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Comprehensive
School Reform Models
Aim
at Middle-Grades Results
• Different
Ways of Knowing
Making
Middle Grades Work
•
Making Schools Work
Success for All Middle School
Program
Talent
Development Middle School Model
•
Turning Points
Background
History
The
W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the Academy for Educational
Development established the Middle Start model in
Michigan in 1994 in collaboration with the Center
for Prevention Research and Development at the University
of Illinois, and Michigan-based organizations and
agencies. Some of these organizations and agencies
include Central Michigan University/Michigan Schools
in the Middle; Detroit Public Schools/Department of
School Transformation; Michigan League for Human Services,
and Northern Michigan University/UP Center for Educational
Development. During the first four years of the initiative,
two additional organizations collaborated in the expansion
of the program: Eastern Michigan University/Middle
Vision Program and the Michigan Coalition of Essential
Schools.
In
1998, through a partnership with the Foundation for
the Mid South, Middle Start expanded to Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Schools
Served
Forty-one
schools are currently implementing Middle Start. Of
those schools, 21 have received Comprehensive School
Reform Demonstration (CSRD) grants from the Michigan
Department of Education, 10 have received comprehensive
school improvement (CSI) grants from the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation, one school in Louisiana has received a
CSRD grant from the Louisiana Department of Education,
and nine schools in the Mid South (Arkansas, Louisiana,
and Mississippi) have received CSI grants from the
Foundation for the Mid South through a grant from
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. An additional 98 schools
in four states (Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, and
Mississippi) have undertaken professional development
and participated in leadership development and networking
activities through Middle Start networks, partnerships,
and other grants. In addition, more than 450 schools
in four states have participated in the Middle Start
Self-Study administered by the Center for Prevention
Research & Development and have a regional affiliation
with Middle Start. For the 2002-03 school year, 16
schools in Michigan and 3 schools in Mississsippi
received CSR grants from those states' departments
of education to implement Middle Start. We plan to
add an additional 10-15 schools next year.
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Aim
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• Different
Ways of Knowing
Making
Middle Grades Work
•
Making Schools Work
Success for All Middle School
Program
Talent
Development Middle School Model
•
Turning Points
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