Mt. Ararat Middle School

  “It is the mission of our school community to reach high expectations for all, raise academic achievement, and ignite a passion for learning while cultivating humane and responsible citizenship.”

Take a look at the results for the survey taken by the MAMS faculty this spring!

See the results of the survey.

Here is the goal for the 2008-2009 Action Plan.

Provide professional development and support for Professional Learning Communities (Rick DuFour) focused on student achievement.  

Areas of focus will be:

a) student engagement through:

• refining curriculum maps in our focus groups to include essential questions;

• identifying, learning, and sharing effective teaching strategies which move students to higher order thinking;

• identifying, learning, and sharing effective uses of technology including digital citizenship;

• sharing effective uses of data and using student work to inform instructional practice in order to scaffold student learning; and

• planning for differentiated instruction for individuals (intervention, engagement, and enrichment).

b) developing an understanding of why an effective and consistent school-wide grading system will have a positive impact on student achievement.

c) institutionalizing a system of celebration for students and staff.

Please take a moment to give us some feedback about this goal and the focus of the work for next year by completing the form below.  Your feedback is important to us.

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