Middle Level Education Leaders

Characteristics of Middle Level Education Leaders

• A passion for middle level education
• A willingness to share decision making
• A concern for the well-being of all persons in the school
• An opportunity orientation toward problems
• A good self concept
• A model of school norms
• An awareness of differences between middle and high school students
• An awareness of the importance of continual communications
• An awareness of the sensitivity of early adolescent students and their own process of socializing with the other students and adults
• An awareness of the ebb and flow between the willingness to explore and the need to have the stability of the known
• An awareness of the differing demand placed on students because of a changing family structure and resulting moral, social, and ethical dilemmas
• An awareness of the need to provide opportunities for students to have a wide variety of school activities in which to explore, participate, and excel