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Southern
Regional
Education
Board
A New Mission for the Middle Grades: Preparing Students
for A Changing World
The Report of the SREBMiddle Grades Commission
Chaired by:Governor Beverly Perdue
of North Carolina
Southern
Regional
Education
Board
Commission Members
Middle Grades Commission Report 2
James Gill Principal Alba Middle School, AL
Joseph Morton State Superintendent of Schools Alabama
Arthur Orr State Senator Alabama
Laura BednarAssistant Commission for Learning Services
Arkansas DOE
Jimmy Jeffress Chair, Senate Education Committee Arkansas
David Sokola State Senator Delaware
Frances Haithcock Chancellor of Public Schools Florida DOE
John Legg State Representative Florida
John Barge State Superintendent of Schools Georgia
Terry Holliday Commissioner of Education Kentucky
Jack Westwood State Senator Kentucky
Debbie SchumExecutive Director/Office of College & Career Readiness
Louisiana DOE
Paul Dunford Director-Middle Grades Initiative Maryland
Southern
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Commission Members
Middle Grades Commission Report 3
Jerry Weast Superintendent of SchoolsMontgomery County Schools, MD
Beverly PerdueGovernor of North Carolina Chair of Middle Grades Commission
North Carolina
June Atkinson State Superintendent of Schools North Carolina
Rick Glazier State Representative North Carolina
Bill Harrison Chairman, State Board of Education North Carolina
Howard Lee Executive Director, Education Cabinet North Carolina
Judith Rizzo Executive Director & CEOJames B. Hunt, Jr. Institute, NC
Jerry Tillman State Senator North Carolina
Cathy Tomon PrincipalBroad Creed Middle School, NC
Leslie Winner Executive DirectorZ. Smith Reynolds Foundation, NC
John Ford State Senator Oklahoma
Susan Paddack State Senator Oklahoma
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Regional
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Commission Members
Middle Grades Commission Report 4
Ray Davis Education Consultant: Career Guidance South Carolina
Mark Maddox Former State Representative Tennessee
Gary NixonExecutive Director, State Board of Education
Tennessee
Robert Eissler State Representative Texas
Lizzette ReynoldsDeputy Commissioner Statewide Policy and Programs
Texas Education Agency
Vern Williams Mathematics TeacherLongfellow Middle School, VA
Patricia Wright State Superintendent of Schools Virginia
Betty Jo JordanExecutive Assistant to State Superintendent of Education
West Virginia DOE
Myk GarnDirector, Educational Technology Cooperative
SREB
Dave Spence President SREB
Gene Bottoms Senior Vice President SREB
Joan Lord Vice President SREB
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Regional
Education
Board
Commission Consultants
Middle Grades Commission Report 5
Patricia AshleyDirector of District and School Transformation
North Carolina DOE
Robert BalfanzResearch Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools
Johns Hopkins University, MD
Sondra Cooney Former Director, MMGW SREB
Francis (Skip) Fennell
Past President, National Council of Teachers of MathematicsProfessor, McDaniel College
McDaniel College, MD
Sam Houston President &CEO
North Carolina Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Center
Sandy Kress Senior CounselAkin Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, TX
Hayes Mizell Distinguished Senior Fellow Learning Forward, SC
Cynthia Shanahan
Professor, Literacy Language and CultureExecutive Director, Council on Teacher Education
Illinois
Southern
Regional
Education
Board
New Mission:
Prepare more students for success in rigorous high school courses — and ultimately for most students to graduate and proceed to college, advanced training or enter employment with some type of certification.
Middle Grades Commission Report 6
Southern
Regional
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Middle Grades Are Critically Important
States’ goals for raising high school graduation, improving students’ readiness for college and careers, and helping more students earn a degree or credential are in jeopardy unless the middle grades are successful in this new mission.
Middle Grades Commission Report 7
Southern
Regional
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Achieving the New Mission
States must help districts and schools to:
1.Prepare all teachers to use rigorous reading and writing assignments to teach their subjects.
Middle Grades Commission Report 8
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Regional
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Achieving the New Mission
State literacy actions
Help districts and schools develop literacy plans. Revise certification and teacher education
standards. Provide long-term professional development. Provide an accelerated language arts curriculum. Revise state assessments. Prepare discipline-based literacy tools for
teachers. Train principals to support literacy.
Middle Grades Commission Report 9
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Regional
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Achieving the New Mission
States must work with districts and schools to:
2.Ensure that students acquire the math foundational skills needed to succeed in Algebra I in grade eight or nine and to succeed in advanced math courses in high school.
Middle Grades Commission Report 10
Southern
Regional
Education
Board
Achieving the New Mission
State mathematics actions
Teach the foundation of arithmetic well. Place a balanced emphasis on teaching procedural
skills, conceptual understanding and reasoning skills.
Place ready students into an accelerated math path. Require seventh- and eighth-grade math and science
teachers to work toward high school certification. Support long-term professional development to
improve math instruction. Prepare principals who support improved math
instruction.
Middle Grades Commission Report 11
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Regional
Education
Board
Achieving the New Mission
States must work with districts and schools to:
3.Attract more students to STEM classes and careers by giving middle grades students more opportunities to discover their interests and aptitudes in using math, science and technology as tools for solving problems.
Middle Grades Commission Report 12
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Regional
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Achieving the New Mission
State STEM actions
Require and support lab-based science. Support STEM teams — math, science,
technology and literacy. Establish a STEM clearinghouse. Establish pacesetting STEM schools.
Middle Grades Commission Report 13
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Regional
Education
Board
Achieving the New Mission
States must work with districts and schools to:
4.Get at-risk students on the graduation track through a more engaging and accelerated curriculum, coupled with extended learning time and an advocate teacher who teaches them the habits of success and how to be persistent in their studies.
Middle Grades Commission Report 14
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Regional
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Achieving the New Mission
States must work with districts and schools to:
5.Allow students to explore career and educational interests and aptitudes, to connect these to future educational opportunities, to formulate an educational and career plan and to understand the level of commitment needed to achieve their goals.
Middle Grades Commission Report 15
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Regional
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Board
Achieving the New Mission
States must work with universities to:
6.Ensure that leaders’ preparation programs prepare principals for the new middle grades mission and to implement new Common Core State Standards.
Middle Grades Commission Report 16
Southern
Regional
Education
Board
Achieving the New Mission
States must take steps to:
7.Ensure that all existing and new teachers can teach the new higher standards as a basis for certification.
Middle Grades Commission Report 17
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Regional
Education
Board
Achieving the New Mission
States must hold districts and schools accountable and:
8.Create an accountability system that focuses on continuous improvement and accelerating more students to higher levels of achievement.
Middle Grades Commission Report 18
Southern
Regional
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Achieving the New Vision
“We need conversations and commitment across the SREB states about the importance of middle school and the difference a really good experience can make in a student’s life. These conversations have to occur at the school board level, with parents and across the business community.”
Governor Beverly Perdue, North Carolina
Middle Grades Commission Report 19