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School Mission Statement
It is the mission of Marshall Middle School to provide challenging, enriching, and exciting learning opportunities for students in an atmosphere that is caring, understanding, and appropriate to the middle level child.
General Goals
1. We will increase the academic skills and achievement of every student.
2. We will strengthen and enhance the connections between the school and the homes of our students.
3. We will hire and retain highly qualified teachers and support staff.
4. We will offer high quality and ongoing professional development specifically designed to assist us in meeting our goal areas.
5. We will create and maintain a program that fosters a positive school climate.
6. We will maintain an organizational structure that features two-teacher academic teams, large blocks of instructional time, and purposeful focus on building positive teacher-student relationships that will be of benefit in both the academic and social growth of our students.
7. Our Learning Improvement Team will continue to guide us in our efforts
GOAL 1: READING - The percentage of students scoring below Level 3 on the Reading portion of the 2005-06 Washington Assessment of Student Learning will be decreased by three percent on the 2006-07 test.
Action Plans
¨ Humanities teachers will read aloud three times a week focusing on analysis and interpretation of literary text.
¨ Humanities teachers will meet regularly in a Professional Learning Community to focus on improvement of instruction in the area of analysis and interpretation of literary text.
¨ Continuation of our “Special Support” team (a special education teacher partnered with a general education teacher) serving students with significant academic challenges
GOAL 2: WRITING - The percentage of students scoring below Level 3 on the Writing portion of the 2005-06 Washington Assessment of Student Learning will be decreased by three percent on the 2006-07 test.
Action Plans
¨ Humanities teachers will implement the WASL Content, Organization, and Style rubric in all grade levels to track student progress.
¨ We will provide staff development opportunities for all staff in regard to writing instruction focused on Content, Organization, and Style
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¨ Continuation of our “Special Support” team (a special education teacher partnered with a general education teacher) serving students with significant academic challenges
GOAL 3: MATH - The percentage of students scoring below Level 3 on the Mathematics portion of the 2005-06 Washington Assessment of Student Learning will be decreased by three percent on the 2006-07 test.
Action Plans
¨ Implementation of “skills booster” class for selected students in addition to their regular mathematics class
¨ Math teachers analyzed the students’ results from 2005-2006 WASL test at pre-school staff development / LID time and set the following goals:
· Teachers will continue to work to improve instruction utilizing WASL format for problems and assessments in their classrooms.
· The math PLC will design and implement grade level measurement projects to improve student skills in the measurement strand.
· Teachers will administer the MAP tests three times over the course of the year and use the data to focus curriculum classroom-wide and individually.
¨ We will offer professional development for our math teachers in the following ways:
· We will have Tom Boyce from ESD 113 or another qualified educator work with our math teachers to understand the WASL format and identify areas of instruction that will help students improve their test scores.
· We will ask Alice Burman from OSD to give us more information about the measurement strand data from the 2005-2006 WASL results.
· We will form a Professional Learning Community to provide a structure for meeting the previous goals.
¨ Continuation of our “Special Support” team (a special education teacher partnered with a general education teacher) serving students with significant academic challenges
GOAL 4: SCIENCE - The percentage of students scoring below Level 3 on the Science portion of the 2005-06 Washington Assessment of Student Learning will be decreased by three percent on the 2006-07 test.
Action Plans
¨ Science teachers will analyze in detail our students’ 2005-06 WASL results at our science PLC meetings and determine specific goals for the year in relation to enhancing instruction in science.
¨ We will continue the Science Professional Learning Community and meet to address how to incorporate WASL format for labs / assessments to our specific curriculum.
¨ In every science classroom we will:
· Focus on teaching science process skills.
· Include intentional and regular use of measurement in instruction.
· Focus on writing expository conclusion statements that explain the relationships in data.
¨ Continuation of our “Special Support” team (a special education teacher partnered with a general education teacher) serving students with significant academic challenges
WORK TO BE DONE IN AREAS IMPORTANT TO THE SCHOOL
SAFE AND INCLUSIVE SCHOOL:
• Continuing of the Marshall Middle School two-teacher teaming model that by its structure and philosophy supports the development of positive student-teacher relationships and fosters students’ sense of bonding with school
• Continued work by our school safety committee to examine safety and security issues
• Continued work with our students in the area of understanding and celebrating diversity
TARGETED ASSISTANCE:
• Implementation of “skills booster” class for selected students (based on new LAP regulations identifying any student not passing the WASL as a LAP student) in addition to their regular classes
• Continuation of our “Special Support” team (a special education teacher partnered with a general education teacher) serving students with significant academic challenges
Technology implementation:
• Piloting this year of the technology “mentor” program. Kevin Hoonan and Malinda Lamm will be trained this summer and will be our school mentors in working with other staff members
• Continuation of our use of pilot audio-enhanced classrooms
• Continuation of our Gen YES enrichment opportunity for students
Parent/community involvement activities to improve student learning:
• “Revamping” of our Marshall Community Council to include a more concentrated academic focus for parent workshops, volunteer efforts, etc.