National Staff Development Council

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Top 26 Middle Grades Programs Content Specific Middle School Professional Development Programs What Works in the Middle: Results-based Staff Development

Language arts

Junior Great Books Curriculum
The Great Books Foundation, Chicago, Ill.

Student Team Literature Program
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Baltimore, Md.

Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction
Reid Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah

National Writing Project
National Writing Project, Berkeley, Calif.

Profile Approach to Writing
Profile Writing Program, Inc., College Station, Texas

Project Success Enrichment
Creative Child Concepts, Seattle, Wash.

Six Trait +1 Writing Assessment
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, Ore.

Mathematics

Hawaii Algebra Learning Project
Curriculum Research and Development Group, Honolulu, Hawaii

Introducing Math Teachers to Inquiry
University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.

Mathematics Renaissance Calif.
Alliance for Math and Science, Camarillo, Calif.

Peoria Urban Mathematics Plan (PUMP)
Illinois State University, Normal, Ill.

Powerful Connections
University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Mass.

Rice University School Mathematics Project
Rice University, Houston, Texas

All Learn Mathematics
University of Illinois at Chicago

Science

EarthStorm Oklahoma Climatological Survey
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.

Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST)
Curriculum Research and Development Group, Honolulu, Hawaii

Iowa Chautauqua Program
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Science Partnerships for Articulation and Networking (SPAN)
University of California, Irvine, Calif.

Student Watershed Research Project Saturday Academy
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology , Portland, Ore.

Social studies

Project LEGAL
Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

We the People...The Citizen & the Constitution
Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, Calif.

We the People...Project Citizen
Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, Calif.

Interdisciplinary

Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound
Outward Bound USA, Cambridge, Mass.

Fernwood Project: HIV Prevention for America's Youth
Redefining Actions and Decisions, Carbondale, Colo.

Project CRISS (Reading, Writing, and Studying Strategies for Literature and Content)
Project CRISS, Kalispell, Mont.

Reading Power in the Content Areas
CB Consulting Services, Plymouth, Minn.

 

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