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Middle Grades Weblinks

This page will include general links related to middle grades education. Be sure to share your favorite resource by adding it to the growing lists available here. Also, add commentary to existing resources---collectively reviewing and responding to resources will improve the fundamental knowledge base of this community.

Middle Grades Weblinks
Fundamentals for Student Success

Fundamentals for Student Success

http://www.nmsa.org/Advocacy/AdvocacyToolstoUse/FundamentalsPresentation/tabid/793/Default.aspx

In the past twenty years, almost 4,000 research studies have confirmed what most middle grades educators have always known—that children between the ages of 10 and 15 are a unique group of learners with physical, cognitive and social characteristics that demand special attention! Unfortunately, many middle grades educators lack a basic understanding of these characteristics---and of their implications for middle grades learning communities.

This resource---created by the National Middle School Association---helps to bridge that knowledge gap by presenting the "Fundamentals for Student Success in the Middle Grades." Broken into three parts---the characteristics of young adolescents, National recommendations for middle grades practice, and research supporting the need for unique middle grades learning environments---this site is a valuable tool for any middle grades principal or teacher needing a "refresher" on the characteristics of effective middle grades education.