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
• Daily Advisory brings the learning together; check grades, organize materials, daily announcements, Navigation 101.
• 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 SPARX/Metro Parks, Urban League and others.
• Staff support and improvement all year. Daily common planning time for teachers, a full time instructional coaches, 6 days of training before school started with national presenters and practices aligned with Common Core, grading and best practices.​​