Young Adolescents and the Middle Schools They Need : Strategies for Educators to Support Student Growth (Paperback)

1. Do You Have What It Takes?? 2. Ensuring Equity? 3. Young Adolescents’ Identity Development? 4. Young Adolescents’ Physical Development? 5. Powerful Learning Machines: Young Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Growth? 6. Self-Discovery: Emotional, Social, and Moral Development? 7. Why Should I Return to Your Class? Creating Communities of Care? 8. Essential Interventions for Young Adolescents? 9. What Happens in Real Middle Level Schools? 10. Curricula That Students Want and Need? 11. Designing Learning That Fuels Student Motivation? 12. Stop Evaluating Students: Engage Them in Assessment? 13. Be the Change for Young Adolescents