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Crossing the Bridge to Middle School.
Camoni, Gene A. – Principal, 1996
A transition plan offers students and parents an opportunity to become familiar with middle school's expectations, routines, curricula, classmates, and buildings before the new school year. The journey can be facilitated by surveying students about areas of concern, providing student mentors, and staging information day and transition day…
Descriptors: Activities, Educational Planning, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades
HOTS: Helping Low Achievers in Grades 4-7.
Pogrow, Stanley – Principal, 1996
HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) is a creative program (combining the use of computers, drama, Socratic dialog, and a detailed curriculum) to build thinking skills of educationally disadvantaged students in grades four through seven. HOTS learning activities help students realize what thinking and persevering can accomplish. Principals can help…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
The 1991-1992 Blue Ribbon Schools.
Mercure, Christine – Principal, 1993
The distinctive banners flying over the 227 public and private institutions selected as 1991-92 Blue Ribbon Schools signal a two-fold achievement: national recognition for educational excellence and continuation of the award program itself. The selection process began belatedly after former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander restored $885,000…
Descriptors: Awards, Elementary Education, Excellence in Education, Goal Orientation
How Parents Perceive Children's Learning Styles.
De Bello, Thomas C.; Guez, Richard J. – Principal, 1996
Discusses a survey asking parents of 85 4th- through 6th-grade students to describe how their child learns best, based on emotional, sociological, physiological, and environmental elements of the Dunns' Learning Style Inventory. Statistical analysis found no significant correlations between parental perceptions of a child's learning style and the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Processes
The Elemiddle School: A Model for Middle Grades Reform.
Hough, David L. – Principal, 1995
"Elemiddle" schools serve the needs of young adolescents, aged 10 to 14, in any combination of grades 5 through 8, as part of an organizational structure that includes lower grades. Research has shown that middle schools with 6-8 grade spans and K-8 schools are most likely to implement child-centered programs, practices, and policies than schools…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Educational Benefits, Educational Change, Elementary Education
The K-8 Principal in 1998.
Doud, James L.; Keller, Edward P. – Principal, 1998
The 1998 study of the K-8 principal shows that the principal's role, revolving about staff supervision, student discipline, marketing, and community/political interactions, has become increasingly diverse and complex. The 42% turnover rate will probably continue into the next decade. Today, 42% of K-8 principals are women, compared to 20% in 1988.…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Community Involvement