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Standards-Based, Thematic Units Integrate the Arts and Energize Students and Teachers

Imagine a middle school where teachers and administrators spiritedly collaborate, where parents and community members enthusiastically participate, and where young adolescents eagerly engage in the learning and discovery of meaningful content, look forward to attending school, have opportunities to excel, and show encouraging academic growth. In our small mid-western urban school district, a planning committee, charged with restructuring the junior high schools, read Turning Points (Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, 1989) and identified several critical issues challenging our schools: