Replicable Practices

• Counselors articulate with five feeder elementary schools to facilitate smooth transition to middle school.

• Weekly flex-time provided for grade, department, and focus group articulation.

• Joint partnerships with families are an important part of school vision. Multiple parent groups exist to engage families and elicit input.

• Ongoing PD provided to help staff recognize and address the problems and challenges students face. Students are offered classes in anger management and peer mediation.

• Achievements of students celebrated in numerous ways. In addition to traditional honors, students are recognized for showing compassion and respect, doing good deeds, and civic responsibility.

• Collaborative resource classes, study skill classes, and before and after school one-on-one/small group instruction support students in need of academic assistance.

• Intervention classes utilize research-based curriculums including READ 180, Systems 44, Achieve 3000, English 3D, and AVID.

• Additional staff support instruction including two instructional coaches, behavior intervention specialist, and counselors.

• Time provided for teachers to meet in cross-team and cross-curricular teams to analyze data, and develop needed interventions.

• Big 7+ School-Wide Commitments utilized by all staff to ensure best first instruction.