This report envisions Texas schools using one another as resources and the campus planning process as a vehicle for implementing research-based concepts and practices in the middle grades. Since Texas' restructuring effort will not succeed without commitment to staff development from all levels of the education community, the need for teacher and administrator training in educating young adolescents is stressed throughout the report. The middle school years have been passed over by educational reform movements focused on early childhood and high school education. Too often, adolescence has been viewed as something to be endured and the middle grades have been seen as solutions to district enrollment and facilities problems. Education at the middle level must foster individual growth by meeting the intellectual and developmental needs of children where they are, rather than adapting instructional practices and school organization from some other grade level. Major reform issues are organized into nine interrelated goal areas: Goal 1: student learning; Goal 2: curriculum and programs; Goal 3: personnel; Goal 4: organization and management; Goal 5: finance; Goal 6: parent responsibility; Goal 7: community and business partnerships; Goal 8: research, development, and evaluation; and Goal 9: communications. Specific strategies for achieving each goal are presented for the Texas Education Agency, regional education service centers, school districts, and campuses. (32 references) (MLH)