ul>

Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Understanding Young Adolescents & Classroom Management

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Books by Jack Berckemeyer

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Successful Middle School Teaming

The What Why and How of Student-Led Conferences

Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Middle Grades Classrooms

Managing the Madness: A Practical Guide to Understanding Young Adolescents & Classroom Management