Facilitator: John Miller, Principal, The National Center for Middle Level Leadership
9:00 - 3:30 12 July 2006
(Pre-registration required for participation)
More and more, IB programmes are being used as agents of whole school reform. This is particularly true in the PYP, which is whole school by design, and the MYP, which is often whole school and almost always serves a robust cadre of students. Building on its breakthrough work in high school reform, the National Association of Secondary School Principals has published Breaking Ranks in the Middle: Strategies for leading Middle Level Reform (2006). The book brings together the key concepts in middle grades reform into one clear and easy-to-use document, which is already being used to transform middle schools across the United States and Canada.
This training is based on the National Association of Secondary School Principals book Breaking Ranks in the Middle, and is designed for middle level school leaders and educators, to help them and their teams play leadership roles in improving schools. The training will offer effective, research-based recommendations that have been proven to be successful in the real world. It covers topics that are unique to the middle level, such as developmental needs of adolescents, socialization, structured advisories, teaming, scheduling, transitions, and the use of data to inform decision-making. The goal of the training is to provide participants with tools and strategies for creating systemic change and cornerstone strategies that they can take away for use in their own local school/community setting. It also provides targeted professional development strategies that can be used as tools to improve student performance.
Lunch and breaks included in the registration fee.
Facilitator Biography
John Miller, Principal, The National Center for Middle Level Leadership
John Miller is a staff principal for the National Center for Middle Level Leadership, an initiative of the National Association of Secondary School Principals. John is a veteran middle level educator with more than 30 years experience in public schools. He recently retired as a principal in the Clover Park (Washington) School District, where his school had received recognition by the state superintendent’s office for their improved academic performance. He has also been a teacher and administrator in rural, suburban and urban school districts.
John is immediate past president of the Washington Association for Middle Level Education, and was a co-founder of National Middle School Association affiliate in Washington State. He has been involved in staff development for much of his career, including as an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University, teaching courses in general instructional pedagogy and mathematics teaching methods.
