What’s New For States and Sites

Congratulations to our most veteran sites, who joined our network four years ago. Many of these sites have made great strides in raising student achievement and implementing the MMGW framework. Read about their promising practices in the Outstanding Practices section for middle grades.

Making Middle Grades Work is scaling up to a national network. If your state is interested in joining, please e-mail toni.eubank@sreb.org  We welcome Idaho and South Dakota as our newest states.

Making Middle Grades Work is an approved model for Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) grants. SREB will provide three years of on-site facilitation to schools that select MMGW as the model for CSR. For more information, contact SREB at (404) 879-5588.

Making Middle Grades Work is pleased to be involved in SREB's Successful Transitions Initiative, targeting middle grades and receiving high school sites in urban areas. Successful Transitions sites in Huntsville, Alabama; Little Rock, Arkansas; Atlanta, Georgia; Dekalb County, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; and Guilford County, North Carolina, have joined our network.

As a result of the 2001 Ninth-Grade Follow-up Study, SREB has identified several experiences in the middle grades that are tied to success in grade nine. Read about these findings in the research brief Mending a Weak Link. For more information, e-mail Allison Timberlake at allison.timberlake@sreb.org

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