Faculty & Staff - Brazee Edward

Edward Brazee
ed.brazee@umit.maine.edu

124 Shibles Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5766

(207) 581-2484

Title
Professor – Middle Level Education

Education
Ed.D., 1975, University of Northern Colorado
M.A.T., 1971, Colgate University
B.A., 1970, State University of New York – Oswego

Courses taught

• EDC 524 Curriculum and Organization of the Middle School
• EML 595 Seminar in Middle Level Education
• EDM 520 Teaching in the Middle School
• EDT 400 Computers in Education
• EDC 533 Dynamics of the Curriculum

Research and Public Service

• I am interested in the applications of technology to curriculum and instruction.

Representative Publications
Books

Brazee, Edward N. and Nine Middle Level Teachers. (2006). Essential questions – with answers – for middle level teachers. Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association.

Brazee, Edward N. and J. Lounsbury. (2004). Professional Development Kit—Understanding and Implementing This We Believe—First Steps. Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association.

Brazee, Edward N. and Students. (2001). It’s about time: A resource unit. Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association.

Brazee, Edward N, and J. Capelluti. (1995). Dissolving boundaries: Moving toward integrative curriculum. Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association.

Brazee. Edward N. and J. Capelluti. (1994). Second generation curriculum: What and how we teach at the middle level. Topsfield, MA: New England League of Middle Schools.

Textbooks

Brazee, Edward N. (1997). Senior Consultant for ScottForesman. Literature and Integrated Studies, middle school texts, grades 6-8.

Chapters

Brazee, Edward N. & G. Nesin. (2005). The encyclopedia of middle grades education. In V. Anfara, S. Mertens, and G. Davis (Eds.). Creating developmentally responsive middle level schools. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.

Brazee, Edward N. & J. Swaim. (2002). Transforming ourselves, transforming schools: Middle school change. In N. Doda & S. Thompson, (Eds.). Professional development that takes (pp. 259-268). Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association.

Brazee, Edward N. (1998). Curriculum for whom. In Judith Irvin, (Ed.), What current research says to the middle level practitioner (pp. 187-202). Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association.

Journal Articles

Brazee, Edward N. and Joseph Capelluti. (January 2003). Teaming at the middle level: Promising practice or unfulfilled promise? Principal Leadership, III(5), 32-37.

Brazee, Edward N. (August 2000). Collaborating on curriculum: Why it matters, how it works. Middle Ground, IV(1), 33-37.

Other Publications

Served on committees for the 2003 and 2009 updates of National Middle School Association’s foundational position paper, This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents, and on the final writing-editing teams for this document.

Served as the initial developer and then a member of the writing team for National Middle School Association’s School Improvement Toolkit, used for school assessments.
Public Service Activities

• Editor – Professional Publications, National Middle School Association 1995-2008
• School/District Evaluations
• Bermuda Middle Schools (5 middle schools), June 1998 and April 2000
• Orono Middle School, Orono, ME, January-March 1999
• Aspen Middle School (CO), February 1999
• Mt. Blue Middle School, Farmington, ME, March-June 1999
• Winthrop Middle School, Winthrop, ME, September-November 1999
• Mt. Ararat Middle School, Topsham Maine (SAD 75), March-June 2001
• Mountain Valley Middle School, January-March 2002

Links

• National Middle School Association
• Maine Association for Middle Level Education
• New England League of Middle Schools
• Middle Web – Exploring Middle School Reform

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