Middle Start Documents Library
Middle Start believes that the best way for people to understand what we do is to have access to featured items in our Documents Library. The wide-range of resources on this page include progress reports, data studies, articles, case histories of client schools, and other helpful materials.
Middle Start Reports and Tools
- Integrating Districts in Comprehensive School Reform, (PDF)
- Middle Start Rubrics for Comprehensive School Reform, (PDF)
- Middle Start Snapshots, (PDF)
- Portrait of Lake Middle School, an Urban Middle Start CSRD School, (PDF)
- Portrait of Hope Springs Middle School, a Rural Middle Start CSRD School, (PDF)
- Progress of the Middle Start Comprehensive School Improvement Schools, Cluster Evaluation Report, 1997-98. Working Paper #4, (PDF)
- Reaching for Goals: Key Areas of Michigan Middle Start Implementation, School Year 1999-2000, (PDF)
- Starting Again in the Middle: Executive Summary, (PDF) Michigan League for Human Services and Center for Prevention Research and Development. An executive summary of a report funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on the Michigan's young adolescents, their teachers, and school administrators.
- Starting Again in the Middle, (PDF) Michigan League of Human Services and Center for Prevention Research and Development. The full report, funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation on Michigan's young adolescents, their teachers, and school administrators.
- Strategic Alliances, (PDF)
- Voices from Middle Start: Developing Learning Communities, (PDF)
- Middle South Middle Start: Studies of Three Middle Start Schools in the Mid South Delta
A full report funded by the Foundation for the Mid South highlights the challenges of implementing a comprehensive reform effort, given existing educational improvement initiatives, external pressures and circumstances. - Middle Start Schools Striving for Excellence
A full report funded by the Foundation for the Mid South concentrates on the essential elements for school wide improvement. The report features schools' successes and challenges in implementing Middle Start.
