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Appendix A

Survey Instrument

1. Have you heard about the middle school concept?
2. What are some of the middle school concepts?
3. Show the teacher a document listing the middle school concepts. Ask if he practices any of them?
4. Why do these practices not work?
5. What would make them work? (both personally and as a movement)

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