Closing the achievement gap is a critical focus area for schools. Our school is no different...on our last school report card, we scored our lowest score in recent years in the "Closing Gaps" category. The Equity Book Study Group is learning more in depth about what equitable practices are and look like in schools. This week's article shares more information about how we, and others, can do to continue to close this gap. In our school, data points to lower performance among our students with low socioeconomic status, students with disabilities, and also gender (male) and their counterparts. We will continue to work towards identifying the barriers that can cause these gaps and removing them. Check out this week's article to learn more!
"Closing the Achievement Gap - All Students Can Learn" - Larry Leverett
""All children can learn." We also know that certain things must be in place for this to happen, including, but not limited to, varying instructional approaches to match the learning styles of students, differentiating instruction, providing access to high-quality preschool programs, consistently exposing students to high-quality instruction, generating support from families and communities, and consistently scaling up implementation of best-practice instructional strategies and approaches in all classrooms and in all content areas."
Equity Book Study Update
We have over 20 teachers in our district participating in a book study about the book, "Building Equity". We met on Tuesday evening for our first in-person session. Good discussion was had, and we'll have an update from our work at Wednesday's Staff Meeting.
Staff Meeting Next Week
We will meet as a Middle School Staff this coming Wednesday (3/20). We'll get started at 2:55 in Mrs. Rogness' room.
Couple of Achievements to Brag About
5th/6th Grade Math Teams - 1st and 3rd Place at this week's meet
Leadership Group Students Working to Set Up a Senior Citizen Party at Pioneer Place
Hoops 4 Heart Tuesday Night
Our annual battle on the hardwood will take place on Tuesday night. Tip-off is set for 5:00pm. I'm sure another epic battle that students will talk about for a long time is certain to take place. Thanks to all that have agreed to participate and will attend.
Pictures for Yearbook
If you have some pictures that you have taken, please share them to the MS Pictures Folder. Our Parent's Club is working on organizing another great yearbook, and the more pictures they have to use, the better the yearbook will be. Thanks in advance for your contributions.
Budget Reminder
This is a reminder to please have department budget requests to me by next Friday. I will be reviewing over Spring Break and following up afterwards with teachers if necessary.
Safety Drill Next Week
We will be conducting a Safety Drill this coming week. More details to follow.
Images from the Week
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