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EXPLORE Test
All 49 eighth grade students at Mounds Park Academy took the EXPLORE test this past April. EXPLORE includes four 30-minute multiple choice tests: English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science. EXPLORE also collects information about students' interests, needs, plans, and selected background characteristics. When I...
Rise and Shine
Dear Parents and Middle School Students,Introducing Rise and Shine - a quiet place to study, complete homework, and read before school starts. Juice will be available, and students may bring breakfast snacks. May is such a busy month we thought...
Grades 5, 6 and 7 Standardized Testing
On April 10, 11 and 12, all students in grades 5, 6 and 7 will be involved in ERB testing. You may have read this line before and wondered, "What are ERB tests?"ERB is a general acronym that stands for...
Book Festival Merriment
It takes a village to raise a child, according to an African proverb. This week, our middle school "village" has formed cross-age and cross-generation mentoring relationships around the theme of reading. On Friday at 2:30, our student villagers will...
Middle School Nostalgia Week!
Middle School Nostalgia Week is February 27th-March 2nd!Celebrate being a Middle Schooler and the coming of spring by dressing up in crazy clothes this coming week!Here are the dress up days:Monday- Decade's Day! (Choose your favorite decade and go crazy! ...
Joyfully Serious
Joyfully serious! Think about that phrase for a moment. I used that oxymoron at Kindergarten Information Night earlier this month, and in the past week joyfully serious has been swirling in my head as I conversed with teachers and students...
Teacher Comments
"Successful schools for young adolescents provide assessment and evaluation programs that promote quality learning. Grades alone are inadequate expressions for assessing the many goals of middle level education." These are the words expressed in a summary of a position...
Help the Middle School Café
As always the MS Cafe design committee is attempting to create a fun and inviting atmosphere in the Kreischer gym while minimizing expenses. We need cardboard boxes! Anything shoebox size or larger is useful. Cardboard (flattened if possible) can...
Middle School Advisory
What is Advisory? This seams like an easy question. However, in my most recent book purchase, Advisory: Finding the Best Fit for Your School, the authors titled their first chapter, "What Is Advisory?" and ended the chapter by stating, "We do not make...
The Roaches are Coming!
The Roaches are coming! The Roaches are coming! Now that I've hopefully got your attention, I would like to invite you to this year's Middle School Play, Chateau La Roach. It is a fast-paced comedy about a small hotel being...
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