Discovering Gifts in Middle School: Learning in a Caring Culture Called Tribes

This new book motivates and supports middle level schools to make the full range of young adolescents’ developmental growth and learning needs the over-riding focus of the whole school community. The author presents a lively synthesis of a wealth of research studies and effective practices, which underlie the Tribes Learning Community developmental approach. The major emphasis on middle level schools becoming responsive to the contextual basis of adolescent development leads not only to greater achievement and success for students but a new spirit, energy and the discovery of gifts throughout the whole school community. The book contains 440 pages, 140 active learning strategies, an extensive bibliography, resource section and index. 2001.