Turning Points Guides

This guide provides a framework for thinking about classroom assessment in the middle grades, and challenges the paradigm of standardized tests.

This guide provides a framework for developing a comprehensive approach to literacy in middle schools that is embedded across the curriculum.

This Turning Points guide addresses structural issues such as establishing small learning communities, and includes concrete examples of structures and processes explaining how these can be adapted to meet the needs of individual schools.

This Turning Point guide provides six protocols that will help a school community collaboratively analyze student and teacher work to improve instructional practice and the quality of teacher discourse.

This guide documents the Turning Points practice of data-based inquiry that helps teachers, administrators, and community members use data to address the challenges facing a school.

This guide explains the five key principles of Turning Points curriculum and development, and includes tools and a template teachers can use to design curriculum and create classroom practices.

This Turning Points guide explains the need to create a school culture based on collaboration and shared leadership, redefining the role of teachers and principals for more collaborative decision making.

This guide is an introduction to the principles, practices, research, and success behind the Turning Point design and model.

This Turning Points guide offers researched based tools and strategies for helping schools, teachers, families, and communities partner to deepen student learning and engagement.

This guide describes how schools can use the Turning Points benchmarks to access their implementation of the model, and includes detailed benchmarks for the six Turning Points practices.

This guide details the fundamental characteristics of the young adolescent learner and explains how Turning Points schools work to meet the needs of these students.