RTI (Response to Intervention) strives to ensure that all children have access to high quality instruction, and that struggling learners (including those with disabilities) are served equally and effectively. RTI provides middle school resources for schools currently with an RTI program as well as those that may not have a program.
On this website, teachers can create guides and rubrics fit to their curriculum. This site is beneficial in creating guidelines for oral projects, multimedia, math, writing, reading, art and science.
This site provides an interactive community where teachers can share successful teaching implementations. Teachers can utilize this site as an educational social media platform.
The Association for Middle Level Education is dedicated to improving the educational experiences of all students ages 10 to 15 by providing vision, knowledge, and resources to educators and leaders.
Library Spot is an award-winning site that is an online reference center with links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and many other materials you would find in the library reference center. Middle school students can use this information for reports and projects to help them succeed.
Organized by subject and standard, this website provides teachers with fun math games, problem solving, lesson plans, and projects. Teachers can use this website to create a fun math curriculum for middle school students.
A site dedicated to middle school educators filled with online resources of curricula, reference material, and professional development information.
MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources including articles, curriculum, teaching strategies, and parent involvement for middle school aged students.
With a variety of resources, Discovery Channel provides fun and interesting resources free and targeted to grades 6-8. Lesson plans are available in science, technology, social sciences, math, and language arts.
As a leading textbook company, Glencoe provides teachers with unique resources and curriculum. From research to guides, Glencoe provides web-based resources, articles, subject-specific plans and much more.
Homework Spot is a website full of useful information and resources for students, parents, and teachers. Specific lesson plans are available from Elementary, Middle, and High School students while teachers and parents are given information on how to provide students with homework assistance.
A guide for professionals and parents that addresses various issues that affect middle school students such as transition from elementary to middle school, as well as printable worksheets.
The Middle School Teachers’ Lounge is a hub for teachers to better address the needs of their students. With articles on behavior, instruction, and best practices for teaching science, teachers can utilize this website as a useful tool.
This exhaustive list provides tools to plan and implement mentoring programs. Topics include program planning, program parameters, program planning and management, policies and procedures, financial planning, and e-mentoring.
This list provides sample evaluation surveys and forms.
This fact sheet provides programs with a check list to ensure they are meeting the 8 principles for managing mentors.
This guide offers information for starting a mentorship program. Elements include mentor/mentee recruitment, mentor training, matching participants, and monitoring outcomes.
This report offers suggestions to improve and sustain relations between youth development organizations and schools. Additionally, it outlines aspects of positive youth development, such as physical development, intellectual development, psychological and emotional development, and social development.
The U.S. Department of Education offers a comprehensive guide to shifting mentoring programs’ emphases to academic achievement.
Find tips on how to have a better success rate with your coaching or mentoring. This site also allows you to join webinars on different topics within mentoring.