About Remaking Middle School
Our Partners
The Remaking Middle School initiative is an emerging partnership working to build and steward a new collective effort for young adolescent learning and development. Founding partners include the University of Virginia Youth-Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), the Altria Group, and the New York Life Foundation. We are seeking to ignite conversation, action, and a movement to re-envision and remake the middle school experience in a way that recognizes the strengths of young adolescents and ensures all students thrive and grow from their experiences in the middle grades.
Partner With Us
Remaking middle school requires a collective effort--from those in the school building and across the community to those in the state legislature. With your support, we can fulfill the promise that middle school can offer. Join us by signing up online
Remaking Middle School Launch
On February 12-13, 2019 in Washington, D.C., the New York Life Foundation, Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), Altria, and Youth-Nex gathered to envision and remake the future of learning for young adolescents at the Remaking Middle School Summit. Generously hosted by Gallup, the Summit brought together practitioners, researchers, youth, policymakers, out-of-school time providers, funders, and others committed to dramatically improving the learning experiences and outcomes of all young adolescents.
With powerful research on positive youth development, we work to reimagine the middle school experience in a way that recognizes the strengths of our youth. Building from an understanding of what young adolescents need, Remaking Middle School Summit participants began to generate solutions to transform the middle grades and build a national vision for shifting the middle school experience to a positive one for all youth.
Summit Working Papers
The Remaking Middle School Working Papers Series was commissioned for the Remaking Middle School Summit to synthesize existing knowledge and evidence on dimensions relevant to the task of optimizing young adolescent learning. Each paper offers a compilation of literature related to a topic with a keen focus on the developmental needs of young adolescents. The research, practices, and themes noted in the series are intended to serve as a foundation from which to re-envision the middle school experience.
Joanna Lee Williams, Lauren C. Mims, & Haley E. Johnson
Climate, Culture & Community: Building A Positive School Climate for Young Adolescents
Katrina Debnam & Jessika Bottiani
Optimizing Teaching and Learning in the Middle Grades
Penny A. Bishop & John M. Downes
Leading for Young Adolescent Development: Prioritizing What We Know Matters
Coby Meyers, Karen Sanzo, & Julia Taylor
Contact Us
Nancy L. Deutsch
- Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
- Linda K. Bunker Professor of Education
- Director, Youth-Nex
- 434-924-0815
- [email protected]
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Ridley Hall 222
PO Box 400281
405 Emmet Street S
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Abby Gillespie
- Director of Strategy and Engagement, Youth-Nex
- 434-924-7640
- [email protected]
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Ridley Hall 225
PO Box 400281
405 Emmet Street S
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Youth-Nex
Youth-Nex is a trans-disciplinary center with a translational approach to scholarship and innovation that is central to its work.
The Remaking Middle School initiative is an emerging partnership working to build and steward a new collective effort for young adolescent learning and development. Founding partners include the University of Virginia Youth-Nex Center to Promote Effective Youth Development, the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), the Altria Group, and the New York Life Foundation. We are seeking to ignite conversation, action, and a movement to re-envision and remake the middle school experience in a way that recognizes the strengths of young adolescents and ensures all students thrive and grow from their experiences in the middle grades.