Breaking Ranks in the Middle

Building on the success of Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform, NASSP has issued a middle level counterpart, Breaking Ranks in the Middle: Strategies for Leading Middle Level Reform.

The nine strategies and 30 recommendations that form the core of Breaking Ranks in the Middle are similar to those in Breaking Ranks II, but are grounded in the middle school philosophy. A commission of middle level practitioners and experts had an active hand in developing the book, which includes a number of full-length profiles and vignettes of schools that put the recommendations in action.

With support from the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the College Board, a free copy was delivered in March 2006 to every NASSP member and every middle school principal in the United States, including those in schools with nontraditional grade configurations.

Principals of the schools profiled in Breaking Ranks in the Middle gathered at the 2006 NASSP Convention for a panel discussion on their journeys of middle level reform. Click the link below to watch the discussion.
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