History:  Middle Grades Education

Looking Back and Now
 

Middle school certification

From Junior High to Middle School

National Middle School Association formed (1973)

Kentucky Middle School Association formed (1976)

Turning Points Published

Carnegie Foundation support

State Grants

Kentucky Receives Carnegie Grant

More specific support from KDE

Published "Middle "Morphosis

• Middle Morphosis showed schools had changed their name
  but not their program

Kentucky Department of Education

• Commits to state middle level initiative

Speaking with One Voice

National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform organized

Summit for Middle Grades

• National consultants

• Representatives of associations

• School and district level practitioners

• Higher education

• Kentucky Department of Education

Kentucky Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform

Established to provide direction for the Kentucky Department of Education
 

Kentucky Forum Currently

• Collaboration with various groups working with middle grades

• Advisor for CMSAA at EKU and Murray

• Partner in KY Schools To Watch

• Most funding and organization provided by CMSAA with guidance from KDE

Nationally

• National Forum:  Schools To Watch; Policy Statements

• National Middle School Association:  This We Believe;
  Research briefs and summaries;

• policy statements

• Turning Points 2000:  Research; Comprehensive School Reform Program

Kentucky

• 2000 - Making Middle Grades Work, SREB

• 2000 - Pilot Principal Network, KDE

• 2001 - GEAR UP

• 2001 - Center for Middle School Academic Achievement established

• 2003 - Kentucky Schools To Watch program awarded

• 2005 - Secondary Alliance, KDE

Secondary Alliance

• All participating high schools are in national network

• Bring feeder middle schools

• Nearly 70 schools, and growing

• Kentucky network offers Kentucky specific training