Education & Human Development

Faculty & Staff

Edward Brazee
ed.brazee@umit.maine.edu

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
• EDU 580 Middle Level Education Institute

Research and Public Service

• My research is centered around middle level schools in the areas of integrated curriculum, school assessment, and exemplary programs.

Representative Publications

Books

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

Brazee, Edward N. and Constance Carter, writers and editors of Family Connection, a quarterly newsletter for National Middle School Association; online at www.nmsa.org.

Served on the committee for the 2003 update of National Middle School Association’s foundational position paper, This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents, and on the final writing-editing team 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, a major document used for school assessments.

Public Service Activities

School/District Evaluations

Since 1994, I have served as principal or co-evaluator for a number of school or school district evaluation projects. Each of these projects involved significant on-site work in schools and interviews with students, teachers, parents, community members and central office administrators; a final written report, and; an on-site report to all constituencies.

• 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