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About Marshall Middle School

  • Guiding Principals
  • Goals & Strategies

Guiding Principle One
We embrace brain-based teaching and learning strategies to improve individual academic performance and enhance student learning.

Guiding Principle Two
We analyze and effectively utilize data results to determine student performance to drive our instruction and inform practice.

Guiding Principle Three
We enhance literacy skills by writing in all content areas across the curriculum.

LITERACY GOAL
Sixty percent of Marshall Middle School students will score in the proficient range in reading with the focus on the Purposes of Literature by May, 2008, as measured by the New Mexico Standards-Based Assessment.

Language Community Strategies for the Literacy Goal:
  1. Increase vocabulary and higher order thinking skills through the use of vocabulary and questions at least once a week.
  2. Utilize short cycle assessments from current curriculum each nine weeks to identify and implement interventions for students.
  3. Utilize a community-wide rubric for grading written responses to open- ended questions at least once every three weeks.
Math Community Strategies for the Literacy Goal:
  1. Analyze word problems, at least twice a week, to increase higher order thinking skills.
Social Studies Community Strategies for the Literacy Goal:
  1. Identify the purposes of literature through written responses at least once every two weeks and discuss answers in class.
  2. Utilize a community-wide rubric for grading written responses to open- ended questions at least once every two weeks and share writing samples anonymously for class discussion.
Science Community Strategies for the Literacy Goal:
  1. Develop student understanding of complete sentence structure by critiquing responses to daily focus questions.
  2. Develop and build vocabulary through enhanced sentence structure when answering daily focus questions.
  3. Utilize a community-wide rubric to evaluate essay and short answer questions on tests once every three weeks.


NUMERACY GOAL
Sixty percent of Marshall Middle School students will score in the proficient range in the standard of Data Analysis and Probability by May, 2008, as measured by the New Mexico Standards-Based Assessment.

Language Community Strategies for the Numeracy Goal:
  1. Instruct students how to analyze and explain test created graphs and responses to visual representations at least once every three weeks.
  2. Use graphic organizers and have students create, share, and present visual responses to questions at least once every three weeks.
Math Community Strategies for the Numeracy Goal:
  1. Increase use of mathematical vocabulary through word walls, daily discussions, and class work. 2) Analyze, interpret, and transfer information between graphs and charts at least twice per week as a class activity. 3) Make predictions from the information presented on graphs and charts at least once every two weeks.
Social Studies Community Strategies for the Numeracy Goal:
  1. Synthesize, evaluate, and analyze charts and graphs and make different representations of stated data at least once a month by assessment tests and focus questions as measured by written responses.
Science Community Strategies for the Numeracy Goal:
  1. Collect, organize, analyze, and evaluate data from charts and graphs at least once a month. 2) Demonstrate understanding of charts and graphs using written responses scored by a community wide rubric at least once a month.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT GOAL
Sixty percent of Marshall Middle School students will demonstrate an improvement in ethical decisions by May, 2008, as measured by the Character Counts! survey.

Language, Math, Social Studies, and Science Community Strategies for the Character Development Goal:
  1. Utilize Advisory classes to implement Character Counts! curriculum at least six times per year.
  2. Recite the Character Counts! pledge during daily school announcements.
  3. Utilize the character pre- and post-surveys from “Pursuing Victory with Honor” to demonstrate improved decision making skills.

 

 
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