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=PSD Grade Configuration Space= This site has been set up as a place to discuss PSD's grade configuration possibilities. Please browse around,, and, if you're interested, add new information to this site, either by clicking "Edit This Page" or by joining the discussion.

Superintendent's White Paper
[|Implementation Steps and Considerations for Grade Configuration and Student Based Budgeting Initiatives: A White Paper for Planning Teams] (PDF)

K-8 Implications Wheel
[|**K-8 Implications Wheel Final Report**]To access the K-8 Rationale Team Implications Wheel Report for K-8 Grade Configuration Study, please click [|here (671 kb)].

=Projected Timeline= To download an Excel spreadsheet with the **DRAFT** of the projected timeline, click [|here].

=**Links for Researching Grade Configuration**=
 * [|**The Interaction Effect of Transition Grade to High School with Gender and Grade Level upon Dropout …**]**JW Alspaugh**
 * [|Age Appropriate Schools: How Should Schools be Organized?] (PDF) by William S. DeJong, Ph.D., REFP and Joyce Craig, REFP
 * Northwest Regional Educational Library's (NWREL) report, [|Grade Configuration: Who Goes Where?] (PDF) July 1997
 * [|CEEP Grade Configuration Research Links]-Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a broad selection of discussion and links about grade configuration.
 * [|NMSA On-Target]-National Middle School Association's publication. NMSA's site description: //**On Target** is a free, user-friendly, Web-based resource that provides collections of the most current information in middle level education by topic.//
 * [|Grade-Span Configurations] by Craig B. Howley. //The School Administrator// (March 2002).
 * [|Elementary Grade Configuration Report, Frost and McCoy Elementary Schools] (December 9, 2003)-includes research-based recommendations of committee.
 * [|Elementary School Grade Span Configuration: New Evidence on Student Achievement, Achievement Equity, and Cost Efficiency] by: Kathy Gregg
 * [|The (Limited) Evidence Regarding Effects of Grade-Span Configurations on Academic Achievement: What Rural Educators Should Know]. ERIC Digest. by Coladarci, Theodore - Hancock, Julie
 * [|Hopkinton Public Schools, Massachusetts Grade Configuration Study Committee Final Report] (PDF) November 1, 2001
 * [|Grade Span Research Roundup] by Ron Renchler. Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management, College of Education · University of Oregon
 * [|The Education Wonks: The Disapperaring Middle School]. This is a blog that discusses K-8 grade configuration.
 * [|The Sixth Grade Conundrum: a Parent's Guide]. In depth article about 6th graders and the challenges for children during that year.
 * [|Pieces of the Puzzle: Answering Middle School Critics]//.// A listserv discussion around middle schools.