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A Rewarding Philosophy
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McKibben, Sarah – Principal Leadership, 2010
This article presents an interview with Sheila Kahrs, principal of Haymon-Morris Middle School in Winder, Georgia, and the 2010 MetLife/NASSP National Middle Level Principal of the Year. Haymon-Morris Middle School has 815 in enrollment, 50 teachers, and 33 staff members. She talks about her leadership philosophy with her teachers and assistant…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Teacher Student Relationship, Middle Schools, Principals
Middle School Students with Reading Disabilities.
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McCray, Audrey Davis – Reading Teacher, 2001
Comments on the nature of the reading enterprise for middle school students with reading-related learning disabilities as perceived by a cohort of sixth-grade students with reading disabilities. Reflects upon intervention programs in place for struggling middles school readers. Considers how to teach young adolescents with reading disabilities.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Grade 6, Intervention, Middle Schools
Motif Notation and Dance Making: Educational Partners in an Urban Middle School
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Bucek, Loren E. – Journal of Dance Education, 2004
In this article, the author talks about Motif Notation, a means of creating, recording, and reflecting on dance experience, and dance making as educational partners in an urban middle school. The author shares partial tales of middle school-aged children engaging in dance making and Motif Notation which illustrate the fact that teens need to…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Literary Devices, Dance, Urban Schools
If I Had a Hammer: Technology in the Language Arts Classroom.
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Jester, Richard – English Journal, 2002
Describes the computer as a hammer, a tool with unique qualities that allows people to perceive, manipulate, and express language in ways quite different from traditional media. Explores the tool of the multimedia presentation, a common use of technology in classrooms today. Describes a simple project with sixth graders that incorporates reading,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 6, Grammar
Unrepentant.
Vail, Kathleen – Executive Educator, 1995
Ruben Perez, former assistant principal at Horace Mann Middle School in North Denver, achieved folk-hero status when he suspended 97 disruptive students on a single day. The school board reprimanded Perez for deviating from district discipline policy and transferred him to another middle school. Supported by disgruntled teachers, Perez is suing…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Behavior Problems, Discipline Policy, Grade 6
Designing HyperCard Stacks for Cooperative Learning.
Holden, Michael C.; And Others – Computing Teacher, 1992
Describes a HyperCard program designed to teach middle school students about AIDS in a cooperative learning setting. Cooperative learning techniques are discussed, including positive interdependence, individual accountability, face-to-face interaction, and social skills; and results of field trials with fifth and sixth grade students are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development
Learning "In" and "For" the Outdoors.
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Broda, Herbert W. – Middle School Journal, 2002
Discusses outdoor education to improve student participation and learning in skill and subject areas. Relates outdoor education to constructivism, flexible scheduling, hands-on experiences, performance-based standards, multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, and interdisciplinary curriculum. Lists Web sites related to outdoor education. (DLH)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design, Early Adolescents