Mission
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Stewart Middle School Facts
Stewart has received a state grant that will allow us to implement several strategies to help students succeed throughout middle school and into high school. These are just a few of the grants improvements:
- Smaller core classroom sizes (math, science, language arts).
- AVID for all 6th graders.
- AVID (Achievement Via Individual Determination) is a program designed to teach the skills that students need in every class and for High school and beyond:
- Notetaking
- Organization skills
- Study skills
- Testing skills
- Goal setting - goal setting for each class, each semester, middle school, high school and after graduation.
- College planning for scholarships, applications, course offerings by declared majors
- AVID (Achievement Via Individual Determination) is a program designed to teach the skills that students need in every class and for High school and beyond:
- Daily Advisory brings the learning together; check grades, organize materials, daily announcements, and Social Emotional Learning.
- Progress monitoring tools to help us collect data on student growth without excessive testing and inform students, parents and teachers on progress.
- Small colleges within a school. Each grade level will be divided in half and given a local college name. Each college will be approximately 100 students.
- That college will have an assigned principal, counselor, and five teachers (math, science, language arts, specialist)
- High School credit courses in math, technology and foreign language.
- After school enrichment activities supported by the YMCA, Metro Parks, Urban League and others.
- Staff support and improvement all year. Daily common planning time for teachers, a full time instructional coach, 6 days of training before school started with national presenters and practices aligned with Common Core, grading and best practices.