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White, George P.; Matz, Celine – Schools in the Middle, 1992
Home-school partnerships provide a strong support system. Besides encouraging parents, teachers, and students to work together for more effective learning and teaching, the system helps parents understand their emerging adolescents. A rural Pennsylvania middle school's "Steps to Success" program offers various activities involved with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family School Relationship, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Matz, Celine M. – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Middle school educators believing in the importance of parent involvement soon discover the need to educate parents as well as students. One Pennsylvania middle school offers a series of workshops focusing on the physical, social-emotional, and intellectual characteristics of students aged 11-13, transmitting information through discussion,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Parent Education
Shadle, James – Schools in the Middle, 1993
Traditionally, student-recognition programs have included honor rolls, academic letters, athletic awards for students who excel. Such programs should also reinforce positive behavior and motivate students to try harder. Pennsylvania middle school launched good behavior program involving prizes from local businesses. Staff members handed to be…
Descriptors: Awards, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Positive Reinforcement
Neatrour, Paul E. – Schools in the Middle, 1994
The Johnstown (Pennsylvania) Middle School has adopted a simple, practical school bus discipline program that refers disruptive students to the bus-duty teacher to discuss the incident. The bus driver's written report activates the bus-rider training program, featuring temporary loss of riding privileges, a simulated bus ride, a safety video, a…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Discipline, Intermediate Grades
Digiulio, Marie – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Connecting students to reading and writing means connecting them to real-world readers and writers. Writers' Day at one Pennsylvania middle school was established to bring regular working professionals (not authors or poets) from the community to school to share how writing is used in their professional and personal lives. All participants…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Experiential Learning, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Shadle, James E. – Schools in the Middle, 1994
Describes restructuring objectives and changes at a suburban middle school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Although collaborative planning led to predictable changes (interdisciplinary teaching, advisories, flexible scheduling, common planning time, core curricula, and a discipline system), several unplanned changes occurred regarding home-school…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Goal Orientation, Intermediate Grades
Marcincin, Linda W. – Schools in the Middle, 1992
At a Pennsylvania middle school, an informal, cooperative effort to apply fractions to cookie recipes resulted in an interdisciplinary project on the homelessness. Embracing home economics, mathematics, art, English, social studies, and reading, the project incorporates the essentials of middle school philosophy: cooperative learning, team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning, Grade 7, Home Economics
Lare, Douglas – Schools in the Middle, 1993
A group of reading teachers at a Pennsylvania middle school was charged with developing a uniform reading program and selecting reading materials to meet their students' needs. This article describes the committee's work, focusing on the selection and adaption of a whole-language basal-reading program that incorporates writing and other language…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Basal Reading, Grade 5, Grade 6
