Interdisciplinary Teaching in the Middle Grades: Why & How

Gordon F. Vars

National Middle School Association

A middle school curriculum: From rhetoric to reality

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Beane, James A.

Words, Language & Grammar

By far the most comprehensive book on middle level teaming ever published, this resource has extraordinary richness and depth. It provides new and valuable insights into the realities and nuances of teaming its complexities, frustrations, benefits, and rewards. Although the book is an anthology of 23 chapters written by a wide array of people, We Gain More Than We Give is a carefully crafted, cohesive entity. The excellence of its contents is matched by a quality of writing rare for an education book.

We Gain More Than We Give: Teaming in Middle Schools

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Addressing a topic that has become a major educational thrust in the middle school, Service Learning in the Middle School provides extensive information and guidelines for middle schools wanting to start their own service learning program. Detailed information on organizations and associations that support service learning are also included.

Service Learning in the Middle School

Carl I. Fertman

George P. White

Louis J. White

Living with a Work in Progress: A Parents' Guide to Surviving Adolescence

Parenting & Relationships

Carol Goldberg Freeman

Parenting

The thoughts and social realities of young adolescents are revealed in this insightful book. Gender differences, self-perceptions, and relationships are among the topics articulated in the responses received from 2,000 students in 15 schools throughout the United States. The summaries and analyses of responses from these young adolescents provide an intimate look into their world as they see it and lead to a host of discussed implications for improving curriculum and instruction.

2000 Voices: Young Adolescents' Perceptions and Curriculum Implications

Cynthia Mee

This most significant publication takes the call for standards-based reform out of the political and upper-echelon educational arenas and into the classroom. It deals fully and fairly with "the complexity of implementing standards in all classes for all students," and makes it clear that "standards-based reform involves changing not simply the content of learning but the standard operating procedures of schools."
Abundant descriptions of successful practices by the teachers and principals carrying them out give credence to the book's message and the hope that real change is possible. This important volume deserves to be read carefully both by practicing educators and those lay citizens serious about really improving the achievement of all learners.

Safe to be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards-Based Reform in the Middle Grades

Anne Wheelock

This book applies the valid and positive theory of "Invitational Education" to the ever present concern with discipline. Using the easy-to-identify-with metaphor of orange and blue cards, Purkey and Strahan spin an engaging treatise punctuated throughout by "Blue Notes" specific ideas and activities to use in creating an approach to classroom management that is pure middle school. While focused on discipline, the views expressed are directly related to curriculum and instruction and will lead to improved student learning as well as improved behavior.

Inviting Positive Classroom Discipline

William Watson Purkey

David B. Strahan

This book includes in-depth descriptions of young adolescent novels organized by theme and useful teaching ideas. The themes are clustered in the following categories: <ul>
<li>Against the Tide - novels about standing up and speaking out</li> <li>A Tangle of Emotions - novels about family relations</li> <li>When Danger Threatens - novels about survival</li> <li>Beyond Stereotypes - novels about growing up in other cultures</li> <li>No Longer Strangers - novels about strangers</li> <li>Bruised and Outside - novels about the homeless</li>
</ul> "Vossler's new book stands as an exceptionally useful guide to responding to kids' issues by drawing upon the plethora of excellent literature available today." <ul> from the foreword.</ul>

For the Love of Books: A Guide to Help Teachers Connect Middle Grades Readers with Literature

Jane Vossler

Teen & Young Adult

Taking teaming to the next level: The principal's role (Middle level leadership series)

Rottier, Jerry

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